February 6th – 7th, 2025 Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Ghent
March 7th, 2025 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
April 24th – 25th, 2025 Lieu Unique, Nantes
May 9th – 10th, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
May 14th – 17th, 2025 Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin
June 24th – 27th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
120 minutes
Meat, Sorrow and Irish Sounds
Part fiction, part biographical, all elements are overlapping, and it will become difficult to determine what’s myth and what’s reality.
It goes back to a time when families worked in the abattoirs of Belfast. Pigs in the garden of New lodge.
There’s something in the meat of me, bloodline, there is a pink fleshy vulnerability to me, to dancing, there is a violence in me.
This new show will follow the story of Oona’s Great Great Grandfather Specky Clark and his arrival in Belfast.
For this piece which will be unfolding in a series of theatrical images, Oona Doherty will collaborate with many faithful and new partners. The production features music from Irish band Lankum, Gavino Murgia and David Holmes & Raven Violet. Maxime Jerry Fraisse is sound designer, Irish playwright Enda Walsh is dramaturg, Sabine Dargent is set designer, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust is costume designer and long-time collaborator John Gunning is lighting designer. The piece will be performed by an international cast of 9 dancers.