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DEAD CENTRE
(2012 - )Nationality: Irish
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Dead Centre was founded in 2012. We are Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd, with producer Rachel Murray. Our technical manager is Nic Ree
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(S)quark! Chekhov's First Play Hamnet Lippy Souvenir(S)quark!
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Top of PageChekhov's First Play
During the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Chekhov, Anton's sister, placed many of her late brother's manuscripts and papers in a safety deposit box in Moscow. In 1921 Soviet scholars opened the box, and discovered a play. The title page was missing. The play they found has too many characters, too many themes, too much action. All in all, it's generally dismissed as unstageable. Like life.
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Top of PageHamnet
Dead Centre's new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself. A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical heights of Hamlet. Unlike the Prince, he cannot ask 'to be or not to be'. Condemned not to be, he now seeks to understand the world from which he has been wrested. Hamnet is too young to understand Shakespeare. We are too old to understand Hamnet. Two generations, asking each other what they want to pass on and receive.
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Schaubuhne, Berlin as partof the FIND Festival
05 Apr 2017
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Top of PageLippy
In 2000 in Leixlip, Co. Kildare, an aunt and three nieces made an extraordinary decision which seemed to defy explanation. they boarded themselves into their home and entered a suicide pact that lasted 40 days. We didn't know them. We weren't there. We have no idea what they said. This is not their story
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Created by Bush Moukarzel with cameo-playwright Mark O'Halloran, director Ben Kidd, and sound & music by Adam Welsh. Winner of the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Production (2013), and inspired by a real-life event involving the suicide pact of four women in a small town outside Dublin, Lippy is a play about authorship and the role of the writer
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The Lir Academy - Studio 1, Dublin Fringe Festival
19/2013
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Top of PageSouvenir
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