Pom Boyd Carl Harrison Breffni Hollihan Daniel Reardon Neimhin Robinson Bryan Quinn
Written and directed by FEIDLIM CANNON and GARY KEEGAN
Dramaturgy: Bjarni Johnsson Movement director: Eddy Kay Set and costume designer: Sabine Dargent Light designer: Sarah Jane Shiels Sound designer: Jack Cawley
The performance is set on a beach. It is a private beach. The beach is inhabited by a family, a European family. They are the owners of the beach. The beach has been ‘in their family’ for generations. The family represents the entitled class of European. On the beach they celebrate a wedding, a union between two sides; each of whom can offer something to the other. Security, prosperity, progeny. They give speeches about ancestry, heredity and the notion of union and alliance. During the wedding celebration a stranger is washed up on the shore. And the family must decide how to deal with this stranger. Crucially the beach (the set) holds the secrets of the past. The sand on stage is dug into and the past is excavated on stage. The mirage of a homogenous Europe interrupted by history. The history exposed by the receding sands of the beach. Throughout the performance artefacts from European history are uncovered, Trojan armour, slave irons, the skull of Lucy, a Christian crusader’s chainmail. The performers are taken over by these artefacts. History invades the space and challenges the status quo. This Beach is sharply written, keenly observed work, which incorporate Brokentalkers' trademark style of telling stories of social importance in an innovative way.
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