A Suburban Legend 4 - 5 Nov 2022
A lonely twelve-year old with a bucket load of street smarts discovers resilience and how to stand up for herself against pretty EPIC odds in the charming, and only sometimes scary, A Suburban Legend.
There are magical beings who grant your every wish.
But I didn’t meet one of those.
I met the other type.
The scarier sort.
The magical beings who would eat you for breakfast.
I know. They tried to eat me.
And that’s not a word of a lie…
The otherworld crashes into ordinary life in this visually inventive tale, as Caitríona Ní Mhurchú builds live images with micro-cameras to Niall Toner Jr’s specially commissioned sound track.
Drawing on the ancient myths of Tuatha Dé Dannan and their mortal enemies The Formorians, A Suburban Legend will be performed in both English and Irish in separate performances.
Tá sióga ann a tugann pé ní atá uait duit.
Ach níor bhuail mé leis na sióga úd.
Bhuail mé leis an gcineál eile.
An cineál scanrúil.
Bhuail mise le neacha draíochta a d’íosfadh don bhricfeasta tú.
Is fíor. Dhéanadar iarracht mise a ithe.
Agus ní focal do bhréag é sin.
Foghlamaíonn páiste uaigneach conas seasamh suas di féin nuair is gá di gach seift dá bhfuil aici a thriáil chun bac EIPICIÚIL a shárú sa scéal gleoite seo. Agus níl A Suburban Legend ach beagán scanrúil! Dáiríre píre!
Buaileann stoirm an gnáth-shaol nuair a briseann an osnádúr isteach air. Eachtra físiúil ina dtógann Caitríona Ní Mhurchú beo-íomhánna ar stáitse le micrea-cheamaraí. Fuaimrian agus ceol le Niall Toner Jr.
Bunaithe ar mhiotais Thuatha Dé Danann agus a ndeargnaimhde Na Fomhóraigh, léireofar A Suburban Legend i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla i seóanna ar leith.