Lippy

Bush Moukarzel author Mark O'Halloran author Dead Centre author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:8th Jun '14

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An award-winning new play about authorship and the role of the writer, from an exciting team of Irish theatre-makers.

An award-winning play by up-and-coming Irish theatre company.Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014 In 2000 in Leixlip, co. Kildare, an aunt and 3 sisters boarded themselves into their home and entered into a suicide pact that lasted 40 days. We weren’t there. We don’t know what they said. This is not their story. 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.

In our search for meaning in the world, theatre can deliver truth divinely from the unknown...LIPPY reaches for a terrifying light of heaven. It is the utmost truth and sacrifice you'll see. * Five Stars - Irish Theatre Magazine *
A dense yet simple piece, extraordinarily textured both visually and aurally. It may be easier to admire than It is to love, but Dead Centre make the most of nothing, making absence painfully tangible and forcing us look hard into the glare before the lights fade to black. * Four Stars - Lyn Gardner, Guardian *
Lippy has elements of Beckett, made palatable through the mock-doc first act... It is 'difficult', but never alienating * Five Stars - Big Issue *
Bush Moukarzel and Mark O'Halloran's Lippy is an extraordinary and challenging piece of theatre that will probably infuriate as many people as it moves. But I loved this Irish production's strange, sinister odyssey to the outskirts of human comprehension. * Four stars - Andrzey Lukowksi, Time Out *
So often theatre, like lip-reading, is about putting words into other people's mouths. Lippy acknowledges and problematises this act of speaking for others, never falling into the trap of seeking easy explanations and ending with as many - if not more - questions as it began with. * Four stars - Catherine Love, What's on Stage *

ISBN: 9781783191635

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 77g

64 pages