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Convergence Festival, Dublin

2004

Performance Corporation, Dublin, Ireland >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis:
Blood, violence and butterflies. . .Performed on a spectacular, vertical stage - purpose built in a new space at SS Michael & John in Temple Bar. 'The Butterfly Ranch' is the tale of a mystery boy who quite literally falls from the sky into the muddy, murky and violent world of Jed Senior. On Jed's ranch, swine feed on butterflies, Latvian farmhands run covert internet scams and the rule of the gun is law. But the boy's eagerness to learn Jed's etiquette of violence upsets the balance of power, leading to a bloody conflict which leaves no one on the butterfly ranch unscathed. 'The Butterfly Ranch' is a dark and deeply political meditation on life's repeating cycles of violence.
http://www.theperformancecorporation.com/butterfly.htm

Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland >>>

2002

Performance Corporation, Dublin, Ireland >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

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Adapted by Tom Swift and Jo Mangan from Voltaire's Candide

Synopsis:
Gulliver's Travels meets The Third Policeman in this (quite literally) half-arsed comedy. Naive young philosopher Candide is expelled from the Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckt and sets off around the globe in search of his sweetheart Cunegonde. On the way he meets the daughter of Pope Urban X (a lady with one less buttock than usual), monkey-loving Amazonians and a whirling dervish who may or may not hold the secret of life. The Performance Corporation's hugely energetic production is a brilliantly surreal satire on war, religion, greed and gardening.
http://www.theperformancecorporation.com/candide.htm

Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland

2004

Performance Corporation, Dublin, Ireland >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Promenade Performance

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Synopsis:
The doctor is unwell. Doubt and delusion trouble his waking hours. Darwin prowls through his dreams. And deep in the creaking underbelly of the anatomy theatre an experiment is taking place. Put on your headphones for a gothic promenade to a place where morality and science do battle for the soul of Dr Saul Ledbetter. Macabre science, murky morals and sheer bloody murder lurk round every corner. But beware - sometimes experiments go too far.

Poolbeg Power Station, Dublin

2006

Performance Corporation and Once-Off Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Drive In Theatre

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Synopsis:
Performance Corporation and Once-Off Productions take a concept (and the maximum audience capacity is up to a whopping 56) with this cleverly conceived exercise in drive-in theatre, playing in a disused car park as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Punters arrive by car, get a free windscreen clean, and instructions to tune their car radio to a certain frequency. The audience's cars line up to face three parked hot rods. Music, sound effects, and recorded narration come through the radio, as one of the cars revs up and does a squealing circuit, showing off its inch-from-the-ground suspension, sexy indoor lighting, and phat spoiler. But if only they had pimped the script as well as they have the rides. Tom Swift's 25-minute text is a series of loosely connected scenes about boy-racer culture. The action takes place around the car park while the audience stay in their own vehicles, the dialogue relayed over the radio. Two men drink tea and talk with ironic pompousness about different car models. A sliver of a plot develops about a hot chick who takes up with one of the blokes. There are a couple of glancing, in-joke references to "Gay" (Byrne, chatshow host and spokesman for road safety). The simple, moving final moments bring home the tragic consequences of joyriding gone wrong. But is the company celebrating or condemning kid racers?
Karen Fricker, Guardian

Nairobi, Kenya

2005

Performance Corporation, Dublin, Ireland >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Devised

Piece

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Synopsis:
The objective of the project was to engage in a collaborative process involving Irish theatre company The Performance Corporation and Kenyan company The Amani People's Theatre. The aim of this process was to create a play, designed to address the social issues affecting a marginalized community living on Kenya's south coast.
http://www.theperformancecorporation.com/paka.htm

City Arts Centre, Dublin >>>

2003

Performance Corporation, Dublin, Ireland >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adapted by Tom Swift and Jo Mangan

Synopsis:
Satan swoops into Garadice city, a wonderful place that rhymes with paradise. His plan is to corrupt the innocent inhabitants by means of Shock TV. He comes armed with the ultimate weapons of mass corruption: Greed, Lust, Envy, Pride, Sloth, Anger and Gluttony.

Soho Poly, London

1989

Yorkshire Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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written by Ian Hartley and Toby Swift

Synopsis:
examines the less attractive side of the male ego, focusing on that male bastion, the cricket match.
- J J Fergusson, Independent

various through Temple Bar, Dublin

2006

Fishamble Theatre Company, Dublin >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Series of short individual plays

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11

doubling possible, casting varies

Notes:
written by Shane Carr, John Cronin, Louise Lowe, Belinda McKeown, Colin Murphy, Anna Newell, Jack Olohan, Jody O'Neill, Jacqueline Strawbridge, Tom Swift.
Daytime Trail: Dublin Noir by Colin Murphy; Mean Sweeps 1 by Shane Carr; My Brother is Disappearing by Anna Newell; The Other Woman by Tom Swift; Lament for Joseph by Jody O'Neill; Drapes by Belinda McKeon; Eclipsed 1 by Louise Lowe. Evening Trail: Bernard Opens Up by Jack Olohan; Mean Sweeps 11 by Shane Carr; Lament for Joseph by Jody O'Neill; Blind Spot by John Grogan; Eclipsed 11 by Louise Lowe; Twenty Two by John Cronin; Eggshell by Jacqueline Strawbridge.

Synopsis:
conjectures on who is saying what at the next table in a restaurant - we've all done it !

Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland

2005

Performance Corporation, Dublin, Ireland >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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17

doubling possible

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Synopsis:
Battling the Cyclops security guard, eluding the Sexy Sirens of the typing pool and braving the 'underworld' of R&D. . .it's just another day at the office for our down-at-heel exec Jason as he embarks on a funny, futuristic, flamboyant quest for the mysterious 'Golden Fleece'. The Yokohama Delegation is an event for sore eyes. The audience is plunged into a darkened office block, where mascara-drenched eyelashes flicker in time to a syncopated beat, and the secretaries who inhabit the mythical landscape between clock-in and clock-out kick off their high heels for risque dance sequences. This uproarious quest melds Greek myth and technicolour office comedies with The Performance Corporation's signature brand of energetically humourous physical/visual theatre. It features an original retro-futuristic music score, choreography and the company's signature high-tech box of sound and lighting tricks.
http://www.theperformancecorporation.com/yoko.htm