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Oh, Elle!
Digital presentation as part of Corcadorca’s TDC Online Residency.
Further developed via The Complex’s ART FACTORY residency.
Created by Laoise Murray and Sam Killian
Oh, Elle!
She fell in love… with fate!
“Judy finds a dagger in my lung
She traces a distant sky on every floor I’ve ever known
I’m holding a stick against the storm
And then I’m gone…”
Oh Elle! is a play about love, obsession, and the singular romance of story-telling, as framed by the ritual of tea-making. Our heroine, Elle, is a low-level employee in a high-rise office. She spends her day making tea for male coworkers, and quietly collecting their secrets. As she waits for the day when someone will free her from this drudgery, she makes up fantastical stories of her life outside the office - a world of shape-shifters, talking whales, mystic winds and ghosts upon ghosts. When she discovers that another woman has started working in the branch, it seems only natural that she would seduce this woman by making the perfect cup of tea.
This piece of music theatre aims to uncover the magic in the mundanity of modern life, with striking images of late-night office sleepovers, photocopier divination, corporate intrigue and cosmic wonder, all told by one woman on the phone to another. It is a show about what happens as we wait for life to happen to us.
You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating)
Digital work in progress presentation as part of Corcadorca’s SHOW 2020.
The piece is an exploration of the insidious ideology of the “wellness” industry and its intersection with capitalism. It looks at the ways in which both seek to control women’s bodies under the label of “self-care”. Along the way, it touches on sleep, monotony, meditation and medication in the twenty-first century. And, of course, Gwyneth Paltrow. It is an offsite piece to be performed in a bathroom with one performer for one audience member.
Created by tasteinyourmouth
Directed by Grace Morgan
Dramaturgy by William J. Dunleavy
Performed by Laoise Murray
Filming, editing and stills by Rachel Smyth
Original sound design and music by Sam Hardiman
After Your Ass
Work-in-progress presented as part of Corcadorca’s SHOW 2018.
Created by William Dunleavy, Grace Morgan and Laoise Murray.
Presented by tasteinyourmouth.
Photography by Hiram Harrington
Famed for attempting to assassinate pop artist Andy Warhol,
Valerie Solanas’ legacy has been overshadowed by one of the
most famous artists of all time. After Your Ass is a response to
Solanas’ lost play Up Your Ass (which Andy Warhol lost in his
factory) and her scathing feminist text the SCUM Manifesto in
attempt to demythologize the icon behind the artist.
This is an offsite piece. Video available on request.
It’s A Puffin Classic
Work-in-progress presented as part of the Devising Debut Festival, Samuel Beckett Theatre, February 2018.
Have you ever wondered how different life would be if girls grew up in a reality where they were taught to be brave, bold, and not to fear the world around them?
We have.
Come and meet the girls who will take risks to disturb the universe.
A coming of age story, this piece looks at the girls
who dared to climb a tree, pick a peach and eat it. Messily.
Video available on request.
Created by Grace Morgan, Laoise Murray,
Lorna Kettle and Freya Gillespie.
Written by William Dunleavy.
Devised/Directed by Grace Morgan
Cast/Devisors: Rua Barron, Chloe Muldoon,
Emily Long, Laoise Murray, Lorna Kettle.
Costume by Allie Whelan
Lights by Nathanael O’Leary
Set by Freya Gillespie
Sound by Lara Gallagher
Production Managed by Ferdy Emmet
Stage Managed by Annachiara Vispi
Photography by Jimmy Kavanagh
