Jane Deasy presents Opening Night
The Complex - Gallery, Dublin Fringe Festival (2022)
Opening Night is a sonic and visual meditation on the daily task of performance.
It is a live exploration of the audiovisual contract, is what we see, what we hear?
Taking place in an underground noise cabaret, Jane prepares for her performance. She listens to the space, and begins to excavate the inaudible sounds that haunt the theatre. Looking back on previous versions of the show and herself in the show, she questions her role as a performer and the mechanics of the stage. Ghosts of previous performances reverberate in the room. The anxiety of performance permeates. The doors will open. The audience will enter.
What begins as a live performance becomes a multimedia installation, a study of sound, staging and selfhood in the wasteland of performance.
ARTIST
CREATIVE TEAM
Music and Production Design / Jane Deasy
Dramaturgical Support and Creative Input / Wayne Jordan
Sound Associate / Noise Enabler / Rachel Ní Chuinn
Lighting Designer / Sarah Jane Shields
Lighting Associate / Chief LX / Micheal Stapleton
Video / Photography / Helio Leon
Dressmaker / Shauna Ward
Producer / Mags Keohane
Production Manager / Sean Dennehy
Sound Engineer / Andy Walsh
Stage Manager / Aimee Crilly
Assistant Stage Manager / Liusaidh Hopper
Set Construction / Ste Bourke, Damien Woods, Ciaran Murphy
Scenic Artist / Cáit Moloney
Graphic Design / Gavin O'Brien
LEAD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhaírle Ealaíon, developed in partnership with Dublin Fringe Festival and Cork Opera House, with support from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts , Sports and Media, Dublin City Council, The Complex, Dublin Digital Radio and Unit 44.
GALLERY
Photo Credits Simon Lazewski
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