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Come see GO WEST! in the Player's Theatre before we hit the road to Edinburgh Fringe!

About this Event

A Mid-Colonial, A Neo-Western, A Post-Possibility.

A desert. A map. A veterinarian and a dog. A diary, an obituary, a stranger and a promise – you could make this place beautiful. 

An absurdist mapping of legacy, sunshine, and fervent hope, GO WEST! is a hauntingly sharp, time-bending two-hander that drifts between the distant future and the recent past. From a vast desert to the burning sun, and back to the suburbs, BANG and BOOM reckon with what they’ve inherited, what they’ve destroyed, and what they might still salvage.

This achingly intimate new work blends the surreal with the painfully mundane, using language, space, and repetition to explore grief, memory, and the failure of systems - emotional, societal, ecological. As time collapses and stories repeat, the audience is invited into a space of uncertainty, play, and tenderness. GO WEST! asks: where are we going?

Created by Irish collective AIMSIR, known for bold, time-sensitive  theatre, the piece continues their interest in ephemerality, temporality, and place. AIMSIR -  the Irish word for weather, time, and era - makes theatre that dissolves boundaries between past and future, myth and memory, people and landscape.

Written by Aoife Cronin who also directs alongside Lucy Bracken, GO WEST! stars Amy Scollard and Jessie Byrne, with costumes by Lisa Della Chiesa and set by Em Kelleher

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