Irish Arts Center
in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller
presents

Fishamble: The New Play Company
Underneath

October 14 – November 1

Tuesday, October 27 | 8 pm
Wednesday – Saturday | 8 pm
Sunday | 3 pm
Please note there will be no show on Thursday, October 22, or Saturday, October 31

Written and Performed by
Pat Kinevane

Directed by 
Jim Culleton

Award-winning writer and performer Pat Kinevane and company Fishamble return to Irish Arts Center with Underneath, following the runaway international success of Forgotten (spring 2010) and Silent (fall 2012).

Sticks and stones didn’t break Her bones, but words and pointing crushed Her. Is Beauty really only skin deep? Does Ugliness hide somewhere deeper?

A woman lies dead in her freshly dug grave in the Tumbledown cemetery, Cobh, County Cork. Here she tells the story of her life: her happy childhood and the mother who loved Cleopatra; being struck by lightning and then missing school for a year; her night shifts in hotels washing and mending laundry; up to her ultimate and untimely demise in a north Dublin flat; all via a series of unlikely encounters and heartbreaking betrayals.

This stunning new play is a blackly comic, richly vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life. It explores the surface – and what lies underneath.

Produced by Marketa Dowling
Composed by Denis Clohessy
Costume by Catherine Condell
Choreography Adviser Emma O’Kane
Dramaturg Gavin Kostick

Running Time: 90 minutes

Fishamble is funded by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland