Promenade Performance :
A Celebration of Birr FAN Trail with Street Theatre!

Inspired by the Famous & Notables Trail of Birr, Promenade Performance was an exciting community-theatre project where a selection of short plays were performed in the open air during our 2022 festival.

 

Each play was inspired by a specific location along the FAN Trail commemorating the remarkable people and places from Birr’s fascinating history.  

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The 3 selected plaques for the short plays were:

 

• Birr Little Theatre with a piece based on the banning of "Shadow and Substance" a play written by Vincent Carroll that was banned from the Birr Little Theatre by the local clergy while the cast were in final dress rehearsal!

• The plaque for Alice Dwyer Joyce – (Emmet Square) – for which a piece of her writing will be recited

• The plaque for Bernadette O’Farrell – (AIB Bank) – with a piece around Robin Hood in which Bernadette played the role of Maid Marion in the 1950s TV series.

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Devised and directed by Eddie Alford, performed by members of Birr Stage Guild, with the help of collaborating Artists Rosalind Fanning and Jackie Lynch, the 3 plays attracted a nice crowd of 60+ audience members who enthusiastically clapped and whooped top celebrate the performance of the artists.

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Here's our highlight reel of the performance. we hope you enjoy it as much as we did on this sunny day:

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With Thanks to our funders :  Creative Ireland & Offaly County Council

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