Boyfriends – theatre performance presented by Lemon Soap Productions
Boyfriends – theatre performance presented by Lemon Soap Productions
October 15 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm IST
Boyfriends is a theatre performance following a three-month affair between two anonymous men. Boyfriends, charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern ‘situationship’. This production is presented as part of the LASTA festival, a unique, youth-led national arts festival with programmes created by young curators chosen through a competitive annual open call.
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Artists
Ultan Pringle, writer and actor
Joy Nesbitt, director
Emmanuel Okoye, actor
Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍, set and AV design
HK Ní Shioradáin, sound design
Owen Clarke, lighting design
Toni Bailey, costume design
Praise Titus, assistant director
Ross Smith, stage manager
Eloise Hickey, production manager
Lisa Nally, producer
Full Event Details
Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends, charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern situationship. As they swing through four million one hundred and ninety one thousand possibilities of what they might mean to one another, through time, sex, Madonna songs, nightclubs, period dramas and calorie counting. Boyfriends asks us to ponder on that age old question: what the f*ck is romance anyway?
This production is presented as part of the LASTA festival. LASTA is a unique, youth-led national arts festival with programmes created by young curators chosen through a competitive annual open call. At Belltable and Lime Tree Theatre, this year’s curators are Eoin Gilmartin, a performer and theatre maker from Tipperary, and Matthew O’Rourke, a Limerick-based writer and performer. Together, they have assembled a Limerick programme that’s diverse in style, rich in storytelling, and deeply connected to the spirit of the city.
“This programme represents a year of hard work, skill development and discovery,” says Eoin Gilmartin. “It is an honour to bring together such an incredible selection of outstanding performers, artists, and storytellers. Young and old, local or visiting, there is something for everyone in the Belltable and Lime Tree Theatre this October.”
“Our programme is diverse, literary, and reflective, three qualities of Limerick that I feel make it what it is,” adds Matthew O’Rourke. “We have a great mixture of independent artists and established production companies. With music, poetry, and love stories, this programme is sure to hold audiences close as autumn ripens.”
Speaker Biographies:
Emmanuel Okoye is a Nigerian-Irish Actor, Writer and Photographer. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2021 (Class of 2020) with a BA in Film Studies and English Literature. He has since worked in The Abbey Theatre on productions such as Frank McGuinness’ Tartuffe and Carys Coburn Gray’s Absent the Wrong and also in The Gate Theatre on PIAF. He enjoys nothing more than bringing to life a well-written story and is excited by the new plays that Irish writers have to offer.
Joy Nesbitt is a director, writer, and musician inspired by stories of Black Femininity and postcolonial imagination. She has been named on The Irish Times and Sunday Times’ lists of “Ones to Watch in 2024.” In 2022, Joy attended the Theatre Directing MFA at The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is a 2021 recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts for the sum of her artistic activities at Harvard University. Joy is a Director SEED for Rough Magic Theatre Company and a member of the 2023 cohort of the Rachel Baptiste Programme at Smock Alley Theatre. Joy has also self-produced three short films: Anger Management (2020), Faces (2020), and Getting Along (2020).
Joy’s selected directing credits include My Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman (2024, The Lir Academy), Spear by CN Smith (2024, Corrib Theatre), Listen, A Black Woman is Speaking by Marlow Wyatt (2023, Project Arts Centre), The King of All Birds by Martha Knight (2023, Project Arts Centre), endings. by Fionntán Larney (2023, Project Arts Centre and Smock Alley Theatre), Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (2022, The Lir Academy); God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza (2020, Harvard University); and Dreamgirls by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen (2020, American Repertory Theatre)
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