Live performance of Silent written + performed by Pat Kinevane
Live performance of Silent written + performed by Pat Kinevane
October 14 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm IST
Silent is the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind.
He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, beautiful production for which Fishamble and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award in 2016.
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Written and Performed by Pat Kinevane
Directed by Jim Culleton
Music composed by Denis Clohessy
Costume styled by Catherine Condell
Photo by Pat Redmond
Produced by Eva Scanlan and Laura MacNaughton
Assistant Producer Evie Mc Guinness
Co-Producer (London, New York and Los Angeles) Georganne Aldrich Heller
Marketing Allie Whelan
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SILENT is the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, bleak, beautiful production for which Fishamble and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award in 2016.
WINNER Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Performer – Visiting Production, 2020
WINNER Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, OLIVIER AWARD 2016
WINNER Scotsman Fringe First and The Herald Angel, Edinburgh Festival 2011
WINNER Argus Angel, Brighton Festival 2012
Runtime: 90 mins
Age restriction: 14+
‘Kinevane moves, in a striking performance under Jim Culleton’s effective direction, with the elegance of a dancer and the engaged poise of a boxer. It’s a startling combination…the caress of poetry and the disarming direct address of stand-up…a moving story, which, until its end, pulses with the erratic noise of life.’
Irish Times
‘beautiful, compelling, heartbreaker of a show’
Belfast Telegraph
‘sparkles with unsettling intensity and physicality…morbidly humorous…smart,
perceptive direction…GO’
LA Weekly
‘sensational…amazing’
LA Post
★★★★★ The List
★★★★★ The Herald
★★★★★ The Skinny
★★★★ The Scotsman
This event is presented by Fishamble.
Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that discovers, develops and produces new plays of national importance with a global reach. It has toured its productions to audiences throughout Ireland, and to 22 other countries. It champions the role of the playwright, typically supporting over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. It has a number of award-winning outreach and education initiatives which it runs with partners in Dublin and elsewhere. Fishamble has received many awards in Ireland and internationally, including an Olivier Award.
“During the three decades since your establishment, you have received acclaim at home and on the international stage, garnering many prestigious awards. You have also staged many brave and groundbreaking plays which have challenged, surprised and delighted audiences around the world. As you look back over thirty years of artistic endeavour you have much to regard with pride.
I wish you every success as you continue to nurture new and emerging talent, and to introduce another generation of theatre goers to truly innovative drama, theatre and performance.”
President Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
Speaker Biographies:
Pat is native of Cobh, County Cork. He has worked as an Actor in Ireland for the past 37 years. He began to write for the stage in 1997 and completed his first full length play The Nun’s Wood, which won a BBC Stewart Parker Trust Award in 1998 and was produced by Fishamble Theatre Company. Fishamble then produced his second play The Plains of Enna which premiered at the 1999 Dublin Theatre Festival. Since then, Pat has written a series of Five Solo Theatre pieces, namely Forgotten, Silent, Underneath, Before and King – all produced by Fishamble.
In 2016 with Fishamble, Pat won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance and writing of Silent and a Helen Hayes award in Washington DC for the same show in 2019. He has performed all Five pieces to huge acclaim throughout Ireland and Scotland, in London, Liverpool, Wales, Paris, Prague, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Serbia, Iceland, Belgium, Croatia, Bulgaria, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in Australia, Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand, across India, New York, Washington DC, Boston, Cleveland and eight full seasons in Los Angeles.
Film and TV acting credits include: Shoe (Oscar shortlisted 2011) King Arthur, Holding (ITV) Can’t Cope Won’t Cope, A Mother’s Love’s a Blessing, Black Day at Blackrock, Headrush, Beckett on Film, The Informant, When Brendan met Trudy, The Run of the Country, Far and Away, Mystics, The General, Ella Enchanted, A Soldier’s Song, Little Hoodie, Right now Ladies and Gents, My Dinner With Oswald, The Countess Cathleen, Vicious Circle, Ballykissangel, Glenroe, Fair City, Upwardly Mobile and The Late Late Show Murder Mystery.
For The Abbey Theatre his work includes : Good Evening Mr Collins, The Colleen Bawn, Dancing at Lughnasa (also at The Sydney Opera House), By the Bog of Cats, The Broken Jug, Sheep’s Milk on the Boil, The Rivals, Drama at Inish, The Chirpaun, Monkey and Three Laws of Motion.
For The Gate Theatre: The Home Place, Waiting for Godot, Salome, As You Like It, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Christmas Carol, Sharon’s Grave, She Stoops to Conquer, Arms and the Man, London Assurance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Thrupenny Opera, Not I, Act Without Words 2, and What Where.
Pat has appeared in Carthaginians for Druid, Studs for Passion Machine, Electra for B*spoke, Baby Jane for Corn Exchange, Translations for Lyceum Edinburgh, The Field and The Risen People at the Gaiety (plus numerous Pantos there), and three seasons with Team Theatre. In 2005 Pat played the title role of Roy Keane in the hit musical, I,Keano.
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