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SUMMARY:My So-Called Life in Copenhagen – Multidisciplinary Performance and Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Live performance of Silent written + performed by Pat Kinevane\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSilent is the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig\, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind.  \n\n\nThrough humour and political sharpness\, the work explores migration\, identity\, cultural adaptation\, belonging and the everyday challenges faced by migrant women. Presented by Renate Dujakovic\, Theatre Creator\,  Performer and Producer\, Denmark. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nRenate Dujakovic\, Theatre Creator\, Performer and Producer \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nMy So-Called Life in Copenhagen is an autobiographical artistic performance that combines elements of comedy\, physical theatre\, and exhibition. Through the personal story of its creator\, Renate Dujaković\, the performance explores themes of migration\, identity\, cultural adaptation\, and belonging\, from the perspective of a young artist from Southeast Europe trying to find her place in Copenhagen — a city that promises freedom\, yet where quiet exclusion simmers beneath the surface. \n\n\n\nThe performance uses humour as a means of illuminating the invisible everyday challenges faced by migrant women — bureaucratic traps\, cultural misunderstandings\, existential tensions\, and emotional exhaustion. Combining personal storytelling\, political sharpness\, and physical performance inspired by clown\, bouffon\, and mask work\, the performance creates an intimate and humorous theatrical experience that allows the audience to empathise\, laugh\, and question their own role within the systems that shape social reality. \n\n\n\nThrough creative artistic approaches\, the performance addresses complex and often taboo subjects in a way that is simultaneously gentle\, humorous\, and politically precise — positioning the theatrical act as a space for truth\, subversion\, and resistance. \n\n\n\nFollowing the performance\, the audience is invited to explore an accompanying photography exhibition — a visual extension of the performance that transforms the entire event into a multimedia and immersive experience. The exhibition is not merely an addition\, but a space for extended reflection\, where intimate portraits and poetic interventions offer silence and time for a personal connection with the themes of the performance. \n\n\n\nMy So-Called Life in Copenhagen is a work that crosses boundaries in both form and content. It is politically engaged and deeply rooted in personal experience. It invites the audience to think critically\, laugh from the gut\, and recognise the power of performance as a means of resistance\, resilience\, and the collective reimagining of reality. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by Renate Dujakovic \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRenate Dujakovic\, creator and performer\, is an actress and producer who explores theatre in all its forms. She has travelled\, studied\, worked\, and performed in Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Serbia\, Denmark\, Spain\, Poland\, Turkey\, and Brazil. She graduated from The Commedia School in Copenhagen\, the oldest physical theatre school in Denmark. She has worked on productions across various comedic styles\, including bouffon\, clown\, cabaret\, and commedia dell’arte\, with a focus on political and physical theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/my-so-called-life-in-copenhagen/
LOCATION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Live performance of Silent written + performed by Pat Kinevane
DESCRIPTION:Live performance of Silent written + performed by Pat Kinevane\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSilent is the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig\, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind.  \n\n\nHe 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. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nWritten and Performed by Pat KinevaneDirected by Jim CulletonMusic composed by Denis ClohessyCostume styled by Catherine CondellPhoto by Pat RedmondProduced by Eva Scanlan and Laura MacNaughtonAssistant Producer Evie Mc GuinnessCo-Producer (London\, New York and Los Angeles) Georganne Aldrich HellerMarketing Allie Whelan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSILENT 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. \n\n\n\n​WINNER Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Performer – Visiting Production\, 2020WINNER Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre\, OLIVIER AWARD 2016WINNER Scotsman Fringe First and The Herald Angel\, Edinburgh Festival 2011WINNER Argus Angel\, Brighton Festival 2012 \n\n\n\nRuntime: 90 minsAge restriction: 14+ \n\n\n\n‘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.’ \n\n\n\nIrish Times \n\n\n\n‘beautiful\, compelling\, heartbreaker of a show’Belfast Telegraph \n\n\n\n‘sparkles with unsettling intensity and physicality…morbidly humorous…smart\,perceptive direction…GO’LA Weekly \n\n\n\n‘sensational…amazing’LA Post \n\n\n\n★★★★★​ The List★★★★★​ The Herald★★★★★​ The Skinny★★★★ The Scotsman \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by Fishamble. \n\n\n\nFishamble 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. \n\n\n\n“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.” \n\n\n\nPresident Michael D. Higgins\, President of Ireland \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPat 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. \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nFilm 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. \n\n\n\nFor 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.   \n\n\n\nFor 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. \n\n\n\nPat 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.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/silent/
LOCATION:Riverbank Arts Centre\, Newbridge\, Main St\, Greatconnell\,\, Newbridge\, Kildare\, W12 D962\, Ireland
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