Case Study Productions
presents…
WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER
Conceived and Directed by Edwina Casey
As part of ABSOLUT FRINGE 2010
The Noughties. Unaffordable housing, designer bags and career prospects beyond your wildest dreams. David Hare called it the Decade of Looking Away - we thought that we could have it all. So what happens when we can no longer live up to our swollen expectations?
WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER looks at what it means to be of the privileged class when your stock has plummeted. Case Study’s new work plays with theatrical form to investigate the responsibility we must take for our actions. We are all in the gutter, but can we look at the stars?
This year, ABSOLUT Fringe presents the newest Irish work in Dublin’s oldest theatre at Smock Alley, showcasing 14 shows in 3 spaces over 16 days. Looking at the last 10 years of Ireland’s history, Edwina Casey and the cast of WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER are creating a brand new piece of theatre, devised and developed to hold a mirror up to the Dublin community and ask the question WHERE ARE YOU AT NOW?
“Talented Irish director Edwina Casey makes her ABSOLUT Fringe debut with a pertinent and uncompromising look at how Dublin’s elite are dealing with the fallout from the economic crash” - Róise Goan, Director, ABSOLUT Fringe
Listings information:
Smock Alley Theatre, Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
14 – 18 September
8.30pm
Preview 13 September
WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER
Directed by Edwina Casey
Conceived by Edwina Casey and the cast
Design by Stephen Dodd
Composed by Cormac Phelan
Production Manager Marty Moore
Producer Lara Hickey
Cast:
Keith Hanna, Jack Hickey, Jane Myers, Camille Ross
Biographies:
Edwina Casey Director
Edwina studied directing at LAMDA, UK and is a member of the Director's Lab at the Lincoln Center Theater, New York.
Up and coming directing work includes:
An adaptation of TIMON OF ATHENS by William Shakespeare and WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER as part of ABSOLUT Fringe 2010 at Smock Alley.
Recent directing work includes:
LAGAN, GREY AND GREEN by Stacey Gregg (rehearsed reading @ RADA, UK); DIGITAL THEATRE PROJECT II (workshop presentation @ Young Vic/Genesis Directors, UK); AFTER THE ACCIDENT by Julian Armitstead (LAMDA, UK); CHILD (a short film written and directed by Edwina in association with LAMDA, UK); A BOY'S DREAM (collaboration with the students of Acteer's Studio, Holland) TITUS:REWORKED (LAMDA, UK); KRAPP'S LAST TAPE by Samuel Beckett (Andrew's Lane Studio, IRE).
Edwina has also worked extensively as an assistant alongside directors such as Peter James, Selena Cartmell, Joseph Blatchly and Paul Robinson.
Lara Hickey Producer
Previous work as producer includes Twelfth Night for Shakespeare in the Park (Fitzwilliam Square and Bray Summer Fest), OFF PLAN for RAW Theatre Company, Victor and Gord (both in association with Project Arts Centre), Dying City and Serious Money as part of the Rough Magic AIB SEEDS Showcase 2009, Love 2.0 for thisispopbaby at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2008, All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming for Pope Joan Theatre (Edinburgh&Dublin Fringe Festival). Credits as assistant producer and administrator for Rough Magic include The Taming of the Shrew, Life is a Dream and Spokesong and Pentecost (Rough Magic/Lyric Theatre Belfast), Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer and Rough Magic 25 (Project Arts Centre). Other work includes the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2008 as See You in Dublin Coordinator and in 2009, Lara completed placements at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Lara was also Production Assistant with International Arts and Leisure for the inaugural production of Swan Lake at the Grand Canal Theatre.
Biographies of the CAST:
Keith Hanna
Keith has worked professionally in the business from an early age. His stage debut came in 1995 in the production of The King and I in the Olympia Theatre. Other theatre credits include Puss In Boots (Olympia), Hot Mikado (Olympia) Aladdin (Gaiety), Cinderella (Gaiety), Jack and The Beanstalk (Gaiety), Moving Right Along (Gaiety), West Side Story (Gaiety) and Macbecks (Olympia) Keith has also worked with Second Age Theatre Company in numerous productions including Macbeth (Helix & Irish Tour ‘06), King Lear (SFX), Othello (Helix & Irish Tour) and Macbeth (Helix & Irish Tour ‘08) and most recently Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park). Film and television work includes An Awfully Big Adventure (BBC/ Wolfhound Productions), The Sun the Moon and the Stars (Blue Lion Entertainment), The King of Nothing (BBI Entertainment), Stardust (RTE/Merlin Films), The Unbelievable Truth (RTE), The Café (RTE), The Clinic (RTE) and Fair City (RTE).
Jack Hickey
Jack Hickey has just graduated from The Gaiety School Of Acting Full-Time Course, and recently appeared in their graduation play Casa Lisa at Project Arts Centre. Before attending The Gaiety Full-Time Jack was a member of The Youth Theatre Company. He attended the summer Shakespeare course at RADA, where he played Petruchio in a production of Taming of the Shrew. Jack also appeared in Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream in which he played the parts of Bottom and Demetrius for Shakespeare in the Park in Fitzwilliam Square and at the Bray Summer Festival.
Jane Myers
Jane graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2007. Previous theatre work includes Basin (ANU Productions at ABSOLUT Fringe 2009), Closer (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Dead Cat Bounce (Gilded Balloon Edinburgh), Hamlet Machine (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Memory of Water (Granary theatre Cork), The Lover, Aladdin, Physical Emotion a 24 Hour Musical, Salome and The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belissa in the Garden (Players Theatre). Television and film work includes Sin é, directed by Sean Brannigan (in post production), Dead Cat Bounce’s ‘Work’ part of RTE’s Project Ha Ha and currently filming This Must be the Place with Sean Penn and Francis McDormand for Element Films.
Camille Ross
Camille Ross graduated from the Gaiety School of acting in June 2010. Over the last year she has appeared in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park), When the Hunter Returns, directed by Liam Halligan, written by Lally Katz (Project Arts Centre). She performed in Whiplash's production of Spartacus, directed by Paul Burke, written by Gavin Kostick in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2009. She played Jacinta Condour in the Rough Magic AIB SEEDS Showcase production of Serious Money, directed by Aoife Spillane Hinks and appeared in A Christmas Carol at The Gate Theatre, directed by Alan Stanford.
For press information, please contact:
Lara Hickey | 086 8842090 | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
