Venues & dates 2018-2020
Arán & Im celebrates the Irish language in an engaging, accessible bilingual way, through sourdough bread and home-churned butter. (Originally produced in association with The Abbey Theatre)
Read Manchán's Irish Times article about Arán & Im.... here
Is taibhiú drámaíochta é Arán & Im ina mbácálann Manchán arán taois ghéir ar feadh 70 nóiméad fad is a thugann sé léargas ar iontaisí na Gaeilge – agus é ag ceiliúradh focail mhealltacha a bhaineann leis an tírdhreach, téarmaí i dtaca le hiomas agus léirstean, agus an iliomad nathanna a thugann beocht do chumhacht agus mistéir an tsaoil nádúrtha.
- Presented and Produced by: Manchán Magan
- Design: Tom de Paor
- Direction: Tom Creed
- International Producer: Maura O'Keeffe
- Costume: Hazel McCague
- Construction: Barry Rogerson
Mullingar Library, Spring 2020 (TBC)
Athlone Library, Spring 2020 (TBC)
Delvin Parish Hall, 9th Nov 2019
Castlepollard Community School, 7th Nov 2019
Leaves Festival, Dunamaise Theatre, Portlaoise, 5 & 6th Nov
Clonakility Samhain Festival, 2nd Nov, 2019
Cashel Arts Festival, 20th & 21st Sept 2019
Garter Lane, Waterford, 7th Sept, 2019
Fleadh Cheoil, Drogheda, 16 & 17th August 2019
Hawks Well, Sligo, 31st July & 1st Aug 2019
Skibereen Arts Festival, 30th July 2019
Earagail Festival, Donegal, 27 & 28th July 2019
Backstage, Longford, 26th July 2019
Arás Inis Ghluaire, Bellmullet, 17th & 18th July 2019
Enniscorthy, Wexford Literary Festival, 7th July 2019
Roscommon Arts Centre, 5th July 2019
Civic Theatre, Tallaght, Co Dublin, 23rd June 2019
Féile na Bealtaine, Dingle, 4th & 5th May, 2019
Wild Mind Festival, Fenit, 27th April 2019
Linen Hall, Castlebar, March 2019
Belltable, Limerick, Feb 2019
The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Feb 2019
Glór Uachtar Tíre, Maginn's , Co Down,Dec 2018
Fumbally Stables, Oct, 2018
Cork Opera House, Sept 2018
Townhall Theatre, Galway, Sept 2018
Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Aug 2018
Lime Theatre, Limerick, July 2018
Buíochas ó chroí le: Amharclann na Mainstreach, Foras na Gaeilge, Baird McNutt, Studio Donegal, The Little Mill, Dunany Flour, Smeg, Bodel, Declan Caulfield. Maura O'Keeffe.
Arán & Im is a theatrical performance/installation in which Manchán bakes sourdough bread for 70 minutes while offering insights into the wonders of the Irish language – exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of our natural world.
It is a celebration of language, land and local Irish food, with freshly-baked traditional sourdough bread for the audience to slice and spread with butter they churn themselves from Irish cream.
Arán & Im is a theatrical performance/installation in which Manchán bakes sourdough bread for 2 hours while offering insights into the wonders of the Irish language – exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of our natural world.
It is a celebration of language, land and local Irish food, with freshly-baked traditional sourdough bread for the audience to slice and spread with butter they churn themselves from Irish cream.
Arán & Im
