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
- International Producer: Maura O'Keeffe
- Costume: Hazel McCague
- Construction: Barry Rogerson
Autumn nationwide tour 2021...
(a North American tour in 2022)
(click on links below to access booking sites.)
25 Sept: Town Hall, Galway presenting at Mick Lally Theatre
26 Sept: Glór, Ennis
01 Oct: Cork Opera House
02 Oct: Cork Opera House
07 Oct: Backstage, Longford
09 Oct: An Grianán, Letterkenny
10 Oct: Hawk’s Well, Sligo
14 Oct: Solstice, Navan
15 Oct: An Táin, Dundalk
20 Oct: Draíocht Blanchardstown
21 Oct: Riverbank, Kildare
22 Oct: The Source, Thurles
23 Oct: Fennelly’s Callan, Kilkenny
24 Oct: Fennelly’s Callan, Kilkenny
29 Oct: Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
31 Oct: Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire
02 Nov: Fumbally Stables, Dublin
03 Nov: Fumbally Stables, Dublin
Mullingar dates to follow.
With an North American tour in Spring 2022...
Old tour dates in 2018 and 2019
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
