Productions
Dish Of The Day - 1999
- Choreographer:
- David Bolger
- Composer:
- Bell Helicopter
- Lighting Designer:
- Mark Galione
- Costume Designer:
- Helen McCusker
- Hair & Makeup Designer:
- Val Sherlock
- Original Cast:
- Justine Doswell, James Hosty, Eric Lacey, Jenny Roche, Liz Roche
- Production Manager:
- Mark Galione
- Technical Manager:
- Eamon Fox
- Stage Manager:
- Jim Stenson
- Sound Operator:
- Mick Wright
- Premiere Date:
- 16 June 1999
- Premiere Venue:
- Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
- No of Perfs:
- 13
- Other Perfs:
- Backstage Theatre, Longford (15-16 Oct '99)
- Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick (19-20 Oct '99)
- An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny (23 Oct '99)
- Siamsa Tire, Tralee (26 Oct '99)
- Town Hall Theatre, Galway (28 Oct '99)
- Synopsis:
- Choreographer David Bolger holds up a looking glass to reflect the myriad of images he can create, give form to, and re-shape to express the magical elasticity of movement. Through a process of honing, layering, adding and subtracting, he moulds his performers in and out of frames, with chameleon-like ease, to recreate the spirit of vaudeville, burlesque, clowning, technological inventions, the absurdities of human intelligence, the emotional impact of change, the psychology of colour, whilst the pendulum swings backwards and forwards through time. His mood is upbeat, quirky, comical and exuberant. DISH OF THE DAY gives a new interpretation to George Bernard Shaw's famous quote on dancing being “a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire”.
