THE FIVE LAMPS THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT

‘Aisling & Pavel’

The Five Lamps Theatre Company invites you to‘Aisling & Pavel’ an exciting new comedy by Niamh Gleeson. Directed by Roisin Lonergan
Starring Vanessa Flood and Ignacy Rybarczyk.

Pavel loves Aisling.
Aisling loves Pavel.
They both love the chickens.
Is there room for both flesh and fowl in their bed?

It's difficult for Pavel to understand Aisling. But that might just be the Mullingar accent. At least they have the welfare of the chickens to bind them together. They invite you to watch them from their bedroom as they have a love-in to highlight the shocking conditions chickens have to live in. Will the world sit up and take note? When Aisling sings will she be unveiled as the Irish Beyonce? Or will they fester in their own coop, as the world rumbles on regardless....

DATES:
Wednesday September 30th - Saturday 3rd October @ 8PM

VENUE: Sean O'Casey Theatre
St Mary's Road,
East Wall,
Dublin 3.

The Five Lamps Theatre Company's previous production:-

The Marietta Showband is dreamed up while Bernie Brady works on the biscuit factory line in 1968.  She drums up four other young ones and they attempt to burst onto the Dublin showband scene.  They have an inauspicious beginning in Father Finian’s Parish Hall.  Will the unreliable musicians turn up?  Will Assumpta’s gippy tummy get the better of her?  Can ‘The Mariettas’ get the crowds on the dance floor?  Charming and quirky, ‘The Mariettas’ is a trip down memory lane and Hucklebuck shoes are compulsory!  ‘The Mariettas’ stars Stephanie Behan, Andrea Cleary, Margaret O'Doherty, Jennifer Meade and Emma Reinhardt.

Watch extract from 'The Mariettas'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c0FvYgZtEo

Review from 'In Dublin' 21st March 2009

The Mariettas
An entertaining night of 1960s nostalgia featuring the talents of five young Dublin women playing a number of different
parts. The play features a stark black stage with the characters dressed in their blue 1960s minidress stage outfits throughout. Each performer plays a number of parts from nurses to teachers to biscuit factory workers. All come together in the form of the Marietta Showband. Particularly funny are the girls neandertal male characterisations of the two bands employed to play for the showband.The fast paced nature of the play carries the audience along through the trials and tribulations of trying to break out of 1960s conservative Ireland where life for women was restrictive and inhibiting. All the women in their own way make it to their individual nirvanas. All in some way escape. This play requires no heavy interpretation, it is not pretentious intellectual theatre but it is the perfect escapist entertainment for the recessionary Ireland of the 21st century. One small criticism, all that is needed to make this the perfect nostalgic play, an added piece
of 1969 realism would be to cut a few more inches off those 1969 minidress outfits.
Posted By: The Aviator