Mountshannon Arts Festival 2025 Theater Works
Perpetual Succour
Saturday 31 May and Sunday June 1
Saturday in the Aistear Maze @ 12.30pm
Sunday in the Harbour near the Mayfly @ 12pm
Duration 40 min
€10, €8 with wristband
The artists Rachel Macmanus will perform Perpetual Succour, a live performance art work, in two locations for Mountshannon Arts Festival 2025.
Perpetual succour means ‘assistance and support in times of hardship and distress’. Rachel Macmanus will perform a looping action, repeating over and over, trying to live in the moment through the action. This ongoing repetition is intended to provide relief through the physical hard work from the clamouring voices in our heads. In a society which constantly tries to distract us with technology and digital media, staying present in a space is the most challenging thing of all.
Book Saturday 31 May performance
Book Sunday 1 June performance
Am I Irish Yet?
Saturday 31 May - 8pm
Hall, Mountshannon V94 F5A0
€15, €13 with wristband
Duration: 90min
Am I Irish Yet? is a one-woman show chronicling the life of Kate Kerrigan, a New York Times bestselling author who began her career as an editor for Just Seventeen magazine (where she was credited for discovering the band Take That).
After spending her childhood in London in the 80s as the ‘Bombing Irish’ to some and a ‘Plastic Paddy’ to others, she moved to her parent’s native Ireland in the 90s where she became a full-time author. 35 years on, with an Irish husband and children and a career as an Irish author, Kate brings the wisdom and wit of her award-winning writing to audiences in person for the first time, to whom she asks, “Am I Irish Yet?”.
ISENHEIM
A play by Paul Brennan
Monday 2 June - 7.30pm
Hall, Mountshannon
€10, €8 with wristband
Duration 2.5h with intermission
Mountshannon Arts Festival presents a rehearsed playreading of a new play by Paul Brennan. Images from the Isenheim Altarpiece will feature throughout.
The altarpiece was painted in the early 16 th century by Mattias Grünewald who with the help of the abbot of the hospital-monastery of Isenheim in Alsace, created one of the great masterpieces of that age.
But their real purposes were secretive, because they wished to smuggle certain messages – heretical messages – in to the work. How they managed to avoid detection brings a surprising comical twist to their otherwise lofty ambition to create a healing work of art.