PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release - 10 February 2016
GET INTO THE SWING – 50s STYLE AT HAWK’S WELL
DURING CAIRDE FESTIVAL
Dance the night away at the Hawk’s Well Theatre on Saturday 12th of July. The uplifting and joyful
comedy Swing from Fishamble: the new play company comes to the theatre for one night only
during the Cairde Arts Festival. So the theatre is planning a great night out - 50s style. Before the
show Betty Bang styling will be on hand to transform all the ladies in attendance into foxy dames.
Betty Bang will work high voltage magic on those 90s hairdos so choose from victory rolls, quiffs or a
Betty Bang look on top. Add feline eyes and bombshell lips and you will have a pout to shout about!
Party dresses will also be available to hire from Betty Bang’s 50s Frock shop.
Vintage Loft in Ruby Lane in Johnston’s Court Shopping Centre also have plenty of 50s style dresses
for sale to suit all shapes and sizes as well as 50s style garb for the guys! Just mention the play when
buying your frock and get 10% off!
Irish Theatre Magazine’s review of Swing speaks of a funny and warm play “with a rousing finale
that’s enough to make you kick up your own heels”. So Joe Fury and the Hayride will be on hand in
the foyer to get the audience up on their feet after the show to kick up those heels!. Joe Fury and
the Hayride are the first ever Irish band to play at the“Rockabilly Rave” in the UK, the world’s biggest
Rockabilly Festival and the only non-trad Irish act that Matt Molloy insists play in his world famous
Westport pub. You won’t be able to sit still!
Swing from Fishamble: the new play company comes to the Hawk's Well Theatre at the start of the
Cairde Arts Festival this July. Tickets are €15 and include entrance to the after party with Joe Fury
and the Hayride.
Hair - e10.00 (victory rolls or quiff)
Make up - e10.00 (feline eyes, bombshell lips, WHOOSA eyebrows) please come with foundation,
concealer and powder on
Both - e15.00
Dress Hire from Betty Bang Frock Shop: 20.00 (Limited sizes and supply)
Dresses available to buy from The Vintage Loft, Ruby Lane, Johnson’s Court from €21-35.
Following its hugely successful premiere as part of Show in a Bag in the 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival,
Swing wowed audiences at the Irish Arts Centre - New York, the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, the
Peacock as part of Dublin Dance Festival Ireland in May and is currently on an extensive Irish tour
which sees them dance before 17 counties before continuing to Edinburgh Fringe Festival, supported
by Culture Ireland.
This funny joyful has been getting outstanding reviews and is guaranteed to put smiles on all faces
and have the audiences dancing in the aisles.
A comedy about dancing and music and love and not settling and feeling like an eejit and being
brave and having doubts and trying your best and trying new things and thinking outside the box and
seeing things clearly and living as well as you can and giving it a lash. With rock and roll music. It'll
make you want to dance.
Developed as part of Show in a Bag, an artist development initiative of Dublin Fringe Festival,
Fishamble: The New Play Company and Irish Theatre Institute to resource theatre makers and actors.
‘Moran and Blount create endearing visions of stalled lives in a whirl of possibility and, with elegant
guidance, Daly lets them dance like angels’ ★★★★ Irish Times
‘Funny, warm, and well produced, with a rousing finale that’s enough to make you kick up your own
heels’ ★★★★★ Irish Theatre Magazine
‘there's a real sweetness to this comedy. Give it a whirl.’ ★★★★ Sunday Times
Cast Steve Blount and Janet Moran
Directed by Peter Daly
Produced by Marketa Dowling
Lighting Design by Mark Galione
Sound Design by Ivan Birthistle
JANET MORAN: Janet’s stage work includes Juno and the Paycock (National Theatre, London/Abbey
Theatre coproduction), Shibari, Translations, No Romance, The Recruiting Officer, The Cherry
orchard, She Stoops to Conquer, Communion, The Barbaric Comedies, The Well of the Saints and The
Hostage (all at the Abbey Theatre). Film and television work includes Quirke (BBC) with Gabriel
Byrne, Trivia, Love/Hate, Love is the Drug, The Clinic (RTE), The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Milo,
Minim Rest, Bono and My Ex, Moll Flanders, Nothing Personal and Volkswagen Joe.
STEVE BLOUNT: Steve’s previous work for Fishamble includes Tiny Plays for Ireland 1, Tiny Plays for
Ireland 2 and Pilgrims in the Park. Other theatre includes A Streetcar Named Desire (Gate), Across
the Lough (Performance Corporation), Paisley and Me (Belfast Opera House and NI tour), Bog Boy
(Tall Tales and Irish Arts Center, New York), Only and Apple, Savoy, The Wild Duck, Judas of the
Gallarus, The Pauper, She Stoops to Folly, (Abbey Theatre), Tarry Flynn (Abbey Theatre/National
Theatre, London). Film and television work includes Moone Boy, Titanic, Blood and Steel, Game of
Thrones, The Race, 32A, Single Handed, Prosperity, The Clinic, Stolen Child, Stardust, Breakfast on
Pluto, Bachelors Walk, Fair City, Glenroe, The Colleen Bawn, Agnes Browne, Mad About Mambo,
Pips, Johnny Loves Suzy and Though the Sky.
FISHAMBLE: THE NEW PLAY COMPANY is a multi-award winning company, dedicated to new plays.
It tours its productions throughout Ireland and internationally. Fishamble is funded by the Arts
Council and Dublin City Council, its international touring is supported by Culture Ireland. As well as a
range of new writing initiatives, and training and development schemes, Fishamble's planned
programme for the year includes: continued touring in Ireland and internationally of its multi award
winning productions of Forgotten and Silent by Pat Kinevane; Spinning, a new play by Deirdre
Kinahan & Underneath, a new play by Pat Kinevane premiering at Limerick City of Culture. Fishamble
is funded by the Arts Coun
For further information contact Maeve McGowan, Marketing Manager, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo,
maeve@hawkswell.com 071 916 1518