ATTENTION
Co-created by Jules Head and Georgia Bruce
19 Nov to 23 Dec
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19 Nov to 23 Dec
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14+
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£15.00 to £25.00
About
“Because in the middle of all that fucking work is something, is our thing. That’s good, isn’t it? Isn’t it good?”
They stand at the edge of a circle. They look across at her, standing there too. Every day, for the last seven years, they’ve both stepped inside. Together. Again and again and again. And today, they go again.
A queer play about why and how we choose to pay attention.
About the effort and sweat needed to build a life with someone.
About whether love is enough to save us.
Every night the actors will choose how to tell the story – they might restart, fast-forward, stop altogether. Every night, they navigate the truth of their relationship like a match between two players. Every night, they try to end on the same page.
Co-created by acclaimed director Jules Head and Bruntwood Prize shortlisted writer Georgia Bruce, ATTENTION was nominated for 7 awards at the Dublin Fringe Awards, including Best Production and the Radical Spirit Award. Original cast members Bláithín Mac Gabhann and Norah Lopez Holden return.
Presented by Tilly Taylor in association with Bush Theatre. Co-created by Jules Head and Georgia Bruce, with Tilly Taylor, Bláithín Mac Gabhann and Norah Lopez Holden.
Creatives
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Bláithín Mac Gabhann
Cast Member
Bláithín (she/they) has most recently been cast as Mary Louise in BÁN by Carys D. Coburn, directed by Claire O’Reilly for the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre; and as B…
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Bláithín Mac Gabhann
Cast Member
Bláithín (she/they) has most recently been cast as Mary Louise in BÁN by Carys D. Coburn, directed by Claire O’Reilly for the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre; and as B in ATTENTION directed by Jules Head for Dublin Fringe Festival. Further recent stage credits include AMELIA by Dee Roycroft at Project Arts Centre for Dublin Fringe Festival; the role of Rose in Brian Friel’s DANCING AT LUGHNASA directed by Josie Rourke at the National Theatre, London; and HOTHOUSE directed by Claire O’Reilly for Malaprop.
Bláithín won Best Supporting Actor at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards (June 2022) for their performance in Nancy Harris’s OUR NEW GIRL directed by Annabelle Comyn for the Gate Theatre; and for their role as Mary (Masha) in Thomas Kilroy’s THE SEAGULL (after Chekhov) directed by Garry Hynes for Druid Theatre Co.
Further credits include: the role of the Outsider in THE WAY OUT directed by Suri Krishnamma as part of the Performance Live collaboration between the BBC, Arts Council England, and BAC; PENANCE directed by Maurice Sweeney for Channel 5; NORMAL PEOPLE directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald; Carys Coburn’s Verity Bargate Award-winning play CITYSONG, directed by Caitriona McLaughlin for the Abbey Theatre, the Soho Theatre London, and the Galway International Arts Festival (2019).
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Norah Lopez Holden
Cast Member
Norah Lopez Holden trained and graduated from RADA. Previous theatre credits include: Loves Labour’s Lost, Winters Tale, Eyam (Shakespeare´s Globe); Gunter (Royal Court); Shed: Exploded View, The Almighty Sometimes, Our…
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Norah Lopez Holden
Cast Member
Norah Lopez Holden trained and graduated from RADA.
Previous theatre credits include: Loves Labour’s Lost, Winters Tale, Eyam (Shakespeare´s Globe); Gunter (Royal Court); Shed: Exploded View, The Almighty Sometimes, Our Town (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Flea (Yard Theatre) Hamlet (Young Vic); Equus (Trafalgar Studios/Theatre Royal Stratford East, ETT); Othello (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory/ETT); The Art of Illusion (Hampstead); Horneblende (Cut The Cord); Curse of the Crackles (Shoreditch Town Hall); A Christmas Carol (Storyhouse); Ghosts (HOME Theatre); Epic Love And Pop Songs (Pleasance).
Screen credits include: Criminal Record Season 2 (AppleTV)
Creatives
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Georgia Bruce
Writer
Georgia Bruce
Writer
Georgia Bruce is a writer and actor from London.
Their first play, Time Like the Sea, was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize, the George Devine Award, the Papatango Prize for Playwriting, the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Their play The Castle: or Imagine K Happy, co-created with Jules Head, is running through 2026 at the Berliner Ensemble.
Other credits include Attention, which debuted at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2025, and Nostos: after the Odyssey which was commissioned by Oxford School of Drama and performed at the Southwark Playhouse. Between 2023-2025 Georgia was part of the Genesis Almeida New Writers Programme. They were also a member of the Royal Court Writers’ Group (2026) and BBC Voices (2024).
As an actor, their theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air), Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air/Barbican/UK Tour), Wuthering Heights (USA tour), Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre) and for television It’s a Sin (Channel 4).
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Jules Head
Director
Jules Head
Director
Jules Head is a director of theatre, audio and film from Bristol, UK. Their work investigates RULES (too many) and TIME (never enough) and how people exist together in opposition to both.
Jules was one of the WORX International Directors at the Berliner Ensemble for 2025-26. They directed the world premiere of Archiv Der Träume (In The Dream House) by Carmen Maria Machado and Das Schloss (The Castle) by Kafka in a new version by Georgia Bruce. Both shows are currently running in rep at Berliner Ensemble. Their play Attention co-created with Georgia Bruce premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival in 2025 and was nominated for 7 awards.
Their debut production Wild Swimming won the Pleasance Regional Partnership award, the Ronald Duncan Award and was selected for Brits Off Broadway in 2020. Their short film, Son of Helios was selected for Prague Indie International Festival, and Manchester Lift Off Festival in 2023.
Jules was an Associate Artist at Bristol Old Vic from 2019-2023 where they founded Young SixSix, a company that collaborates long-term with young people. They were a Headlong Origins Director in 2021, they were part of Buzz Artists Lab in Bremen, Germany in 2022 and trained on the National Theatre Directors Course in 2023.
Recent Credits include: Lessons (Almeida), Flies by Charlie Josephine (Shoreditch Town Hall), Romeo and Juliet (Bristol Old Vic), MASSIVE by Charlie Josephine (Audible Original Productions).
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Tilly Taylor
Creative Producer
Tilly Taylor
Creative Producer
Tilly is a Dublin-based Producer working across theatre, dance, and multidisciplinary performance. She is Producer for Dead Centre, one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary theatre companies, as well as creating new works as an Independent Producer.
Recent projects include: Deaf Republic (Royal Court, Dublin Theatre Festival); ATTENTION (Dublin Fringe Festival); Illness as Metaphor (Dublin Fringe Festival, Viernulvier); To Be a Machine (Version 2.0) (Dublin Theatre Festival, Comédie de Reims, Theater Heilbronn); Queen of the Meadows (Backstage Theatre, Project Arts Centre for Live Collision Intl. Festival); MOSH (Dublin Fringe Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Irish National Tour); Glimmer (Live Collision Intl. Festival); Heat Sink (Dublin Theatre Festival).
Prior to establishing an independent practice, Tilly worked at Headlong, where she was Assistant Producer across the company’s stage productions and short films. Other companies she has produced with include Dublin Dance Festival, Landmark Productions, Junk Ensemble, Murmuration, New York Live Arts, Live Collision International Festival, Amanda Coogan, and Dublin Theatre of the Deaf.
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Suzie Cummins
Lighting Designer
Suzie Cummins
Lighting Designer
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Martha Knight
Composer & Sound Designer
Martha Knight
Composer & Sound Designer
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Jack Leitch
Stage & Production Manager
Jack Leitch
Stage & Production Manager
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