A Tall Tales Theatre Company and Solstice Arts Centre production in association with the Bush Theatre
On a seemingly ordinary evening an Irish family sit down to tea. The difference tonight is that Nial is home – back from prison having committed a dark crime many years earlier with some news to share and a conscience to clear.
Fast, witty and frighteningly real, Moment takes you on a journey through trauma wrapped up in tablecloths and teacake.
The UK premiere of an explosive new play from one of Ireland ’s most celebrated playwrights Deirdre Kinahan which examines how one terrible moment can change lives irrevocably.
Deirdre Kinahan is the Artistic Director of Tall Tales and is also one of Ireland’s most prolific new playwrights. Her plays include, Hue & Cry, Melody, Attaboy Mr Synge, Rum & Raisin, Summer Fruits, Knocknashee, Passage and Bé Carna. Moment premiered in November 2009 at Solstice Art Centre in Ireland.
Supported by Culture Ireland and Arts Council Ireland
Alun Smyth is a musician/composer from County Meath, Ireland. To date he has released four full length albums- three with Minty and the Freshmen- and has travelled throughout Europe and the USA plying his trade as a songsmith. Since settling back in Ireland, Alun has begun producing/engineering for various outfits and composing music for festival installations, youth projects and documentaries etc. He has recently become involved in composition/sound design for theatre, working with groups such as Second Age(A Doll’s House), OuLaLa (Dark Side of the Moon),Meath County Council (Laboratory of the Imagination), Aurora (The Good Sister), Wonderland (The Picture of Dorian Grey) and Tall Tales (A Lady of Letters). He is delighted to be working with Tall Tales again on this production of Moment.
David graduated from the Samuel Beckett School of Drama, Trinity College with a BA in English and Theatre Studies. Having directed plays with a number of companies, he became Director-in-Residence for Inis Theatre Company in 2000 and has devised and directed all productions to date. He was made Staff Director at the Abbey Theatre in 2003 where he continued to work until October 2004 before relocating to Paris for a year, studying the principles of movement at the Ecole Internationale de Theatre, Jacques Lecoq. In 2007, David became Artistic Director of Bewley’s Café Theatre after directing the premiere of Hue and Cry by Deirdre Kinahan for TallTales at the venue.
Other directing highlights include: Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (Second Age), In The Pipeline, a new play by Gary Owen (Paines Plough/Oran Mor Theatre, Glasgow), The Death of Harry Leon, a new play by Conall Quinn (Ouroboros Theatre Company) and Winner of the Stewart Parker Award for Best New Play 2009, Hue and Cry by Deirdre Kinahan and Wallflowering by Peta Murray (TallTales), Danti-Dan by Gina Moxley and Way to Heaven by Juan Mayorga (Galloglass), Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Once-Off Productions, part of the Rep Experiment), Can You Catch A Mermaid? and Peter Pan (Pavilion Theatre @ Christmas), The World’s Wife, Lady Susan, To Kill A Dead Man, and the award-winning Tick my Box! (all with Inis Theatre), among others.
As a screenwriter, David co-wrote Belonging to Laura, a contemporary film adaptation of Lady Windermer’s Fan (Accomplice/TV3) and is under commission to adapt Earnest with Accomplice for RTE. He also teaches the Principles of Directing and Advanced Directing modules at Trinity College.
Deirdre is Artistic Director of Tall Tales Theatre Co. and playwright. Writing for theatre includes: Bogboy (Tall Tales& Solstice Arts Centre at Solstice and Project Arts Centre); Moment (Tall Tales & Solstice, Solstice, Project Arts Centre, Bush Theatre and national Irish Tour); Salad Day (The Abbey Theatre); Hue & Cry (Bewleys Café Theatre & Tall Tales, Glasgow, Romania, Bulgaria, Paris and New York); Melody (Tall Tales, Glasgow, national tour); Attaboy Mr Synge (The Civic Theatre national Tour); Rum & Raisin (Tall Tales & Nogin Theatre Co. national tour); Summer Fruits (Tall Tales, national tour); Knocknashee (Tall Tales & The Civic Theatre, national tour); Passage (Tall Tales, The Civic Theatre); Bé Carna (Tall Tales, national tour and Edinburgh Fringe Festiva).
For children; Maisy Daly’s Rainbow(Tall Tales & Solstice); Rebecca’s Robin (Bewleys Café Theatre); Show Child (Livin Dred); The Tale of the Blue Eyed Cat (Livin Dred).
Radio includes: Bogboy.
Deirdre is currently writing a new play for the Abbey theatre and has two plays in development.
Elaine has a background in theatre & film- as afreelance costume designer, pattern cutter, clothes designer & maker, & also as Assistant Art Director in film, TV, & commercials.
Recent costume design theatre credits include: The Snow Queen- KIldare Shopping Village. Small World- Paddy Campbell, Bewleys Theatre, Dublin. Bog Boy- Tall Tales, Project Arts Centre,Dublin. Moment- Tall Tales, Solstice Art Centre, Navan &Project Arts Centre,Dublin. Maisy Daly’s Rainbow- Tall Tales, Solstice Art Centre, Navan & Nat Tour Ireland. All in the Timing- Inis, Bewleys Theatre, Dublin. Fairytale Heart- Calypso, Project Arts Centre,Dublin. Chance- Tall Tales, Solstice Art Centre, Navan. Roman Fever- Inis, Bewleys Theatre, Dublin.
Dress design & make & Costume design consultant credits include: ‘Carlsberg’- iconic green dresses for promo, Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, Kilkenny. ‘Buy my Dress’ 12 red dresses Down Syndrome Charity. ‘Oedipus’ (Queen’s costume). Pan Pan, Project Arts Centre,Dublin.. The Idiots (lead character) Pan Pan, Project Arts Centre,Dublin. Hansel & Gretel- OTC, Nat Tour Irealnd.
Film Credits re Art Dept: Leap Year, Batman Begins, Man About Dog, King Arthur, Veronica Guerin, The Count of Monte Cristo, Tailor of Panama, Mission Impossible II.
Maree’s most recent set design was Dancing at Lughnasa for Second Age Theatre Company. Earlier in 2010, she designed Plasticine for CorcaDorca Theatre Company, Happy like a Fool for Red Kettle Theatre Company, Hamlet for Second Age and the CoisCeim double bill; As You Are & Faun. Maree has worked extensively as the set and costume designer with Livin Dred Theatre Company & Nomad Theatre Network, whose productions number amongst them; Heading for Dakota, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme for which she received the 2009 Irish Times best set design award, The Dead School (Irish Times best costume designer & best production nominee 2008), Conversations on a Homecoming, There Came a Gypsy Riding, A Christmas Carol and Shoot the Crow. Other set designs include Moment – Tall Tales Theatre Company, Splendour – RAW/Project Arts Centre, 84 Charing Cross Road and Over & Out – Lane Productions, To Kill a Dead Man – Inis Theatre Company. Maree has also spent two years as the design co-ordinator for the Abbey and Peacock theatres. Production designs for television include Limits of Liberty, The Undertaking the Ghosts of Duffy’s Cut, and In Search of the Pope’s Children – RTE, Imeacht Na nIarlai – TG4. Film & television Art department work includes; The Tudors – Showtime, George Gently – BBC and Leap Year – Spyglass Entertainment/Universal.
Moyra D’Arcy – Lighting Designer:
Recent projects include: “Confessions of an Irish Publican” with Des Keogh; “Casa Lisa” for the GSA at the Project; “The Birthday of the Infanta” at Bewley’s; Kafka’s “The Trial” for UCD Drama; “Bondi Beach Boy Blue” for OCI; “Richard II” in Smock Alley; “Moment” for Tall Tales; “After Miss Julie” and “Bug” Purple Heart Theatre Co; “The Willow Pattern” Ballet at the Pavilion; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Good Person of Szechwan” DIT drama; “Positive Dead People” and “The Shawl” for Bewley’s; ”Trans Euro Express” and “The Dedalus Lounge” by Gary Duggan for Pageant Wagon; “All in the Timing” for Inis Theatre; “Coraline” and “Stone Soup” for Puca Puppets and “Over and Out” for Lane Productions.
Muirne Bloomer is from Dublin. She trained with Jill Wigham and later at the Irish National College of Dance. Muirne was a member of the Corps de Ballet with Dublin City Ballet and was demi soloist with the Vienna Ballet Theatre.
She has performed for many years at home and abroad, and in latter years, most regularly with CoisCéim Dance Theatre.
She has choreographed extensively for theatre and large scale spectacle events including St Patrick’s Parade in Dublin, Macnas/ Galway Arts Festival Parade, The Special Olympics Opening Ceremony in Dublin and for the Opening Ceremony of the Ryder Cup Ireland.
Productions for Tall Tales include : Maisy Dalys Rainbow, Wallflowering, Hue and Cry and Moment.
As Associate choreographer Muirne worked on When Once is Never Enough, Boxes, Rite of Spring, Mermaids, The Nutcracker and Dodgems for CoisCéim Dance Theatre and on ” Orfeo et Euridice and Imeneo” for Opera Ireland.
Most recently Muirne’s original work: As You Are for Coisceim Dance Theatre, Dancing at Lughnasa for Second Age Theatre Company and The Ballet Ruse a duet choreographed and performed by Muirne and colleague Emma O Kane.
This is Tracys third year as producer with Tall Tales Theatre Company. Previous productions with Tall Tales include ‘Maisy Dalys Rainbow’ by Deirdre Kinahan, ‘Hue and Cry’ by Deirdre Kinahan and ‘Bogboy’ also by Deirdre Kinahan.
Prior to joining Tall Tales she independently produced many shows including Colm O’Gradys ‘ Delicious O’Grady’, Ponydance’s ‘Where Did It All Go Right?’, Gringo and The Pony Girls ‘Rouge Cabaret’ and ‘Malice In Wonderland’ for the Dublin Fringe Festival Speigeltent, ‘The Licky Rake Show’ and ‘Paranoid?’ both written by herself.
She also spent six years working as a free lance stage and production manager.
Maeve graduated with distinction from the Bachelor in Acting Studies at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity Centre in 2006.
Theatre includes: Dancing At Lughnasa, Hamlet, King Lear, The Merchant Of Venice, Macbeth and Othello (Second Age); Boss Grady’s Boys (Woodpecker Productions); Basin (ANU); After Miss Julie (Purple Heart); Walnuts Remind Me Of My Mother (Focus); There Are Little Kingdoms (Meridian); Pilgrims Of The Night (Rough Magic SEEDS3); Way To Heaven (Galloglass); A Tourist’s Guide To Terrorism (Edinburgh Fringe).
Theatre while training includes The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Loveplay, A Servant To Two Masters and The Company Of Wolves.
Television includes: An Crisis and Corp agus Anam (TG4).
Radio includes: The Games Room (RTE).
Maeve won Best Supporting Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009 and Winner Best Female Performer Dublin Absolut Fringe 2009 for her performance in Basin (ANU). She was Nominated Best Actress Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009 for After Miss Julie (Purple Heart).
Deirdre trained at the Brendan Smith Academy and The Abbey School of Acting.
Theatre includes: Bookworms, The Shadow of The Glen , Blood Wedding, Twelfth Night, The Well of The Saints, All My Sons, The Blue Macushla, Too Late For Logic, She Stoops To Folly, Drama At Innish, A Month In The Country, The Crucible, The Big House and An Ideal Husband (The Abbey Company); Jane Eyre, Death Of A Salesman, Les Liaisons Dangereuses , Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, As You Like It, Romeo And Juliet, Down Onto Blue, A Delicate Balance and A Dream Of Autumn,There came A gypsy Riding for Livin Dred.
Film and T.V. work includes: The Riordans , The Last Of Summer, The Hamster Wheel, The Body In Hume Street, Runway One, Criminal Conversation, Attracta The Fantasist, Connemara, Molloy, The Irish RM and six series of Ballykissangel. Deirdre’s most recent film role was in Cracks.
Deirdre has also been one of Irelands busiest voice-over artists for the past 25years.
She holds a First-Class M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from U.C.D and for her role in A Delicate Balance and A Dream Of Autumn she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, in the Irish Times Awards.
Kate's theatre credits include: Dancing at Lughnasa (Second Age Theatre Co.); Macbeth and La Dispute (Abbey Theatre); Moment (Tall Tales); Love and Money (Hatch Theatre Co.); Caligula (CHRG); Top Girls (Galloglass); Phaedra’s Love (Loose Canon); Macbeth (Second Age); The Illusion (Project Arts Centre); Crave (Samuel Beckett Theatre).
Film and television credits include: Corp agus Anam, An Crisis, Rolla Saor, Alice in Wonderland, An Grá Faoi Ghlas, Tubberware and Ros na Rún.
Kate has a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in Acting from the Drama Centre London.
Theatre includes: Henry IV (Part II); Living Quarters, Observatory, At Swim Two Birds, The Passion of Jerome, By The Bog of Cats, the Doctors Dilemma, The Well of the Saints, Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme and Philadelphia Here I Come! (Abbey Theatre); Carshow (Corn Exchange); Wideboy Gospel (Bedrock); The Melon Farmer (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Easter Dues (Bickerstaffe); The Flesh Addict (Pigsback); Romeo & Julieta (Theatro Potlach); Russian Tales (Meridian); White Woman Street (Meridian); Da (Abbey Theatre); Henry IV (Part I) (Peacock); The Chairs (Tinderbox); Pale Angels (Bedrock); Titus Andronicus (Project Arts Centre); Frozen (Cork Opera House); Pyrenees (Project Theatre); Festen (Gate Theatre); Gagarin Way (Island Theatre); La Marea, The Case of the Rose Tatoo (DTF); Roberto Zucco (Bedrock Productions).
TV and Film and television credits include: The Catalpa Rescue (CIS/RTE); The Ghost of Duffy’s Cut (RTE); Batman Begins (Warner Bros); Proof (RTE/Subotica); On Home Ground (RTE); Studs (Paul Mercier); Coolockland (RTE Short Cuts); The Snare (Cross Border Films); Amongst Women (BBC/RTE).
Ronan is currently appearing in the series regular role of Mr. Hogan in Roy for BBC/Jam Media on CBBC and BBC2TV
Aela made her professional stage debut in the 2009 production of Moment.
She appears regularly on RTE Television and RTE Radio, and appears in this year’s Christmas Show, The Snowman (National Concert Hall). She has also performed in the St. Patrick’s Festival and a music video.
Will graduated from Trinity College’s actor training programme in 2004.
Theatre includes; The Colleen Bawn (Irish national tour Project/Civic/Bedrock);Spokesong (Rough Magic); Anna Karenina (The Gate); Myrmidons (Ouroborus); The Waiting Room (Kabosh); Hamlet (Second Age); After the End (Prime Cut); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange); Love and Money (HATCH); Caligula (Dublin Theatre Festival).
His film and television work includes: The Alarms (Caboom); The Clinic
(RTE) and The Tudors (Showtime).
Radio includes: Gina Moxley’s Marrying Dad (RTE).
He has also consistently created work as a writer and deviser, most recently Connected (Nominated, Bewley’s Little Gem Award 2010) . Other work includes This Is Not A Drill (Nominated, Spirit of the Fringe 2009); Ways of Making You Talk (Nominated, Fishamble New Writing Award, 2007); and The Final Words of Thomas Russell (West Belfast Festival 2005), a one-man show he also performed in his home town of County Down.
He was joint winner of Kenneth Brannagh’s Renaissance Award in 2003.
Rebecca trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes: Danton's Death (National Theatre); The Yalta Game (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Far from the Madding Crowd (English Touring Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Bath, Vaudeville); Salt Meets Wound (Theatre 503); 06/07/05 (Arcola).
TV includes: Doctors; The History of Mr Polly.
Karl’s recent theatre credits include: Connected (Project Arts Centre); Plough and the Stars, Christ Deliver US! (The Abbey Theatre); The Ones who Kill Shooting Stars (Upstate); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’ Dred); Anatomy of a Seagull [Nominated Best Supporting Actor Irish Times Theatre Awards] [Nominated Best Actor Absolut Fringe 2009] (Loose Canon); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange). Other Theatre credits include: All in the Timing [Nominated Best Actor Dublin Fringe 2008] (Inis Theatre Company); The Duty Master, St Joan(The Abbey Theatre); Everybody Loves Sylvia, Fewer Emergencies (Randolf S|D the Company); The Maids, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth [Winner of Best Production, Dublin Fringe 2001], Hedda Gabler, The Revengers Tragedy, Measure For Measure, The Duchess of Malfi, The Spanish Tragedy, Coriolanus, The White Devil(Loose Canon); Alone it Stands (Yew Tree); The Orpheus Project (Actors Touring Company, London) Macbeth (Second Age). Film and TV credits include: Fair City (RTE); Storylane (RTE); Mystic Knights of Tir na n’Og (Fox); Lip Service (Paul Mercier); The Hall (Little Productions; Dogged (Richard Walsh). As co-writer for Connected Karl received a nomination for Bewleys Little Gem Award 2010. Karl is an experienced voice-over artist and continuity announcer.
