Holy SHOW Productions
Holy Show Productions has created a live audio-visual essay for stage based on Ian Maleney's Minor Monuments. The show weaves live reading with voice recordings, music, the ambient sound of the landscape from Ian’s homeplace, and original film footage shot by Jamie Goldrick.
Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments unfolds from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philosophical power of sound and music, it details the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on family life. Ian Maleney questions the nature of home, memory, and loss in this universal story of familial belonging and love.
The show is based on the widely acclaimed book of the same name published by the unstoppable hit-makers, Tramp Press.
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Our Nationwide Tour visits arts festivals, literature festivals and venues across Ireland and Northern Ireland. Our first show took place in October 2019, and continues throughout 2020. Dates include:
5 October 2019 | Iron Mountain Literutre Festival, The Dock, Leitrim
12 October 2019 | Wild Atlantic Words, Linenhall, Mayo
19 October 2019 | Kildare Readers Festival, Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare
15 November 2019 | Project Arts Centre, Dublin
16 November 2019 | Project Arts Centre, Dublin
1 February 2020 | Seamus Heaney's HomePlace in Derry.
6 February 2020 | Roscommon Arts Centre.
7 March 2020 | Ennis Book Club Festival, Clare. TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3bQETum
15 May 2020 | The Source Arts Centre, Tipperary
16 May 2020 | Bog Lane Theatre, Ballymahon, Longford
26 June 2020 | Luan Gallery, Athlone, Westmeath
July 2020 | Boyle Arts Festival, Leitrim
Garter Lane, Waterford, date tbc
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For more info and booking, contact brendan@holyshow.ie. 2021 show with Sara Baume in development.
