Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
The Lost or Lesser-known Plays of William Shakespeare
Pearshakes perform…
Taking inspiration from Colin Martin’s exhibition Empathy Lab, and the painting titled Fool, and to mark ‘the Ides of March’, we’ve invited Pearshakes, the imprivisional theatrical group to perform within the exhibition on
Saturday March 9th at 2pm
and marking Drogheda’s new Comedy Festival.
Peareshake’s members are skilled actors and improvisors who embark on performing the lost and lesser known works of William Shakespeare.
How do you like your improv? With a dash of reality or a surreal interpretation of that reality? Well, Peareshakes is a group of seasoned improvisers who try to introduce a sense of culture and art into the mainstream eyeball (Shakespeare invented that word) of Improv.
Using language, structure, rhythm and tropes of Shakespeare, a short play is created from a couplet of suggestions from audience members.
Tales of comedy and tragedy where fools, murderers, ghosts and battles, on the skirmish level, heroes, villains and tormented lovers are commonplace. Yes improvised Shakespeare on the spot (out spot out). If you don’t believe it then come and see it (Shakespeare wrote that).
Places are limited, and tickets are priced at €5 per person.
ABOUT Formed in 2015 with the intention of showing that with great teamwork and effort the challenge of improvising Shakespeare is fun and can be done, Pearshakes were regular performers at The Tightrope Improv Club in both Anseo, Camden St. and The Pearse Centre, Pearse St. They have appeared at the Irish Improv Festival and in The Belfast Improv Festival.
They also appear on a tri-monthly basis at the Belfast Improv shows in Lavery’s Bar Theatre.
Their members are Alan O’Connell, Benjamin Musgrave, Brian Quinn, Grainne McIvor, Neil McCourt and Tim Manning.
The Ides of March
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March
