Mushroom
by Paul Meade
Directed by Liam Halligan
Romani, Polonezi, emigrare, intr-o viziune irlandeza. MUSHROOM. Un spectacol cu o distributie internationala, sub egida Storytellers Theatre Company.
Grzyb. Dynamiczna, dowcipna nowa Irlandzka sztuka z międzynarodową obsadą, opowiadająca o Polakach i Rumunach żyjących w Irlandii
A tale of two young people searching for somewhere to belong A tale of a global traveller obsessed with the stars. A tale of lost love and new found hopes
This dynamic and witty new play focuses on the lives of six young people - some from Ireland, some from Central Europe. Their everyday lives collide and interweave, they will grip you and disturb you, amuse you and profoundly move you.
This world premiere brings together an international cast and will be created by the same team who have been nominated for three Irish Times Theatre Awards in the past two years. Directed by Liam Halligan, design by Marcus Costello and sound by Denis Clohessy.
Mushroom plays with your expectations and confounds them. It is a quirky take on the issue of immigration that finds humour and light in the darkest of places. It is a play that sees the fun in the failures and the successes of our policies towards our new arrivals
Mushroom focuses on the parallel stories of two young travellers. One is Ewa, a young Polish woman, who journeys to Ireland searching for her estranged husband. The other is Martin, a young Irish man, who finds himself in Bucharest trying to find some connection to his late Romanian mother.
We meet Ewa’s father, Andrzej, who has travelled the world and has come to Ireland to visit Newgrange. Martin’s uncle Radu makes him welcome in his apartment in Bucharest while a young Romanian woman Maria befriends Ewa in the Mushroom farm in Co.Monaghan where they both work. Another young Romanian man, Ion, wanders through a series of jobs and relationships as he tries to find a sense of home in a foreign land. What unfolds is a tender and witty story of immigration focusing on the lives of six restless people from Ireland, Poland and Romania.
Mushroom looks at the different ways in which immigrants view their relationship with their adopted state. Ion treats Ireland as a frontier to be explored and conquered, Ewa sees it as a strange and ugly place, Maria as a refuge and ultimately as a disappointment while Andrzej views Ireland as just another part of a planet that is connected to the stars.
Mushroom deals with the problematic nature of identity in the aftermath of immigration as Martin searches for his lost Romanian identity and Radu deals with his anger at being left behind by his sister. The emotional distance between homeland and adoptive country is the landscape of the play as relationships break down and new ones are formed. Martin loses a mother and finds an uncle as Ewa loses a husband and finds a father.
Paul Meade received a special Commissioning Award from the Arts Council to write this play. He won the Steward Parker Award for Best New Play for ‘Skin Deep’ in 2003 and since then he has had great success with ‘Thesis’ and ‘Trousers’ which he produced with Guna Nua Theatre Company.Click here for tour details
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