The One Tree
Fight Back 2020 Festival
FIGHT BACK FESTIVAL 2020
Presented by The New Theatre and TakeYourSeats.ie
The One Tree stands in a lonely spot. The day the Virus comes Jamsie loses his job, gets drunk and the One tree starts to speak to him. The tree has a lot to say. She says humans are ejjets, and he should have married Gracie Reilly, his teenage love he snogged under her leaves. But Jamsie couldn’t and can’t make decisions and so stayed home with Mammai. Gracie wanted to marry and then drifted away.
The virus forces decisions. Jamsie's mother gets the cough. Will she die? What will he do? The One tree gives him no answers.
His mother dies. She is cremated quickly and quietly, social distancing. Someone takes his hand. Gracie Reilly. She gives him one more chance to make a decision. He does.
The two of them as a couple often go back to The one Tree. But she never speaks to Jamsie again. The One Tree stays silent.
The New Theatre and TakeYourSeats.ie are proud to present:
FIGHT BACK FESTIVAL 2020
An initiative of TakeYourSeats.ie & The New Theatre.
12 writers, 12 actors, 12 acts of defiance.
For 23 years, The New Theatre has nurtured, developed and staged new plays and provided Irish writers and artists with dramaturgical and production support. With COVID-19 closing all theatres across Ireland, emerging writers and actors have lost opportunities to have their work seen by audiences.
More pressingly, they have lost their income.
As a response, The New Theatre and TakeYourSeats.ie present FIGHT BACK FESTIVAL, an online theatre festival for Irish audiences to discover short plays written in response to these unprecedented times.
Writers that have worked with in The New Theatre over the last 12 months will present short works about now; their fears, joys, losses, love lives, secrets and pasts, futures and families, isolation and connection.
These short works provide a snapshot of this country in the here and now, shining a light on our tentative first steps into a fundamentally new world.
Each short play will premiere on The New Theatre Facebook page at 21:15, starting on Tuesday, April 7th 2020.
While each short play can be viewed for free, we strongly encourage you to use the donation option - all income generated supports the longevity of The New Theatre and the artists involved.
Stay Safe,
The New Theatre & TakeYourSeats.ie
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