The Pleasureometer
Fight Back 2020 Festival
FIGHT BACK FESTIVAL 2020
Presented by The New Theatre and TakeYourSeats.ie
The Shutdown has closed the Pub. A group of habitual patrons may never meet again. Their relationship was dependent totally on the Pub. So close were they and so regular that other patrons dubbed them The Club. The Narrator, one of the group, describes the relatively mundane evenings that were galvanised by the visits of Himself, a larger-than-life figure who comes always with some new idea about which he is passionate. The closing of the Pub interrupts a scientific experiment. Himself has invented a gadget for testing a student’s response to Poetry, solving the problem that students who garner high marks in exams often hate the poems they are studying. The gadget can enable isolated testing too. The experiment appears to be working, but the Narrator has an insight into its success, which he withholds in order to enjoy the comic outcome on another night. But the Shutdown now means there may never be another night or a comic outcome.
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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