Prepare to suspend your disbelief. Then let it dissolve completely.

Unstable realities resemble our wildest imagination in this absurdist spectacle – writ large and set loose on the national stage.

ANIMALS is a riotous and kaleidoscopic world premiere commissioned by the Abbey Theatre and based on the critically acclaimed short fiction of award-winning contemporary Irish writer Blindboyboatclub (The Gospel According to Blindboy, Boulevard Wren, Topographia Hibernica), adapted by Dan Colley (Lost Lear, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings).

Hidden mythologies emerge as we follow Erskine Fogarty and his fridge-freezer on the long road to Limerick, the vengeful Pamela Furlong become a dogman, a poitín maker haunted by a cormorant, and a dangerous liaison between two titans of Irish history.

The bizarreness of life is unmasked in this roaring and roaming new work that wonders aloud if the rowdy kids down the back of class might have been onto something all along.