A Luke Casserly, Abbey Theatre and Solas Nua production

Distillation (Daingean Uí Chúis / Dingle)

3 - 4 May 2025

Created and Performed by Luke Casserly

Booking Information

Dates: 3 and 4 May

Venue: Temperance Hall,

Times: 7:00pm

Tickets on sale here:

Saturday / Dé Sathairn 3 May / Bealtaine

Sunday / Domhnach 4 May / Bealtaine

A performative journey which takes you to the Irish bog landscape through scent.

Following sold-out performances across Ireland and in the US, this exciting experience is coming to Daingean Uí Chúis / Dingle as part of the Féile na Bealtane.

Distillation is a response to the recent cessation of the peat harvesting industry in Ireland. Luke Casserly has collaborated with renowned perfume maker Joan Woods to create a unique distillation of the Midlands bog – the place where he grew up – as the starting point for an olfactory encounter that looks at our human relationship to place.

Dedicated to the future of our broken landscapes – in the hope that by listening to them, we might be able to better understand them.

Distillation premiered as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2023. Commissioned by Solas Nua, and supported by Goethe-Institut Irland, IMMA, Druid FUEL, AXIS Ballymun, and Backstage Theatre. Developed with the support of an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Reviews

★★★★
"All of the senses are engaged: not just sight and hearing but also touch, smell and even taste."
The Irish Times

★★★★
"Genuinely inventive"
Irish Examiner

"This is a thought-provoking show, that stays in the mind long after, like the sweet woody smell of the bog perfume that lingers on the wrist"
Irish Independent