An Abbey Theatre production
SAFE HOUSE (New York)
15 February - 2 March 2025
By Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey
Booking Information
Dates: 15 Feb – 2 Mar 2025
At St Ann’s Warehouse, New York
Running time: 90 minutes, no interval
Please note: If you would like information on the themes in this production, please click here.
★★★★★ The Guardian "A dazzling achievement"
Following a successful run on the Abbey Theatre’s Peacock Stage, the world premiere production by Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey travecls to St Ann’s Warehouse in New York from 15 February – 2 March 2025.
“I’ve never made anything like this before. It’s a brand new form for me. A song cycle. A theatre memory play. A cut up film. A gig. It’s not for me to say what it is really. It’s its own thing.”
Enda Walsh
Through song, music, recorded voice, and film, we’re outside looking at Grace, a young woman living alone in the countryside and then we’re inside her fractured thoughts – trying to make some sense of it all. Her past arrives broken and chopped up. The present skips forward and days flip into night, seasons jarring into one another.
With lyrics by Tony award-winning playwright and director Enda Walsh and composition by Anna Mullarkey, SAFE HOUSE will be a unique experience played out in a handball alley on the Peacock Stage.
As Abbey Theatre Artistic Director, Caitríona McLaughlin says: “When Enda Walsh says he’s working on a new project, you don’t hesitate – commissioning him and Anna Mullarkey to write SAFE HOUSE was one of the first projects I commissioned in my first year as Artistic Director.”
Reviews
★★★★★
''A dazzling achievement''
The Guardian
★★★★
''A simple, affecting human story''
Irish Examiner
★★★★
''Vibrant and eclectic...rich in emotional texture''
The Financial Times
"Extraordinary... superbly written and composed... Kate Gilmore is outstanding"
Sunday Independent
"Kate Gilmore is brilliant"
Arena, RTÉ Radio 1
Show Trailer
Video: Areaman
Production Imagery
Images: Ste Murray
Discover Grace’s world in the new SAFE HOUSE trailer
First Day of Rehearsals
Pictured: Tee Elliott (Hair and Make Up), Eoghan Carrick (Assistant Director), Anna Mullarkey (Composer), Kate Gilmore (Performer), Katie Davenport (Costume Designer), Enda Walsh (Director)
Image: Róisín Murphy O’Sullivan
Credits
- Grace: Kate Gilmore
- Director: Enda Walsh
- Composer: Anna Mullarkey
- Lyrics by: Enda Walsh
- Set and Costume Designer: Katie Davenport
- Lighting Designer: Adam Silverman
- Video Designer: Jack Phelan
- Sound Designer: Helen Atkinson
- Assistant Director: Eoghan Carrick
- Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth
- Hair and Make Up: Tee Elliott
- Production Photography: Ste Murray
- Aintín (recorded film): Máire Ní Ghráinne
- 12-year-old Grace (recorded film): Nova Farrelly
- Grace's Mother (recorded film): Gwynne McElveen
- Grace's Father (recorded film): Seán Duggan
- Grace's Boyfriend (recorded film): Lórcan Strain
- Older Brother (recorded film): Colin Campbell
- Older Brother (recorded film): Barry Simpson
- Older Sister (recorded film): Sorcha Dawson
- Older Sister (recorded film): Jade Silke Featherston
- Party Guest (recorded film): Daisy Cantwell
- Party Guest (recorded film): Francesca Europa
- Party Guest (recorded film): Aoife Gaffney
- Party Guest (recorded film): Khloe Kennedy
- Party Guest (recorded film): Callie Weir
- Ensemble (recorded film): Myles Feerick
- Ensemble (recorded film): Niall Hassett
- Ensemble (recorded film): Claire Millane
- Ensemble (recorded film): Edel Quinn
- Mourner (recorded film): Paul Byrne
- Mourner (recorded film): Eileen Joyce
- Mourner (recorded film): Bill O'Connell
- Mourner (recorded film): Mary Reynolds
- Mourner (recorded film): Paul Thornton
- Sound Recordist (recorded film): Rob Moore
- Costume Supervisor (recorded film): LaurA Fajardo Castro
- Costume Supervisor (recorded film): Eimer Farrell
