An Abbey Theatre production
SAFE HOUSE
3 October - 16 November 2024
By Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey
Booking Information
Dates: 3 October 2024 – 16 November 2024
On the Peacock Stage
Previews: 3 – 7 October
Times:
Mon – Sat 8pm
Sat Matinees 2.30pm
Tickets: €20 – €32.50
Running time: 90 minutes, no interval
Please note: If you would like information on the themes in this production, please click here.
Sign language interpreted performance: Wednesday 23 October, 8:00pm
★★★★★ The Guardian "A dazzling achievement"
A world premiere by Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey on the Peacock Stage
“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
"Kate Gilmore is brilliant"
Arena, RTÉ Radio 1
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