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my "best" friend left me in the river with my uilleann pipes to die

Performed as part of Scene + Heard Festival, Dublin, 2025

Photography by James Ireland

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About the play

Gig theatre meets its watery end

Through gig theatre and dark humour, this production explores themes of disability, burnout, and resilience, featuring live folk/trad-fusion music on uilleann pipes, bass guitar, synthesiser, and cello— and a mysterious Toad Man with an appetite for souls

From the winners of the 2022 Axis Green Arts Award, and 2022 VAULT x Staging Change Award, Bradán.

 

15 + 16 February, 6:30pm

Smock Alley Main Space, Dublin

Scene and Heard Festival 2025.

Book tickets here

Follow our journey creating the show on instagram @bradantheatre

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Image by Ste Murray

Production team

(Work-in-progress)

Performed by Kate Bauer and James Ireland

Written by Kate Bauer and James Ireland

Music by Kate Bauer and James Ireland

Costume by Kate Bauer

Produced by Orla Devlin and Bradán

Staged as a work-in-progress at Scene + Heard Festival, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

15 + 16 February, 6:30pm.

About the music

Kate Bauer and have collaboratively composed original music for the show (and one re-arrangement of an old folk tune!), using uilleann pipes, cello, synthesiser, bass guitar, and vocal harmonies.

It's been great fun finding a musical language that fits these instruments together. What we've come up with is a blend of electro-folk that moves across the show from heartfelt acoustic songwriting to cavernous psychedelic trad fusion. Once the uilleann pipes are hooked up to the distortion, reverbs, and delays there's no going back! It should be a fun one!

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