GROWING PAINS 🐦⬛
GROWING PAINS 🐦⬛
GROWING PAINS
WRITTEN BY CARLEY MAGEE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH SKELPIELIMMER PRODUCTIONS & THE PLAYHOUSE DERRY
Would you rather meet a man or a bird at a bus stop?
A girl is alone at night. But not for long.
An unflinching, hilarious new play about 2010s girlhood, cringe-worthy quests for love and the cyclical curse of womanhood. Growing Pains captures the chaos and contradictions of growing up: wanting to go ice-skating with your parents, whilst also wanting to go get drunk and fingered in some random field. Never in between.
Funny, feral, and full of girlhood fury it asks what we inherit, what we survive, and why the same stories keep happening again and again.
Developed with Tinderbox’s Incubate Programme and Fishamble’s New Play Clinic. Supported by An Grianán Theatre’s Acorn Bursary
Cast & Crew:
Writer & Producer; Carley Magee
Directed By Seón Simpson
Produced by Gina Donnelly & Gary Crossan
Performed by Annie McIlwaine & Vicky Allen
Image Credit: Laura Craig Design
HELLO CHARLIE 🍾
HELLO CHARLIE 🍾
HELLO CHARLIE
BY CAOIMHE FARREN
Hello Charlie follows Sisters Maeve and Kate. They have fled their past trauma in Derry and now live in London. Hedonistic Maeve binge-drinks to oblivion; stoic Kate sees history repeating itself. But Maeve dodges culpability for her drunken antics; the blame clearly lies with her beloved, inebriated alter-ego: Charlie.
A laugh out loud-dark-comedy about trauma, sisterhood and breaking the cycle of familial addiction that is courageous and fiercely original in its portrayal of alcoholism..
Produced by SkelpieLimmer, Front and Centre & An Grianán Theatre
in association with Pavillion Theatre, Fishamble & The Lyric Theatre Belfast
Cast & Crew:
Writer Caoimhe Farren
Directed By Gina Donnelly& Seón Simpson
Image Credit: Laura Craig Design
Anthem for dissatisfaction 🎸
Anthem for dissatisfaction 🎸
ANTHEM FOR DISSATISFACTION
A '...rip roaring tour de force' from the co-writer behind Two Fingers Up. Winner of Solas Nua New Voices Award at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024.
Irish Twins, Sarah and Jamie, are about to hit 30. Before they do, they're reliving their greatest hits: credit crunch, austerity and free school meals... Benefits Britain never sounded so good! A soundtrack packed with Oasis, Springsteen and Sam Fender in this euphoric, working-class celebration of the power of live music, teenage angst, sibling rivalry and love. An electric and hilarious, coming-of-age anthem for anyone who ever wanted more.
Shame Show 🌧️
Shame Show 🌧️
A brand new Queer Comedy from SkelpieLimmer collaborators Colm McCready and Fergus Wachala-Kelly.
Storm Seamus has struck Northern Ireland and Adam and Stevie are stuck inside.
The rural fixer-upper they've inherited can't hack it... and neither can their relationship. Adam wants to stay to make it a home but Stevie has big city dreams of holding hands in public. With no TV to distract them and an all-night fight on the forecast, they parody 00s TV comforts (Straight in Their Eyes, The Weakest Twink, Top of the Poppers) to confront home, happiness and heteronormativity.
Hugely entertaining First Fortnight Award winner and sell-out at Dublin Fringe and Outburst Queer Arts Festival.
TWO FINGERS UP
✌️
TWO FINGERS UP ✌️
A journey back through the high and lows of coming of age and finding your own ecstasy in a less than forward thinking country.
“Remember when your religion teacher taught you about ridin’? And the school nurse told you to shave your pits?
Or here, discovering your clit the first time? Wait, you haven’t yet? You don’t wank? Women don’t? My hole they don’t.
Stick two fingers up and come with us on a journey back to your teenage self, to being scundered, to self-discovery, to abstinence- only sex education, to Northern Ireland: a country of wankers.”
Two Fingers Up was the smash hit of the 2019 Dublin Fringe winning the first ever Abbey Theatre & Dublin Fringe Creative Thinking Award and receiving a nomination for the Fishamble New Play Award. The show achieved 4 star reviews and the Irish Times said ‘the frenetic energy of the piece never wanes’.
Judges’ Pick Melbourne Fringe 2023
‘This is a raucous and unapologetic celebration of female friendship and female sexuality’
SCAREDY’S WORKING THE LATE SHIFT AT THE CINEMA. TONIGHT’S SCHEDULE? THE HORROR MOVIE SEXUAL AWAKENINGS OF YESTERYEAR.
Lost in steamy recollections of Jesse Walsh dancing, Carrie and Tommy at the prom and the sinful duo of Ryan Philippe and Freddie Prinze Jr., Scaredy should be in ecstasy but evil horror host Count Calories keeps cutting in on the fun. It’s finally time for Scaredy to face their fears and stop being such a big Scaredy Fat.
Come to the movies with Scaredy as they poke fun at fat and queer representation in the horror genre, asking what it means to love a genre that doesn’t love you back.
We’re gonna need a bigger shirt...
Winner of the Les Enfants Terribles Award 2023 and the CQAF Theatre Bursary.
In association with Lyric Theatre Belfast.
Developed through Scene and Heard.
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Abbey Theatre/Dublin Fringe Creative Thinking AwarD
SkelpieLimmer were awarded the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Creative Thinking Award in September 2019.
“This award rewards an emerging artist of extraordinary promise with time, space and money to do some creative thinking. The recipient will receive €3000, workspace and scheduled meetings and support from the creative teams at the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival.”
Seón and Gina have developed a project currently called ‘Crushed’. This looks at the experience of having a crush when you feel too old for it, examining the period of growth between teens and early 20s.
They are experimenting with developing the initial idea in the medium of both television and stage show into 2 very different stories.
For Stage:
Styled in homage to a road movie ‘Crushed’ will see the two protagonists, now trapped in the world of adulthood, take a trip on a pill which frees them. Brought back to the temperament and honesty of their younger selves they begin to connect with the people they actually wanted to be and allow themselves to feel everything, all intensity, no shame.
For Television:
Ellen isn’t feeling well. She’s been listening to a lot of Taylor Swift, the old stuff. She watched Sex and the City 2 for the plot. She has a rash. She has palpitations. She probably has a brain tumour. ‘Crushed’ will trace the 5 stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression acceptance through the lens of an adulthood crush and a marriage breakdown happening simultaneously. Questioning what adulthood looks like, if certain adult choices are more valid than others and which ones lead to the happy ending (any kind will do).
The Creative Thinking Award is giving Seón and Gina the time and space to consider how the same story exists differently in every format. Taking a single idea they want to experiment with how and why we tell stories the way we do.