New work-in-progress performance set to take to the stage during Tipperary Festival
Keeping Vigil by Oonagh Wall will be performed at the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival
Anseo Anois Theatre presents a work-in-progress presentation of Keeping Vigil by Oonagh Wall as part of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2025.
Anseo Anois Theatre is an emerging theatre company dedicated towards creating work that is curious, collaborative and character-driven.
Anseo Anois is a collective of theatremakers committed to producing new writing for Irish audiences, and to producing the Irish premiers of renowned international plays.
In this work-in-progress presentation, three friends reunite in their hometown on the eve of a funeral to stay awake overnight and keep vigil over the body.
A bittersweet reunion becomes a nostalgic trip down memory lane as libations are poured and stories are retold.
But as the night progresses, old tensions resurface and new secrets emerge.
Nostalgia inevitably gives way to the present and old ties are tested by an uneasy reckoning with the past - and each other.
Among the fraying loose ends and crumbling half-truths, will this night bring them back together or tear them apart?
Keeping Vigil is a comedic study of malleable memory, past selves, and the funeral rites that bind us, directed by Ross Fitzpatrick and starring Amy Kidd, Darragh Gilhooly and Éanna Grogan.
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The performance will take place on Friday, July 4, at 7pm, in The Baker's Bar.
The show will run for 40 minutes.