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, It’s a trouble of one day. Forming a circle in Project Cube at 9.30pm on Saturday Cimmerian dark, they introduce themselves and contribute props and articles of costume like expiatory offerings, while the actors also reveal a special talent or artistic hope.
Caitríona Ní Mhurchú, for instance, confesses to an aptitude for “liturgical dancing” and Maeve Fitzgerald, an actor with a lengthy résumé of unhinged characters, merely requests to treat cavalierly somebody who is relatively hinged.
These and other suggestions are to get the writers’ artistic juices flowing. They have until 5.30am to each deliver a 10-minute handwriting. There is a purpose behind the mad experiment. New York’s 24 Hour Throng which, for 16 years, has facilitated such adrenaline-fuelled experiments in insta-setting, is raising money for Dublin Youth Theatre, now 35 years pubescent, itself a crucible of quick creation, and the nursery of many professional theatre careers.
Source: Irish Times