Making Strange Theatre Company

You’ve caught us in a transition. Lucky you!

There’s been loads of rearranging behind the scenes this year.  Stay tuned for proper announcements of work in development, future plans, and a full reboot of the site with all of our past shows’ information handy.

In the meantime, here’s who we are and what we do. Also check out our About section for a full rundown:

Making Strange Theatre Company is dedicated to creating dazzling, daring new works by premiering texts from abroad for the Irish stage, and creating original theatrical pieces with a focus on collaboration with international practitioners. Of particular interest to the company is exploring the stories we tell ourselves—that is, not the storytelling of an entire time and culture, but the stories we as individuals tell ourselves to get through our lives, and how they grow and change.

Making Strange’s trad-rock-mashup extravaganza Pop Céilí will perform one night only at the ABSOLUT Fringe Festival Club in September.

Currently in development for 2012 is an original piece, You Remember the Stories You Wish Were True as part of Fishamble’s New Play Clinic.

In the meantime, contact us directly with any queries.  Thanks!

We’re heading to Australia in just a few days to take Luck to the big, wild Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Luck is being presented in a co-production with Strut & Fret at two venues in the Garden of Unearthly Delights: 2 weeks at the Umbrella Revolution and 2 weeks at the Bosco Theater (our venue in Edinburgh for those who recall…). Tickets are available online here.

Further information is on our ‘Currently Running’ page.

Hope to see you there!

1st Irish Poster

We’re back on the grid as we get ready to start performing Luck at 59E59 Theaters as part of the 1st Irish Festival this week.  The show will run from the 23rd-October 11th and we’ll keep you posted with press, reviews, updates, etc. as we go.

You can buy tickets for the show here and check out more information on the festival and the theatres from the links above.

Hope to see you there!

Luck @ 1st Irish is generously supported by Culture Ireland

Culture Ireland

EDINBURGH!  These weeks are flying by but any individual day feels incredibly long in an entirely awesome way:  shows, gatherings, singalongs, schmoozing, drinks, dancing…

Since our last update, we received a few more lovely reviews, in Time Out London (we’re also a critic’s pick from them) and Scotland on Sunday.  We’ve had excellent crowds and some very special guests in the audience, including Denise Van Outen and Malcolm McLaren.  We also caught Mr. McLaren’s show History is for Pissing on, which was both extremely funny and thought-provoking.

We have a few recommendations for shows to catch in the last week:

Dead Cat Bounce–Wired: These friends of ours from Dublin are tearing up the Fringe with 5-star reviews, sold-out crowds, and barnstorming performances at Spank and Late ‘n’ Live.  They’re exceptionally and maddeningly talented but don’t hold that against them, just go and laugh like crazy.

Sirqus Alfon–Eurotrash: This show is really hard to describe and unlike anything else we’ve ever seen before…four Lycra-clad Swedes perform ’90s dance tunes while upgrading themselves via computer.  It is beyond hilarious.  Plus you get magical 3-D rainbow glasses.
We hope we have more updates from our last 8 shows…

Why hello there and welcome.  You must have seen our link on some printed material recently.

As we prepare to head to Edinburgh in just a few days, we’re rebuilding the website one show at a time.  If you click on one of the pages and it’s blank, hang in there: it’s just a matter of time. If you’d like any additional info on our past work, do drop us a line at makingstrangetheatre [at] gmail.  (You know that needs a .com.  We’re just trying to avoid spammers.)

We do hope you’ll be joining us in Edinburgh for our critically acclaimed and wildly popular Luck.  While we get all our fabulous news and reviews posted in the next day or two, we’ll point you to the following sites:

SCAMP, our phenomenal producers;

Our page on the Underbelly site (has full show schedule and booking information);

and we’re also on Facebook, if you’re into that kind of thing.

Thanks for visiting, and we look forward to seeing you at the show!

It’s a bit of a work in progress at the moment…

Meanwhile, can we interest you in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot?

MAKING STRANGE THEATRE COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION WITH PROJECT ARTS CENTRE PRESENTS THE IRISH PREMIERE OF

THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
BY STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS

Downtown Purgatory… A lawyer who believes in divine mercy above divine justice is appealing Judas Iscariot’s sentence of eternal damnation. With a fateful kiss, Judas betrayed Jesus in Gethsemane. Was Judas an avaricious man? An instrument of divine will? A thwarted revolutionary? Does he deserve to be forgiven?

A colourful host of saints and sinners are called in as witnesses, from Satan and Pontius Pilate to Mother Teresa and Sigmund Freud. Blistering with passion and told in the raw and poetic language of the New York streets, this play finds beauty in the most unexpected places.

“(Making Strange)…Electrifies this business we call show with the power of transformation and the inarguable politics of sheer fabulousness.” – Irish Theatre Magazine

Cast: Kate Brennan, John Cronin, Will Irvine, Jose Miguel Jimenez, Ger Kelly, Mark Lambert, Eleanor Methven, Michael Glenn Murphy, Will O’Connell, Hilary O’Shaughnessy, Karl Quinn, Megan Riordan, Marcus Valentine

Directed by Matt Torney
Designed by Kara Zeigon
Lighting design by Sarah Jane Shiels
Sound design by Carl Kennedy

Space Upstairs, Project Arts Centre
Previews 7th/8th July
Runs 9th-18th July
7:30pm

PRODUCTION SUPPORT PROVIDED BY ROUGH MAGIC THEATRE COMPANY

“This ain’t your grandmother’s gospel.”–Charlotte Stoudt, The Village Voice

BOOKING ON 01 881 9613 OR WWW.PROJECTARTSCENTRE.IE