2022 - the year of the dan: chapter 18
Chapter 18 Roadtrip Number Three. This might be my favourite live show of the year. Even if it is the year of the dan. Mid August. Heatwave ongoing. It started on a big green bus. Mercifully air conditioned. Wearing as little as possible. Arrive Kilkenny sultry evening time. Locate B&B on Castlecomer Road. Feels like halfway to Castlecomer. One cold shower later I meet P in Cleeres Bar . He is ensconced in conversation with a local who is in possession of a box of books. Specifically local GAA books bought off a man in Meath. The story of Cavan’s 1947 All Ireland triumph for example. We learn he writes about sport for The Examiner. Could this be an installation performance, perhaps as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival . Cleeres Bar. Audience of two. He departs with his box and we go to find The Set Theatre where Keeley Forsyth will play. She is compelling from the first note. Her accomplice Matthew Bourne arrives onstage first setting brooding drones in mot...