ARÁN AGUS IM

by Manchán Magan

ARÁN AGUS IM
Upcoming West Coast North America Tour 2023

Arán & Im is a theatrical performance/installation in which Manchán bakes sourdough bread for 70 minutes while offering insights into the wonders of the Irish language – exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of our natural world.

It is a celebration of language, land and local Irish food, with freshly-baked traditional sourdough bread for the audience to slice and spread with butter they churn themselves from Irish cream.

Is taibhiú drámaíochta é Arán & Im ina mbácálann Manchán arán taois ghéir ar feadh 70 nóiméad fad is a thugann sé léargas ar iontaisí na Gaeilge – agus é ag ceiliúradh focail mhealltacha a bhaineann leis an tírdhreach, téarmaí i dtaca le hiomas agus léirstean, agus an iliomad nathanna a thugann beocht do chumhacht agus mistéir an tsaoil nádúrtha.

Creative Team

Written and Performed by: Manchán Magan

Presented and Produced by: Once Off Productions

Generously Supported by: Culture Ireland

Presented in Association with: Irish Arts Center, New York & CIACLA

Design: Tom de Paor

Producers: Maura O'Keeffe & Sadhbh Barrett Coakley

Construction: Barry Rogerson

Costume: Hazel McCague

Funded by The Arts Council

With thanks to Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Consulates in New York, Los Angeles & Vancouver. Originally produced in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre and with funding from Foras na Gaeilge.

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“I just knew that I wanted to take people out of the norm, which is what theatre does. But I didn’t want all the conventions and trappings of theatre, of a three-act play. I imagined creating this little sanctuary on stage in which flour from Irish fields and water from Irish rivers could be transformed into a potent metaphor for our connecting to language, landscape and life.”