THE LOST TAPES OF LYDIA HOWELL

THE LOST TAPES OF LYDIA HOWELL
by Ray Scannell

A listening party for a forgotten musician.

Emerging post-lockdown, creatively blocked, Stanley moves into a Victorian split-level in a Dublin square. He discovers a discarded shoebox filled with cassette demos, disposable photos and journal recordings belonging to Lydia Howell (of the also-ran shoegaze trio No!-No!).

As Stanley reconstructs Lydia’s unfinished life through her artefacts and solo recordings, preservation becomes collaboration. Haunted by the work that never left the room, he finds an antidote to his own stagnation, culminating in a duet between the living and the dead.

But does preserving an artist’s lost work inevitably reshape it — or even steal it?

Following festival hits Mimic (2007), Deep (2013), and The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia (2019), writer/performer Ray Scannell reunites with director Tom Creed to premiere this new work, featuring the voice of Clare Dunne (Kin, Herself, Sure Look It, F**k It).

Funded by the Arts Council

 

Written, composed and performed by
Ray Scannell

Directed by
Tom Creed

Presented by
Once Off Productions

AVAILABLE TO TOUR

For touring details contact producer Maura O’Keeffe at maura@onceoffproductions.com

Featuring the voice of
Clare Dunne

Sound Design and Additional Composition
Rob Moloney

Lighting Designer
Stephen Dodd

Image photography
Ros Kavanagh

Rehearsal photography and videography
Nathan Snow