ROSE + BUD on tour!
Three years in development - many, many hours spent crafting and grafting and honing this play and it’s finally happening Rose + Bud by Rose Coogan is getting its debut production at DUBLIN FRINGE BABY!
We’ll be at the amazing NEW THEATRE Dublin as part of this year’s stellar Dublin Fringe. THEN we’ll be heading up the road to present the play back in Belfast at our favourite stop Lyric Theatre. Rose+Bud has been produced and developed with the Lyric and so we are over the moon to be filling the Naughton studio after our fringe run. Finally (for now!) we will bring the show back home where it all started DERRY/L’DERRY! Set in Rose’s first year at Uni in Derry, we’ll be telling her story at the gorgeous spot of the Derry Playhouse. All the deets and more info can be found on our production page below. It’s gonna be a beauty.
I AM MAURA
I Am Maura finished it’s 2024 run with a bang. We hit schools, theatres, town halls and arts centres with our one-woman smash hit play! Performed by Calla Hughes it garnered huge responses from audiences young and old across the province.
‘‘I Am Maura captures the best and worst of being a teenager, and evokes memories of those (less than) halcyon days in secondary education.’’ Alan in Belfast
Plays Aloud hit the road!
Plays Aloud hit the road again this Summer. Our award-winning Dementia friendly live show visited over 20 care-homes, folds and supported living spaces across Northern Ireland.
Lead by our resident artist Geoff Hatt an ensemble of four professional actors presented, music, poetry and craic to older audiences all over the province.
Check out our Plays Aloud page for more info
VR Experiences
We are currently working on VR experience ‘Bernie’ – as part of our Dementia: Changing Perspectives VR programme. This programme creates VR films from the real lived experience of local people living with the early stages of dementia.
The project is part of the companies developing strand of work that uses drama to build empathy and understanding for both staff and family of those living with Dementia.
The most recent film, titled “Bernie” was created with support from Future Screens NI and is being tested over the coming weeks with workers and volunteers across the care sector. “Bernie” features actors Helena Bereen and Amanda Doherty, is written by Clare McMahon, directed by Benjamin Gould, designed by Tracey Lindsey and made in partnership with Retinize NI.
Check out our VR page for more info
WE DID IT!
"This production will be entertaining audiences for years to come." Belfast Media
''NI Highlights of 2022- The Gap Year'' British Theatre Guide
‘The Gap Year’ enjoyed a wonderful run at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast September 2022. Playing packed houses across our three-week run on the main stage, we enjoyed wonderful reactions and sell-out shows.
For all the show details check out our Production Page.
Watch this space for life after the #TheGapYear
TESTIMONIALS
‘‘Commedia of Errors have a growing reputation for ambitious physical-based work and new writing. I look forward to seeing how they develop their immense talents in time and they deserve all the support they can get.’
Jimmy Fay - Executive Producer, Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Commedia of Errors is the creative collaboration of Benjamin Gould and Clare McMahon. We create work that challenges the norm. We strive to reach isolated audiences and engage in live art that can enrich, entertain and educate our society.
OUR WORK
From Commedia to Shakespeare, new drama to variety-shows we don’t like to be kept in a box! Visit our past productions page for an insight into the work we’ve created and toured around NI, Ireland and beyond!
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