Brú Theatre
NOT A WORD

A day’s labouring done, in a place that has never quite felt like home, a silent man plays a beautiful old tune as memory dances amongst his workman’s boots and few cherished trinkets.

This new piece of physical theatre merging mask, music and movement celebrates those who ‘took the boat’ - that forgotten class of Irish navvies, emigrants who helped build countries that were not their own. They worked hard, faltered and slowly faded from memory.

Performed by Raymond Keane, this ode to a self-exiled labourer seeks the beauty in the banal, finding poetry between the concrete cracks. With live electronic and traditional music accompaniment from Ultan O’Brien, Not A Word offers a moving portrait of one emigrant, echoing many people’s stories today.

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Tue-Sat 7.45pm, Sat mat 2.30pm
Runs 60 mins/no interval
Age guidance: 12+ 
After-show discussion: Wed 22 Jan

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