Upstate Live Presents THE ONES WHO KILL SHOOTING STARS May 2

UPSTATE LIVE presents A new play by Conall Quinn called THE ONES WHO KILL SHOOTING STARS as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival, it makes its World Première 2nd May 2010, 8.30 pm at the Driochead Arts Centre.

Director: Paul Hayes
Set Design: Kieran McNulty
Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels
Composer: Trevor Knight
Costume Design: Sinead Roberts

Cast: John Currivan, Duncan Lacroix, Aine Ni Laoghaire, Karl Quinn, Conan Sweeny

Conall Quinn's new play is a surreal tale of love and death set on a County Louth beach during World War II.

Henry is on the look out for German submarines but all he really wants to do is fire his flare gun, Alice has decided to run away from home again, and Edward's wife is blowing kisses at him. There's also the body of the American pilot to bury...

"Look out! Oh holy God, look out! That's what all the shooting stars will say. They'll say, There's that coastwatcher Henry Neary, he's the one who kills shooting stars with his unrequited love."

This is an original and highly entertaining work by a writer currently generating a lot of interest in Ireland.

Fintan O'Toole on "The Death of Harry Leon" (Conall's last play, for Ouroborus Theatre Company which won the Stewart Parker Major Bursary Award 2009)
It is, surely, the kind of work that a National Theatre is for."
Irish Times

OTHER PERFORMANCE DATES
An Tain Theatre 30th April 8 pm, (Preview)
Droichead Arts Centre 3rd May 8.30 pm (as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival)
Roscommon Arts Centre 5th May 8 pm
Mullingar Arts Centre 6th May 8.30 pm
Riverbank Arts Centre 7th May 8 pm
Ramor Theatre Virginia 8th May 8.30 pm

The Company
UPSTATE LIVE is the touring wing of Upstate Theatre Project (a radical, community-based performing arts organisation located in Drogheda). Upstate has developed a reputation for producing theatre, which is passionate, evocative, sophisticated yet arrestingly pure. Exciting drama, which is at times both fierce and uplifting.

"The Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars" is the second play to be developed under Upstate's Writers' Commissioning Scheme, (re-established 2007) whereby the company has sought to encourage new writers and directors from outside the company. The first such commission was "Submarine Man" by Aidan Harney which has enjoyed two successful national tours. The scheme continues to be managed for Upstate Theatre Project by Paul Hayes.

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