Tickets for The Devious Theatre Company’s production of Smitten are now available to the public and are on exclusively at Rollercoaster Records on Kieran Street. Tickets are priced at just €10 nightly with Smitten opening on Wednesday August 20th and running until Saturday August 23rd at The Barn (Barnstorm Theatre), Church Lane, Kilkenny.
Rehearsals for the show, which involves a number of KKM forum regulars and staff (including both myself and Ross) are in full swing with the show set to open two weeks from today.
Smitten depicts a tragicomic series of loosely interlinked vignettes set in Kilkenny City over a succession of rainy summer nights. The play takes its cues from the short stories of Raymond Carver and the films of Woody Allen (the early funny ones that is). The characters at the core of Smitten are trying to get their bearings in life, each stuck in their own limbo. The realities of adult life are dealing a harsh blow to the best laid plans, in a way that leaves them totally smitten… in all the meanings of the word.
Alcoholism. Pregnancy. Testicular Cancer. Apathy. Doomed Relationships.
Sock Puppets. Those elusive mystery girls. How to dance to Bruce Springsteen. And rain. Lots of rain. Smitten functions as a theatrical collage, with intertwining narratives and varying forms of narrative giving life to the comic and often tragic stories that litter the rainy streets of Kilkenny City.
The Barn is a studio space that lies right in the heart of medieval Kilkenny. Located in Church Lane, directly behind St. Canice’s Cathedral, the building was formerly home to the old Loreto Convent. The space was developed by Barnstorm Theatre Company who have used it for performance and rehearsal. Devious Theatre are delighted to be the first theatre group outside of Barnstorm to make use of one of the finest performance venues in Kilkenny City.
Don’t delay - get yourself to Rollercoaster and grab a ticket before it’s too late. That said, there will be a limited number of tickets available for the show on the door (depending on what hasn’t been taken from Rollercoaster on the night of each performance) but I wouldn’t run the risk of waiting to get a seat on the night.
To follow the progress of Smitten, check out DeviousTheatre.com.
