Dodgems
roll up roll up … … beautiful … poignant … humerous … show-stopping … CoisCéim show us why we’ve come
Set on a real bumper-car track, DODGEMS immersed its audience in the textures of an exotic and multicultural fairground. They sensed the speed, the energy and the mayhem in a displaced and alluring world in which a bawdy band of new arrivals and indigenous misfits play out the dodging and crashing of life against a haunting soundscape.
A clever, entertaining and suspenseful dance drama…full of surprises
… the act of colliding versus the act of avoiding – and it underpins much of what O’Neill and choreographer/director David Bolger set out in Dodgems…. surges into a finale of show-piece dancing, a joyous and seemless integration of folk dancing styles
Over two levels, the set is exquisite. A real bumper track morphs from pastoral scene to pole dancing club to nunnery and is a brilliant testament to CoisCéim’s characteristic and ingenious skills with staging.
Director/Choreographer David Bolger & Charlie O’Neill hit on a marvellous concept, blending the exotic but unconventional ways of outsider circus folk, whose difference we revel in and even enthusiastically accept, with the experiences of our new outsiders … terrific staging and performances
… exciting and original piece of visual, physical, musical theatre…
Gallery
Performed at
Premiere
O’Reilly Theatre
Dublin
25 September - 12 October 2008
Credits
Cast Piotr Baumann, Jason E. Bernard, Simone Choplain, Lee Clayden, Amanda Coogan, Unita Gay Galiluyo, Monic Munoz Marín, Emma O’Kane, Diane O’Keeffe, Mark O’Regan, David Toole
Little Girls Shauna Harris, Carla Ong, Elizabeth Ozyuianuina
Musicians David Carmody, Ellen Cranitch, Simone Mendonca
Creators David Bolger & Charlie O’Neill
Set Design Paul O’Mahony
Lighting Design John Comiskey
Music Ellen Cranitch
Sound Design Alexis Nealon
Costume Design Kathy Strachen
Stage Director Mags Mulvey
Stage Manager Stephanie Ryan
Photography Leon Farrell, Ros Kavanagh, Chris Nash, Patrick Redmond
Graphic Design ALPHABET SOUP