Outlandish Theatre Platform creates inter-disciplinary theatre and inter-media projects with local communities in Dublin 8 and beyond, exploring who we are within perceived cultural, national and global narratives.
Maud Hendricks and Bernie O’Reilly write, reinvent and collaborate with professionals and community participants to create intricate theatre portraits. We make performances that breathe, and so give room to the audience to find themselves in it.
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Inspired by the Myth of Sisyphus and Camus' interpretation of it on the meaning of life, Max, a teenager, attempts to defeat the statistical reality of losing your smiles as you grow older in his research experiment, presented at the Coombe Hospital as part of Bealtaine Festival 2019.
Roots: with residents of Hatch Hall Direct Provision Centre and participants of the Robert Emmet Community Development Project we explored 'What art changed you forever?'
Woman in form has always been the same. Woman’s welfare has been dictated by the regime that she lives in.
A new experimental performance, exploring birthing and women’s rights in an imagined Dublin 100 years from now.
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A poly-vocal performance exploration woven from tangible and more obscure patterns as part of Open Theatre Practice.
Nine performers make a stop on the way from the womb to the tomb and have a conversation about nothing.
Meet Noor, a Syrian immigrant who’s fulfilled her dream of becoming an Irish citizen. Her dream turns to nightmare as the Syrian war explodes. Noor’s family is disappearing; imprisoned, murdered, adrift on boats. Take a visual and sonic trip through the ruins of her psyche.
A theatrical response to the Housing Crisis, with professional and non-professional performers.
A mini urban opera with original score by Morgan Cooke and created in collaboration with professional and non-professional performers.
A theatre and film installation presented as part of dis/placed festival, Shoreditch Town Hall, London.
A collaboration with 5 Muslim / Arabic women in Dublin 8, exploring memorised landscape and present Dublin 8 canal landscape — resulting in a sound and film installation at IMMA and a short film.
A theatrical film portraits of the last residents in an emptying social housing estate.
A coming of age tale inspired by the story of Bluebeard, performed on location in the drawing room at the Pearse Centre with sound artist Slavek Kwi.