P04 → No One Can Hear You In There
'No One Can Hear You In There' is a site specific performance about the ambiguity and blurring of privacy in a very public world. Makeshift Ensemble explores this concept in a perhaps unusual arena, the public toilet.
The public toilet is a hiding place, a place to seek solitude, and share stories or secrets. Cubicles are confession boxes, their walls collect traces of love, frustration, anger, and humour. In this most public environment we allow people to look on and listen in without stopping to think, who really cares to hear us.
From separate cubicles within this intimate setting, audience members survey as characters come and go using this public space as the backstage to social life.
Presented at
Solstice (as part of Cork Midsummer Festival) June 2012
Cast Charlie Crowley, Aisling McCarthy, Ciara Lenihan, Robert Gould, Caoilian Sherlock, Lasserina Rath, Aoife La Roque
Producer Caoilian Sherlock
Set Design Eszter Nemethi
Stage Manager Leah Hearne
Sound Design Leah Hearne and Caoilian Sherlock
Dramaturgy Mentor Bart Capelle
Set Designer Mentor Lisa Lilywhite
Stage Management Mentor Kate Ferris
Producer Mentor Kath Gorman