Guest Host Stranger Ghost
3–13 OCTOBER 2024
Once Off Productions presents the world premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival 2024. Performed at Project Arts Centre, Smock Alley Theatre, Gate Theatre, Abbey Theatre.
★★★★ “clever, stage-surfing show.” GUARDIAN
“ingenious piece of fugitive vagabond theatre… witty, but an eery atmosphere… charming, disturbing and sad.” ARENA, RTÉ RADIO 1
“a genuinely original high concept” IRISH TIMES
A story about living in someone else’s home, performed on the sets of other people’s plays.
A mismatched trio rent a house owned by an elderly woman now living her last days in a nursing home. Unlikely housemates, they try to find a connection in the short time they’re here – and a space for themselves amongst the stuff of her entire life. Playful and boldly inventive, this vagabond new play will criss-cross the city to borrow the stages of other festival productions. With no two performances taking place on the same set, each iteration will offer a completely
unique encounter.
A world premiere from Stewart Parker Trust Award winning writer Kate Heffernan (In Dog Years I’m Dead, Peat), Guest Host Stranger Ghost is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for a moment of stillness in a life of transience.
With the support of Mermaid Arts Centre and Dunamaise Arts Centre. Funded by the Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Directed by Eoghan Carrick
Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels
Cast: Finbarr Doyle, Shadaan Felfeli, and Maeve O’Mahony
Creative Producers: Cally Shine and Maura O’Keeffe
Production Manager: Eoin Kilkenny
Stage Managers: Evie McGuinness and Zoe Reynolds
Company Manager: Morgan Steele
Promotional photograph: Ste Murray
With thanks to the creative teams who designed our host productions