JOY NESBITT
The caoining
Written by Roman Vai and Catie Grainger
What makes a Banshee scream? Is it the warning of knowing when death will come, or the painful cry to the ones who kill? Tensions exist in an insular echo-chamber.
'Patrick,' a closeted, chronically online man, gets entranced and plots to kill his housemate, 'Banshee', who has the power to predict death. They share one sleeping bag in the back garden of a house in Swords, Dublin. When Patrick starts a conspiracy to kill her, he seeks advice from an online community of sinister white men.
This campy modern fable is a comedy in secalation, a murder play with roots of toxic mastculinity. Who is society's true monster: the Banshee, or the sexually confused white man?
This piece was performed at The Ireland Institute as part of the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival 2024.
Cast
Banshee – Enya Donohoe
Patrick – Richard Neville
Swords Strangler – Donnagh Mayock
Team
Writer – Roman Vai
Writer – Catie Grainger
Director – Joy Nesbitt
Producer – Alex Smyth
Set Design – Fibs Porto
Lighting and Video Design – Roman Vai
Costume Design – Toni Bailey
Stage Management — Jessica Kelly
