ONCE OFF Productions
present
The Hare [Touring show 2024]
by Clare Monnelly and Bob Kelly

TOURS: Sligo / Galway / Wicklow / Cavan / Dublin / Limerick / Waterford / Louth / Waterford / Kildare :: 26 February – 28 March, 2024

“intriguing and unsentimental” – The Irish Times

Actor Una Ní Bhriain and musician Steve Wickham (The Waterboys) compose a visual and aural treat in Clare Monnelly and Bob Kelly’s play, The Hare - tours this February and March to 10 venues:

Once Off Productions present their 2024 touring play, The Hare, by award-winning theatre-makers Clare Monnelly (The Gone, Moone Boy, Charlie is a Clepto) and Bob Kelly (Breakfast On Pluto). This one-woman play (with live music) explores being out on the fringes in rural Ireland and how a young woman deals with her isolation by her friends – and which route will work for her sanity - the innate wildness within her or dealing head-on with the supposed civilised world that rejects her.

The Hare premiered in 2023 at Cairde Arts Festival, Sligo as well as Cork Arts Theatre and Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire and was an instant hit with audiences and Once Off Productions are thrilled to bring this unique show back to the stage across Ireland. Audience members who saw the play last year upon its first outing, commented saying the play is ”a beautiful, staggering piece of writing” and that it is an “Outstanding” production.

An absent father looms large in this story and when the play opens the audience are introduced to the unnamed troubled girl (played by Ní Bhriain) who never knew her father and whose mother is confined to her bed. She’s an odd one; a lonely girl living at the edge of the world, ridiculed by her peers and unable to fit in. Torn between the society that rejects her & her own wilder nature, she creates her own world, and lives as best she can. She sees the rest of them, but holds them at a distance. We meet her on the day that is today – and today is made different by the arrival of a letter. An opening. A suggestion of potential life beyond this place and these people.

Directed by Bob Kelly, performed by Úna Ní Bhriain with live music by Steve Wickham (The Waterboys).

CREATIVE TEAM:
Written by Clare Monnelly & Bob Kelly
Director – Bob Kelly
Composition and live music - Steve Wickham
Sound Design – Joe Hunt
Set & Costume Design – Jenny Whyte
Lighting Design – Michael Cummins
Dramaturgy - Eleanor White
Producer - Sadhbh Barrett Coakley

TOUR INFORMATION:
The Factory, Sligo
Monday 26 + Tuesday 27 November @ 8.00pm / €20
Box Office via Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-hare-by-clare-monnelly-bob-kelly-tickets-796902686387?aff=oddtdtcreator

Mick Lally Theatre, Galway
Thursday 29 February - Saturday 2 March @ 8.00pm / €20
Mick Lally Box Office – Tel: 091 568 660 / https://themicklallytheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873642709

Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow
Wednesday 6 March @ 8.00pm / €21
Mermaid Box Office - Tel: 01 272 4030 / https://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/events/the-hare

Ramor Arts Centre, Virginia, Co. Cavan
Friday 8 March @ 8.00pm / €20
Ramor Box Office - Tel: 049 854 7074 / https://townhallcavan.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173646272

Axis Arts Centre, Ballymun, Dublin
Tuesday 12 March @ 7.30pm / €14/€16
Axis Box Office - Tel: 01 883 2100 /
https://axisballymun.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173652628

Belltable, Limerick
Thursday 14 March @ 8.00pm / €20/€22
Belltable Box Office - Tel: 061 953 400 / https://limetreebelltable.ie/events/the-hare/

Theatre Royal, Waterford
Thursday 21 March @ 8.00pm / €10-€21
Theatre Royal Box Office - Tel: 051 874 402 / https://theatreroyal.ie/event/the-hare/

Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth
Saturday 23 March @ 8.00pm / €16-€18
Droichead Box Office – Tel: 041 983 3946 / https://www.droichead.com/show-detail/?id=873655587

Backstage Theatre, Longford
Tuesday 26 March @ 8.00pm / €16-€18
Backstage Box Office – Tel: 043 334 7888 / https://backstage.ie/events/the-hare/

Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co Kildare
Thursday 28 March @ 8.00pm / €18-€20
Riverbank Box Office – Tel: 045 448 327
https://www.riverbank.ie/event/once-off-productions-presents-the-hare/

FULL TOUR INFO at: https://www.onceoffproductions.com/the-hare

Running Time: 70 mins approx.