Exciting young company Brú weave new story for our times

Galway based Brú Theatre company will premiere their newest work, Selvage, at Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre from March 7-9 and tickets are now on sale. Selvage, meaning a self-securing line of knitting, is a show about the many avenues people trudge to try and calm their ‘gnaw’. It features an original script by James Riordan, puppetry, movement and a live, original score from musician and composer Anna Mullarkey.

Brú Theatre are a physical, collaborative theatre company working across a wide range of different theatrical mediums. Drawing European theatre, mask technique and musicality, their shows are inspired by their West of Ireland roots. Working in Irish and English, they’ve previously collaborated with Galway City Museum and the APT (Berlin).

Brú sold out three runs of their inaugural show Cleite, including at the Galway Theatre Festival in May and at Baboró in October. In September, Brú presented The Fisherwives, a recreation of Galway’s fishmarkets that involved a masked ensemble – that was collaboration with Galway 2020’s Small Towns Big Ideas.

Selvage marks their first move into a more traditional theatre space, and continues their ethos of creating work inspired by form, imagination and rhythm. It will be a highly visual and theatrical event using different forms of live performance to tell the story of Jo and his eventual triumph over the ‘gnaw’.

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