Photo by Kevin McFeely
Strokehauling
devised by the company & directed by Raymond Keane
Cast: Mikel Murfi
Lighting Designer: Mark Costello
October 1996: Premiered at Project Arts Centre, Dublin (a Project Commission for the 1996 Dublin Theatre Festival)
1997: The London Mime Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, London
Strokehauling explores the life of a small-town draper's assistant. On the surface, he is awkward, friendly and none too exciting but inside his head the world explodes in a cacophony of sounds and landscape and heroic deeds. Physically running along the roads and laneways of rural Ireland, he mentally explores the landscape of his dreams.
Photo by Kevin McFeely; Mikel Murfi.
"a wonderful piece of movement based theatre"
The Independent (London)
"breathtaking physical control and enormous delicacy"
Irish Times
"a little masterpiece of compassionate satire"
Sunday Times