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Off Plan is at Project Arts Centre from 10 to 27 February 2010

OFF PLAN

8PM
10 - 27 FEB 2010
Theatre
Space Upstairs

By RAW

Tickets €22/18

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We've built ten bedroom mansions on our hillsides, put tarmac over our boglands, hooked up CCTV to our ironclad gates. We've burnt through the easy money and now we're reeling, searching for who we actually are.

OFF PLAN is the world premiere of a new adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia by Simon Doyle, especially commissioned by critically-acclaimed Irish theatre company RAW (nominated for three Irish Times Theatre Awards 2008).

OFF PLAN is a bold new production which, through the lens of this powerful classical Greek text, puts its finger on the pulse of modern Ireland, making us take stock of where we are and how we got here. Forcefully engaging with the dilemmas of our globalised world, OFF PLAN explores the eternal themes of power and morality, justice and revenge, but also poses questions of identity, both on the home front and on the international stage.



OFF PLAN is written by Simon Doyle, whose recent work includes Oedipus Loves You (Pan Pan), and is directed by Rachel West who was nominated for Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for RAW's production of Splendour in 2008.

OFF PLAN was commissioned by the company and developed during a series of workshops and readings with members of the ensemble.

"a visual treat"
"fascinatingly conceived"
Sunday Independent

"satisfying, interesting and entertaining evening"
"a huge undertaking for modern theatre, done very well ... they've 
brought Greek tragedy to Dublin in 2010 in a way that we won't see 
again this year"
Arena, RTE Radio 1


Listen to RTE's reveiw of OFF PLAN for Arena here (click latest show, the review is 16mins in to the programme)

For OFF PLAN in The Irish Times click here.

Read an interview with director Rachel West here.