• An Abbey Theatre Production 
• Director: Conor McPherson
• Set and Lighting Designer: Paul Keogan
• Sound Designer: Sinéad Diskin
• Costume Designer: Saileóg O'Halloran
• Band Leader: Eamonn De Barra
• Musician: Eamonn De Barra
• Musician: Lucia McPartlin
• Musician: Rod Quinn
• Musician: Aura Stone
• Publicity & Production Photography: Rich Gilligan

Press

​If Dempsey dominates centre stage, addressing the audience directly, it’s McPherson’s direction that makes all the theatrical difference in terms of pace, rhythm, and flow. Ably assisted by Paul Keogan’s lights and set adding depth and texture. Keogan’s frames within a frame, like the opening credits of The Brady Bunch, see rectangles of light containing Dempsey and his musicians, as if to freeze them like pictures in a gallery, which they endlessly elude. Meanwhile Keogan’s shifting coloured backdrop marks and establishes mood. Similarly Sinead Diskin’s superb sound design in which haunting whispers of music are ever present. Like the steady trickling of water from a holy well.


Chris O'Rourke The Arts Review 4th February 2023
https://www.theartsreview.com/single-post/tales-from-the-holywell

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