Thursday September 25 and Friday, September 26, 2014 at 8 p.m.

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Performance Central and the Fund for Irish Studies in association with TheEmergencyRoom, Galway International Arts Festival and

Cusack Projects Limited present

riverrunAdapted, directed, and performed by Olwen Fouéré

Co-directed by Kellie Hughes

Marie and Edward Matthews ’53 Acting Studio185 Nassau Street

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THANK YOU!Work on the adaptation and development of riverrun has been ongoing since 2011, including generous support from: Colm O’Callaghan; Michael Mushalla of Double M Arts and Events, NY; Lee Anne Donnolley of Arts Proj-ects Australia; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Art and Geography/Galway Dance Days 2013; and Rough Magic.

Contributing artists to date include: composer Mikel Rouse; directors Tom Creed, Annie Ryan, and Sarah-Jane Scaife; designer Paul Keogan; and choreographer Megan Kennedy.

riverrun presentations:Galway International Arts Festival (World Premiere), July 2013Kilkenny Arts Festival, August 2013Dublin Theatre Festival, October 2013The National Theatre, London, March 2014Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, August 2014BAM (US Premiere), September 2014Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts,Princeton, NJ, September 2014

Production support provided by Rough Magic. riverrun is made possible with the support of the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

All international touring of riverrun is made possible with the support ofCulture Ireland.

LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTSChair Michael CaddenPROGRAM IN THEATERDirector/Thesis Advisor Tim VasenFaculty Advisor Jill DolanFaculty Advisor (on leave ’14-15) Brian HerreraFaculty Advisor Robert N. SandbergFaculty Advisor Stacy WolfProducer Darryl WaskowProduction Stage Manager Carmelita BecnelTheater Operations Specialist Rob Del ColleCostume Shop Manager Keating HelfrichCostume Shop Assistant Julia KosanovichCostume Technician Caitlin BrownTechnical Director Timothy GodinAssistant Technical Director Nora HylandTheater Technician Torrey DrumProp Master Allie Geiger Scenic Artist Melissa RiccobonoMaster Carpenter William WilsonAcademic Support Joseph Fonseca

THE FUND FOR IRISH STUDIESChair Paul Muldoon

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riverrunAdapted, Directed, and Performed byOLWEN FOUÉRÉ

Co-Directed byKELLIE HUGHES

Sound Design & Composition byALMA KELLIHER

Lighting Design bySTEPHEN DODD

Costume Design byMONICA FRAWLEY

Produced byJEN COPPINGER

Lighting Supervisor MIRIAM CROWE

Sound Engineer ANNE CUTRONA

Run Time: 60 min (no intermission)

The actors are appearing with the permissionof Actors’ Equity Association.

The American stage manager is amember of Actors’ Equity Association.

photo credit: Colm HoganFor more information visit theemergencyroom.ie

FOLLOWING THE FLOW OF THE WAKEBy Olwen Fouéré

One day, at a public event in honor of James Joyce, I chose to read the last page of Finnegans Wake, where the river Liffey (Life) calls out to us as she dissolves into the great ocean of time.Something happened during the reading, a collective shift of atoms, a moment where a seam of dark matter emerged, somewhere between energy and form, music and language, while the river approached her death and transformation in the arms of the sea:

“... the moyles and moyles of it, maonanoaning, makes me seasilt saltsick and I rush, my only, into your arms. I see them rising! Save me from those therrble prongs! Two more. Onetwo moremens more. So. Avelaval ... Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, Far! End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlee, mememormee! Till thousends thee. The keys to. Given ...”

By the end of the reading, inspired by the buzzing of atoms and a moment of flight, a performance idea was taking shape: The river Life (Liffey/Lethe) as all the rivers of the world, including our body’s bloodstream, a force of constant renewal, moving us onwards towards the dawn.

Then I simply traced the river’s path backwards, to a source and the place where the performance begins, at the meridian of day and night, male and female, earth and space, island and sea. The first three words are Sanskrit, meaning

the twilight of dawn:“Sandhyas! Sandhyas! Sandhyas!...”and where all time appears co- existent.

Cartoon- like heroes, music- hall gags, a giant body and its cosmic counterpart, the constellation of Orion, the Egyptian book of the dead, multiple languages, ideas and entities—celestial, human, animal, vegetal and mineral—hover, spin, and morph on rhythms as subversive and agile as Charlie Chaplin. He is sure to be in there somewhere, as is, without a doubt, the voice of Lucia, Joyce’s incarcerated daughter, waking our silence, making us laugh.“

Cockalooralooraloomenos”.“Rise up now and Aruse! Norvena’s over.” Wake up! Rise up!

Navigating the ever- changing universe of the Wake is an amazing journey to embark on. The river leads the way in a cosmic “sound- dance” of revolutionary energy, unwinding the boundaries of our imagination, pulling us along, filling us with negative ions, while we swim like a “cara weeseed” through the swirling world that made us, on a different journey each and every night.

END

(A version of this article appeared in the Irish Times on July 13, 2013.)

OLWEN FOUÉRÉAdaptor-Director-Performer

Born in Galway of Breton parents, Olwen Fouéré is a leading Irish actor and creative artist. Recent film appearances include No Compass in the Wilderness by Hadi Shuaib (Wigwam films); The Wake by Oonagh Kearney (Invisible Thread); If Those Lips by Pat McCabe (VIP/RTÉ, 2014); Camillo’s Idea by Aurélien Froment (2013 Venice Biennale); Horse by Yvonne McDevitt; Cassandra: fragments of a playscript by Anne Enright, co-directed by Olwen Fouéré and Kevin Abosch (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2013); This Must Be The Place by Paolo Sorrentino (Indigo Films); The Rafters by John Carney; The Other Side of Sleep by Rebecca Daly (Fastnet Films); and Yellow, the film by Amanda Coogan and Paddy Cahill (JDIFF, 2012).

Her most recent stage appearances include Juliet in A Tender Thing adapted by Ben Power and directed by Selina Cartmell (Siren Productions, Dublin); Dr. Chasuble in Gerald Barry’s opera of The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Antony McDonald (NI Opera/Wide Open Opera); El Duende in María de Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House, 2013); The Rite of Spring/Petrushka with Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (ENO, Sadler’s Wells and Movimento Festival Wolfsburg 2013); and a season with Theater for a New Audience, New York (Spring 2012).

Other work of note includes Terminus by Mark O’Rowe (Abbey Theatre international tour, 2011); Yellow re-performed (2010 Dublin

Theatre Festival); her translation and performance of Sodome, my love by Laurent Gaudé (Rough Magic/TheEmergencyRoom, 2010,); Under Glass (The Clod Ensemble); Paula Spencer, La Femme Qui Se Cognait Dans les Portes,her solo performance of a French stage adaptation of two books by Roddy Doyle (Bouffes du Nord Théâtre, Paris); The Bull with Fabulous Beast (Dublin Theatre Festival 05/Barbican BITE 07/Berlin Speilzeiteuropa 08—nominated for two Olivier Awards); and Titus Andronicus (Siren Productions, 2005).

At the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, she created the role of Hester Swane in By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr in 1998 for which she received numerous awards. She also starred in Life is a Dream directed by Calixto Bieito (1998 Edinburgh International Festival/Barbican Theatre, London/BAM). At the Gate Theatre, Dublin, she created the role of Salomé in Steven Bekoff’s production of Oscar Widle’s Salomé which toured internationally. She also features in several artworks by the internationally renowned Irish artist James Coleman.

Fouéré was an artistic director of Operating Theatre, which she co-founded with composer Roger Doyle. Her extensive performance work Who’s Who2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVALwith Operating Theatre includes The Diamond Body (1984—87), The Pentagonal Dream (1986), Angel/Babel (1999), Chair (2000), Passades (2004), Here Lies (2005—07), and Here Lies in film... (2008). Fouéré was awarded the Irish Times Special Theatre Award in 2013

for outstanding achievment and contributon to Irish theater. She also received the Herald Archangel in 2014 for her sustained contribution to the Edinburgh festivals.

KELLIE HUGHESCo-Director

Kellie Hughes is a director, actor, and theater maker. As an ensemble member of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company for seven years, Hughes created a number of new works with the company including The Poor Mouth, At Swim Two Birds, The Third Policeman, The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, The Hollow in the Sand, and Sanctuary. Directing credits for Blue Raincoat during this time include The Cat and the Moon, At the Hawk’s Well, The Bald Soprano, and A Brief Taste of Lightning. Film and radio work includes Astray by filmmaker Johnny Gogan, Swansong (Zanzibar Films), and Know Your Station ( RTÉ Radio—shortlisted for the Prix Europa). Hughes has assisted director Mikel Murfi on a number of projects including B for Baby (Abbey Theatre international tour), Bird by Julie Feeney (Dublin Theatre Festival In Development program), and Manchán Magan’s bilingual play Focal Point.

Hughes trained at Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique, London, and at the Roy Hart Theatre of the Voice, Maleragues, holds a first class BA honors in theater and history, and an MA honours in physical theater. She is currently director in residence at University College Dublin and artistic director of the UCD Ad Astra Performing Arts Academy.

ALMA KELLIHERSound Designer-Composer

Recent theatre credits include Way Back Home (Louise White, Performance Maker), The Churching of Happy Cullen (Louise Lewis and Simon Manahan), Gibraltar: An Adaptation after Ulysses (Irish Rep Theatre, New York), Cure and Starlight (Fearghus Ó Conchuir), The Man Jesus (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Elevator (THISISPOPBABY), Travesties (Rough Magic), and Minute After Midday (15th Oak—Edinburgh Fringe first award-winner).

Kelliher has a BA in music from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MSc in sound design from Edinburgh University. She studied organ to diploma level with the London College of Music and Media and is a graduate of the Rough Magic SEEDS Programme and the Next Stage Programme. Kelliher is musical director of the performance group Pop Céilí who regularly perform at Electric Picnic and the Dublin Fringe Festival. Her most recent projects include Elephantom at the National Theatre. Kelliher was awarded best sound at the 2013 Irish Times Theatre Awards for her work on riverrun.

STEPHEN DODDLighting Designer

Stephen Dodd is a lighting designer from Dublin where he trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. Recent lighting designs include: Tom and Vera (Desperate Optimists and Dublin Theatre Festival), 2013 Dublin Theatre Festival; Lippy (Dead Centre), winner of best design and best production— 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival; Way Back Home (Louise White, Performance Maker) and In Dog Years I’m Dead (Mirari Productions), 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival; Dogs (Emma Martin Dance), winner of best design and best production— 2012 Dublin Fringe Festival; and Listowel Syndrome (Emma Martin Dance), 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival.Dodd has been nominated for best lighting at the 2013 Irish Times Theatre Awards for his work on riverrun.

JEN COPPINGERProducer

Jen Coppinger is producer for Dylan Tighe, TheEmergencyRoom, Emma Martin Dance, HotForTheatre, Raymond Scannell, and Sean MacErlaine. She is currently producing an Irish tour of Deep by Raymond Scannell. Earlier this year she produced Tundra by Emma Martin Dance which opened the 2014 Dublin Dance Festival.

In 2013, for HotForTheatre, she produced Break by Amy Conroy as well as a national and international tour of HotForTheatre—HotForTouring, which brought Amy Conroy’s Eternal Rising of the Sun and I♥Alice♥ I to 23 venues

and festivals in Australia, Croatia, Ireland, and New Zealand.Currently project manager for the Laureate for Irish Fiction for the Arts Council of Ireland, Coppinger previously worked with Arts Audiences, Irish Theatre Institute, City Arts Centre, Dublin Writers Festival, RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama and Education), and the Abbey Theatre. She sits on the boards of RADE, Dublin Fringe Festival, and NAYD (the National Association of Youth Drama). Coppinger is an independent producer in residence at Rough Magic.

THEEMERGENCYROOMTheEmergencyRoom (a necessary space) was created by Olwen Fouéré in 2009 for projects “in need of immediate attention” and as a virtual holding space for the development of performance-based ideas which are followed by partnerships with established production companies for the full creation of the work.TheEmergencyRoom’s first project was Fouéré’s translation of Sodomema douce by Laurent Gaudé, which received its world première asSodome, my love in February 2010, directed by Lynne Parker andproduced by Rough Magic. The production was nominated for four IrishTimes Theatre Awards, receiving best sound design and best actress.Other projects include a 30-minute film by Olwen Fouéré and Kevin Abosch, Cassandra: fragments of a playscript,written by Anne Enright, featuring Fouéré and artist Alice Maher.

GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVALA creative collision on the edge of Europe.

Founded in 1978, Galway International Arts Festival is one of Europe’s leading international arts festivals.

The world premiere of Enda Walsh’s new play Ballyturk starring Cillian Murphy, Mikel Murfi, and Stephen Rea, a Galway International Arts Festivaland Landmark production, opened inGalway in July 2014, and is currently running at the National Theatre in London. Galway International Arts Festival and Landmark’s production of Misterman by Enda Walsh starring Cillian Murphy (Drama Desk Award) premiered in Galway in 2011 and toured to St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2011 and National Theatre of Great Britain in 2012.

In recent years the Festival has presented the work of seminal artists and producers across the artforms including Joni Mitchell, Bill Viola, The National, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, John Gerrard, Hughie O’Donoghue, Cormac McCarthy, David Hockney, Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Fabulous Beast, Michael Clark, Hofesh Shechter, Stephen Petronio, Steppenwolf, Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, and Circa, and works regularly with leading Irish companies including Galway’s Druid.

Principal Funding Agents: Arts Council of Ireland and Fáille Ireland.

Festival’s Leadership Partners: National University of Ireland Galway, Ulster Bank and Absolut.

The Festival is led by chief executive John Crumlish and artistic director Paul Fahy; with Gerry Cleary, financial controller and Elizabeth Duffy, administrator.

Board of Directors: Bernadette Mullarkey (Chair), Padraic Brennan,John Grealish, Gary Joyce, Maccon Keane, and Maria Mahon.Galway International Arts Festival, Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road,Galway, Ireland www.giaf.ie

CUSACK PROJECTS LIMITEDPádraig Cusack is a director of Cusack Projects, a company dedicated to international theater producing. He is currently associate producer for the National Theatre of Great Britain, international tour consultant for the Abbey Theatre, international advisor for Headlong Theatre (UK), and is advisor to several companies in Ireland, UK, and Japan. Recent projects: National Theatre: People, One Man, Two Guvnors, Grief, Phèdre, The Pitmen Painters, The Year of Magical Thinking, Waves, Happy Days, Primo, and The History Boys; Abbey Theatre: John Gabriel Borkman, The Plough and the Stars. Headlong: Six Characters in Search of an Author, ENRON; Broadway: The Pitmen Painters, Waves, Happy Days, and Not About Nightingales. Current projects: riverrun, Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby, The James Plays, and the international tours of The Testament of Mary and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.