Spliced

Whitegate GAA Field - 8pm

12€ or 10€ with wristband,

Booking essential - Ticket numbers limited

Timmy Creed plays hurling. He loves it, he hates it, but for better or worse, it’s a part of him. Written with sportspeople in mind, this one-man show, uses everything Timmy’s experience in the GAA has to offer - he is physically and mentally stepping on and off the grass to portray the toll the expectations of the game took on him, and what an overriding single focus does to a young mind.

Honest, brave, joyous, witty and hard-hitting, Spliced is a visceral account of Timmy's struggle to become an individual outside of the sporting institution that raised him. Let’s talk about identity, masculinity and mental health in the clubs at the heart of our communities.

“Spliced is a rip-roaring ride through the highs and lows of playing GAA. Timmy Creed's explosive energy will have you on the edge of your seat throughout as he brings you on a hugely emotive personal journey that many will be able to relate to”  

(Cian Tracey, Sports Writer, Irish Independent)

A powerful piece of physical theatre'
- **** Scotsman

' Explosive one-man show '
- Sunday Times

A love song to the GAA'
- Tim Crouch

After the performance Diarmuid Lyng will facilitate a discussion between Timmy Creed, Brendan Bugler and the audience.

Post match performances are usually postmortemed in pubs and clubs, but Spliced was always about starting a conversation on the culture within and surrounding the game of hurling. It can be defined by resistances and resonances, moments in the play that strike a nerve, a remembering, a rekindling, a realisation, and we want to create a space where that reaction has the opportunity to add to the conversation, to challenge or congratulate, to probe aspects of the game un-considered to date, that it may pique further exploration, a further questioning of what this ancient game actually means to us.

Or alternatively, maybe it goes no further, but you are heard, and your contribution valued.

Credits:

Actor/Writer: Timmy Creed

Director & Dramaturgy: Gina Moxley

Sound Design: Chris Somers

AV design: David Mathuna

Lighting Design: Eoin Winning

Production Managar: Emma O Grady

Technical Crew: Alan Mooney & Arran Macgabhann

Timmy Creed is an actor, theatre-maker and yoga teacher currently based in West Kerry. He is interested in creating performance that mixes documentary, storytelling and performance art to engage and activate new and broad audiences.

His debut play SPLICED, about his life as a GAA man, has been presented at a number of festivals in Ireland, toured nationally and to schools and was highly acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ‘19.

He was artist-in-residence on Cape Clear in Spring of 2019 where he was developing a new show about re-connecting to ourselves through the Irish language. He is currently developing a new piece of performance with his sister on the subject of madness, psychiatric care and different states of being

Diarmuid Lyng is a former Wexford hurling captain, public speaker, media personality who is currently in pursuit of a more sustainable and connected lifestyle. He has been the subject of two documentaries, The Geansaí and Laochra Gael as well as regularly appearing on TG4, Newstalk and Radio na Gaelteachta.

He has worked in schools around the country with the Soar Foundation connecting young men and women with their purpose and has a keen interest in working with young men in particular, around the exploration of Rites of Passage.

He is behind Wild Irish Retreats, a collective that runs spiritual, cultural and well-being retreats, a re-wilding as Gaeilge in his adopted home, Corca Dhuibhne.