Deep

Deep

SWEAT@ Sir Henry’s….Were you there?

It’s the summer of 1988 and Cork’s emigration generation are following the beat… in perfect time, for a Music Movement simmering from Ireland’s first House Club.

Sir Henry’s was the spiritual home of Cork’s first generation of House fanatics. Deep takes us on a journey through the peaks and troughs of an era. Through the rose-tinted, smiley-faced, glasses of hapless vinyl-junkie, Larry Lehane.

Part fiction, part-documentary, Deep features interviews with the club’s main figures and footage of nights at the club.

(Premiered at the Cork Midsumer Festival 2013. Supported by an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. Developed at MAKE, a residential workshop facilitated by Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre and Theatre Forum, and Fringe Lab with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival)

(2014 National Tour funded by the Arts Council Touring and Dissemination of Work scheme 2014).

PRESS

Deep isn’t just the title of Raymond Scannell’s fascinating new play, but an indication of how far it digs and how much it reflects.

****

Peter Crawley, The Irish Times. 

Like ravers evicted from the house party after the club, we the audience find ourselves afterwards walking the rain-slicked streets… beneath dull autumn streetlights taking it all in.

Jim Carroll, The Irish Times