An Evening with Sinéad Rushe, 2003

'Sinéad Rushe is infectiously watchable. She catches you off-guard, shifting dramatic gear with the ease of a bird changing direction mid-flight.' Time Out

An intimate exploration of character, artifice and sincerity, involving self-surveillance, webcams, and the playful manipulation of autobiographical conventions in theatre. 

Our time makes a spectacle of intimacy. We put the intimate on show. In a world that feeds on reality television and public-private confessionals, everyone agrees that in order to see the intimate it is enough just to glance at it. It hides just behind the door. What could be simpler? You have only to open the door and take a look.

Theatre, champion of artifice, master of illusion and lies of all kinds, tolerates no naivety on this score. Obstinately resisting the fantasy of transparency it repositions the intimate in the one place where it can live out its fragile life, in the three-way relationship between actor, character and spectator, trying to unmask the contradictory face of an intangible and unplaceable intimacy.

Written and performed by Sinéad Rushe
Directed by Sarah Hirschmuller
Lighting by Andrew Taylor
Sound preproduction by Peter Rose
Sound and lighting operated by Rebecca Maltby
Programme and flyer design by Dermot Rushe

Performed for two weeks at BAC, London, in June 2003.

Short-listed for BAC/Your Imagination This Way Up tour.

  Funded by Arts Council England.