The First Child
Landmark Productions in association with Irish National Opera, Ireland It all began with the child. Following the sensational success of their first two operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh join forces once again on the final instalment in their explosive trilogy of suburban horror. The production brings together a world-class creative team with a cast of five singers, an actor, a dancer, a small children’s choir and Crash Ensemble, to imagine a terrifying story of lost innocence—a baby on a beach—and the sea.
Landmark Productions in association with Irish National Opera, Ireland
It all began with the child.
Following the sensational success of their first two operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh join forces once again on the final instalment in their explosive trilogy of suburban horror.
The production brings together a world-class creative team with a cast of five singers, an actor, a dancer, a small children’s choir and Crash Ensemble, to imagine a terrifying story of lost innocence—a baby on a beach—and the sea.
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London), Bluebeard’s Castle (Irish<br />
National Opera), Arlington by Enda<br />
Walsh (Landmark Productions/GIAF),<br />
World to Come (Cryptic <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Glasgow); Man of Valour (<strong>The</strong> Corn<br />
Exchange ), Alice in Funderland<br />
(THISISPOPBABY/Abbey <strong>The</strong>atre);<br />
Dubliners (<strong>The</strong> Corn Exchange/Dublin<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Festival); <strong>The</strong> Lulu House and<br />
MacBeth (Siren Productions); Love and<br />
Money (Hatch <strong>The</strong>atre), and Woman<br />
& Scarecrow (Siren/Abbey). Jack was<br />
also a core member of the creative/<br />
tech team behind Playhouse, a largescale<br />
interactive lighting installation for<br />
public expression. Produced for Dublin<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Festival in 2009, Playhouse<br />
turned Dublin’s Liberty Hall into an 11<br />
storey, full-colour video display that<br />
displayed animations submitted by<br />
the public to music synchronised with<br />
Dublin City FM. Awards include: Knight<br />
of Illumination 2019, for Projection<br />
Design for <strong>The</strong> Second Violinist.<br />
JOAN O’CLERY<br />
Costume Designer<br />
Joan O’Clery is a costume designer<br />
working in both stage and screen. Her<br />
screen work includes the feature films<br />
King of the Travellers, Swansong, (Both<br />
IFTA nominated for Best Costume<br />
Design), Out Of Innocence. <strong>The</strong><br />
Delinquent Season, Rose Plays Julie ,<br />
Dating Amber. I, Dolores, <strong>The</strong> Trial Of<br />
<strong>The</strong> Century and <strong>The</strong> Voting Age. Joan<br />
costumed the RTÉ TV series Finding<br />
Joy Seasons 1 and 2 and the current TV<br />
drama KIN. She is three times winner of<br />
the Irish Times <strong>The</strong>atre Award, and her<br />
designs for opera include <strong>The</strong> Second<br />
Violinist, La Traviata (ENO) and Madama<br />
Butterfly (INO). She has originated the<br />
costumes for several world premieres<br />
by major Irish writers including Seamus<br />
Heaney, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy,<br />
Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness.<br />
Her costumes are regularly seen at<br />
the Abbey <strong>The</strong>atre, the Gate <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
and on many stages around Ireland.<br />
Highlights of her stage costuming<br />
include Macbeth at the Globe <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
and at the RSC, An Enemy of the People<br />
for the Gate <strong>The</strong>atre, DruidMurphy<br />
Trilogy of Tom Murphy plays for<br />
Druid <strong>The</strong>atre Company, She Stoops<br />
to Conquer at the Abbey <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
Medicine, and Woyzeck in Winter for<br />
Landmark Productions and Galway<br />
International Arts Festival, and <strong>The</strong><br />
Approach for Landmark Productions.<br />
DAVID SHEPPARD<br />
Sound Designer<br />
David Sheppard is a sound designer<br />
who has collaborated on a diverse<br />
range of projects across the world. He<br />
works with many leading orchestras<br />
and ensembles as well as rock and pop<br />
musicians, visual artists, dance and<br />
film creatives. He collaborates closely<br />
with composers on helping them<br />
realise their ideas but he is also known<br />
as a sound installation artist and<br />
electronics performer in his own right.<br />
Last year saw design work with Music
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