A Personal History of Pyromania
Written and performed by Brendan Mac Evilly
Brendan Mac Evilly blends live reading, ceramics, projected media and sound in a darkly comic meditation on fire.
An intimate, darkly comic essay-performance that reflects on the meanings and functions of fire in life and art. Moving between childhood experiments with homemade fireworks, family and national history, and the author's novel Deep Burn, Brendan Mac Evilly traces a lifelong fascination with flame. At its centre sits an elusive story about the burning of an inherited uniform, a moment that hovers between memory and invention, asking why we are drawn to fire and what it can transform.
Combining live reading, ceramics, projected media and sound, the piece considers fire as a force of attraction, creation, remembrance and release.
Written and performed: Brendan Mac Evilly
Director and media design: David McGovern
Music and sound design: Kevin Cleary
Recorded readings: Aisling Flynn
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