Solas Nua

Tried to get it... going in on campus, but unfortunately the theatre on campus were booked up for the year.

Also had a talk with Solas Nua, which are a great theatrical outfit doing Irish plays in Washington.

He didn't imagine to do that, came back to Ireland and then had a discussion with this great man beside me here, Declan Kelly, And I promised I'd canvas for Declan in Galway East to go across the boundary if he'd take on this theatrical adventure.

And that's how it came about.

Let's talk about HAKAWATIS.

I notice it's a co-production of Spooky Action and Solas Nua.

Uh, how does that work? How are do, does each group participate?

So we are a primary producer, and Solas Nua is an associate producer on the show.

And the way in which we first became introduced to this script, which is by an Irish-Palestinian playwright- Was through Solas Nua's reading series, in which they tend to introduce to DC audiences some of the most, uh, talented, noteworthy contemporary Irish writers.

So there were artists that we are affiliated with, including Micheál Ó Sridheair, who's directing the show, who participated in that reading, really loved the play, and felt that it aligned with Spooky Action's expressionistic aesthetic, since there's a lot of magic and storytelling in Hacoatis, and also the subtle politics of resistance that are incorporated in a very, uh, unusual and impactful way in this play.

So this is, this is the best result of giving a reading somewhere.

Someone like you, Elizabeth, steps up and says, "We'd like to produce that."