24Feb '14 0

RAWHIDE, Rehearsing Danti-Dan

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It’s always nice to go behind the scenes. Be it on a big Hollywood blockbuster or when VH1 did Behind the music(Those were the days) or even if it’s your local production company getting a play ready for the Abbey Hall stage.
We’ve been working on this comedy from writer Gina Moxley who we’ve been told is an absolute legend and from what we’ve seen in the script it’s obvious she is. She also has fantastic taste in the tunes from the class soundtrack she picked out, which she herself described as fab.

Here’s the full cast rehearsing the hell out of it, with a pic taken by our fab producer Shannon Keegan, also if you look closely you can see everyone’s favorite sound man Gary McDonald. Fun fact if you are ever out with this man don’t leave your shoes around him, cause he will use them as a musical instrument.
With Danti-Dan we have Spark regulars Thomas Drennan(Brownbread), Aine Ryan(Bittersweet Graffiti) and Adrian Kavanagh(Everything bar Bunny) who is also directing the piece and not writing this blog. But we also have two newcomers to the show in the cast by the names of Keleigh Drea, and yes it is with an ‘E’ and Sinead Hayes and yes she is adorable.

(Thomas as Dan & Sinead as Cactus)
From our last two shows we had been to Barrytown and we’ve been to Luton but this time we wanted something more rural and more closer to our home. Something we could recognize and have a lot of fun with at the same time, and Danti-Dan was perfect. As Gina Moxley saids ‘Danti-Dan is set in the middle of nowhere but that nowhere is Cork’. Dialogue is obviously important but we were absolutely amazed how much more the show came to life when we started acting with our Cork accents, it really brought another level to the play, another level of comedy. Yea sure we could have set in Graig and said nothing, but who doesn’t love Cork, right?

So the story is about a group of young teenagers in the summer in the 70’s in rural Cork. And really that’s all that needs to be said. But we can tell you this, they are promiscuous and they are at an age where they want to know all about the birds and the bees. All the while Dan who has a mental age of 8 just wants to head off to the Wild West and ride the range.

Danti Dan opens in the Abbey Hall on March 20th and runs for three nights. Tickets are 8 euro and can be booked via 0857191898.

Or if you fancy seeing the show in the Watergate on March 29th then booking can be done via watergatetheatre.com and tickets are 10 Euro.

Note: Strong Language and Sexual References Used Throughout.