Distillation
Distillation
Temperance Hall, Longford
A Luke Casserly, Abbey Theatre, and Solas Nua production
Fri 20th Sept at 8pm (tickets FREE as part of Culture Night through the support of Creative Ireland Longford)
Sat 21st at 8pm (tickets €15)
A performative journey which takes you to the Irish bog landscape through scent. Distillation is a response to the recent cessation of the peat harvesting industry in Ireland.
Over the past year, Luke Casserly has collaborated with renowned perfume maker Joan Woods to create a unique distillation of the Midlands bog – the place where he grew up – as the starting point for an olfactory encounter which looks at our human relationship to place. Dedicated to the future of our broken landscapes – in the hope that by listening to them, we might be able to better understand them.
Part lecture, part performance, the project is an ambitious attempt to look at our human relationship to landscape through scent. As an artist from the Irish Midlands, Luke was inspired to make the piece in response to the recent cessation of the peat harvesting industry, as a way of stretching out further conversations around the environmental potential of the Irish bog landscape.
Luke has collaborated with renowned perfume maker Joan Woods over the past year to create a unique distillation of the Irish bog, the starting point for an olfactory performance which attempts to translate the landscape for a live audience in an intimate and inventive way. Each audience member will be invited to smell the custom-made perfume as part of the performance.
Supported by Goethe-Institut Irland, with additional development support by IMMA, Druid FUEL, and Backstage Theatre’s Activate Residency programme.
● Each audience member will receive a small sample of the custom-made perfume as part of the
performance.
● The perfume featured as part of the project has been designed by Joan Woods (Waters + Wild), who has
collected and distilled botanicals from the Midlands landscape as part of the creative process.
“This ode to our landscape will give you a new perspective on Ireland’s bogs. All of the senses are engaged: not just sight and hearing but also touch, smell and even taste”
-Irish Times
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