Across the Lough

Artist: The Performance Corporation

Location: Lough Lannagh, Castlebar 

Title: Across the Lough - LANDMARK Public Art Programme

Medium: Theatre 

Date: April 2012 

An intimate theatrical experience that took place out on the Lough itself.

In Across the Lough, an audience of just three people at a time were ferried across the lake in a wooden rowing boat by a boatman/performer. During the performance he engaged with the audience, offering stories, songs and revelations about the challenges and opportunities of life - from youth, to old age, to our final encounter with "the other side". 
 

The Performance Corporation is an award-winning theatre company with a mission to "create daring performance adventures in surprising places". Celebrating its tenth year in 2012, the company has created ground-breaking site-specific work in Ireland, America, the UK, Finland and Kenya.

The company's recent work includes Slattery's Sago Saga at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2011 and Swampoodle - a play created for Washington DC's Uline Arena, and part of Culture Ireland's 2011 Imagine Ireland programme. They recently hosted the Big House festival. 

For LANDMARK The Performance Corporation created an intimate theatrical experience that took place out on the Lough itself. In Across the Lough, an audience of just three people at a time were ferried across the lake in a wooden rowing boat by a boatman/performer. During the performance he engaged with the audience, offering stories, songs and revelations about the challenges and opportunities of life - from youth, to old age, to our final encounter with "the other side". The work is written by award-winning playwright Tom Swift and directed by critically acclaimed director Louise Lowe.  

There were several performances each day. A wider audience was able to engage with the performance by downloading a specially created ‘audio companion’ to Across the Lough listening to it at home or on the shore.  

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The Landmark public art programme was launched in April 2012. Percent for Art funds were carefully pooled to create a collection of commissions for a wide range of artists working in a number of art forms.  Key to the thinking behind the programme was a desire to strategically commission works that would complement each other in the same environment, add value to each project and attract artists working at all levels, from emerging to well established.