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Directed byLouise Lowethe Boys of Foley Street is the third instalment of ANUProductions’ four-part Monto Cycle, which explores the socialhistory of this notorious area in Dublin’s north inner-city.Following on from the acclaimed world's end Lane andmultiple award-winning Laundry, the Boys of Foley Street isa Dublin City Council public art commission and ANU’s mostadventurous project to date. Chronicling the third regenerationof the area, this is a living, breathing exploration of the decadespanning from 1971-1981.Through intimate encounters, installation and cutting-edgetechnology, the audience is brought on an immersive journeythrough Foley Street, to an area history left behind. Theproduction evokes an era where recession and unemploymentfuelled male aggression and thievery. It reflects a time all toosimilar to our present. the Boys of Foley Street is a revelatorysite-specific experience, a further theatrical haunting of FoleyStreet, and ANU’s ambitious, multilayered artistic response towaves of regeneration of Dublin.THE BOYS OF FOLEY STREET IS coMMISSIoneD aS part oF the DuBLIncIty puBLIc art proGraMMe wIth FunDInG FroM the DepartMentoF the enVIronMent, coMMunIty anD LocaL GoVernMent unDerthe per cent For art ScheMe.anu proDuctIonS IS SupporteD By the artS councIL’S artIStIn the coMMunIty ScheMe ManaGeD By create – thenatIonaL DeVeLopMent aGency For coLLaBoratIVe artS.contaInS StronG LanGuaGe anD aDuLt content.the BoYs offoleY street35