The First Child
Landmark Productions in association with Irish National Opera, Ireland
It all began with the child.
Following the sensational success of their first two operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh join forces once again on the final instalment in their explosive trilogy of suburban horror.
The production brings together a world-class creative team with a cast of five singers, an actor, a dancer, a small children’s choir and Crash Ensemble, to imagine a terrifying story of lost innocence—a baby on a beach—and the sea.
Landmark Productions in association with Irish National Opera, Ireland
It all began with the child.
Following the sensational success of their first two operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh join forces once again on the final instalment in their explosive trilogy of suburban horror.
The production brings together a world-class creative team with a cast of five singers, an actor, a dancer, a small children’s choir and Crash Ensemble, to imagine a terrifying story of lost innocence—a baby on a beach—and the sea.
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LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS PAGE 29 LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS SIOBHÁN MCSWEENEY IN HAPPY DAYS | PHOTO: PAT REDMOND DOMHNALL GLEESON IN MEDICINE | PHOTO: JESS SHURTE / EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Landmark Productions is one of Ireland’s leading theatre producers. It produces wide–ranging work in Ireland, and shares that work with international audiences. Led by Anne Clarke since the company’s foundation in 2003, Landmark’s productions have received multiple awards and have been seen in leading theatres in London, New York and beyond. It produces a wide range of ambitious work – plays, operas and musicals – and co–produces regularly with a number of partners, including, most significantly, Galway International Arts Festival and Irish National Opera. Its 21 world premieres to date include new plays by major Irish writers such as Enda Walsh, Mark O’Rowe and Deirdre Kinahan, featuring a roll-call of Ireland’s finest actors, directors and designers. Producer Assistant Producer Digital Producer Marketing Administrator Numerous awards include the Judges’ Special Award at The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, in recognition of ‘sustained excellence in programming and for developing imaginative partnerships to bring quality theatre to the Irish and international stage’; and a Special Tribute Award for Anne Clarke, for her work as ‘a producer of worldclass theatre in the independent sector in Ireland’. January 2021 saw the launch of Landmark Live, a new online streaming platform which enables the company to bring the thrill of live theatre to audiences around the world. Landmark is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. Its international touring is supported by Culture Ireland. www.landmarkproductions.ie Anne Clarke Jack Farrell Hugh Farrell Sinead McPhillips Catherine Finn
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LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS<br />
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LANDMARK<br />
PRODUCTIONS<br />
SIOBHÁN MCSWEENEY IN HAPPY DAYS | PHOTO: PAT REDMOND DOMHNALL GLEESON IN MEDICINE | PHOTO: JESS SHURTE / EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL<br />
Landmark Productions is one of<br />
Ireland’s leading theatre producers.<br />
It produces wide–ranging work in<br />
Ireland, and shares that work with<br />
international audiences.<br />
Led by Anne Clarke since the<br />
company’s foundation in 2003,<br />
Landmark’s productions have received<br />
multiple awards and have been seen in<br />
leading theatres in London, New York<br />
and beyond. It produces a wide range<br />
of ambitious work – plays, operas and<br />
musicals – and co–produces regularly<br />
with a number of partners, including,<br />
most significantly, Galway International<br />
Arts Festival and Irish National Opera.<br />
Its 21 world premieres to date include<br />
new plays by major Irish writers such as<br />
Enda Walsh, Mark O’Rowe and Deirdre<br />
Kinahan, featuring a roll-call of Ireland’s<br />
finest actors, directors and designers.<br />
Producer<br />
Assistant Producer<br />
Digital Producer<br />
Marketing<br />
Administrator<br />
Numerous awards include the Judges’<br />
Special Award at <strong>The</strong> Irish Times Irish<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Awards, in recognition of<br />
‘sustained excellence in programming<br />
and for developing imaginative<br />
partnerships to bring quality theatre to<br />
the Irish and international stage’; and a<br />
Special Tribute Award for Anne Clarke,<br />
for her work as ‘a producer of worldclass<br />
theatre in the independent sector<br />
in Ireland’.<br />
January 2021 saw the launch of<br />
Landmark Live, a new online streaming<br />
platform which enables the company<br />
to bring the thrill of live theatre to<br />
audiences around the world.<br />
Landmark is supported by the Arts<br />
Council of Ireland. Its international<br />
touring is supported by Culture Ireland.<br />
www.landmarkproductions.ie<br />
Anne Clarke<br />
Jack Farrell<br />
Hugh Farrell<br />
Sinead McPhillips<br />
Catherine Finn