beardedmeteor is a comet of unconventionality that sparks an active communication with the spectator through its work, marking its path with a fusion of encounters with the myriad of theatrical and multimedia possibilities via its target to make theatre in contemporary Ireland, linked to an international ethos. Their path traces the conventions of theatre from the traditional through the post-dramatic into the uncharted future(s) of the profane, the unknowable so that their practice necessitates practice based research and constantly seeks out new relationships with new technologies, new forms and possibilities to maintain the energy necessary to create work that engages, inspires and reflects for the spectator, the community and the artists.

beardedmeteor seeks to create theatre that is experimental, engaging and multi disciplinary in focus reflecting theatre practice in a contemporary context, encompassing a broad artistic outlook as inspiration to fuel creation and expressing a desire for an inclusive relationship, across artistic disciplines and, with the spectator.

The company was established as a working partnership by Una Mc Kevitt & Veronica Dyas in 2006. In June of that year they produced The Backwoods Boys a new play by Una Mc Kevitt, directed by Veronica Dyas and designed by Emma Haugh at The International Bar Space Upstairs. In June 2008 beardedmeteor presented The Resembled Self at Pallas Contemporary Projects (This was an artist initiated project, independent of the Pallas Contemporary Projects curated programme.) The Resembled Self was an exhibit of 'Installed Theatre' by five theatre artists who moved outside their usual medium of theatre developing their practice to find expression in a contemporary Art Space. Each piece within The Resembled Self shared a consideration of constructed identities shaped by influences such as the past, the family and the self incorporating multi-media in place of live performance.

Artistic Directors:

Veronica Dyas

 

Veronica Dyas graduated from The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin with a B.A. in Drama & Theatre Studies with Sociology in 2007, and completed an MA in Text & Performance at King's College London and RADA in 2008. Co-Artistic Director of beardedmeteor, Veronica directed The Backwoods Boys by Una Mc Kevitt in 2006. In June 2008, beardedmeteor produced The Resembled Self, an exhibit of Installed Theatre in which her text Born the Year of the Silent Movie was installed by Grace Dyas. Prior to leaving Dublin in 2007 she played Mr. J in Who the Hell Does she Think She Is? with ShopFloor at Bewley's Cafe Theatre & The Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. For The Dublin Fringe Festival 2003, she wrote and directed N.E.S in a Noose which was later staged as part of aLAF (A Lesbian Arts Festival). In 2001 she wrote, directed & co-produced, Much As I Love You at Andrews Lane Studio. Most recently, Veronica directed Modern Lines, a devised piece taking Chaplin's Modern Times as a starting point and working through Carl Jung's theories to create the piece with six actors. Veronica played Teiresias in Epidemic (after Antigone), co-directed/performed in No More Masterpieces at the Forest Fringe Festival, Edinburgh and creatively translated gLoved with Guillaume Pigé, for Comme un gant. WC#2 was recently installed at the International Bar as part of Project Brand New's 'Magic Moments' at The Dublin Fringe Festival.

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Una Mc Kevitt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Una is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre TCD and co-founder of beardedmeteor. beardedmeteor is a theatre company committed to producing work that is experimental, engaging and multi-disciplinary. In 2006 beardedmeteor premiered The Backwoods Boys written by Una McKevitt and directed by Veronica Dyas. As an actor Una has played Mrs Sedgeway in The Backwoods Boys, Violet Venables in Lightswitch's production of Suddenly Last Summer in Dublin Fringe Festival 2004, Solange in Spurt! Sister! Spurt! after The Maids in Dublin Fringe Festival 2006 which she also co-Produced with Kieran McBride of Lightswitch. In March 2008 Una performed as 'Actor' in This is a story about You, written and directed by Grace Dyas in Project Brand New at Project Arts Centre.

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Headshots by Emma Haugh Photography