Set in Donegal in 1936, Brian Friel’s award winning play centers on the five Mundy sisters, who live with their older brother, a priest just returned from Uganda, and the youngest sister’s seven year old son, Michael.

The artists, Fióna Bolger, Tara Bredemeier, James Hosty, David Ferreira Alves and Maud Hendricks, with the audience, upend and reimagine the conventions of theatre anew.

The laws of hospitality in its purest form govern our approach to hosting guests at our table. This is a food experience which is driven by creativity, and real humans. In the surroundings of Dublin’s oldest theatre, you can expect BEAUTY in all its forms, at the table, and on the plate.

Bum Notes are delighted to be back at where it all began, the wonderful Smock Alley theatre, for a truly one night only experience. This musical has not been seen before, it will not be seen again.

Commissioned by IMRAM in 2020, Gabriel Rosenstock’s Irish language translation of the poem “Crann” was first presented as a film directed by Laura Hilliard.

Poet Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, novelist Jackie Mac Donncha and poet and musician Cúán de Búrca read from new work inspired by their journeys on the bus; with music from Trá Pháidín, and visuals from broadcaster and film maker Donal Dineen.