CHRIS SOMERS
MUSIC / SOUND DESIGN / AUDIO PRODUCTION
LAETHANTA SONA // HAPPY DAYS (2021)
Company SJ & the Abbey Theatre
w/Dublin Theatre Festival & Galway Intl. Arts Festival
directed by Sarah Jane Scaife
written by Samuel Beckett
credit: sound designer
images: Cormac Coyne
Company SJ bring their aesthetic tools of language, site, the body and visual art to bear on Beckett’s haunting exploration of human relationships, in Happy Days. Mícheal Ó Chongaile translates, Sarah Jane Scaife directs, with Bríd Ní Neachtain as Winnie and Raymond Keane as Willie. Laethanta Sona emerges from the landscape, language and people of Inis Oírr, off the West coast of Ireland. Exhibition of documentation by Cormac Coyne and Kilian Waters. This piece will resonate for lovers of Beckett, language, the environment and the visual arts. The Irish language seeps into the searing beauty of Beckett’s imagery contained in the landscape of the island.
Winnie: Bríd Ní Neachtain
Willie: Raymond Keane
Written by: Samuel Beckett
Translated by: Mícheal Ó Chongaile
Directed by: Sarah Jane Scaife
Sculptor/ Designer: Ger Clancy
Videography: Kilian Waters and Dan Keane
Costume and Prop Design: Sinead Cuthbert
Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels
Sound Design: Chris Somers
Sound Recording: Martha Knight
Produced by: Tim Scott
Production Managers: Emma O’Grady and Grace Halton
Costume Construction: Tara Mulvihill
Set Design Assistant: Aidan Fox