Unveiled
THEATRE | DANCE | CIRCUS
Unveiled
New Work Showcase
Fri 10 July | 7pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Fri 10 July | 7pm
Duration:
110 mins (with interval)
Event Categories:
Dance | Theatre | Circus
Admission:
€14
Age Suitability:
18+
Venue:
Hawk’s Well Theatre
Access:
Fully accessible; wheelchair
access at side.
Cairde Sligo Arts Festival is delighted to present the third instalment of Unveiled as part of our Artist Development Programme. Unveiled offers a unique opportunity to experience four brand-new works-in-progress across theatre, dance and circus; a sneak peek into works as they are being created.
This year’s Unveiled will showcase four multidisciplinary works-in-progress:
Death Notice Disco by Andrew Galvin
Surreal and playful, Death Notice Disco is a semiautobiographical one man theatre piece exploring themes of grief and masculinity through storytelling, song, and performance poetry. The piece reimagines an Orpheus style descent into the underworld where our hero finds the Death Notice Disco. A cabaret of dead singers who like to make electropop bangers out of regional Irish radio death notices.
Andrew Galvin is a Sligo-based playwright, performer, musician and poet with almost 25 years’ experience creating theatre and interdisciplinary performance work. Galvin’s collaborative practice spans theatre, poetry, music and film, often exploring grief, queer masculinity and ritual. Recent collaborations include The Healing Wound, a six song EP with poet Chris Sparks and artist Tara Baoth Mooney, short film The Raven & the Heron with visual artist Maria May and A Chaotic Embrace: A Perpetual Performance Art Wedding an ongoing collaboration with artist Taryn Devere.
FEEL SHIT! by David Rawle
Breaking up with a friend is hard. But breaking up with the internet? That’s going to prove a lot more difficult—and for Rhys, it’s gonna get messy. A dark comedy about how your phone just wants you to Feel Shit
David Rawle is an actor and writer from Leitrim. He graduated from the Lir Academy in 2022. He recently wrote and performed his new play AMSTERDAM for a sold-out run in Dublin Fringe 2025 in the Glass Mask Theatre.
Festering by Treasa Nealon and Rabbit’s Riot
Festering‚ is a two-hander horror comedy (horredy if there was such word!) play. The piece explores a toxic mother-daughter relationship, isolation, loss of independence and care-giver burnout.
Treasa Nealon is a playwright and theatre maker based in Leitrim. She is co-founder of The Rabbit’s Riot Theatre Company and is an alumni of The Irish Theatre Institute’s Virtual Six in the Attic programme. Her short play ‚The Back of the Bus, was selected as part of Fishamble’s The Navigator Project and will be published in Bloomsbury later this year. Her script‚ Boom Boom Bang‚ was chosen as one of the 2025 Druid Debuts. Recent theatre work includes Effigy in the Hawks Well (January 2026) & Homesick at Dublin Fringe Festival (Sep, 2025).
Stray by Safire Hikari and Stray Collective
Stray is a partner dance duet exploring the act of sharing a kiss as a metaphor for moments in our lives that call us to transform through moments of resistance or immobility. Blending contemporary dance, tango and Brazilian social dances, acrobatics, and physical theatre, Stray embodies our meandering search for novel, 21st-Century human connections.
Safire Hikari is a multidisciplinary artist working across dance, physical theatre and circus. Professional highlights include performing in Chronically Hopeful at Philharmonie Luxembourg with Musici Ireland; creating vertical dance duet When Lives Touch at Dublin Fringe 2024 and winning the IACC’s 10 Year Anniversary Award.
Stray Collective is an Ireland-based dance collective comprising Safire Hikari, dance artist and choreographer Yves and dance filmmaker indexthumb.
Unveiled is presented in collaboration with Hawk’s Well Theatre and supported by Sligo Arts Service and Blue Raincoat Theatre Company.