s="c1">Sometimes it's hard to be a Bunny.
After critically acclaimed runs at Camden Fringe, Thess Fringe
and Smock Alley Theatre Dublin, Nora Kelly Lester's
Bunny Bunny returns to Smock Alley this July.
Bunny is mad. She's mad as hell and she's not going to take it anymore&
is she?
On the edge of eviction, her love life in pieces and no money in her
pockets, Bunny tries to rise again. An absurdist romantic nightmare comedy
filled with empty piggy banks, landlords, ex-lovers, their new lovers, and a
song about hotel soap, Bunny Bunny is a solo clown show created by Nora Kelly
Lester, directed by Nessa Matthews, about trying to hold it all together
while everything is falling apart.
'One of the stand out performances of 2024'
'A master of clowning, miming and comedic
timing&Lester was playing comedic tennis with the
members of audience she spoke to. There wasn't a single answer she couldn't
turn into comedy gold'
The Reviews Hub
"Masterful clowning shows us a woman struggling
with life in a way that will be all too familiar to
many: full of humour and pathos, as all clowns should
be."
Everything Theatre
"A rollicking comedy that never forgets its endearing
heart"
London Pub Theatres
Age Suitability: 14+
Warnings: Strong language / Sexual reference
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY Nora Kelly Lester
DIRECTED BY Nessa Matthews
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Conor Byrne
SET CONSULTANT Ellen Kirk
SCENIC ARTIST Stephane Hanly
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY Lloyd Collins
Development supported by The Arts Council, D�n Laoghaire-Rathdown
County Council, Scene+ Heard, Wexford Arts Centre & ISACS LIFT Residency,
Dublin Circus Project & Dance Ireland's CATALYST Residency.
TICKETS �18 | �15
MATIN�E TICKETS �16
�12 per person for groups of 6+
Suitable for 14+
RUNNING TIME 75 mins
About the Company
Nora Kelly Lester is a theatre
maker, director, actor, and clown artist from Dublin.
Nora has toured internationally and worked extensively
with world renowned theatre company Dead Centre, as an assistant director,
on their productions of Lippy,Chekhov's First Play, and Hamnet.
She recently wrote and starred in her critically
acclaimed solo comedy clown show 'Bunny Bunny'. As an artist Nora is
interested in interrogating the fusion of clowning, improvisation and
contemporary theatre, combining elements of truth, provocation, humanity
and interaction with an audience in her work. She likes to make work that
turns audience's perceptions on their heads, provides true belly aching
laughter, and deals with seriousthemes in playful and provocative ways.
She has created work as Catalyst artist in residence with
Dublin Circus Project and Dance Ireland, as well as LIFT artist in
residence with Wexford Arts Centre, and as director in residence at The New
Theatre, Dublin.
Nessa Matthews is an actor, director, writer/maker from Co.
Louth. As an actor, she trained at LAMDA (fDa Distinction).
Acting Credits include: Film & TV: The Tourist, Season 2 (BBC,
Stan, Netflix),The Ick (An Pointe Productions), Gap (Mycrofilms), Sineater
(Sean Clancy), Fair City (RT�),Inspector Jury (ZDF), Hen (Janna
Kemperman).Stage: Standing in Lifts with Strangers (Bewley's Theatre), Will
I See You There? (Murmuration), Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (Rough
Magic), The Roaring Banshees (Devious Theatre), Phillip Pullman's Grimm
Tales (Philip Wilson, Southbank Bargehouse, Grimm Tales LTD).
As a writer/maker, she co-created/wrote/performed the
award-winning INFINITY for stage (Dublin Fringe Festival 2018, First
Fortnight 2019, VAULT Festival 2019). Other writing credits include solo
show, WAY BEYOND THE BLUE, as part of a residency at Theatre Upstairs in
2015. She is currently developing Doomscroller which had it's first Work in
Progress showing atScene & Heard 2024, and SoundStage. She was an associate
artist at Axis Ballymunthrough the Axis Assemble scheme in 2021, and is
supported by the arts council through the Agility Award.
As a director, most recent credits include MADE FROM PAPER (in
association with Mermaid Arts Centre, funded by the Arts Council, recipient
of the DTF Futures Fund in 2021 and supported by Scene + Heard/Fringe Lab).
Other credits include: Gleek of the Week (Smock Alley), Bunny Bunny (Smock
Alley, Camden Fringe, Wexford Arts Centre), In Loco Parentis (Smock Alley),
Kinder Egg Spirits (Smock Alley), Arachnophobia (The New
Theatre).
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