Pleasure Ground – Mon 7th – Thu 10th December in The Boys’ School at 8pm

We have two of tickets to give away to one lucky winner to the Please Ground at Smock Alley.

To win the tickets, just tell us where Fregoli Theatre Comapny is based [Hint: Answer below].

Send your answer to nomoreworkhorse@gmail.com, mark the subject line in the mail Pleasure Ground and include your name and day time phone number. Also include the night you would like to see the show! All entrants must be over 18 and tickets are non-transferable. Closing date for entries is Friday the 4th Dec, at 1pm.

Full details can be found on the Smock Alley Website here.

A group of friends who’ve gone their separate ways meet back at their teenage haunt, the town, park and playground, known as the Pleasure Ground. The town is dying, the Pleasure Ground’s glory has faded, and life hasn’t quite matched up to youthful expectations. Over their night together, buried secrets become unearthed, past grievances boil over, and scores are settled.

After a sell-out run on the Town Hall Theatre’s Main stage Fregoli bring Pleasure Ground to Dublin to kick off their national tour. Pleasure Ground, writer Jarlath Tivnan’s debut play, is based on ideas around the decline of the rural Irish town.

The notions of home, belonging, community and change are themes Fregoli are always keen to explore, and it was with the winning of the inaugural Michael Diskin Bursary that these ideas became an actuality. The play took shape around the town of Boyle, Co Roscommon, inspired by its playground and recreational area which is called the Pleasure Grounds.

Tivnan’s writing is witty and sharp, and captures the beauty of rural and small town life whilst exploring feelings of sadness and isolation. His characters are very much of their generation (born in the 90s) but their stories will strike a chord with all generations.

Founded in 2007 Fregoli is a young Galway based company that aims to produce and perform energetic stimulating, and contemporary work that appeals to a large cross section of the Irish public. As they take their name from Leopold Fregoli the world’s most famous impersonator, an element of his character changing style is evident in all their work. Fregoli syndrome is also a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise.

Since its foundation the company has had 20 productions of both original and established work including runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Electric Picnic and the Galway Theatre festival. In the last three years they have become increasingly more focused on original work and that of new young writers; however they always aim to produce work that both moves and entertains.