Mission Statement
Outlandish Theatre is a participatory theatre platform creating projects in which artists and community participants co-creatively explore what theatre is for and how theatre relates to our ‘everyday’ in extraordinary times.
For the last twelve years Maud and Bernie have experimented in an ongoing dialogue with the participant as performer, director and audience member. As artists we focus on the interplay between people, spaces, sound, lighting, costume design and the content of performers' practice research.
We work to create conditions of exchange and generosity that encourage space for the development of new sharing modes, whilst also building relationships with audiences not always well served by conventional arts infrastructures.
Vision
Outlandish Theatre is one of Ireland’s key participatory theatre platforms. We co-create and write new important theatre and performance projects through community collaboration which places the individual central to their own representation.
Outlandish Theatre operates from a belief in cultural democracy and genuine social engagement, using experimental and participatory processes to connect to individuals who may have no history of cultural engagement in Ireland. We invest in long-term partnerships with local communities, actively inviting inter-generational diverse community participants as vital co-creators in the experimental process, whilst developing new audiences. Our commitment to cultural democracy is rooted in our broader commitment to social and economic equality.
Outlandish Theatre is rooted in Open Theatre Practice, where performance research into our everyday lived experience takes place. Participants are invited to experiment in performance making within a structured methodology. We value, understand and support different literacy levels. The findings contribute to the arts ecology in today’s world. Open Theatre Practice and our direct engagement with institutions and organisations in arts, health and community contexts, lead the way to artist-led master projects. The master projects and Open Theatre Practice interconnect symbiotically. Our long-term objective is to develop and create new audiences and creators through participation and exchange within local to global contexts.
In our artistic practice the focus is on the performance research of who we are in the endgame of the Anthropocene, whilst defining theatre as a Sublime experience. It is our strong belief that artistic excellence must coincide with ethical principles and sensitivity towards people’s lived experiences, within an engagement of co-creation and trauma informed methodology.
Bernie O’Reilly
Founder/director
Bernie is a performer, facilitator and theatre maker with extensive experience in arts project concept development, facilitation and management.
Within her practice, she is interested in holding space for individual and collective responses to our ever-changing existence. She is committed to research, inter-media performance approaches and socially engaged methodologies in the creation of experimental performances.
Maud Hendricks
Founder/director
Maud Hendricks is a performer, performance maker and director inspired by the absurdist everyday, who questions human/nature and creates performance experiments with people in spaces applying theatre conventions freely. Inspired by the Sublime, the live and recorded performance body speaks inter-media non-sense in a changing world.
Fiòna Bolger
Outreach artist
Fióna is a poet and creative facilitator working with OTP as outreach artist. She has previously worked with OTP as a participant, facilitator and stage manager. Her creative practice is plurilingual and endeavours to cross the boundaries between languages, cultures and disciplines. She brings this practice to her work with Outlandish Theatre.
Her most recent collection from Salmon Poetry, Love in the Original Language came out in 2022. Her poems have appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, The Brown Critique and the Chattahoochee Review among others.
Participants 2012 - now
Constanza Abbas Blanco
Fióna Bolger
Luke Brabazon
Tara Bredemeier
Amelia Caulfield
Polina Cosgrave
Mark Cullen
Larry Cunningham
Peter Duffy
Mark Dyer
Margarita Filatova
Clara FitzGerald
Mo Fitzgerald
Justyna Gudaniec
George Hooker
JJ
Hannes Jung
Dagiimaa Khurtsbaatar
Alaa Masri
Deidre Murphy
Gavin Murphy
Cristina Nicotra
Anthony Freeman O’Brien
Tom Roseingrave
Josie Sanne
Joan Somers Donnelly
Aoife Ward
Alex Williams
Eve Woods
Youthreach Carlow learners
Lisa Brooks
Robert Brooks
Teegan Keogh Gorry
Julia O’Loughlin Hendricks
Jay Jay McCarthy
Tyris O’Rock
Kyle Vundla.
Áine Ní Laoghaire
Mirna Bamieh
Kate Conroy
Sammar Zughool
Lian Bell
Dylan Tighe
Bara Kolenc
José Hendricks Jeurrissen
Sjef Hendricks
George Hooker
Evgeny Shtorn
Marwa Arsanios
Nick Johnson
Bridget
Chloe
Nora
Anna
Britney
Ned
Jason
Ned
Helen
Aleesha
Isaac
Mary McCarthy
Romi Cruanas
Laura Hopes
Oli Ryan
Dermot Reilly
Judy Preston
Bini Polouse
IBeatriz Santana
Fatoumata Gandega
Neo Gilson
Daniel Kamenyezi
Luca Pierucci
Lisa Brooks
Tommy Lynch
Cian O’Connor
Kyle Vundla
Óran Delaney
Paraigh Curran
Chris Dooley
Teegan Keogh-Gorry
Kiernan Frazer
Gabriella Lacey
Emma McNulty
Ryan O’Neill
Daniel Rossiter
Niall Keating
Robert Brooks
Joy Tierney
Des Ray
Clara Curran
Nora Lynch
Elizabeth Kavanagh
Mardoche Mufwasoni
Tyris O’Rock
Ilia Sunderland
Dumiso Siziba
Boni Milinganyo
Martin Curran
Nathalie Bolger
Lily Bolger
Mary Bridget Carthy
Anne Marie Carthy
Leah O’Sullivan
Lillie O’Sullivan
Callum Swayne
Rose Hennessy
Aidan Dooley
Larissa Brigatti
Anna McCann
Sabine Paschen
Rebecca Ryan
Lauren Clifford-Keane
Sophie Millien
Tess Wood
Don Flanagan
Regina Allegrini
Michael Mc Crann
Venetia Bowe
Ronán Conroy
Mark Dyer
Chris Fitzpatrick
Jeannette Golden
Olivia Hassett
Jack Beglin
Shelley Carlyle
Dermot Reilly
Jack Beglin
Dallal Bounekdja
Jorge Cereeta
Siber Habib
Cameron McCauley
Sabrena
Harpreet Singh
Morgan Cooke
Manuela Crisóstomo
Laura Hopes
Brona Laffan
Patricia Alves
Tiago Cambara
Chiara Calconi
Cathal Griffin
Rafa Murai
Alaa Helwani
Sammar Al Kerawe
Katja Kovač
Favour Edokpayi Musa
Viktoriia Pospelova
Caoimhe Butterly
Catherine Joyce
Éadaoin Kelly
Marie Mulholland
Mavis Ramazani
Liza Cox
Haider Al Timimi
Tamara Searle
Sarah Mainwaring
Edoardo Ripani
Sarah McNally
Sihem
Safia
Nazish
Rula Abu Affar
Zakiyyah Kotwal
Saima Ahmed
Nasrin Begum
Nousheen Khan
Nabihah Islam
Douglas Ward
Jamie Courtney
Cian Carr
Aine Fahy
Sarah Fahy
Shauna Egan
Mr. O’Shea
Castine Walsh and Son
Clive Reid
Thomas Massey
Derek Redford
Kris Taylor
Ann Fahy
Paris O’Connor
Maddie O’Connor
Charlie Paget
Daria Crawford
Shane Egan
Melissa Redmond
Shayo Gray
Philly Quirke
Derek Zambra
Christy McCann
Shay Boyne
John O’Connor
Elizabeth Duggan
Lacey McClean
Patrick Hanley
Seamus Smith and Sister
Paul Roche
Sandra O’Reilly
Elizabeth Redmond
Laura Freeman
Elizabeth Grogan
Bernie Brady and grandson
Mary Watchorn
Daniel Carr
Paul O’Shea
Gerard Cary
Charlie Paget
Darren Conlon
Christine Redmond and daughter
Mr. Church
Kathy Brennan
Noel McCarthy
John Moylan and granddaughters
Alan Higgins
John and Fran (The Butchers)
Darren Redford
Bernie Fitzgerald
Evelyn Fagan
Christine O’Toole
Christine Roche
Joyce Hanlon
Megan Hanlon
Ashton Hanlon
Kenny Ward
Lorraine
Padraig Donald
Bobby and Charlie Quirke
Shauna and Carmel Dowdall
Mick Ennis
Teresa and Son (Michael)
Aster Asnake
Sandra Bateman
Christine
Corrine
Samuel Iroaganachi
Hilda Mungereza
Gary O’Mahony
Marie
Muhammad Yaqoob
Esther
Kitty
Transition Year Students at Warrenmount Secondary School
Iman Aoun
Julian Hauxwell
Max Hauxwell
Daan O’Loughlin Hendricks
Niamh Joyce
PJ Brady
Tara McNeill
Paul Nolan
Dearbhla McGuinness
Tina Mc Veigh
Jeremy Woods
Eric O’Brien
Ríonach Ní Néill
Thomas Reilly
Craig Cox
Phelim Drew
Shane O’Reilly
Slavek Kwi
David Ferreira-Alves
Yameema Mitha
Aisling Hamilton
Ann
Grainne Mc Keever
Maighread Medbh
Nithy Kasa
Ewa Fornal
Nita Mishra
Aidan Murphy
Paul Dockree
Mike Williams
Partners
Funding
Arts, Health & Community
International
