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Our radio adaptation of H.G. Wells sci-fi classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS will go online November 30th on our website www.devioustheatre.com

The show originally went on the air on October 30th 2008 on KCLR96FM. The broadcast took place 70 years to the date of H.G. Wells famous adaptation on October 30th 1938.

The new version was written and performed by The Devious Theatre Company and was entirely localised within the Kilkenny / Carlow region of South East Ireland.

The programme was produced and engineered by Alan Dawson.

The voice cast were as follows:

David Thompson: Announcer / Professor Leonard / Newsreader

Kevin Mooney: The Narrator / Noel O’Reilly

Alan Dawson: Eugene Walsh

Ken McGuire: DJ / Commander

Ross Costigan: Tom Buckley / Whiskey Seven Zero / The Stranger

Maria Murray: Alice Keane / Aoife

Amy Dunne: Karen Phelan

Paul Young: Capt. Drennan / Lenihan

John Morton: Mick

The podcast can be exclusively downloaded from www.devioustheatre.com from 8pm on November 30th.

Devious Theatre’s production of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting which ran in the Watergate Theatre this June will get a screening as part of the Rockfall Festival this coming October Bank Holiday Weekend.

The production was adapted by Harry Gibson and was the first time that the iconic work had been performed in Kilkenny. It opened to packed houses and rave reviews from the Kilkenny People, Kilkenny Voice, Kilkenny Advertiser, Munster Express and Start Magazine.

For anyone who missed out on the show, the screening is a one and only opportunity to see the production from this past summer.

The screening will also feature a fly on the wall documentary shot during the closing night of the production in the Watergate Theatre.

Admission to the screening is 5EURO and all proceeds go to the O’Neill Centre. All donations are equally welcome. The screening takes place in Cleere’s Theatre, Parliament Street at 8pm on Sunday, October 26th.

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We’re very proud to announce that in conjunction with KCLR we will be broadcasting a brand new hour long radio version of HG Wells’s sci-fi classic The War Of The Worlds, 70 years to the date of the famous Orson Welles broadcast on C.B.S. on October 30th 1938.

The Welles version was performed live on CBS with a fictional radio show being interrupted by news of a Martian invasion of earth. Convinced that what they were hearing was real, listeners fled their homes, frantically called loved ones and prepared themselves for the Martian attacks. The countrywide case of mass hysteria caused by the broadcast gave a chilling insight into how America would react if subjected to such an attack. A subsequent Mexican version of Welles radio adaptation led to 6 deaths and caused the radio station to be burnt down by outraged listeners.

Tune in on October 30th to hear our Kilkenny and Carlow located version of the classic tale. With a variety of different narrative devices and accounts of the invasion, we are able to piece together a chilling perspective on the attacks by the fearsome Martian tripods and their destruction of earth’s populace over the course of a 3 week period.
We are delighted to be working on this project with KCLR and we’re hoping that the audiences in Carlow and Kilkenny won’t take this one too seriously.

The cast for The War Of The Worlds is Ross Costigan, Amy Dunne, Ken McGuire, Kevin Mooney, John Morton, Maria Murray, David Thompson and Paul Young.

The Devious Theatre Company’s performance of The War of the Worlds will be broadcast exclusively on KCLR on Thursday, October 30th at 9pm. It can also be listened to live on KCLR96FM.com. Stay tuned to www.devioustheatre.com for more details on the project.