Illness As Metaphor, the stage adaptation by Dead Centre of the Susan Sontag book, premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2024.
Read the five-star Irish Times review here.
Read the five-star Fringe Binge review here.
Illness As Metaphor was nominated for Best Production at the 2024 Dublin Fringe Festival Awards, and won Best Ensemble.
Text by Dead Centre with (and performed by and created with) Eamon Doyle, Una Mullally, James Ireland, Conor Lenehan, Megan Robinson, Cabrini Cahill.
Directed by Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel
Producer - Tilly Taylor
Set Design - Ellen Kirk
Lighting Design - Stephen Dodd
Composition & Sound Design - Kevin Gleeson
Costume Design - Mae Leahy
Video Design - Kilian Waters
Assistant Set Designer - Anika Kidd
Production Manager - Gavin Kennedy
Stage Manager - Sibéal Ní Mhaoileoin
ASM - Ross Smith
Video Technician - Sebastian Pizarro
Camera Operator - Eoin Gleeson
Chief LX - Michael Foley
Audio Engineer - Eóin Murphy
Costume Assistant - Eimear Hussey
Assistant Director - Alisha Finnerty
mPhil Intern - Paula Ortega Román
Set Crew - Jack Leitch, Peter Crighton, Luke Jenkins and Damien Woods
A Dead Centre production, co-produced with Project Arts Centre. Funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Supported by Réalta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland.
Illness as Metaphor is adapted from the book by Susan Sontag, copyright Susan Sontag, 1977, 1978 (all rights reserved.)