MAGAZINE – Sirius Arts Centre – Sat 8th Oct

Saturday 8th October 8pm €12.50 Bookings 021 4813790  cobharts@iol.ie Special
promotion ticket price 2 tickets for the price of 1 with wine reception

The Crash of Irish Identity is the Headline for Magazine

Cork County Audiences will be the first to preview this exciting new piece from emerging playwright Jennifer Rogers.

When Katie runs away from the death of her best friend, she ends up down an alleyway in-front of a billboard of herself from 5 years before.  Katie literally crashes into herself and from here the story unfolds.  Rogers takes us right into the moments leading up to the crash and uses it as a metaphor for the way Irish Identity has crashed as a result of the economic down turn.

For Rogers the play centres on the pervasive nature of the fashion industry and the pressure that was (and still very much is) on women to conform to the ideal image.

‘Headlines in Magazines are like statements of fact and often they have a militant tone to them; ‘Battle the Bulge’ ‘Combat Cellulite’, it’s almost as if we are to wage war on ourselves’.

Known for her ‘accomplished writing’ (Irish Theatre Magazine) Rogers doesn’t hold back with pace and imagery, two characteristic that give her work a cinematic quality.

‘Images are what I do, what I create.  I think about words in terms of textures and colours and I see them join up together creating different compositions, into frames almost… moving at different speeds’.

Magazine’ is about Katie’s feelings of emptiness that never leave, regardless of how many transformations she buys into. It is about the pressure she feels to conform to the ideal image, to be something she is not and holding tight to what other people think of her.

It’s about how self-belief and individual identity become infiltrated and abused by the media. How consumerism leaves behind the toxic haze of depression and self-destruction. It is the story we all feel at some point in our life.

Told in a funny and heart moving way, ‘Magazine’ reminds us to accept ourselves for what we are and embrace the ‘supposed’ imperfections that make us perfectly unique.

Performance Dates:

Friday 7th October The Briery Gap Macroom Booking: 026 41793

Saturday 8th October Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Booking: 021 481379

Friday 14th October Bandon Court House Booking:  083 4221731

Saturday 15th October The Mall Arts Centre Youghal Booking 024 81814

Friday 25th Kilworth Arts Centre Booking 025 27109

Saturdy 26th Kinsale Temprence Hall Booking  083 4221731