Beat 'n' Pieces

Jim Comic

Meridian Theatre Company
Presents as part of Cork Midsummer Festival

“Beats ‘N’ Pieces”
by Raymond Scannell

“Down the dark alley we swarms like bees.

_Smells all like piss, open bins and disease…

Shaking our spray cans, lovin the way

_the steel feels in our hands, the potential to say…

___________________________________ we’re graffiti artists from Cork citay”


Artists or vandals? Rebels or thugs? These are the questions at the heart of Ray Scannell’s no-holds barred portrait of a band of young Cork graffiti artists, on the run, on the rampage, on their mission impossible to “spray a sun into the smog” of their grey hometown._

Ray Scannell has carved out a role for himself as a chronicler of his generation’s growing pains._ With plays like “Mix It Up”, (Corcadorca) and “Striking Distance”, (Graffiti) he has emerged as a powerful, distinctive young voice of dissent and adolescent rebellion._ In “Beats ‘N’ Pieces”, commissioned originally by Rough Magic and the Dublin Fringe Festival through the SEEDS Project, Scannell dives into the gloom of Cork’s alleys and tunnels to paint a portrait of a band of young dreamers and misfits who roam the nighttime underworld in search of colour and excitement. The extraordinary combination of lyricism and violence that defines the group’s reality is beautifully captured in Scannell’s sensitive writing and particularly in the spoof-rap idiom he sometimes uses to hilarious and deadly effect.

A strong cast includes Ray Scannell himself as Mono, Fiona Condon as Sweet P, Frank Bourke as Bud-g, John McCarthy, Student Actor of the Year (I.S.D.A.) as Scene and Eoin Slattery as Polar, the D.J who’s a legend in his own boxroom.

Date: Weds 18th – Sat 28th June (Excluding Sun 22nd)

Doors: 8.30pm

Venue: Half Moon Theatre, Cork
Tickets: €14 & €10 concession

Booking: 021 – 427 00 22

www.halfmoontheatre.ie