The Shitstorm — Maeve Stone

“It is a voyage into the unknown, relax and let it happen”.– No More Workhorse

“Once Miranda starts to sing, she appears utterly transported, and what follows is a pure, unadulterated joy...An homage to the irresistible urge to create, irrespective of the classical, the forms, the college course, or all the right ways to go about doing things...The Shitstorm is the shit” - The Arts Review

The Shitstorm is about self-belief, to be held to whether or not you’ve got anything worth believing in... Directed slickly by Maeve Stone - Sunday Independent

“A young woman’s search for self-expression in the phosphorescent fug of an absurd tempest. Inspiration literally seeps through the cracks in the cave wall” - Exeunt

*a hallucinogenic West Kerry riff on Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest*

Miranda’s been stuck on the island with her dad Prospero for a while now and things have been pretty bad. His threats to give up his magic have always been hollow, until now… He’s run out on her and things have gotten a whole lot worse.
Ariel is out of a job, Caliban is dangerously bored, and Miranda is a teenage girl with no supervision. When the real storm hits she finally starts acting like one.
In this new play, Shakespeare’s characters find themselves in an entirely different context. *The Shitstorm* is a modern mash-up with some fierce female music and a new girl at the microphone.

“We are all,
no more, no less, just mammals with notions”

An abbey Theatre, Dublin Fringe co-production

Written by Simon Doyle, Directed by Maeve Stone, Set and Lights by Zia Holly, Costume by Saileog O’Halloran, Music by Frank Sweeney and Morgan Buckley, Sound Design by Paul Maguire, Produced by Gemma Reeves.
Performed by Fionnuala Gygax, Pom Boyd, Ian Toner and Bryan Quinn.
Dedicated to Moira Brady Averill

miranda starts a band

The play is an homage to the riot grrrl movement and the freedom punk has offered in moments of repression. Miranda finds her voice when she has the space to figure out what she wants her band to be. Four original songs were composed by Frank Sweeney, Morgan Buckley and Maeve Stone.