GOD’S EAR

By Jenny Schwartz
Directed and Co-composed by Colm Summers

Director’s Debut Festival
Samuel Beckett Theatre
Trinity College Dublin
2015

Sell-out production

ABOUT

Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear begins with the death of a child and then refuses almost every conventional language through which grief might be represented: Mel and Ted lose their son, their marriage begins to fracture, and figures including the Tooth Fairy and GI Joe intrude as clichés, idioms, repetitions and songs accumulate until language itself begins to break down.

CREATIVE TEAM

CAST

Playwright
Colm Gleeson

Director
Colm Summers

Company
Felicity

MEL
Caitlin Scott

TED
Hugo Lau

LANIE
Claudia Kinahan

THE TOOTH FAIRY
Hannah Crowley

GI JOE
Leonard Buckley

FLIGHT ATTENDANT
Colm Gleeson

JENNY SCHWARTZ

Jenny Schwartz is an American playwright whose work is distinguished by its obsessive attention to language, repetition and the strange poetry hidden inside familiar speech. Her plays include God’s Ear, Somewhere Fun and Cause for Alarm.