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Ciarán O’Melia
Trade by Mark O'Halloran

Author: Ciarán O’Melia

Performance space: Clifden Guesthouse

Theatre company/company produced for: THISISPOPBABY

Month & year of original production: September-October 2011

Description of items intended for exhibition:
Model
Video clip
Prop

Project description:
“This is just this. It isn’t real. It’s money.”

In a guesthouse in Dublin’s north inner city, a vulnerable and confused young rent-boy sits with a middle-aged client. It’s not the first time they’ve met but today the older man has blood on his shirt. A lot has happened since they last met.

Multiple award-winning Mark O’Halloran is one of Ireland’s most celebrated screenwriters and has received worldwide acclaim with his films Adam & Paul and Garage. Performed in a real-life bed and breakfast, Trade is a provocative and moving exploration of desire, morality and duty , and is O’Halloran’s first stage play in ten years.

Artform:
Performance Design
Set Design
Lighting Design

Designers:
Set designer: Ciarán O'Melia
Costume designer: Ciarán O'Melia
Lighting designer: Ciarán O'Melia
Director/choreographer: Tom Creed
Other creative collaborators: Kilian Waters & Shoottokill Films, Fiona Morgan, Jack Phelan, Mark O'Halloran, Phillip McMahon and Jenny Jennings

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Ciarán O’Melia - Trade by Mark O'Halloran

Trade by Mark O'Halloran
Philip Judge in Trade by Mark O'Halloran, directed by Tom Creed, designed by Ciarán O'Melia and produced by THISISPOPBABY for Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011. Photo by Fiona Morgan.

Ciarán O’Melia - Trade by Mark O'Halloran

Trade by Mark O'Halloran
Ciarán McCabe and Philip Judge in Trade by Mark O'Halloran, directed by Tom Creed, designed by Ciarán O'Melia and produced by THISISPOPBABY for Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011. Photo by Fiona Morgan.

Ciarán O’Melia - Trade by Mark O'Halloran

Trade by Mark O'Halloran
Ciarán McCabe and Philip Judge in Trade by Mark O'Halloran, directed by Tom Creed, designed by Ciarán O'Melia and produced by THISISPOPBABY for Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011. Photo by Fiona Morgan.

Ciarán O’Melia - Trade by Mark O'Halloran

Trade by Mark O'Halloran
Philip Judge and Ciarán McCabe in Trade by Mark O'Halloran, directed by Tom Creed, designed by Ciarán O'Melia and produced by THISISPOPBABY for Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011. Photo by Fiona Morgan.

Ciarán O’Melia - Trade by Mark O'Halloran

Trade by Mark O'Halloran
Philip Judge and Ciarán McCabe in Trade by Mark O'Halloran, directed by Tom Creed, designed by Ciarán O'Melia and produced by THISISPOPBABY for Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011. Photo by Fiona Morgan.

Ciarán O’Melia - Trade by Mark O'Halloran

Trade by Mark O'Halloran
Philip Judge and Ciarán McCabe in Trade by Mark O'Halloran, directed by Tom Creed, designed by Ciarán O'Melia and produced by THISISPOPBABY for Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011. Photo by Fiona Morgan.

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