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About Loose Canon
Loose Canon is a theatre company based in Dublin, Ireland.
The company was founded in Dublin in 1996, and over the last ten years, it has pursued an evolutional and adaptive approach to making theatre.
Loose Canon locates the actor at the centre of its theatrical experience and is committed to experiment and risk-taking in the field of performance. Through its reinterpretations of canonical texts, the Company aims to depart from strict verisimilitude, pursuing instead an approach that creates illusion only to immediately destroy it.
In its early years the Company worked mainly on a profit-share basis and produced critically acclaimed productions of Elizabethan and Jacobean texts. From June 2000 until July 2004 the Company maintained a full-time ensemble of actors and initiated a process of daily physical and vocal training with the aim of developing objective performance techniques. During this phase of work, performances were often devised, and incorporating radically edited versions of canonical texts.
The definition of canonical, in keeping with the Company’s name, is “loose”, and can include literature from any period or genre, provided it can be described as iconic or archetypal. Loose Canon is supported by The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, and our friends.
- Artistic Director:
- Jason Byrne
- Administrator:
- Valeria Cavalli