What We Have We Hold
November 2021, Samuel Beckett Theatre Dublin.
Writer/Directors Patrick O’Leary and Tadgh Snodgrass
Lighting Designer Lara Coady
Set Designer Mariya Strashilova
Costumer Designer Louise Carton
Sound Designer Tadgh Snodgrass
Production Manager Laura Shannon
Stage Manager Anika Kidd
Cast
Kate Brosnan
Cal Cunningham
Seán Loughrey
Keziah Keenan O’Shea
Daire Ó Muirí
Brian Briggs
Sarah Joan Kelly
Set in an imagined Ireland devastated by the development of capitalism, What We Have We Hold concerns the tyrannical King Goshawk and his attempt to buy all of the wildflowers and songbirds in Ireland. We join a Dublin philosopher alongside a number of mythical Irish heroes on their mission to stop the King in his attempts.
Adapted from Eimar O’Duffy’s first installment in his Cuanduine trilogy, King Goshawk and the Birds.