THE JESUS TRILOGY by JM Coetzee

Award-winning Hatch Theatre team up with Once Off Productions and Mermaid Arts Centre to bring to life a trilogy of novels by J.M. Coetzee. This exciting new triptych called THE JESUS TRILOGY explores the legacy of memory the nature of passion power politics and dance. Making its world premiere at Project Arts Centre for Dublin Theatre Festival the play is adapted for stage by Eoghan Quinn in collaboration with director Annabelle Comyn and re-unites the creative duo at the Festival after their 2022 show “colic”.

This is an epic universal drama exploring parenthood the collective and the individual legacy passion justice life and death. The play is a story set in a post Judeo Christian world that explores what might replace our desire for answers. It is a story of this family - Simon Ines and David - and what it is to be a family and parent a child with our own inherited behaviours and the story of how societies/nations inherit a past that informs their present processes. How do we move forward after acts of suppression/colonialism/genocide? Can we truly start afresh?

Host or Publisher Conleth Teevan