OVERVIEW

• Playwright

   

• Author Notes

  Luca was written and devised by Veronica Coburn and Raymond Keane with creative contribution from performers Eoin Lynch and Amy Conroy. The character Luca emerged during the devising process of …tanks a lot! with Raymond Keane and Judy Hegarty Lovett.

• Synopsis

  Luca has a terrible secret. He is in love with Mary Robinson. She is articulate, honest, high-minded and good. Luca and his friends are not. They are pleasure seeking pranksters, mischievous and bad. They are magical creatures of play who travel through space and time at the speed of light. While Luca is attracted to Mary and all that is good his nature is the opposite and all that is bad. His friends are having too much fun in their world unbounded by etiquette to let Luca go. Can Luca break away from his personality and partners in crime? Will he ever get to meet Mary? Luca allows its characters to indulge in everything and anything, wherever and whenever they want. They are free of responsibility, political correctness, consequence and norm. This is a trip along the continuum of good and evil bounded by the polarities of God and Devil, heaven and hell, light and dark. The pleasure seeking trio of Luca finds there is most fun in the dark.

• Play Type

  Physical/Devised Theatre
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  1

• Total

  3

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  04 November 2005

• Producer

  Produced by Barabbas

• Original Venue

  Project Arts Centre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme, with additional material taken from the Barabbas website.