ADDIKT

Directed by Graham Butler-Breen and Ryan O’Donnell

Written by Ryan O’Donnell

Produced by Laura Fleming

Cast

Ryan O’Donnell

Rachel Ann O’Sullivan

Alexandra Smith Fitzpatrick

Graham Butler-Breen

Lighting Design – Amy Dunne, Sean Meates

Sound Design – Conall Gunnigan

Set Design – Moira Ann Bender

Costume Design – Fiona Larmon

Stage Manager – Neile Heite-Meißner

Photography – Gemma Bovenizer

Originally a multiple award-winning student production at the 2019 ISDA Theatre Festival with UCD Dramsoc, Addikt was created by Luna’s founding members while in university together. The play was then revisited by the official Luna Collective in November 2019, where it was filmed by Shoot to Kill Production Company in preparation for touring in 2020. With these plans then unfortunately halted by Covid-19, and new projects taking to the stage, Addikt has become a research and development project for Luna Collective.

Addikt follows the story of Darren, a man both suffering from heroin addiction on the streets of Dublin, and undertaking the task of becoming sober in modern day Ireland. His constants are a methadone clinic, a sleeping bag on Grafton Street and an estranged sister, but Darren is determined to ‘stay clean’. Addiction and overcoming it are complex, and Addikt tells a story full of complexity.

The play was the beginning of Luna’s exploration of physicality onstage, as Darren walks, crawls, pushes, pulls and wades both himself and the audience through his daily grind, every step of the way. Inspired by physical theatre training and corporeal mime taught by Kellie Hughes of the UCD Ad Astra Academy, rehearsals have focused on finding movements that viscerally express the daily battle of will versus biological addiction and delve into the tenderness between siblings who share a history of hurt.