In July 2011 Nora Hickey M'Sichili the Artistic Director of Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray gave us the great opportunity to participate in the Synge Summer School by presenting 2 shows, 565+ and Victor and Gord at Mermaid. Hosted by Patrick Lonergan we participated in a post show discussion afterwards. Staff at the Mermaid were very welcoming and we had a great night. For the first time since our work in progress back in May 2010 Marie and I performed 565+ together. As well as Fintan Walsh and Patrick Lonergan the Theatre Scholars Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf from Princeton University attended the performances. Jill has written about the evening in her blog 'The Feminist Spectator' and it is a great insight into both the evening and the two shows. Earlier that day the Summer School Students had read Victor and Gord, Ali and Michael (a previous incarnation of Victor and Gord) presented at Queer Notions Festival 2009 and published in Fintan Walsh's book 'Queer Notions'.
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