THE VOICE FACTOR [X] Opens Tonight at The New Theatre!

Quincy, a young man from Dublin, is entered into The Voice Factor by his friends. Quincy's always been up for a laugh.

Then people start to stand, applaud, and compliment.

The Voice Factor [X] is a satirical exposé of the artificiality associated with talent shows, as an unlikely contestant is sucked into the hostile celebrity machine, and precariously climbs his way to the top.

Directed by the award-winning Rosa Bowden, The Voice Factor [X] marks the introduction of an exciting new writing voice to the Irish theatre scene in a play which challenges ideas about modernity's obsession with fame.

Tickets: €16 (€12.50 concession)

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The Collector
by Daniel Wade

Dates: January 23rd - February 4th, 7.30pm Tickets: €16 (€12.50 concession)

About the Show: In the Dark Horse Pool Academy, the games go on long after closing time and only the toughest customers last the night.

Oren Collins, a small-time thug and the hall's best player, must finally confront the three main demons afflicting his life, both inside and out: the death of his brother, a long-overdue debt to a loanshark, and his conscience.

As time steadily runs out and tensions boil viciously over, Oren deceitfully enlists the help of two people to aid him in meeting his fate: Des, his uncle and the hall's manager, and Joseph, a visiting American student with a mysterious link to Oren's dead brother...

A play of invidious secrets and broken masculinity, The Collector simmers to a disquieting conclusion.

The Collector is the debut play of Daniel Wade, directed by Cian Ó Ceallacháin in association with Underdog Theatre Productions

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Happy Birthday Jacob
by Michael Marshall

Dates: February 7th -11th, 7.30pm Tickets: €16 (€12.50 concession)

About the Show:
Happy Birthday Jacob is the story of two brothers, Jacob and Lucas, who, after being abandoned at a young age, have been forced to develop a life which consists of secrecy and strict routine. The story exists between the father leaving and the foreboding imminence of his return. That is until Mary, their mother, arrives abruptly, which slowly severs the bond between the two brothers. Lucas's fantastical notions of a family reunited directly clashes with Jacob's embodied reality of rejection and abandonment. Jacob with the help of Terry a neighbouring girl try to keep this constructed family afloat while Lucas drifts towards an idea that he has only been able fantasise. Time is ticking closer to Jacob's 18th birthday, a day in which everything that has been built must fall.

Happy Birthday Jacob is an original play by Michael Marshall and this is PÚCA's debut production

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