Finally, the company will present a work-in-progress showing of
composer Emma O’Halloran and librettist Naomi O’Connell’s A Mass
for Women in Bathrooms . This opera-theater work for three singers, an
actress and electronic sound design by Alex Dowling reframes the
structure of the Irish Catholic Mass to tell an intimate family story
of three sisters and their mother. A story born from personal
experience, A Mass for Women in Bathrooms examines themes of
infertility, reproductive rights, and dementia, while reclaiming
bodily autonomy for women in a historically violent space. This
project is funded in part by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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