Bradán theatre, The New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin (2026)

06/07/2025

Bradán is on the hunt for a talented trad musician to join us on tour in China this October! Check out the audition description and send in your videos by July 8th. Must be available for travel and rehearsals.

16/01/2025

What do you disability, burnout, and the Toad Man have in common? They want to harvest our souls.

Brought to you from Axis Green Arts Award Winners 2022, my 'best' friend left me in the river with my uilleann pipes to die is a brand new work in progress from Bradán.

Written and performed by Kate Bauer and James Ireland, do not miss this exciting new piece of gig theatre.

Block 11, 15+16 February 2025
Smock Alley Main Space
6.30pm
As part of 2025.
Tickets on Smock Alley website

03/02/2024

My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse - round two of revisiting reviews we didn't post at the time!

🏆 Winner of the Staging Change x VAULT Award 2022

This gig gets weird: it's time to return to being fish.

Humanity's ruined the ecosystem, but humanity’s just a dodgy side branch of fish evolution. The solution’s clear - and that's where the salmon come in. Fin's climate anxiety culminates in him thinking he's a salmon, onstage, while his girlfriend and bandmate look on in fishy horror.

This is not about answering the question of whether we can survive this overwhelming timeline we're in. This is about focusing our existential scream into one specific place - the salmon on our plate - and screaming together until our gills turn blue.

With live trad music, FX pedal soundscapes, Irish mythology, global industrial food production, colonialism, fish farming, and possibly inevitable ecological destruction.

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Directed by Kate Bauer
Written by James Ireland
Music collaboratively created by the ensemble
Performed by Rory Gradon, Elinor Peregrin, and Elisabeth Flett
Produced by Bradán and Sophie Kilgannon
Lights and costume by Kate Bauer
Live sound mixing by James Ireland
📸 Paul John Roberts

Previously produced at
VAULT Festival, London, 2023
VOILA! Festival of European Theatre, at The Cockpit, London, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2022
London Irish Centre, 2022
The Glitch, A Pinch of VAULT Festival, 2022 (work-in-progress)

With thanks to our previous R&D participants, to Staging Change and Josie Dale-Jones, all donators to our various fundraisers, to Broadgate and Amy Clare Tasker, and to all the people at all the venues and festivals who have programmed us or come to see us or written about the work! 💚

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03/02/2024

My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse - round two of revisiting reviews we didn't post at the time!

🏆 Winner of the Staging Change x VAULT Award 2022

This gig gets weird: it's time to return to being fish.

Humanity's ruined the ecosystem, but humanity’s just a dodgy side branch of fish evolution. The solution’s clear - and that's where the salmon come in. Fin's climate anxiety culminates in him thinking he's a salmon, onstage, while his girlfriend and bandmate look on in fishy horror.

This is not about answering the question of whether we can survive this overwhelming timeline we're in. This is about focusing our existential scream into one specific place - the salmon on our plate - and screaming together until our gills turn blue.

With live trad music, FX pedal soundscapes, Irish mythology, global industrial food production, colonialism, fish farming, and possibly inevitable ecological destruction.

🐟

Directed by Kate Bauer
Written by James Ireland
Music collaboratively created by the ensemble
Performed by Rory Gradon, Elinor Peregrin, and Elisabeth Flett
Produced by Bradán and Sophie Kilgannon
Lights and costume by Kate Bauer
Live sound mixing by James Ireland
📸 Paul John Roberts

Previously produced at
VAULT Festival, London, 2023
VOILA! Festival of European Theatre, at The Cockpit, London, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2022
London Irish Centre, 2022
The Glitch, A Pinch of VAULT Festival, 2022 (work-in-progress)

With thanks to our previous R&D participants, to Staging Change and Josie Dale-Jones, all donators to our various fundraisers, to Broadgate and Amy Clare Tasker, and to all the people at all the venues and festivals who have programmed us or come to see us or written about the work! 💚

27/01/2024

Revisiting some beautiful reviews of My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse we received at VAULT Festival - paired with even more beautiful photography by Paul John Roberts.

🏆 Winner of the Staging Change x VAULT Award 2022

This gig gets weird: it's time to return to being fish.

Humanity's ruined the ecosystem, but humanity’s just a dodgy side branch of fish evolution. The solution’s clear - and that's where the salmon come in. Fin's climate anxiety culminates in him thinking he's a salmon, onstage, while his girlfriend and bandmate look on in fishy horror.

This is not about answering the question of whether we can survive this overwhelming timeline we're in. This is about focusing that existential scream into one specific place - the salmon on our plate - and screaming together until our gills turn blue.

With live trad music, FX pedal soundscapes, Irish mythology, global industrial food production, colonialism, fish farming, and probably inevitable ecological destruction.

🐟

Directed by Kate Bauer
Written by James Ireland
Music collaboratively created by the ensemble
Performed by Rory Gradon, Elinor Peregrin, and Elisabeth Flett
Produced by Bradán and Sophie Kilgannon
Lights and costume by Kate Bauer
Live sound tech by James Ireland

Previously produced at
VAULT Festival, London, 2023
VOILA! Festival of European Theatre, at The Cockpit, London, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2022
London Irish Centre, 2022
The Glitch, A Pinch of VAULT Festival, 2022 (work-in-progress)

With thanks to our previous R&D participants, to Broadgate , and to Staging Change

27/01/2024

Revisiting some beautiful reviews of My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse we received at VAULT Festival - paired with even more beautiful photography by Paul John Roberts.

🏆 Winner of the Staging Change x VAULT Award 2022

This gig gets weird: it's time to return to being fish.

Humanity's ruined the ecosystem, but humanity’s just a dodgy side branch of fish evolution. The solution’s clear - and that's where the salmon come in.

Fin's climate anxiety culminates in him thinking he's a salmon, onstage, while his girlfriend and bandmate look on in fishy horror.

This is not about answering the question of whether we can survive this overwhelming timeline we're in. This is about focusing that existential scream into one specific place - the salmon on our plate - and screaming together until our gills turn blue.

With live trad music, FX pedal soundscapes, Irish mythology, global industrial food production, colonialism, fish farming, and probably inevitable ecological destruction.

Directed by Kate Bauer
Written by James Ireland
Music collaboratively created by the ensemble
Performed by Rory Gradon, Elinor Peregrin, and Elisabeth Flett
Produced by Bradán and Sophie Kilgannon
Lights and costume by Kate Bauer
Live sound tech by James Ireland

Previously produced at
VAULT Festival, London, 2023
VOILA! Festival of European Theatre, at The Cockpit, London, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2022
London Irish Centre, 2022
The Glitch, A Pinch of VAULT Festival, 2022 (work-in-progress)

With thanks to our previous R&D participants, to Broadgate , and to Staging Change

12/11/2023

Happy 2 year anniversary to the first research & development session for My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse. By this point the project was just a twinkle in Kate & James’s eyes but our incredible collaborators helped us make the leap to realising that we might have something great on our hands. 💕
Huge thank you to the artists who joined us in Kate’s living room on that faithful November day to try out some tunes and developed the world of Salmon that we came to know and love. We’re so truly grateful for all of our supporters over the past 2 years and want to thank you from the bottom of our fishy hearts 💕

15/10/2023

Just basking in the wonderful words wrote about our recent run of Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge in London! 😍😍😍

Big thank yous to , , , and all our audience members for having us! 🤩🌱💚

Directed by Kate Bauer
Written and performed by James Ireland
Supported in its original run by PAN PAN Platform and Lisa Nally at Dublin Fringe Festival
🏆Winner of the Axis Green Arts Award

📸 Simon Lazewski

30/09/2023

My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse - first of many production shots taken by Paul John Roberts back in our run at in March. Don't the band look amazing? And this is BEFORE anyone turns into a fish!

Performed by Elinor Peregrin, Rory Gradon, and Elisabeth Flett
Directed by Kate Bauer
Written by James Ireland
Produced by Sophie Kilgannon
Music composed collaboratively by the ensemble

24/09/2023

Two weeks now since we had the amazing opportunity to perform Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge in East London with ✨️

We'd like to thank all the amazing audience members who came out to see us - both local and from far afield - as well as Joanna, Fae, and the rest of the amazing team at FeastFest, and everyone at the two venues and who helped us put on the work. And of course a massive thank you as always to the team at Dublin Fringe Festival, PAN PAN, Lisa Nally, Rory Gradon, David Roper-Nolan, and all at The New Theatre Dublin who helped us produce the first iteration of the work! I'm sure we're forgetting people as well - everyone who's helped and supported our journey so far are so appreciated and far too numerous to count!

We're deep in conversation now about our strategy for 2024, and where we want to take our salmony eco theatre next. Big hype!!!

📸 Kate Bauer

06/09/2023

THIS WEEKEND‼️FREE EVENT IN EAST LONDON ‼️ Bring your plant-based pals! 🌱 Bring your cooking-obsessed friends! 🥕 Bring your theatregoing mates! ✨️ Bring your eco-warrior amigos 🙌
And bring everyone you know who hates all these things, because sure look you gotta show them what you care about one way or another! 💪💪💪 TICKETS FREE 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏(registration needed)

Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge - this Sat 9th and Sun 10th September in two venues in East London - see Feastfest.org or the link in our bio for more info & register for tickets!

Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge is a short live cooking (and eating!) show for our future. Winner of the Axis Green Arts Award at Dublin Fringe Festival, where it was supported by PAN PAN Platform.

The show takes a recipe for plant-based smoked salmon and cooks it onstage for the audience to eat, using each ingredient as a jumping-off point to talk about human food culture across deep time. It's a thoughtful space for audience members to come together and share in quiet contemplation with us for our future - over a bite of magical food.

📷 Simon Lazewski
✨️Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival where it was supported by PAN PAN Platform
🏆Winner of Axis Green Arts Award

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