Distillation by Luke Casserly

★★★★ – The Irish Times

★★★★ – Irish Examiner

★★★★ – The Stage (UK)

Distillation is a performative journey which takes you to the Irish bog landscape through scent. Created in direct response to the cessation of the peat extraction industry in Ireland, Luke Casserly collaborated with renowned perfume maker Joan Woods to create a unique distillation of the Midlands bog, the place where he grew up, as the starting point for an olfactory encounter which looks at our human relationship to place. Dedicated to the future of our broken landscapes – in the hope that by listening to them, we might be able to better understand them.

Distillation premiered as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2023, shortly followed by a sold out-run at the Abbey Theatre and a North American tour in 2024 supported by Culture Ireland. The project is a co-production by the Abbey Theatre and Solas Nua, commissioned by Solas Nua in Washington DC and supported by Goethe-Institut Irland.

Please note this is a limited capacity event, so early booking is advised. – Tabhair faoi deara le do thoil nach bhfuil mórán spásanna i gceist don imeacht seo, mar sin moltar áirithintí a dhéanamh go luath.

https://www.irishtimes.com/video/video/2023/09/30/theatre-maker-luke-casserlys-work-distillation-explores-our-relationship-with-the-bog/

https://www.irishtimes.com/video/video/2023/09/30/theatre-maker-luke-casserlys-work-distillation-explores-our-relationship-with-the-bog/