Attalus by Luke Murphy
Triskel Arts Centre, Ireland, T12 WYY0
Friday 27 November 2026
A rehearsed reading of Attalus by Luke Murphy as part of SHOW 2026.
A sci-fi, buddy comedy cum roving fantasy of ambition, fear, fixation and desire. Inhabiting an old office, two characters work tirelessly in tandem creating for a world who have lost their imaginations. Team 2, renowned for their legendary work 'The Hampton Project' now find themselves chasing the ghosts of their own achievements while holding onto a dynamic that has perhaps stopped serving them or perhaps never did. Reporting to the murky yet ever enthusiastic hologram, ‘Jane’, and slowly losing patience with their pedantic intern, ‘Max’, the two characters navigate a Kafkaesque maelstrom of banal office bureaucracy and dystopianly pressured creative expectation. As the next looming deadline approaches their divergence comes to a climax as the long-infected scabs of their relationship peel. Following the success of Volcano (2021) and Scorched Earth (2025), Attalus pulls a touching yet painful story into a visual and unearthly and unexpected visual world. Mixing dance, theatre, horror and comedy, Attalus invites the audience into an otherworldly fever dream of creativity, pressure, ecstasy and exasperation, all to call into question what it costs to pursue something and what it costs to let go.
A sci-fi, buddy comedy cum roving fantasy of ambition, fear, fixation and desire. Inhabiting an old office, two characters work tirelessly in tandem creating for a world who have lost their imaginations. Team 2, renowned for their legendary work 'The Hampton Project' now find themselves chasing the ghosts of their own achievements while holding onto a dynamic that has perhaps stopped serving them or perhaps never did. Reporting to the murky yet ever enthusiastic hologram, ‘Jane’, and slowly losing patience with their pedantic intern, ‘Max’, the two characters navigate a Kafkaesque maelstrom of banal office bureaucracy and dystopianly pressured creative expectation. As the next looming deadline approaches their divergence comes to a climax as the long-infected scabs of their relationship peel. Following the success of Volcano (2021) and Scorched Earth (2025), Attalus pulls a touching yet painful story into a visual and unearthly and unexpected visual world. Mixing dance, theatre, horror and comedy, Attalus invites the audience into an otherworldly fever dream of creativity, pressure, ecstasy and exasperation, all to call into question what it costs to pursue something and what it costs to let go.
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