Cathal McGuire Workshop

Object Theatre is a unique theatrical form which brings together acting, storytelling, design and object manipulation to create its own kind of performance magic. In this masterclass workshop, theatre maker Cathal McGuire will introduce the core principles of Object Theatre: how the objects we choose shape the performance, how the actor creates the world around the object, and how we can draw on movies and comic books to shape the stories we tell on stage. Participants are invited to bring in everyday objects of all kinds for the group to experiment with.

Bio: Cathal McGuire is a Dublin-based theatre maker, dramaturg and facilitator who creates performances for a variety of audiences through a combination of techniques, from writing and storytelling to devising and physical theatre.Cathal’s practice focuses on making the familiar strange, using the tension between playfulness and rigour to illuminate the mysteries of the contemporary world – how we know what we know, and why we believe what we believe.

He makes performances under the company identity Game Theory: these include Always Alone Together (Dublin Fringe Festival 2014), a storytelling documentary about internet culture, and MOOP (Best Ensemble nominee, Dublin Fringe Festival 2019), a wordless all-ages show about discovery and play.

Other credits include the stage plays Mule, Short Lives and The King Sweeney, and the radio play W.B Yeats: Paranormal Investigator, as well as performances created with and for young people in partnership with leading youth organisations.