Louise (she/her) makes collaborative and inter-disciplinary performances for contemporary arts venues and offsite locations.
Louise White is an independent theatre and performance-maker celebrating 15 years’ experimental arts practice. Her work asks questions about community and the contemporary moment. Recent performances include: Animals; a large-scale reimagining of Orwell’s Animal Farm (Everyman Cork, Dublin Theatre Festival), Sing Your Failures; a participatory performance for a group of twenty strangers in a public park, (Cork Midsummer Festival), and Privilege: The Musical!; A gloves off look at privilege, that’s knees up entertaining! (Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray). Louise’s projects are always interdisciplinary and devised. She has worked with a diverse array of performers including dancers, opera singers, visual artists, chefs, composers, actors, children and older people.
Louise is also an educator and facilitator and has worked with a variety of communities and groups including: Mountrath Youth Theatre, Mountrath Golden Years Club, The Lantern Centre, Recovery College DCU, Silver Thread, Abbeyleix Box Project, Abbeyleix Direct Provision Centre and The Cuisle Centre Portlaoise.
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An unexpectedly funny and uplifting play about your own death. This is elegant, dignified, skillfully put together by White. — The Irish Times (This is the Funeral of Your Life)
The scale of this event is one of the most fascinating things about it… It is a story that deals with community and realising what is important and worth fighting for… It is events like this that make Fringe special. The vision, scope, and creativity on display make it a charming event. — Nomoreworkhorse.com (Mother You)
The form of her absorbing show follows it’s material, guided by a heartfelt sense of empathy for a directionless society in search of new structures…White’s interest is something warmer: the hope and resilience necessary to find our way again. — The Irish Times (Way Back Home)
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www.louisewhiteperformance.com
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1. Simon Boyle, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, Cuán White in Way Back Home by Louise White. Photo credit: Emilia Krysztofiak (2013)
2. Jo Kelly, Jane Deasy, Carmel Ennis, Will O’Connell in Mother You by Louise White. Photo credit: Emilia Krysztofiak (2015)
3. Philip Connaughton in This Is The Funeral of Your Life by Louise White. Photo credit: Emilia Krysztofiak (2017)
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