Breath is a music play with multi-instrumentalist Steve Wickham of The Waterboys, who joins actor Karl Quinn to playfully explore our recent experiences. This energetic, humourous and sensitive show returns to the stage after a successful national tour in the dark days of January this year.
We had all been holding our breath, but for one man, the family working and studying at home, is building up the pressure ... along with the waiting, sanitising, news overload, work Zooms gone wrong, botched deliveries, and window visits. He's trying to hold it together with online yoga, home baking, and dancing in the kitchen ... but one sneeze could blow it all apart. Breath is infused with the joy of music, as we catch our breath together, and look back at the things we remember, and the things we’d forgotten about two strange years.
For Breath Steve Wickham combines classical, folk and rock on fiddle, concertina, and didgeridoo - played like never before! He previously worked with director Ciarán Taylor and Carpet Theatre actor Karl Quinn on Pigeon, and Wexford Firestation Tour.
Carpet Theatre have been creating and touring at home and abroad with lively explorations of Irish life since 2004, including the hit satirical shopping comedy The Blanch which premiered at Draíocht before touring nationwide. Steve has played with the greats of Irish rock, with his band No Crows; and toured the world with The Waterboys since the 1980’s.
"A riot of musical and physical theatre." - Liam Murphy The Munster Express
"It was one of those performances that kept you riveted ... the audience went out with a smile on their faces and, I suspect, breathing a little easier." - Wexford Arts Centre Audience Review
"... devised physical theatre at it's best [on Carpet Theatre]" - Irish Examiner
