Counterparts & A Little Cloud

Fri 13 Jun 2025 , 8pm

Tickets €16 / €14 conc
Draíocht Studio

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From James Joyce's Dubliners, these two short stories are vivid ‘slices of life’ in early 20th Century Dublin, revealing a society in paralysis, desperately awaiting change. Stunningly accompanied by live music, we follow a pair of Dublin characters portrayed in immaculately detailed scenes.

In Counterparts, a frustrated law clerk is determined to have a big night’s drinking, while in A Little Cloud, a sensitive soul is thrown by a meeting with an old university friend back from London.

At once funny and tragic, the stories are populated with an array of colourful characters who, despite the bowler hats and Edwardian collars, remain entirely contemporary.

"These latest adaptations ... are heart-rendingly perfect ..." - Emer O'Kelly, Sunday Independent

"Superbly articulated performances ..." - Chris O'Rourke, The Arts Review

"An enthralling hour of theatre ..." - No More Workhorse

More about Volta Theatre Company

Volta Theatre Company is a new company with the remit to bring classical theatre to a wide audience. It’s founders are Liam Hourican and Jim Roche, who have collaborated for many years in theatre and TV. Counterparts & A Little Cloud is the Volta’s second outing, it’s flagship production being Hamlet at the National Opera House in Wexford. Preparations are currently underway for Macbeth at the National Opera House in March 2025.

Biographies

Liam Hourican has worked with Shakespeare’s Globe, the Old Vic and Second Age Theatre company and has written and performed sketch shows and comedy drama for Channel 4, RTE and the BBC.

Jim Roche has starred in Normal People (directed by Lenny Abramson (BBC), Harry Wild (Acorn TV) Blood 2 (Virgin Media) Vikings(History Channel), Damo and Ivor,Fair City, Killinaskully, The Mario Rosenstock Show, Dead Still (RTE), The Tudors (Showtime) and iCandy (Channel 4).

Musicians Feilimidh Nunan and Conor Sheil regularly work with all the principal orchestras in Ireland (National Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Wexford Festival Orchestra, Irish National Opera Orchestra). Their professional interests has led them to collaborate with many other groups in film and theatre but also in different musical genres ranging from jazz to traditional music.