Solas Nua

Fringe First Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival

Trad
by Mark Doherty
directed by Linda Murray
with Michael John Casey, Chris Davenport & Stephanie Roswell

At Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW
January 24 – February 17, 2008
Thursday - Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
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DCist
"Solas Nua's Trad is a show that delights in benevolent hyperbole like no other in recent memory, and its pleasures are plentiful indeed."

DC Theatre Scene
"Trad is a brilliant Irish stew of surreal comedy, touching drama, clever satire, and thoughtful allegory."
"Trad is both funny and poignant, and in the hands of Solas Nua, a small theatrical gem. If you make time to see it, you will remember it long after leaving the theatre. "

The Washington Post
"Riotous dialogue."
"Doherty entertains adroitly, but in place of unfocused anger, zingy nihilism or Hollywood cynicism, "Trad" has a bit of warmth that unabashedly draws the audience in."

A fable about tradition in a mad place, Trad is the hilarious tale of the very old Thomas and his even more ancient da. When Thomas reveals that he once fathered a son in a long-ago fling, the pair set off across the Irish countryside to seek the unknown child, with nothing more than a hobble and a limp to help them.

The Playwright:
Mark Doherty has worked extensively as an actor and as a stand-up comedian, besides writing for radio and television. His radio credits include A Hundred and Something, Stand-up Sketches and The Bees of Manulla for RTE, and The 0' Show for BBC Radio 4. For television he has written The Stand Up Show, Back to the Future and Time Tmmpet for BBC TV, and the six-part comedy series Couched for RTE. Trad premiered at the Galway Arts Festival in 2004 and went on to Dublin, Adelaide, London and the Edinburgh Festival where it won a Fringe First Award. It also received the 2004 BBC Radio Drama Award from the Stewart Parker Trust. In 2006, Mark received the Tiernan MacBride International Screenwriting Award for his first screenplay, A Film with Me in It.