Home Sweet Home

Role: Director

Following two years of development, the artists from Suisha Inclusive Arts present Home Sweet Home - a play about housing, horror films and protest.

In Cork, in the future, a group of disabled artists and friends are living together. Some are rappers, some comedians, some dancers, and some actors. Their home is their right, and their comfort, but when a new government imposes drastic cuts, the life they have created together comes under great threat. The gang decides to fight back, with protests, cups of tea and viral music videos - determined to keep their Home Sweet Home.

This ambitious disability-led show features creatively embedded access, including Audio Description, Live Captioning, and Irish Sign Language Interpretation within the narrative, and in-ear monitors for cast who need need support with line-recall. This level of accessibility is ground-breaking in Irish theatre, and has been achieved with the support of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company.

A creative collaboration with Director Al Bellamy and Playwright Jody O'Neill, the participatory process to imagine and devise this disability-led production was initiated in 2022 by Cork Midsummer Festival with Cope Foundation under BEPART Creative Europe network. The continued process and production is funded by Movement for Good, Cork City Council Art in Context Award and The Arts Council Ireland Arts Participation Project Award. With further support from UCC Theatre Department and MA students, Cork ETB, and Cork Opera House.