PAUL KELLY &
CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN
WITH FEARGAL MURRAY
WORLD PREMIIERE
ANCIENT
RAIN
The premiere of Ancient Rain brings together exceptional
artists Paul Kelly and Camille O’Sullivan in a work inspired by
the last 100 years of Irish poetry.
Paul Kelly is a master chronicler of love, loss, guilt and
redemption. His songs and stories are filled with deeply
flawed and hungry humanity, recognisable to us all. Camille
O’Sullivan, either in full flight or in stillness, is powerful,
vulnerable, complex and shape-shifting; a lover, mother,
daughter, loner, visionary and witness.
Together with composer/pianist Feargal Murray, Camille
and Paul have set poems to music—some well-known and
loved by Yeats, Heaney and Kavanagh. Others by Eavan
Boland, Paula Meehan, Jessica Traynor and Enda Wyley have
emerged in recent years and are already on their way to
becoming classics.
Duration 1 hr 35 mins, including interval
CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN
Camille O’Sullivan will perform in
intimate mode at The Toff in Town.
CREDITS
Performers
PAUL KELLY
CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN
FEARGAL MURRAY
Piano
PAUL BYRNE
Drums and percussion
DAN KELLY
Electric guitar
SOKOL KOKA
Cello
Original Music
PAUL KELLY
FEARGAL MURRAY
CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN
Director
CHRIS DRUMMOND
Design
GAELLE MELLIS
Lighting Design &
Production Manager
NEIL SIMPSON
Company & Stage Manager
TESS RYAN
Sound Design
JOHN O’DONNELL
Sound Effects
CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN
Production Assistant
BEATRICE BLACKWELL
Creative Producer
LEE-ANNE DONNOLLEY
Project Coordinator
SUZANNE CRITCHLEY
Marketing &
Publicity Liaison
AMANDA WERNER
The Toff in Town // SUN 16 OCTOBER
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The company wish to thank Sian Darling for poem hunting, Jen Coppinger, Aiden Gillen and Conor McPherson,
Mel Cheng and Bill Cullen, Monique Harvey and Tim Whitehead, Ciaran Walsh, Maureen Ritchie, Jane Rosetto,
Maeliosa Stafford, Jimmy MacCarthy, Willie White, Jonathan Holloway and everyone at the Melbourne Festival.