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How To Fall Flat On Your Face

Writer and Performer Katie Honan

07-18 November 2023

A white back wall. Three fluorescent lights hang from the ceiling. In silhouette, four hospital screens with a woman standing in the centre. The woman has her back turned, face forward, one arm hanging beside and the other holding what looks like an over-the-shoulder bag. Also in silhouette, two sets of hospital seating. Three chairs in each set.
Anna falls flat on her face and spends a day in a London hospital corridor, waiting. Sitting in a city that is not her own, her mind wanders between past and present…

Where does your mind wander when you wait?

Anna falls flat on her face and spends a day in a London hospital corridor, waiting. Sitting in a city that is not her own, her mind wanders between past and present…

She is obsessive — committed to perfection. So much so, she will chase down an old lady in Super Value to grab the RIGHT tulips — Anna needed the cream bunch to match her tea towels.

A funny and dark deep dive into how ‘sweating the small stuff’ can escalate. How did Anna fall, and will she find her way home?

Best New Play

Best Female Performance

(The Green Room Awards)

"Honan’s towering performance"

(News & Star)

‘The story is studded with interesting and significantly different characters whose backstories are as varied as chameleons’— News & Star

‘Isolation, alienation and thought-provoking images’ — Munster Express

‘Fantastic Performance’ — WLRFM

Be aware of flashing lights and mild injury.

Supported by: The Arts Council, ArtLinks, Tilestyle, TriviumVet, FringeLab, Garter Lane, and Waterford Council.

Project Arts Centre is proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

Writer & Performer — Katie Honan

Director — Luke Kernaghan

Movement Director — Rachel Ní Bhraonáin

Set/Costume Design — Deirdre Dwyer

Sound Design — Jamie Beamish

Lighting Design — Eoin Byrne

Dramaturg — Laura Honan

Production Management — EveryEvent

Stage Manager — Jennifer Aust

Chief LX — Simon Burke

Production Photography — Colin Shanahan

Poster Design — Chris Dunne

Producer — Lisa Nally

Katie Honan is an actor and writer from Waterford.

How To Fall Flat On Your Face is Katies debut play and first premiered at Waterford’s Garter Lane Arts Centre in 2022, receiving exceptional audience reaction and reviews, winning ‘Best New Play’ and ‘Best Female Performance’ in The Green Room Awards.

Katie is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Theatre work includes: Our Tethered Kin, Abbey Calling, The Ridleys, Let The Right One In, Seven Jewish Children (Abbey Theatre), Refuge (The Space, London), Gym Swim Party (O’Reilly Theatre), Vardo, Beyond Barricades, Sin Eaters (ANU Productions), Murder of Crows (Project Arts Centre/Garter Lane Arts Centre/Lyric Belfast), The Settling, Neon Western (Cork Midsummer Festival), Our Tethered Kin, The Secret Garden (Everyman Palace), Poor Little Boy With No Arms (Project Arts Centre and National Tour). Film/TV work includes: BAFTA Rocliffe (BAFTA), Robin (Four Quadrant Films), Braid (Short Film, Galway Film Fleadh), Kaleidoscope (Lir Academy), Over The Rainbow (BBC). Katie received an Irish Times Theatre Award Best Actress Nomination for her role in Let The Right One In and a BroadwayWorld Best Actress Nomination for her role in The Ridleys.

In 2023, Katies new radio play HURL was produced by RTÉ Radio 1 and a winner in the PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Awards. She also took residency in ‘A Little Room’ @ Garter Lane writing and developing a new stage play exploring memory and imagination — supported by The Arts  Council.

If you require assistance for your visit, please do not hesitate to contact us at access@projectartscentre.ie or call 01 8819 613. You can find the latest information about Project’s accessibility here.

Where does your mind wander when you wait?

Anna falls flat on her face and spends a day in a London hospital corridor, waiting. Sitting in a city that is not her own, her mind wanders between past and present…

She is obsessive — committed to perfection. So much so, she will chase down an old lady in Super Value to grab the RIGHT tulips — Anna needed the cream bunch to match her tea towels.

A funny and dark deep dive into how ‘sweating the small stuff’ can escalate. How did Anna fall, and will she find her way home?

Best New Play

Best Female Performance

(The Green Room Awards)

“Honan’s towering performance”

(News & Star)

ACCESSIBILITY

If you require assistance for your visit, please do not hesitate to contact us at access@projectartscentre.ie or call 01 8819 613. You can find the latest information about Project’s accessibility here.

CREDITS

Writer & Performer — Katie Honan

Director — Luke Kernaghan

Movement Director — Rachel Ní Bhraonáin

Set/Costume Design — Deirdre Dwyer

Sound Design — Jamie Beamish

Lighting Design — Eoin Byrne

Dramaturg — Laura Honan

Production Management — EveryEvent

Stage Manager — Jennifer Aust

Chief LX — Simon Burke

Production Photography — Colin Shanahan

Poster Design — Chris Dunne

Producer — Lisa Nally

BIOGRAPHIES

Katie Honan is an actor and writer from Waterford.

How To Fall Flat On Your Face is Katies debut play and first premiered at Waterford’s Garter Lane Arts Centre in 2022, receiving exceptional audience reaction and reviews, winning ‘Best New Play’ and ‘Best Female Performance’ in The Green Room Awards.

Katie is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Theatre work includes: Our Tethered Kin, Abbey Calling, The Ridleys, Let The Right One In, Seven Jewish Children (Abbey Theatre), Refuge (The Space, London), Gym Swim Party (O’Reilly Theatre), Vardo, Beyond Barricades, Sin Eaters (ANU Productions), Murder of Crows (Project Arts Centre/Garter Lane Arts Centre/Lyric Belfast), The Settling, Neon Western (Cork Midsummer Festival), Our Tethered Kin, The Secret Garden (Everyman Palace), Poor Little Boy With No Arms (Project Arts Centre and National Tour). Film/TV work includes: BAFTA Rocliffe (BAFTA), Robin (Four Quadrant Films), Braid (Short Film, Galway Film Fleadh), Kaleidoscope (Lir Academy), Over The Rainbow (BBC). Katie received an Irish Times Theatre Award Best Actress Nomination for her role in Let The Right One In and a BroadwayWorld Best Actress Nomination for her role in The Ridleys.

In 2023, Katies new radio play HURL was produced by RTÉ Radio 1 and a winner in the PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Awards. She also took residency in ‘A Little Room’ @ Garter Lane writing and developing a new stage play exploring memory and imagination — supported by The Arts  Council.

PRESS

‘The story is studded with interesting and significantly different characters whose backstories are as varied as chameleons’— News & Star

‘Isolation, alienation and thought-provoking images’ — Munster Express

‘Fantastic Performance’ — WLRFM

FUNDING

Supported by: The Arts Council, ArtLinks, Tilestyle, TriviumVet, FringeLab, Garter Lane, and Waterford Council.

Project Arts Centre is proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

DISCLAIMER

Be aware of flashing lights and mild injury.

Ticketing

€18/€16

Preview €16/€14 

Time

7.45 pm

Location

Space Upstairs

Warning

Contains flashing lights and mild injury.

Genres

Theatre
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