Longford: Carn Clonhugh & Good Day To You

About this episode

In this episode, Ronni chats with multidisciplinary performance maker Luke Casserly about his work and recent projects in County Longford.

Today we're in County Longford for a little wander up Carn Clonhugh (Corn Hill), and to have a relaxed chat in the sun with the lovely Luke Casserly. Luke is a multidisciplinary performance maker from Longford. His work weaves together ecological research, autobiography, sound art, and site, as a way of carving out space for new possibilities to emerge between live performance and physical landscape. To date, his projects have brought audiences through city streets, back gardens, train stations, beaches, and a bog in the Irish midlands. His most recent project 'Distillation' premiered as part of Dublin Theatre Festival in 2023, and has toured extensively throughout Ireland, the US, and Canada since then. You can find out more about Luke's work via his website . He will be presenting a work-in-development of a new performance project called 16 Longfords as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2025. More information here . To help me hike up more hills, comedic or otherwise. Please be in touch with ideas of who I should be inviting on the podcast, and support me with some waterproof gear. All that and more ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ here ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thank you to all the supporters as well as to the…

People in this episode

Host: Ronni

Guest: Luke Casserly

Topics covered

• performance art
• ecological research
• Irish culture
• interview
• live performance
• landscape

Keywords

• Luke Casserly
• Carn Clonhugh
• performance
• ecology
• Dublin Theatre Festival
• Irish midlands
• art
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dublin Theatre Festival, Bukahara

Books & works: Distillation, Storytelling Animal, The World is Storytelling

Places: County Longford, Carn Clonhugh

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