Friday 15th August 2025
Location: Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny. R95 D320
14 — 16 August 2025
8pm. Matinee (Sat 16 August) 3pm
Watergate Theatre
€25 / €22
60 min approx.
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Ticket bundle available
Wheelchair accessible
A bone will never speak its secrets – but perhaps it can sing them.
Created by multi-award-winners John McIlduff and Brian Irvine, Where We Bury the Bones is an intimate and challenging work of contemporary music theatre.

It begins with the discovery of a single bone, unearthed during the archaeological excavations that preceded the redevelopment of the Abbey Quarter in Kilkenny. From there it evolves into the unfolding of human civilisation: its religion, its industry, its skateboarders.

Where We Bury the Bones developed out of Carnival of Shadows: #1 Possible Human, a multi-sensory installation presented at KAF 2021. Combining music, voice, archive text, theatre, film and movement, this new work explores the way in which the stories we choose to tell often reveal more about ourselves than history itself.
The development of this work was supported by Creative Ireland
Conceived and created by Dumbworld
Directed by John McIIduff
Music by Brian Irvine
Additional Text by Kate Heffernan
Design by Sabine Dargent
Sung by Megan O’Neill
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Thu 14 Aug, 8.00p.m. €25 / €22 BOOK NOW
Fri 15 Aug, 8.00p.m. €25 / €22 BOOK NOW
Sat 16 Aug, 3.00p.m. €25 / €22 BOOK NOW
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