Guidelines For A Long And Happy Life

04/11/2011

Now that the show is over our final press review is in at
http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/Reviews/Current/Guidelines-for-a-Long-and-Happy-Life
Thanks to all of you who came to the show. We look forward to seeing you again!

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25/10/2011

21/10/2011

The reviews are in...

"The transformed space looks and sounds amazing... stunning design concept... hazy lighting... tense soundscape... fashionably tattered costumes" "Ambitious, devilishly structured... carries distinct echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road" Jane Coyle, The Irish Times

"Michael Duke's careful direction brings out the best in this cautionary tale"
Grania McFadden, Belfast Telegraph

"Stunning and shockingly resonant"
Liz Kennedy, News Letter

21/10/2011

Make music. If you cannot scavenge some instruments, you may be able to fashion your own. Drums used to be made from goats hide. Guitars, violins and other stringed instruments had a body carved from wood. You can fashion a crude but effective flute from a thin branch of a tree.

Skeeter performs her signature hit. From 1965

19/10/2011

Guideline For A Long And Happy Life: Tell stories. Make up your own. Sing songs. Make up your own. Write poems. Make up your own. Build a future. Make up your own.

17/10/2011

Guideline For A Long And Happy Life: If you have a partner, you are encouraged to breed, as much as possible. The last colonies at Moscow, Munich and Paris have all but disappeared and it is your duty to repopulate our planet. There are no cities any more.

14/10/2011

At 8pm tonight the warehouse doors will open revealing a terrifying post-apocalyptic world. Will you be there at The End?

Is a song by The Doors from their first self titled album, released in 1967.

12/10/2011

Guideline For A Long And Happy Life: Greet your fellow survivor with a friendly hello. Wave your hands in salutation. If both parties are disease-free shake hands.

12/10/2011

LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE for the show which opens this Friday - book now! Call the Box office on 028 9097 1197 or book online

Tinderbox Theatre Company presents a spectacular site specific production created specially for the 2011 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queens. Paul Kennedy’s chilling new play is set one generation after a global apocalypse. Only a few survivors remain, scouring the desolate landscape looking for ...

10/10/2011

A glass of wine everyday? Surround yourself with friends? Floss? What is your number one guideline for a long and happy life?

07/10/2011

Find a safe place and make a new home. You may need to take to the trail in search of sustenance. Take the following things with you. A compass. A knife. A sleeping bag. A cigarette lighter. These can be found in abundance in abandoned roadside stations. Carry an empty bottle and fill it with clean water whenever you can. Take shelter from the cold in the evenings.

05/10/2011

Check out the Wednesday arts page of today's Belfast Telegraph for an interview with Paul Kennedy writer of Guidelines For A Long And Happy Life