HISTORY OF PAN PAN. Founded by Aedin Cosgrove and Gavin Quinn in 1991.
The theatre that Pan Pan creates is off a contemporary attitude with a lot of personal feelings attached. Our Theatre is how we saw the world Yesterday, and somethimes, towards the end of the performance, how we see the world Today.
Artistic Directors: Gavin Quinn, Aedin Cosgrove. General Manager: Aofie de Faoite.
Pan Pan have created 15 new productions and has toured throughout Ireland as well as Germany, Netherlands, U.K, Italy,Sweden, Poland, Austria, Australia and Korea. Pan Pan also founded and produce the Dublin International Theatre Symposium .Pan Pan's past productions include: “Negative Act”, "The Crystal Spider", "The Man with Two Kisses", The Exorcism of Mechanical Frantoio", "Martin Assassin of his Wife", "Mademoiselle Flic Flac in the Red Room", "A Bronze Twist of your Serpent Muscles"(winner of the Best Overall Production in the Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe '95), The Beekeeper’s Grave , "Tailors Requiem", "Peepshow", "Cartoon", "Mr. Staines" and "Standoffish" (winner of a fringe first, Adelaide Festival, 2000) Deflowerfucked, For the First Time Ever and MAC-BETH 7.
Pan Pan Theatre won the Award for Best Overall Production at the Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe '95 for their production Bronze Twist of Your Serpent Muscles; which toured Ireland and Northern Ireland and features live music by the idiots. This play toured to Marseille, France as part of the La Belle Friche de Mai Festival. "Tailors Requiem" was launched at the Theatre de l'Instant, Brest, France as part of l'Imaginaire Irlandais. 1995.Pan Pan Theatre opened Peepshow in Gadansk, Poland, as part of their Millennium Celebrations. Peepshow then travelled to the Castle in Olsztyn as part of their outdoor theatre festival and also to Marberg, Germany and Utrecht Holland. Peepshow opened in Ireland as part of the 2nd International Theatre Symposium in January 1998. Cartoon by Pan Pan toured to the International Festival in Suwon, South Korea and Poznan, Poland. Mr. Staines by Dermot Healy was specifically commissioned for Pan Pan and toured Ireland and Northern Ireland in the winter of 1999.
Standoffish, recieved a Fringe First in the International Fringe Festival in Adalaide on the 21st Febuary 2000. It toured France in May as part of the Voyage des Commedians. Deflowerfucked opened the Cork Fringe Festival and toured to Lublin Poland. For the First Time Ever a co production with German Stage Services from Marburg opened as part of the 5th Pan Pan International Theatre Symposium. Mac-beth 7 opened 2004 at Project Arts Centre.
In 2006, Pan Pan produced The Playboy of the Western World in Mandarian for an all Chinese cast at the Oriental Theatre in Beijing. The Production was a huge critical success. It was presented in Ireland at the Project Arts Centre in December 2006 with support from Culture Ireland.
Pan Pan production Oedipus Loves You opened at the Smock Alley Theatre in October 2006. Following huge critical success it toured in 2007 to venues in Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Finland, and to Riverside Studios in London and Ps122 in New York.
For Dublin Theatre Festival 2007, Pan Pan staged a version of Lars Von Trier The Idiots.
Pan Pan are currently in development for a new performance,The Crumbtrail, rehearsing at the Hebbel Theatre Berlin.
