THE CRUMB TRAIL

Forum Freies Theater 2008

Dublin Theatre Festival, Project Arts Centre 2009 | TBA Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts 2009 | Aarhus Festival 2009 | PS122, New York 2009

More than any other theater troupe I can think of, Pan Pan finds the soul-muddling angst in the Internet age.

Ben Brantley, The New York Times

PAN PAN’S NEW PRODUCTION THE CRUMB TRAIL With text by Gina Moxley, directed by Gavin Quinn, designed by Aedin Cosgrove and performed by Ned Dennehy, Aoife Duffin, Bush Moukarzel and Gina Moxley. The death of the Fairy Tale. Can we live in a world without fairy tales? I’ll begin with a confession, Let’s pretend. I enjoy telling lies. I wanted to eat a child. All to myself. They found my fantasies offensive, pathological, be careful what you wish for…… I was not born a bold girl. I became one. Where did being good ever get anyone? Witch fulfillment if you like. The Crumb Trail is a decamerous contemporary installation/performance piece dealing with the notion of crisis and engagement. It is a play area where theatrical stuff is shown to the public: made up Films/ Live things all arranged and prearranged for different performances. Following a highly successful 6 week residency at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin and a rehearsal showing at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, Pan Pan’s newest production premiered at the FFT in Dusseldorf, Germany on the 20 November 2008. It travels to PS122 in New York in January as part of the Coil Festival - more information from PS122.ORG

Nominated for Best Lighting, Irish Times Theatre Awards, 2009

by Gina Moxley

The death of the Fairy Tale. Can we live in a world without fairy tales?

The Crumb Trail is a decamerous contemporary installation and performance dealing with the notion of crisis and engagement. It’s the death of the Fairy Tale. It’s a detective story, sharp and blunt. Detecting where we are at – but in the dark. Can we not engage with reality anymore? Ice caps are melting and I’m watching people I don’t know on ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.’ It is Hamlet, it is Hansel and Gretel. They’re all dead lost.

A stark illumination of the cherished fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, The Crumb Trail explores the isolation that comes from groping for survival in a dark world of technology and greed. Featuring a full suite of the media intrusions that now saturate our daily lives – including live video feed, You Tube clips and internet sex rooms.

“Pan Pan was most recently in town with the show Oedipus Loves You, which was one of the most thrilling adaptations of the Oedipus plays to hit the city in recent memory. The Crumb Trail looks and feels almost entirely different, but the same incredible performers (especially the women), astonishing design sense, and incisive eye for raw theatricality are still there.”

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins – The New Yorker

“The Crumb Trail fundamentally challenges the idea that the local and specific exist anymore. It proposes a world of personal isolation, electronic simulacra and collapsed narratives in which ‘reality’ is just another genre. This weightlessness can be exhilarating … there’s a relentless and fully embodied courage to the piece.”

Fintan O’Toole – The Irish Times

Written by Gina Moxley

Directed by Gavin Quinn

Designed by Aedín Cosgrove

Produced by Layla O’Mara

Sound design by Jimmy Eadie

Music by Gordon is a Mime

Cast: Aoife Duffin, Bush Moukarzel, Gina Moxley and Arthur O’Riordan