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Stand up Comedian Willa White stands in a white vest and headphones on stage, behind him is Gary Keegan who speaks into a microphone in a performance of The Examination

Dublin | The Examination | April 17 – 20

By News, Whats On

The Examination
By Brokentalkers & Featuring Willa White

17th, 18th, 19th & 20th April 2025
The Ambassador Theatre, Dublin

 

Ticket on sale now

“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Examination, starring stand-up comedian Willa White (Joy in the Hood, The Savage Eye, You Must Be Jokin’ Podcast)  is a multi-award-winning production exploring mental health and human rights in the prison system. The Examination is written and directed by leading Irish theatre company Brokentalkers (The Blue Boy, Have I No Mouth, Masterclass).

Following award winning runs, national and international tours, The Examination returns to Dublin to the Ambassador Theatre on 17th, 18th, 19th & 20th April 2025.

Tickets €34.90 including booking fees on sale now

Featuring Brokentalkers’ distinctive blend of biography and breathtaking theatricality. The Examination draws on historical research and testimony from current and former prisoners as well as Willa White’s own experience of incarceration, rehabilitation and recovery. With powerful imagery and a visceral sound scape, The Examination is an uncompromising, revelatory and often darkly funny interrogation of an aspect of society too often ignored.

Best Production – Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020
Best Soundscape (Denis Clohessy) – Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020
Best Production – Dublin Fringe Festival 2019
Best Performer (Willie White) – Dublin Fringe Festival 2019

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Superbly slippery piece of theatre’ – The Stage
⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘No easy escapes in Brokentalkers’ sly, provocative play’ – The Irish Times
⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Again and again, ‘The Examination’ pulls the rug out from under you’ – Fest

 

Aug 01

Calling Male Dancers

By News

Brokentalkers and Shaun Dunne are seeking a highly skilled male dancer for our upcoming collaboration in Dublin, Ireland, featuring movement direction by Eddie Kay. 

Performer must be available September 16th – November 27th

Playing age 25 – 40

To apply please send the following to mail@brokentalkers.ie by August 7th.

  • CV & Photo
  • Video where you introduce yourself, tell us where you are from & where you are based.
  • Video of your dance – see prompt below.

Prompt:

Express the word ‘care’ through your body in a 2 – 3 min movement score.
Care can take many forms, caring for someone else, caring for yourself, caring about a cause.
Care can be both stabilising and destabilising.
Care tasks are often repeated, the journey is ongoing, incomplete.

As you are developing your score think about these words:

  1. Care
  2. Stability
  3. Instability
  4. Completion
  5. Incompletion

Play with levels, but keep the majority of the score on its feet.

Deadline for applications August 7th, 6pm.