Photography by James Ireland

Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge
UPCOMING: 15-17 September (13:00) (plus 15:15 on 17th) (35 mins.)
The New Theatre, Temple Bar
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022
Supported by PAN PAN Platform


Photography by Pranav Darshan
About the Play
An experimental 35-minute live cooking performance for our future.
This isn’t the first ecological catastrophe we’ve created. 10,000 years ago, human societies across the world changed from hunter-gathering to agricultural lifestyles. We’d hunted our food off the face of the earth. We’re making another catastrophe now.
Join James Ireland as they cook a vegan version of smoked salmon, using the ingredients to have a conversation about the history of food, and human impact on the environment in deep time.
Creative team
Directed by Kate Bauer
Written and performed by James Ireland
Music by James Ireland
Produced by James Ireland and Bradán
Supported by PAN PAN Platform
About Bradán
Bradán is a collaboration between Kate Bauer and James Ireland, who met in Dublin on a theatre undergrad in 2012.
We make ecological theatre, often with live music. We talk a lot about how difficult subjects like the climate can be to think about all the time. The last thing we’d want is to make a depressing climate show for people to sit through – there’s enough of that in our daily lives. We want to create work that energises, work that opens spaces for contemplation and coming together, and work that gives back. We create work for the future.
Bradán's debut show My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse won the Staging Change x VAULT award for ecologically-conscious development, and premiered at Pleasance Courtyard at Edinburgh Fringe 2022. Bradán's work has been called "a masterclass of gig theatre" (Everything Theatre), "the best gig theatre I've seen" (Rosie Bowden), and "eco-political theatre at its best" (audience testimony).
Follow our journey as we create the show!
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Twitter @bradantheatre
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Photography by Pranav Darshan
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