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Double Bill: ‘Back Home’ & ‘Grandad & Guinness’Two solo performances, ‘Back Home’ by Masha Khaleeva and Daria Holovchanska, and ‘Grandad & Guinness’ by Wandering Stories. Moving through layers of land and history, these stories explore the role of place, memory and family in understanding ourselves and our connections with each other.
Back Home (Work-in-progress showing)
Back Home is a poetic one-woman play-journey exploring the ties between land, memory, and migration. Moving between reality, memory, and folklore, the piece captures the bittersweet nostalgia of leaving home: the ache for land, smells, songs, and landscapes that continue to live in memory. Back Home is a gentle act of resistance, a celebration of cultural memory, and an invitation to remember something you didn’t know you remembered. The play does not offer simple answers. Instead, it asks: what is home made of once it no longer exists as a place? Can memory, land, and story become something we carry, and something we share?
Presenter: Masha Khaleeva & Daria Holovchanska
Credits: Concept, directing & scenography: Daria Holovchanska
Concept, performing & producing: Masha Khaleeva
Directing adviser: Eftychia Spyridaki
Lightning design: Vlada Hrystenko
Sound: Misha Khalieiev
Marketing visuals: Alime Dzhelilova & Dasha Karpova
Content Warnings: Flashing lights, haze machine, loud sound
Supported by the Backstage Theatre Longford, Scene + Heard and Teatr Wolność
Grandad & Guinness
“Dad, have you seen this!? They said Grandad took it!”
There’s a photograph of Pope John Paul II waving at the crowd, perfectly framed by Guinness’s St. James’s Gate.
“Seen it? Who do you think was holding onto his legs for dear life, as he flung himself out the window to get the shot!”
Grandad wanted to be an artist but left school at 13, got a job taking photos of factory machines and beer barrels instead, worked for Guinness his whole life and never touched a drop. Dad hid his comic book art under the mattress and ended up in computers, and a recovering alcoholic. They both taught Sinéad to draw and dream. Now she tells stories, painting pictures with a thousand words, sharing stories of fairy princesses, fallen heroes, awful successes and joyous losses.
Presented By: Wandering Stories
Credits: Cast- Sinéad O’Brien. Director/Dramaturg- Naoise Ó Duinn
Stories and memories searching for the answer- how do you live ae good life?
Content Warnings: Strong language, discussion of grief, mental health, cancer, addiction & dementia.
Funders/Logos: Supported by the Axis Assemble Programme 2026
There will be a post-show discussion on both show nights.
Age Suitability 16+
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The Civic, South Dublin County Libraries, Dublin, County Dublin, 24, Ireland
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