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LOVE & FURY
The Passion of Jonathan Swift
Festival Play Friday 22nd July Scoil Eimhin Naofa 8.00 pm €10.00
Performer: David Heap Producer: Paul Hayes
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The play concentrates on the 1720s when Swift published some of his greatest work, including ‘Gulliver’. It includes two pieces which reflect, with a contemporary resonance, on the banking crisis of the day. The emotional theme is his long term love for “Stella” with his birthday poems to her, prayer for her, and moving elegy on her death. He reflects with wit on life, aging and love and the climax is a shortened version of his satirical masterpiece ‘A Modest Proposal’. Love and Fury was performed as part of the Show in the Bag at the Absolute Fringe supported by Irish Theatre Institute and Fishamble.
David Heap
David trained at the Bristol Old Vic School. He came to Ireland to play Lancey in Field Day’s world premiere of Brian Friel’s “Translations”. Favourite work in Irish theatre has included the Irish Times nominated one man show Race of the Ark Tattoo; the original Berkoff Salomé at the Gate; Francis Hardy in Faith Healer with Tinderbox; the two Alice shows with Blue Raincoat; Titus Andronicus and Macbeth with Siren Productions; Much Ado About Nothing at the Lyric, Belfast; Gloucester in King Lear for Second Age and Beast by Elena Bolster.
Recent television work has seen him in The Clinic; as the Marquess of Ormonde in Cromwell in Ireland and Jack Taylor on TV3.
He enjoyed ten years playing Donal Maher in Fair City.
