Luke Casserly: Dublin Theatre Festival show brings common scents to Ireland's peat story 

Distillation is by no means a conventional play, but Casserly has worked with a parfumier to bring the ecologically-minded project to the festival

Luke Casserly's Distillation project at Dublin Theatre Festival emphasises the importance of Ireland's boglands. 

Luke Casserly’s hope for his Distillation project at Dublin Theatre Festival is that it will - largely through the sense of smell - transport the audience to the bogs of his native Co Longford.

“I grew up in Lanesborough, where my family have been farmers for generations,” he says. “My first memories of that landscape would have been of turning over sods of turf in the summer, and, of course, all the rows that went with that, with my father trying to coerce me and my brothers into working with him.”