Smashing Times and troubled lives in theatre

For the past two decades, Dublin theatre company, Smashing Times, has engaged with social issues.

Next week, it presents Witness, a week-long season of plays in the Project Arts Centre, in Dublin. The pieces are Testimonies, a series of monologues that reflects on suicide and mental illness; Thou Shalt Not Kill, a multidisciplinary set of performances that examines conflict, trauma and hope; and, finally, Uprising, a fusion of text, movement and dance that examines fighting for a cause.

“All three centre on stories of individuals who have gone through difficult situations,” says Smashing Times artistic director, Mary Moynihan. “They address what has happened to them as human beings and how they’ve emerged from those situations to move forward with their lives.”