Souvenir tells the story of a life through a freewheeling exploration of memory, jealousy and time. Music, magic tricks, goldfish, Shakespeare, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and Proust collide in an attempt to compress the longest novel ever written into 55 minutes.

Souvenir opened September 19th 2012 at the New Theatre, Dublin, as part of Dublin Fringe. 

“Spellbinding. Rife with literary allusion, beautiful imagery and evocative writing. It will stay with me for a very long time.”
★★★★★
OneStopArts

”A hilarious hour-long negotiation with Proust.”
★★★★
Irish Theatre Magazine

”Long after the performance ended its meanings were still unfurling.”
★★★★
Irish Times

Performed by Bush Moukarzel

With the voices of
Charlotte Moukarzel
Andrew Bennett

Set Design Andrew Clancy
Costume design Grace O’Hara
Sound and Music Adam Welsh
Light John Crudden (Dublin)
Josh Pharo (London, New York)

Written by Bush Moukarzel after Marcel Proust
(with Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, T S Eliot, William Shakespeare, Don DeLillo, Charlie Kaufman and Orson Welles).
Direction Ben Kidd
Producer Rachel Murray

TOUR DATES

2014
June - The Yard, London (UK)
December - Abrons Arts Center, New York (US)

2016
September - Brisbane Festival (AU)

2017
October - Seoul Performing Arts Festival (KR)

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