About Mangiare...

Mangiare Theatre Company is a collaboration of artists working to make innovative and experimental theatre. Their unique style of performance emerges from fresh perspectives on existing texts or new texts coupled with a dynamic physical manner.

"it's easy to settle down to sixty minutes of strangeness from Mangiare…" - Irish Times

The name Mangiare (pronounced "man-jar-eh") is taken from the Italian verb "to eat", signifying our appetite to create and an organisational structure, based on the Sicilian cosa nostra, with directors as capo regimes and an army of "button men" artists in the streets and theatres of Ireland. Established in 2005, Mangiare has produced over 100 performances encompassing: four original shows, a cabaret, a site-specific public art project, a commissioned street-theatre event, two national tours, a series of high-level performance workshops, an appearance in the Fringe Festival of Prague, two appearances in the Boyle Arts Festival, three shows in the Kinsale Arts Week and three appearances in the Dublin Fringe Festival (click here for a full production history).

The company was founded by the actor and director Jaimie Carswell and in July 2006 was formed into a creative ensemble of artists including the producer Deborah Dignam; the designer Laura Howe, the director Darragh McKeon, and the actor Rory Nolan.

Mangiare gratefully acknowledges the support of The Arts Council of Ireland,Culture Ireland, the Offaly County Council, and the Sligo County Council Arts Office for project funding.