Susanne R. Day’s “Toilers” - Her Lost Play - As Reconstructed by Painted Bird

Presented by Painted Bird

Cork Midsummer Festival & Dublin Fringe Festival 2017

Nominated for Best Design, Dublin Fringe Festival

Three young women determine to remake the world. They start by reconstructing a lost play. In 1913, Susanne R. Day staged a ‘little propaganda play’ in a fundraiser for women fighting for the vote. She had been fearless before, in her arguments, her commitments and her politics. She believed women should participate in all the big decisions and meant to prove it with her life. One hundred years later, three young women discover the stakes are just as high for them. Painted Bird reconstruct the text of Day’s lost play, imagining what might have been.

Direction and Set Design by Fiona McGeown

Dramaturgy by Thomas Conway

Sound Design by Rob Moloney

Lighting Design & Co-Set Design by Eoin Winning

Costume Design by Naomi Faughnan