HISTORY OF PAN PAN. Founded by Aedin Cosgrove and Gavin Quinn in 1991.
Pan Pan was founded in 1991 by director Gavin Quinn and designer Aedín Cosgrove. For nearly two decades, the company has been at the forefront of the development of theatre art, with innovation in performance and the engagement of new audiences as its guiding principle. Pan Pan continually re-examines and challenges the nature of its own work and has resisted settling into well-tried formulas, constantly striving to be individual, to explore the new and to express the contemporary.
All the works created are original, either through the writing of original plays or through the unique new expression of established writings. The company has developed an individual aesthetic that has grown from the creation and production of contemporary live performance in a variety of locations and situations, primarily in Ireland but also in many other contexts throughout the world.
Pan Pan have created 23 new productions and has toured throughout Ireland as well as Germany, Netherlands, U.K, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Finland, Australia and Korea. Pan Pan also founded and produce the Dublin International Theatre Symposium. Pan Pan’s past productions include: Negative Act, The Crystal Spider, The Man with Two Kisses, The Exorcism of Mechanical Frantoio, Martin Assassin of his Wife, Mademoiselle Flic Flac in the Red Room, A Bronze Twist of your Serpent Muscles(winner of the Best Overall Production in the Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe ’95), The Beekeeper’s Grave , Tailors Requiem, Peepshow, Cartoon, Mr. Staines, Standoffish (winner of a fringe first, Adelaide Festival, 2000) Deflowerfucked, For the First Time Ever, MAC-BETH 7, One; Healing with Theatre, Playboy of the Western World, The Idiots, Oedipus Loves You, The Crumbtrail, Do Di Zhu and The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane.
Standoffish, received a Fringe First in the International Fringe Festival in Adalaide on the 21st February 2000. It toured France in May as part of the Voyage des Commedians. Deflowerfucked opened the Cork Fringe Festival and toured to Lublin Poland. For the First Time Ever a co-production with German Stage Services from Marburg opened as part of the 5th Pan Pan International Theatre Symposium. Mac-beth 7 opened 2004 at Project Arts Centre.
Pan Pan Theatre won the Award for Best Overall Production at the Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe ’95 for their production Bronze Twist of Your Serpent Muscles; which toured Ireland and Northern Ireland and featured live music by the idiots. This play toured to Marseille, France as part of the La Belle Friche de Mai Festival. Tailors Requiem was launched at the Theatre de l’Instant, Brest, France as part of l’Imaginaire Irlandais 1995. Pan Pan Theatre opened Peepshow in Gadansk, Poland, as part of their Millennium Celebrations. Peepshow then travelled to the Castle in Olsztyn as part of their outdoor theatre festival and also to Marberg, Germany and Utrecht Holland. Peepshow opened in Ireland as part of the 2nd International Theatre Symposium in January 1998. Cartoon by Pan Pan toured to the International Festival in Suwon, South Korea and Poznan, Poland. Mr. Staines by Dermot Healy was specifically commissioned for Pan Pan and toured Ireland and Northern Ireland in the winter of 1999.
In 2006, Pan Pan produced The Playboy of the Western World in Mandarian for an all Chinese cast at the Oriental Theatre in Beijing. The Production was a huge critical success. It was presented in Ireland at the Project Arts Centre in December 2006 with support from Culture Ireland.
Pan Pan production Oedipus Loves You opened at the Smock Alley Theatre in October 2006. Following huge critical success it toured in 2007 to venues in Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Finland, and to Riverside Studios in London and Ps122 in New York. Oedipus Loves You was also presented at the Sydney Festival in 2010.
The Crumb Trail was developed in Hebble Theatre Berlin, premiered at the FFT in Dusseldorf and was presented at the Under the Radar festival at PS122 New York, 2009.
斗地主 (Do Di Zhu) Fight the Landlord by Sun Yue directed by Gavin Quinn with design by Aedin Cosgrove was produced in Shanghai 2010 as part of the Irish Programme for the Shanghai World Expo.
The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane was presented as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2010.
