LIFE WAS SUSPENDED IN THE MESPIL. BUT UNDERNEATH, IN THE DARKNESS, SOMETHING WAS COMING TO PASS.
Pan Pan presents MESPIL IN THE DARK starring Andrew Bennett, Aidan Gillen, Olwen Fouéré and Ned Dennehy.
MESPIL IN THE DARK explores the lives of eight actors and artists who live in the same complex of flats in Dublin. We will follow the solo rat runs of each of their normal days and how they tread in and out of each other’s lives. We will observe their daily habits, both private and public. From trimming their toenails to cooking a meal to how they do their laundry. We will hear about their dreams and nightmares and experience with them their hopes and fears and the small coincidental accidents that shape their destinies.
It is a sensitive, sometimes surreal, voyeuristic experience. We watch these individuals who lead lives of quiet desperation just about staving off failure and making a living.
Does the flat complex and its community of residents offset loneliness or can living in close proximity with many people become intrusive? Do the residents support one another – or is there an illusion of support which simply serves to maintain social diplomacy? Will these eccentric characters living in this bohemian oasis in the middle of a modern city be able to continue to live there?
Episode 2: Pentacle
Shiela dressed like Miss Haversham goes out to her corporate gig leaving surf loving Turlough to mind their infant son. He attempts a self tape and tries to masturbate but falls asleep. Shiela returns late at night and wants to do a tarot reading. As the reading develops the cracks and mistrust in their relationship emerge. Turlough’s mother has Alzheimers and Shiela is anxious he makes sure she leaves him money as she doesn’t trust that Turlough will be able to provide. They have never felt so far apart. Their little son sleeps in his cot.