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 3: Font
Frances Flood, holds forth in his very up market apartment about all things concerning Irish Architecture and how he Francis was never given the credit he deserved. It’s like he is giving some kind of lecture to an invisible audience. He drinks glasses of Champagne and rants against a rival Jerome Fitzsimons who castrated him and made him a eunuch in the harem of Irish architecture. Interrupted by neighbour Turlough, Frances quizzes him about his missing eye and loses all reason causing Turlough to leave. Frances is left alone.