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 4: Lans
Lans, a pharmacy student from Sierra Leone, wakes to play his trumpet and composes a hip hop track ‘tears in my porridge’ about a girl who just broke up with him. His neighbour, Olive, visits him and talks of Voodoo in his country and her dead son but she gets too personal when mentioning to Lans that his parents have never visited him. He asks her to leave and tries to call his parents but they don’t answer. He is clearly feeling lonely and let down by them. In a dream, Olive urges him to get mad and express his anger. He does so and himself and Olive sit on his bed playing a trumpet.