THE FIRST BAD MAN

Memorial Public Library, High Performance Rodeo, Calgary 30 January - 2 February 2025

The Capitol, RISING Festival, Naarm/Melbourne 7 - 16 of June 2024

Lincoln Center, New York, Under The Radar Festival 5 - 13 January 2024

TNT, Marburg 10 & 11 November 2023

National Theatre Studio, London 30 October - 3 November 2023

FFT, Düsseldorf 22nd - 26th March 2022

St John’s Theatre, Listowel 4 February 2022

The Everyman, Cork 2 - 3 February 2022

Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray 1 February 2022

Black Box Theatre, Galway 26 - 27 October 2021

Wesley House, Dublin Theatre Festival 6 - 10 & 13 - 17 October 2021

Online 30 - 31 July 2021

A live performance based on a reading of THE FIRST BAD MAN, a novel by Miranda July.

Kitty Blennerhasset, John Benno, Rose McVittie and Freya Golden have recently joined a book club. Their first book is The First Bad Man and every week for a year they keep coming back to it.

This performance is a telling of these book club members’ encounter with the characters of Miranda July’s novel, reviewed by The Observer as: ‘Heartbreakingly sad, thoughtful, disgusting and hilarious’.

Each person booking tickets for the performance will receive a copy of the novel in the post.

For ages 16 +

The First Bad Man originally premiered in Dublin Theatre Festival 2021 as a five part performance piece made up of five sixty minute episodes where every night was an opening night. It was re-developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio’s Generate program in 2023 and now runs as two sixty minute performance pieces; Wormhole and Fundraiser. These episodes are performed in rep and can be viewed as stand alone pieces, or you can see them both.