Man & Board

Man & Board pairs Rob Heaslip’s moving body with a ritualised wooden board with which he sings, he dances, he wins and he loses. An impassioned show about tradition, heritage, and masculinity where a father celebrates his own Irish cultural heritage as he passes it on to his adopted son.

During this autobiographical show Rob talks about and shares traditional Irish love songs and lullabies, his experience growing up in a rural community and the traditions through which he was raised. In doing this the show brings old traditions into a new place, a new time.

As with all his work Rob invites viewers to consider their sense of place by evoking a connection to the traditions that lie upon their homeland, concepts of change & the passage of time.

Playful, musical, melancholy and playful, all rolled into one.