Dedicated followers of theatre came to the Project this week to see the premiΦre of Dog, written and directed by Raymond Keane.
The Barabbas production is already booked to go to London next year for staging at the Greenwich and Docklands Festival. Keane's wife, Fiona Nolan, and their sons, Fionn (13) and Mel Keane (10), were there to see the show.
Ohio-reared Roger Gregg, who did the music and sound for the show, came along with his wife, Sunniva O'Flynn, who is curator of the Irish Film Archive.
Parts of the show, he says, "are visually spellbinding", and he's right.
Watch out for the dog who is especially brilliant, in particular when he runs alongside the jogging Ruth Lehane.
Director and writer Joe O'Byrne, was there to see the new work. His own play, En Suite, which is set in a B&B in present-day Ireland, will open at the Peacock Theatre in March.
Teerth Chung, director of Dra∅ocht and her husband, Richard Wakely, managing director of the Abbey, came in to see the new work as well.
Barabbas plans a countrywide tour in the new year of their work, which, along with Dog, also includes Moby Dan by Veronica Coburn and Nightmare on Essex Street by Gerard Stembridge.
Break a leg, Barabbas. Dog runs until Wednesday.