Retreat is the creation of
Andrea Ipaktchi &Aoibheann McCann
(RECAP) audio: Alan Preims, Galway
Season 1 audio: Yasaman Sarhangi
Welcome to Knocknahay, a small village on a stoat-infested lake, somewhere in Ireland, that is home to the Kathleen O'Mara Residential Centre for the Arts.
Here, BRIGIT, an unsuccessful writer/Celtic Healer meets for an artistic collaboration with SHANNON, her Goop-inspired, Irish-American.
The pair rattle the other residents: MARY (a diligent Irish poet), AGNÉS (an aristocratic French sculptor ), GUNTER (a steadfast, German soundscape artist), DAMIEN (an Irish radio celebrity turned auteur) and the staff: BARNEY (the bumbling English director) NORA (the chef), TERESA (the kitchen maid) and the new kitchen temp.
As the artist-residents and staff prepare for a group exhibition to inaugurate the controversial Megacorp Exhibition Hall forced onto them by a would-be heiress, her groundskeeper grunt. But a mysterious, celebrity Russian dissident artist and an army of stoats have other plans.
Audio-fiction. Themes: the arts, family ties, Irish history, turnips, globalization, stoats, sex, dissidents, healers, the 1%, Greta Thunberg, the creeping commercialization of the arts, and homeopathic underarm deodorant.
Starring:
Fred McCluskey as: Olivoff Smirnoff,
Damien McKegan & Malachy McCourt
Helen Gregg as: Teresa Black, Agnes (aka Marie-Therese France Marie-France DeLamballe) & Skye Jetjeski
Aoibheann McCann as: Nora O’Leary, Mary Ward
Gavin Morgan as: Barney Watson, Gunter Hermelin & Brigit Smith
Andi Ipaktchi as: Shannon Mastriano & AI voice