Charlotte Gallagher’s brand new solo show, Char Char ~ Witchy!, spirals around Char Char’s spiritual journey as she uncovers why in the world she wants to be so very witchy and whether everything in our lives might just be a cult…

Or a multi-level marketing scheme.

Char Char descends into the underworld (her past) on a sacred quest to unveil -or invent! – a spirituality that honours her body and the earth. Is it possible? With a little help from the audience, in a game called, “Let’s Have A Ritual!”, we might just save the planet. You’re welcome.

Age 15+

CREATIVE TEAM

Performer and writer: Charlotte Gallagher

Director and development: Colin Watkeys

Dramaturgy: Dr Sarah Hoover

Producer: Charlotte Gallagher and Chloe Murphy of Tochmarc Productions

Stage manager: Jamie Bigley

Charlotte - ahem - Searlit, is a seeker. She’s on a quest to discover her IRISHNESS. She’s English, but she has Irish blood, and she’s decided to find the mysticism and magic that Hollywood, romance novels and the Irish tourist board have promised her. She’s packed her bags and moved to Galway. She lives in a little house by the sea. She’s waiting for magic...

But she’s waded into the bog of a very dangerous question: Is she really Irish at all?

CREATIVE TEAM

Dir. Fiona Wiedmann

Written & Performed by Charlotte Gallagher

Produced by Charlotte Gallagher & Chloe Murphy at TOCHMARC

Development Colin Watkeys

Dramaturg Peter Sheehy

Filmed at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop with thanks to Vinnie Brown, Morgan Creative, Mike O'Halloran and GTF.

Constance and Eva is a new play about two sisters who abandoned their privileged upbringing in Ireland to become political radicals. Constance Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth battled imperialism, fought for women's rights, and sought to redefine gender and sexuality.

Constance and Eva is a multimedia reimagining of the lives of these two sisters, bringing together archive footage, found text and performance to tell their story.

CREATIVE TEAM

Dir. Luke Davies

Written by Kimberly Campanello

Devised by Charlotte Gallagher, Hannah Berry, Luke Davies, Kimberly Campanello

Performed by Hannah Berry, Charlotte Gallagher

Film and Video Sandeep Gill

Sound JP Thwaite

Produced by Charlotte Gallagher & Kimberly Campanello

With special thanks to Pat Quigley, Sonja Tiernan, Brian Gallagher, St. Aidans Catholic Church, Caroline McCormack, Cerys Matthews, Steve Abbott, Deirdre Robertson, Dr Fiona O' Doherty, Key West Residency, York St John University, the staff at Kilmainham Jail, the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, and the LSE Women’s Library.

A comic romp through one woman's love of romance novels! Negotiating feminism, lit crit and improvisation can Carlotta find her happily ever after?

Watford Fringe Festival 2021, Kensington & Chelsea Arts Festival 2021, Vault Festival 2017, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016, Camden Fringe Festival 2015

CREATIVE TEAM

Dir. Charlotte Peters 2021

Dir. Colin Watkeys 2015 -17

Written and performed by Charlotte Gallagher

Development and dramaturgy Colin Watkeys

Produced by Charlotte Gallagher and Solo Theatre Festival

Filmed by Nicky Beltran at The Hen and Chickens

With thanks to Mills & Boon for donating books to our audiences.

I love working with award-winning filmmaker, moving image artist, and performance artist Michelle Williams Gamaker. Williams Gamaker’s cinematic worlds are lush, sumptuous, sites of revolution where marginalised characters and actors may take over a film set. She surrounds herself with exciting artists and her work thrums with the creativity she invites, encourages and conducts.

My credits here include

Thieves (2022) I played real-life 30s film producer Lotta Woods. This film showed in the South London Gallery exhibition, Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass.

The Eternal Return (2019) I played the actor Sabu’s wife, Marilyn - another real-life rendering!

The Fruit Is There To Be Eaten (2017) We re-made Black Narcissus and I played Sister Clodagh, dismayed to discover Krishna Istha’s Kanchi taking over the nunnery and the film-set.

www.michellewilliamsgamaker.com