The Irish Theatre Group's Spring 2008 production,
'Max Dix, Zero to Six', a new play by Brussels based playwright, Vincent
Eaton took place in the Warehouse Studio Theatre on 10 - 19 April 2008.
Five Monologues
The evening begins with a series of five newly written monologues dealing with
the themes of love, parents, pets, death, writing conferences and bad kisses.
Alternatively melancholic, humorous, compassionate and graphic, they are
unsentimental confrontations with the passing of life.
Max Dix, Zero to Six
The second part of the evening is a new one-act play which will also be the
ITG’s FEATS 2008 entry at Stockholm in May, “Max Dix, Zero to Six” (previously
known under the working title “Before, before, and then, and then”). The play
follows a boy from the moment of his birth to age six years. Since the play is
about a family, it deals with mystifying terror, confusion, hopes, dreams,
domestic violence, jokes, big and little brothers, while swerving from the
hilarious to the tragic. The story is framed by Max, who struggles to become who
he thinks he should be, while the adult world tries to shape him into something
else. An urge toward transcendence infuses the production.
Performers include two newcomers to the Brussels theatre scene, but not to
theatre, Hilary Barry and Mehran Khalili, and three well-regarded Brussels
performers, Roisin Dore, Isabel Walsh and Eduardo Aladro-Vico.
Writer/Director
This is the eighth or ninth production written by Vincent Eaton to receive its
premiere in Brussels. His last production, “BOOM”, represented the ITG at FEATS
2007, and took home a production prize. He is a writer, video director and
performer.
