Past student Eoin Helps Elevate End of Year Show

SERC’s HND Level 2 Performing Arts students have elevated their end of year show, thanks to support from a past student of the popular course.  

Steven Lee, Lecturer in Performing Arts said, “The HND Performing Arts end of year show is the ‘in-yer-face’ Anthony Neilson play, Realism. In planning the production and set design, we were able to call on the support and professional skills of past student Eoin Robinson who now works as a Freelance Video Designer for theatre."      

He added, “Eoin has been working with the students and myself to help conceptualise, design and action a highly accomplished visual interpretation of the literary material.   The result is a visual feast for anyone coming along to see the performance on 8 and 9 June at SERC’s SPACE Theatre."

Steven continued, “Eoin progressed from the HND to the second-year degree in Drama at Ulster University and was delighted to share his career path with the students.   It has been fantastic for them to see someone who has carved out a career specialising in a niche area for theatre.   The collaboration has illustrated the progression routes of a Level 5 vocational qualification and the fulfilling and rewarding employment opportunities within the creative industry.”   

You can see Realism by Anthony Neilson performed by HND Level 2 Performing Arts at 7.30pm, Wednesday the 8 and Thursday the 9 of June at Space Theatre, Castle Park Road, Bangor. Tickets available from TicketSource

Production synopsis:  A lazy Saturday for Stuart? With interruptions from a radio panel show, a threesome, provocative backing dancers, a nagging mother and a mouthy cat - no chance. Luckily, none of them know what he's thinking . . .   

Realism is an exquisite, surreal trip inside the mind of one man during an ordinary day. However, it veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously comic trip inside his wayward imagination. Dreams and daydreams are brought to life to hilarious effect exposing the fault lines between everyday life and the world of the imagination in which fantasies ignore conventions of taste and political correctness.     

Pictured above (L – R) Freelance Video Designer, Eoin Robinson, with HND Performing Arts students, Chloe Crawford (Lisburn), Joel Caproni (Bangor), Hana Lou Jamison (Belfast), Kevin Pierce (Belfast), Jodie Giffen (Ards), Mackenzie Moreland (Ards), Taylor Dowling (Bangor) and Performing Arts Lecturer, Steven Lee.