Distillation

This multisensory performance will transport you to the Irish bog landscape through scent.

Luke Casserly collaborated with renowned perfumer Joan Woods to create a unique essence of the Midlands bog – the place where he grew up – as the starting point for an olfactory encounter exploring our relationship to place. Created in direct response to the closure of Ireland’s peat harvesting industry, Distillation is dedicated to the future of our broken landscapes – in the hope that by engaging with them, we might be able to better understand them.

A Luke Casserly, Abbey Theatre, and Soals Nua Production in association with Museums of History NSW and Sydney Fringe.

This ode to our landscape will give you a new perspective on Ireland’s bogs. All of the senses are engaged: not just sight and hearing but also touch, smell and even taste.

★★★★ The Irish Times

This inventive, deceptively simple performance lightly holds a balance between an ecological meditation and an inquiry into cultural memory. A paean to peat that’s a feast for the senses.

★★★★ The Guardian

An imaginative attempt to anthropomorphise an environment, and to tell a story through smell: an olfactory essay.

★★★★ The Stage

For specific access requirements, please contact the Bookings team on 8239 2211.

Wentworth Road, Vaucluse NSW 2030

Vaucluse House

Wentworth Road, Vaucluse NSW 2030
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