The Non Prophet Organisation’s Community Festivals are community created performances as socio-ecological practice. These festivals seek to transform our concept of community entertainment. By sharing in the creative process of performances we hope to create a sense of inclusivity for everybody!

Our Nuptial hour draws on apace and we are stirring up the Claremorris youth to merriments and awakening the pert and nimble spirit of mirth with Brazilian Reggae Drumming courtesy of Anthony McNamee a tutor with Music Generation Mayo: Good vibes and great drummers considering what little time or experience we have.

Some of our hempen homespun actors are a little anxious about sharing the creative process with our audience, Peter Quince, our frustrated director's hair has fallen out, Bully Bottom wants to put off our performance until Lughnasadh a festival involving great gatherings that included religious ceremonies, ritual athletic contests, feasting, matchmaking and trading. A feast of the new food, the sacrifice of a bull and a ritual dance-play. A number of fairs are also believed to be survivals of Lughnasadh, for example the Puck Fair. But as poor Peter Quince I say:

The show must go on

We have our scrolls and roles

The hempen homespuns thought fit,

through all Mayo to play in our

interlude before the ladies and gentlemen

on our festival's wedding-day and night and 

I am to entreat you, request

you and desire you, to read them by to-morrow night;

and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the

town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if

we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with

company, and our devices known. 

I pray you, fail me not.

BOTTOM

There are things in this comedy of A midsummer Night's Dream

that will never please. First, We don't know our lines; which the ladies

cannot abide. 

STARVELING

I believe we leave the Lions out, when all is done.

BOTTOM

Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.

Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to

say, we will do no harm with our words; and, for the more

better assurance, tell them that I, Bottom, am not

Bottom, but Fallon from The Men's Shed: this will put them

out of fear.

QUINCE

Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;

that is, to bring people to see a play in McMahon Wooded Park; for,

as you know, A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in a wood

SNOUT

Doth the sun shine that day we play our play?

BOTTOM

A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find

out weather, find out weather.

QUINCE

Yes, it doth shine that day.

BOTTOM

Why, then may you leave the park, 

where we play, open, and let the sun

may shine in at the gazebo.

QUINCE

Ay;  Then, there is another thing:

Someone must represent the fourth wall;

for audiences as you know can't

talk through the fouth wall.

SNOUT

You can never break the fourth wall. What say you, Bottom?

BOTTOM

Some man or other must present Wall: and let him

have some rough cast about him,

to signify wall; and let him hold his

microphone thus, and through that microphone shall we whisper.

QUINCE

Then all is well. Come and rehearse your parts.

Theseus, you begin: and so every one according to his cue.