is a theatre and performance artist, based in the west of Ireland. She has a long-standing professional role in the industry, working for leading drama organisations, such as Theatre 57, Macnas and Druid, and was director of Galway Theatre Festival for several years.
Also for Roaring is most readily described as experimental theatre, and in No Woman Is an Island, Stack continues to expand the grammar and techniques of her brand of performance art, this time by playing with the format of a lecture presentation. She provides us with a potted history of social attitudes to solitude, organised around quotes from key women thinkers and artists. As the title of the show suggests, Stack’s presentation navigates a constellation of ideas that address womanhood and feminist themes, though the explicitness of this conceptual framing transforms over the course of the show.
We learn about her relationship to her husband, her two cats and her sister. We learn about the joy she takes in solo dance parties, which are then threaded throughout the performance. There’s plenty of humour in the way Stack approaches a thought or memory but, gradually and with careful consideration, the levity is punctured by moments of real emotional tension, as the artist grapples with reflections that are heavy with sorrow and with pain.
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