Where does a theatre production begin? Before the set, the lights or the audience, there is a conversation.

For Culture Night, theatre designer John Doheny and director Kevin Lalor Fitzpatrick invite a small audience into Dressing Room 5 to witness the usually unseen first stage of the creative process.

As the director and designer discuss a play, three actors bring fragments of their ideas to life. Possibilities are tested, reshaped, discarded and imagined anew.

Part performance, part conversation and part experiment, PLAY — The Meet opens a door onto the moment an idea begins to become theatre.