by Janet Moran and Steve Blount

The tunnel closing will take place at a busy time for the airport. Both Massachusetts and New Hampshire have winter school vacations during that time. It is a peak time for winter family vacations.This year,Twenty years ago, to plan a trip, you'd have to go to a travels-silkroad agent with your ideas of your trip and the best you could do was to pick up some brochures. Show in a Bag has four new shows: Counter Culture, by Katie O'Kelly (star of recent hit Joyced), Beowulf: The Blockbuster, by Bryan Burroughs, Swing, by Janet Moran and Steve Blount, and Small Plastic Wars, by Pat McGrath.
The initiative is coordinated by the Fringe, the Irish Theatre Institute, and Fishamble – The New Play Company, and is uniquely performer-led. The show remains the performer's, an easy-to-stage piece offered to venues directly. "It's deliberately low-budget, so that they haven't used up too much cost by the time they get to the stage," says Fishamble's literary director, Gavin Kostick. "That's part of the ethos of it. So, then, once they get going they're actually earning."Kostick is the shepherd of Show in a Bag.oncrete is being increasingly used these days to make kitchen countertops Xinjiang Tour Guide being durable not to mention easy to use and clean. The success of Pat Kinevane's one-man piece, Forgotten - which was produced by Fishamble influenced the format.

"I remember our producer on Forgotten saying that it was a great show, because you could 'put it in the bag' and tour it," says Kostick. "And the phrase stayed with me."Kostick's role varies. He wrote Fight Night, and expected to write more. But it has become the norm for the performers to write and devise the work, with Kostick as dramaturg, before the participants work with a director/mentor.The shows originate with something personal to the performer, says Kostick. Small Plastic Wars is about a man consumed by his passion for miniature model-making, and McGrath is a model enthusiast in real life. "I danced with Stevie at a party years ago," says Moran "And every time we'd run into each other, we would say, 'we must do a show some time where we get to dance'." Swing, set in a beginner's dance class, is the result. The play will transform the space in Bewleys Theatre into a dance-floor. The pair spent four months taking dance lessons for the show.