Projects

2026

Presented by Pan Pan and Live Collision Festival

THE FIRST BAD MAN

A live performance based on a reading of THE FIRST BAD MAN, a novel by Miranda July.

Kitty Blennerhasset, John Benno, Rose McVittie & Freya Golden have recently joined a book club. Their first book is The First Bad Man and every week for a year they keep coming back to it. After hugely successful runs in New York, Calgary, London and Melbourne, The First Bad Man returns to Dublin for a limited run as part of Live Collision International Festival.

This performance is a telling of these book club members’ encounter with the characters of Miranda July’s novel, reviewed by The Observer as: ‘Heartbreakingly sad, thoughtful, disgusting and hilarious’. 

Each person booking tickets for the performance will receive a copy of the novel in the post. 

“This production will stay with you as your mind works out the complexities of the safety and dangers of human relationships” – Front Row Center

This project is supported by APHIDS

Friday 01 – 03 May

Flux Studios D2 Dublin

BOOK HERE

APHIDS acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boon wurrung peoples on whose lands we live and work. Sovereignty was never ceded and we pay our respect to past, present, and future Aboriginal elders and community, and to their long and rich history of artmaking on this Country.