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