Night Watch
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2
Fri 25 – Mon 28 Oct, each evening from dusk till 9.30pm
Night Watch is a brand new water based commission for Dublin’s epic Bram Stoker Festival. A darkly theatrical outdoor installation set in the ancient modern of Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock. Night Watch is free, taking place across all four days of the festival.
Swathed in fog and foreboding lights, a sinewy forest of reflections shifts and sways on the water, while watching eyes blink and turn in the wind. Lurking further out in darker waters, a ghostly fragmented ship hovers beyond reach, shrouding a shadowy vampirical form below the decks. Superstition confuses science, fact and folklore intertwine as a slowly turning heart, caged in a ship’s wheel, pulses and beckons us deeper and deeper…
Set to a haunting soundscape by film composer Roma Yagnik, Night Watch is must-see for families, visitors and brave Dubliners of all ages. The water-borne installation reflects age-old anxieties of predator and prey, watcher and watched, with tales of the strange and sinister from the high seas…
