Sheep! is a play about sheep. Not about people. Not about humans. Not about you. Except it is a play about all of us, about flocks and belonging – and how assaults and violence cut us off from being a part of.
In the heart of Sheep! is a character called sheep, who is trying to figure out how to belong after an assault. The play interrogates the levels of disconnection through an extended metaphor of sheep. The monologue is also a device of connection, that approaches the audience in different ways.
Performance photos Carol Cummins – 1.3. Scene+Heard Show
Sheep! Marketing materials
Sheep! Flock
Jenni Nikinmaa is a writer & performer based on the Aran Islands, originally from Finland. She graduated with MA in Playwriting & Dramaturgy from The University of Galway in 2020, and has since worked in variety of roles within theatre, mostly focusing on her own poetic and disturbing plays that deal with gruesome topics in an offbeat comedic way.
Director Sarah O’Toole – Sound design Jack Cawley – Dramaturgs Hugh Farrell & Michael West.
Sheep! began as a Druid FUEL project, and the writing of it was subsequently supported by Dublin Fringe Artist at Work scheme at Interface Inagh, Pavilion Theatre Studio residency as well as a Project Award from the Arts Council. Public appeareances of Sheep! – A work-in-progress showing at Mick Lally Theatre in 2023 as part of FUEL; a snippet at Culture Night 2023 with Galway Theatre Festival; a rehearsed reading at the Cockpit Theatre in London, Marylebone in 2024; and two work-in-progress shows at Scene+Heard 2025.
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