Bounce back in time and enjoy a rare opportunity to witness the unique talent of Stage Beyond Theatre Company on the big screen. The award-winning theatre company empowering adults with learning disabilities, produced their debut film in 2021, using Marcel Proust’s novel Remembrance of Things Past as the guide. They drew in particular on Proust’s theory of “involuntary memory”: where a sense, a smell, an object, a colour, places a memory directly into our consciousness. We don’t recall, it just arrives.

Ruairi Conaghan (co-producer, writer and director) wrote a prologue and epilogue to frame the memories. He uses extracts from Proust’s novel, as well as Brian Friel’s beautiful poetry of memory. Get ready for a laugh, a dance, a song and a cry, as we revisit this special theatre company whose focus is on inclusion, access, and excellence.