The Bull

Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre demonstrates a thrilling ability to fuse the visual immediacy of dance with the narrative strength of theatre. The Bull is based on the great Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge [The Cattle-Raid of Cooley], which recounts a long, bloody war fought over a celebrated bull. Michael Keegan-Dolan transposes this gem of Irish sagas to the savage underbelly of contemporary society. A cast of imbeciles, egomaniacs, masochistic deviants and impotent catamites squabble and conspire in the bogs and towns of an Irish-tinged world in which corruption, deception and adultery are at the heart. For The Bull Michael Keegan-Dolan, one of Ireland’s most talented and innovative artists, received the Critic’s Circle UK National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography.