The Loose Canon company, founded in 1996, has built a solid reputation on crystal-clear productions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Minimal obeisance to sets and costumes has been offset by clarity of acting, word and overall interpretation, the latter provided by director Jason Byrne.
Their new work, In The Dark Air Of A Closed Room, based on the paintings of Caravaggio, uses texts from Shakespeare and the King James Bible. It is described as a series of meditations which aims to give voice to the artist's imagination, and will, opening next Tuesday, be the first play into the Project's new Space Upstairs.