Memorial Monologues – a play by Mary Moynihan

Smashing Times presented Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory for the Theatre in Palm Roadshow in October 2024.

Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory is a promenade theatre show with theatre, poetry and music, which took place in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens, Dublin’s secret garden, located close to St Stephen’s Green in Dublin city centre.

The script was adapted from the words of four brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. They are Lasantha Wickramatunga, journalist, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova, journalist and human rights defender, Chechnya; Raed Fares, journalist and activist, Syria and Bety Cariño, activist and women’s rights defender, Mexico.  This unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens.  The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  The names and words of the four human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.

Performances featured two emerging artists; Josephine Patane from Canada and Daniel Mahon from Ireland. Emerging theatre artist Carmen Ortiz Victorino directed the show.

Memorial Monologues was performed three times to a total audience of 60.