Fringe Fest | Roots in Every Room | September

Location: The Gallery, 21-25 Arran St E, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 YY97

Performances:

• 6 Sept, 3pm (preview)

• 6 - 8 Sept, 7pm

• 7 Sept, 3pm

• ISL Interpreted Performance

  7 Sept, 7pm

Duration: 60 mins

Tickets: From €12, here

The Complex welcomes Anna Doran's Roots in Every Room, as part of Dublin Fringe Festival, 2025. Dublin Fringe Festival is a curated, multidisciplinary arts festival and a year-round artist support organisation. It runs from 6 - 21 September this year. The full programme can be found here.

Roots in Every Room is presented by SoFFt Productions. It is written and performed by Anna D. In collaboration with Greg Purcell and Peter Power. Directed by Eftychia Spyridaki.

‘The roots, untangled, become the tree.’

This powerful live performance blends spoken word poetry, film and sound to tell a profound story of healing and ancestral reckoning.

The title comes from the last dream Anna’s grandmother had before she died. She dreamt that Anna had a massive tree growing through the middle of her house with roots growing throughout every room. It is a stark contrast to her own mother’s repetitive dream of finding bare, unknown, secret rooms in her home.

The dream has come to symbolise Anna’s need to heal her maternal lineage, reclaiming her ancestral feminine power and fulfilling the suppressed potential of all the women who went before her. Roots in Every Room is a response to this need. An attempt at cycle-breaking. A raw and unashamed declaration of self. An unchaining of the dark feminine to confront and rebalance masculine domination. It is one woman’s vulnerable disclosure of the challenges and inherited emotional demons she has overcome and the radical hope she carries and shares generously.

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CREDITS:

Writer and Performer: Anna Doran

Director: Eftychia Spridaki

Producers: Caroline Duke, SoFFt Productions & Rua Barron

Production Manager: Meghan Bartual Smyth

Film: Greg Purcell

Sound Designer: Peter Power

Lighting & AV Designer: JJ Sim

Supported by Fingal Artists Support Scheme, Dublin Fringe Festival, SoFFt Productions, Backstage Theatre Longford, The Complex Dublin, and Poetry Ireland.

Photo: George Hooker

Please note, it contains references to mental health and depression.

The Gallery is wheelchair accessible.