The Examination featuring Willa White

The Examination
By Brokentalkers & Featuring Willa White
17^th, 18^th, 19^th & 20^th April 2025
The Ambassador Theatre, Dublin

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"A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals" - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Examination, starring stand-up comedian Willa White (Joy in the Hood, The Savage Eye, You Must Be Jokin' Podcast)  is a multi-award-winning production exploring mental health and human rights in the prison system. The Examination is written and directed by leading Irish theatre company Brokentalkers (The Blue Boy, Have I No Mouth, Masterclass).

Following award winning runs, national and international tours, The Examination returns to Dublin to the Ambassador Theatre on 17^th, 18^th, 19^th & 20^th April 2025.

Tickets €34.90 including booking fees on sale now

Featuring Brokentalkers’ distinctive blend of biograph and breathtaking theatricality. The Examination draws on historical research and testimony from current and former prisoners as well as Willa White's own experience of incarceration, rehabilitation and recovery. With powerful imagery and a visceral sound scape, The Examination is an uncompromising, revelatory and often darkly funny interrogation of an aspect of society too often ignored.

Best Production – Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020
Best Soundscape (Denis Clohessy) – Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020
Best Production – Dublin Fringe Festival 2019
Best Performer (Willie White) – Dublin Fringe Festival 2019

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Superbly slippery piece of theatre’ - The Stage
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'No easy escapes in Brokentalkers’ sly, provocative play' - The Irish Times
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Again and again, 'The Examination' pulls the rug out from under you' - Fest

INFORMATION

The Examination is a collaboration with Professor Catherine Cox, as part of the Wellcome Trust Award for Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000 and is supported by UCD Research. Originally commissioned by UCD School of History.

Credits
Performed by Willie White & Gary Keegan
Written & Directed by Feidlim Cannon & Gary Keegan
Creative Produced by Rachel Bergin
Research by Associate Professor Catherine Cox
Set Design by Ger Clancy
Sound Design by Denis Clohessy
Lighting Design by Stephen Dodd
Costume Design by Sarah Foley
Animation Design / Illustration: Gareth Gowran
Movement Direction by Eddie Kay
Creative Produced by Rachel Bergin
Research by Associate Professor Catherine Cox & Professor Hilary Marland