National Botanic Gardens, Wednesday 27th May - Thursday 28th May
Before the first song, the garden remembered everything….
Orpheus is a plant hunter who charms the trees with his song.
Eurydice, a mycologist whose voice carries deep into the earth.
Charon, a liminal figure, keeper of thresholds, compost, and change.
In this fresh reimagining of the Orpheus myth, music, ecology, and ancient storytelling entwine in the living landscape of Ireland’s National Botanic Gardens. Audiences follow Glasnevin’s garden-path of love and loss, curiosity and consequence, guided by musicians, children’s choirs and some unexpected creatures.
From sunlit lawns to shadowed bowers, leafy backdrops to underworld crossings, and fleeting images cast across the garden, they encounter a world where fungi speak, decay becomes renewal, and the myth grows anew.
Let the music tug your heart strings while mythic threads awaken what lies even deeper.
With humour, tenderness, and wonder, Orpheus in the Garden invites us to ask what lies beneath … and how love, like compost, can nourish more than we know.
- Date:
- Wednesday 27th May - Thursday 28th May
- Time:
- 8.30pm
- Price:
- €18
- Address:
- National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
