This Too Shall Pass

A Waiting Room. A Rave. A Private Space. A Spectacle. A Young Person Inside the crumbling Irish Mental Health System.

Lucy Holmes and FILTH! theatre company present THIS TOO SHALL PASS as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, premiering at The Pearse Centre, September 18th - 22nd.

(Show times: 12:00, 14:00, 17:00, 19:00)

THIS TOO SHALL PASS is an immersive installation that combines installation art, performance art, and movement to explore the effects of an overwhelmed mental health system on one individual. After years of waiting lists, questionnaires, ticked boxes, ongoing uncertainty and self-doubt, Erin is consumed by the need to understand the person at the centre of it all - Herself.

Unfolding across four interconnected spaces, THIS TOO SHALL PASS takes you out of your role as a passive audience member, compelling you to interact freely with your surroundings. As you move from room to room, you can open drawers, pick up and examine objects, read diary entries, and encounter performers, as each space reveals a new aspect of Erin’s story and her state of mind.

Analysed, cross-examined, questioned, and mentally deconstructed, how do you cope when you have nowhere else to go?Simultaneously visceral and uplifting, THIS TOO SHALL PASS is a contemplative work that, at all times, searches for a vision of hope.