A site-specific comedy at the Gutter Bookshop Temple Bar, End Of. is a trippy take on the apocalypse featuring illusions by award winning magician Davey McAuley and direction by acclaimed director Conor Hanratty.
Best friends Siobhán and Drew know what to expect from a day’s work in the bookshop: difficult customers, poor pay and bad prospects. But when a box arrives containing a bewildering object—causing books to levitate and shelves to disappear—they are plunged into a mystery that makes them
question not just their friendship, but the very fate of the World. A treat for anyone who loves to wonder “how did they do that?” End Of. is a thought provoking comedy about the very beginning of the very end of the world.
The first draft of End Of. was completed on the 9th of November, 2016, the day Donald Trump became President Elect of the United States. Some thought Trump’s election signalled the apocalypse, some celebrated it in
the streets and some simply wondered “how did this happen?” End Of. is a play that offers a theory on “how”: a study of how disagreement becomes disdain, End Of. is the story of how the end of a relationship, a society and the world might be one and the same.
