Participating artists Yoko Akino, Fionnuala Halpin, Leila Pedersen, Adrienne Symes, John Fitzsimons, Jordi Forniés, Stephen Kane, Desmond Kenny, Bartosz Kolata, Daniel Lipstein, and Kelvin Mann
Officially opened July 2011
Venue Focus Theatre, 6 Pembroke Place, Dublin 2
Fire & Ice Theatre Company, in association with the Focus Studio Company presented an evening of theatre and art in the newly renovated Focus Theatre. The two plays, both written and directed by award winning Irish playwright, Paul Kennedy and produced by Lisa McNamee were 'Be My Love in the Rain', starring Linda Teehan and 'Down by the River', starring Michael Bates.
Art Curator Olivier Cornet in collaboration with the Fire & Ice Theatre Company and the Focus Studio Company presented an exhibition of drawings, etchings, paintings and photographs by artists who responded to the script of "Down by the River" or whose recent work had a resonance with the main themes of the play.