The Lighthouse Sings at FRED
FRED, the Cumbrian art invasion has commissioned The Lighthouse Sings, an installation piece by Ailis Ni Riain for Maryport Lighthouse,on the West coast of Cumbria. FRED runs from 26th September to 12th October 2008 throughout Cumbria.

Valley of Stone
Ailis has been commissioned by Horse & Bamboo Visual Theatre Company, Pennine Groundwork and English Heritage to make a work which celebrates the quarrying heritage of the Valley throughout Rossendale, Lancashire.

Granary & Meridian Theatre Company presents BEATEN by Ailis Ni Riain

Granary Theatre | 8 – 20 September 2008 | 9pm

Three siblings, a girl and two boys, endlessly reiterate the terrible details of their childhood. They are trapped for ever in an obsessive need to remember and relive their treatment at the hands of a sadistic father who brutalised not only the three children but also his ever-uncomplaining wife - who herself eventually succumbed to the drink. A tragi-comic play about children at play, loss, retribution and acceptance in a wonderland where white rabbits would never venture.