Growler is Dee Mulrooney’s alter-ego and performance piece: an 86-year-old, drum-banging, shamanic alchemist who transmutes women’s pain into storytelling, song, and spoken word. A tongue like a lash, a heart of gold, and absolutely no filter. Part theatre, part portal, with a shamanic vulva at its centre, Growler’s Grotto conjures a fictitious 86-year-old vulva from inner-city Dublin — activist, abuse survivor, feminist, and unrepentant comic — weaving song, spoken word, and razor-sharp humour into something that’s equal parts ritual and riot.
Conceived by multi-disciplinary Irish artist Dee Mulrooney, whose work reclaims the scorned feminine and reframes the savage underbelly of Ireland’s religious doctrine, Growler doesn’t ask permission: she takes the mic, cracks you open, and makes you laugh while she’s at it. Raw, ritualistic, and wickedly funny, this is theatre as exorcism, séance, and stand-up all at once. Come for the alchemy, stay for the grá.
Supported by Kilkenny County Council and Tourism Ireland.
Kilkenny is a Tourism Ireland Home of Halloween Destination 2024–2027.
