The premiere of a new work by Daniel Figgis takes place on 17 September 2010

Ascension is a new work created site-specifically and in direct response to the formal garden at St. Enda's Park, by Pearse Museum Artist-in-Residence, musician-composer Daniel Figgis, in collaboration with writer and poet Eamon Carr. The work is a one-off unique intervention in a much loved public space, blurring the lines between concert recital and theatrical presentation.

A live musical score and pre-recorded sound installation, incorporating a five-poem cycle written and narrated by Carr, orchestrated and presented by Figgis, accompanied by his new live ensemble in concert, Ascension is "a work that intertwines themes of personal journeys, shared social histories, mythic aspirations and technological achievement."

The Hermitage in St. Enda's Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham is a fine house set in beautiful grounds at the foot of the Dublin mountains and an inspirational setting. The influence of the park and the surrounding natural world's power to inspire can be discerned in Ascension, a work which offers the audience multiple perspectives on the past and present; the universal themes in our quest for freedom and flight; the public spectacles of the distant past as well as the private journeys of  love and loss of our own.

There will be two performances of Ascension at the Pearse Museum, St. Enda's Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin on Friday 17th September, at 7.30pm and 8.15pm.

Tickets are available from: www.tickets.ie and the Pearse Museum.

For further information: www.facebook.com/ascension.figgis.carr