Ohrid summer
Festival

Sodome,
...city of joy and excess.
You know that name...
You imagine the orgies, the nights without end, the wine flowing on the torsos of men.
You imagine and you are right.
 
The sky breaks, the rain falls. The downpour slowly awakens a woman caked in salt, buried for centuries, the only survivor of the city of Sodome. Here, now, amongst us, she begins to speak. This is her story...

Olwen Fouéré
Born in Ireland of Breton parents, Olwen is an Irish/French actor, performer and theatre artist.
She has performed with most major theatre companies in Ireland and in the UK, playing leading roles in numerous productions in Dublin, in the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK and in the West
End. She created the role of Salomé in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé
directed by Steven Berkoff which premiered at the Gate
theatre and toured internationally. At the Abbey, she
created the title role The Mai and the role of Hester Swane
in the world premiere of By the Bog of Cats…, both written
by Marina Carr. Other work of note includes the role of
Rosaura in Life is a Dream with Catalan director Calixto
Bieito (Edinburgh International Featival ’98, Barbican
Theatre, London, and BAM,New York); the role of Tamora in
Siren productions' Titus Andronicus directed by Selina
Cartmell (2005); Paula Spencer, la femme qui se cognait
dans les portes…, a French stage adaptation of two books by
Roddy Doyle, in various French theatres in 2008 including
at the Bouffes du Nord in Paris.
Other recent performances of note include her role as Woman
in Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow directed by Selina
Cartmell at the Abbey 2007;as Maeve in The Bull with
Fabulous Beast directed by Michael Keegan-Dolan, and as The
Cailleach in the Rite of Spring with Fabulous Beast at the
London Coliseum.
Fouéré features in many pieces by artist James Coleman
which continue to be shown internationally. Until recently,
she was an Artistic Director of Operating Theatre which she
co-founded with composer Roger Doyle.