Project Arts Centre Programme of Events Oct - Dec 2011

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS OCTOBER–DECEMBER 2011 WWW.PROJECTARTSCENTRE.IE

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Cover Image: Agata Stoinska for Siren Productions The Making of ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore Design: Ronan Devlin / www.littleseal.com

EVENTS AT A GLANCE PG SHOW 5 Notes on the missing Oh 6&7 Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 8 Keith Farnan: Money Money Money 9 Music Current 10&11 One Night Stands – one night events 12 Weaving the Cry 13 The Big Deal 14 The Smell of Want 15 Last of the Red Wine (The Prequel/Sequel) 16 Touch Me 17 The Making of ‘Tis’ Pity She’s a Whore 18 Live Collison | Bite Size Festival 19 Six Characters in Search of an Author

DATE(S) Until 29 Oct 29 Sept–09 Oct 19–22 Oct 21–22 Oct 26 Oct – 5 Nov 27 – 29 Oct 31 Oct – 5 Nov 7–12 Nov 11 Nov–14 Jan 9–19 Nov 1–17 Dec 1–3 Dec 6–10 Dec

GENRE Visual Art Theatre Comedy Music Music Theatre Theatre Dance Theatre Visual Art Dance Theatre Theatre Performance Theatre

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Image: Ros Kavanagh

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Adrià Julià NOTES ON THE MISSING OH A portrait of a country, a man, a landscape and the story of an orphaned Hollywood movie.

A monumental box-office flop and doomed to fail before it was even released, Inchon is remembered by Hollywood as one of the worst movies ever made. In Notes on the Missing Oh, a three screen film installation accompanied by new video work, Adrià Julià revisits the legacy of this movie to create a historical portrait of the film’s untold story.

Adrià Julià was born in Barcelona and lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been shown in the recent Seoul Media City (2010), Lyon Biennale (2009) and Mercosul Biennial (2009), and is included in an exhibition at Witte de With, Rotterdam opening September 2011.

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GALLERY 11AM – 8PM UNTIL 29 OCT 2011 ADMISSION FREE

Curated by Tessa Giblin

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Image: Emma Burke Kennedy

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ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL THE ANIMALS AND CHILDREN TOOK TO THE STREETS BY 1927 29 SEPT – 2 OCT | TICKETS €20 – 30 Welcome to the Bayou, a part of the city feared and loathed wherein lies the infamous Bayou Mansions; a sprawling stinking tenement block, where curtain-twitchers and peeping-toms live side by side, and the wolf... is always at the door.

A wickedly twisted new show from the company behind the 2008 Theatre Festival hit Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. A seamless synchronizing of live music, performance, film and animation creates a deliciously dystopian delight.

TESTAMENT BY COLM TÓIBÍN PRESENTED BY ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL AND LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS 29 SEPT – 16 OCT 2011 €20 – 35 The world première of an astonishing piece of new theatre.

In a thrilling imaginative leap, one of Ireland’s greatest writers has given voice to a woman who was forced to bear an unimaginable burden in tumultuous times.

Colm Tóibín’s searingly honest, provocative play asks big questions about what we believe, who we believe, and why.

Directed by the internationally-renowned Irish theatre director Garry Hynes, and starring Marie Mullen.

Testament is an Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival commission with the support of Irish Theatre Trust.

I ❤ ALICE ❤ I BY AMY CONROY PRESENTED BY HOTFORTHEATRE 4 – 9 OCT 2011 | TICKETS €15 – 20 Alice and Alice are coming out. Finally.

Two exceptional, opinionated women were spotted winking at each other in Crumlin Shopping Centre. Now they’re in a show... reluctantly. Defying stereotype, they’re here to share with you something they’ve never dared to before.

Fresh, human and hilarious I ❤ Alice ❤ I explores the monumental journey of a most unlikely couple.

I ❤ Alice ❤ I is part of ReViewed: A showcase of successful Irish productions restaged in partnership with Culture Ireland and Irish Theatre Institute.

For more information about the Festival’s programme of special events visit projectartscentre.ie.

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Keith Farnan KEITH FARNAN: MONEY, MONEY, MONEY Keith Farnan: Money, Money, Money is the third in a series of thought provoking and poignant shows from critically acclaimed comedian Keith Farnan (Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow). Following sellout West End and Edinburgh runs Keith returns to Project Arts Centre with his new show to take a look at Ireland’s brief love affair with vast amounts of money and the subsequent fiscal meltdown.

Looking at how Ireland went from simple bartering souls to credit loving quadzillionaires, Keith presents some cunning plans to repay the €85,000,000,000 Ireland owes Europe and the IMF, and asks what price can you put on happiness? Was Jesus a capitalist or a communist? And what are the devastating psychological effects that money has had on the Irish psyche?

“Brilliant, thought provoking and laugh out loud funny” time out ***** “Incisive, brilliant comedy…We should be shouting from the rooftops about him” whatsonstage.com Suitable ages 14+ REAL DEAL – 19 OCT ALL TICKETS JUST €10!

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CUBE 8.15PM 19 – 22 OCT 2011 €15/12 (CONC)

Written & performed by Keith Farnan

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Dublin Sound Lab MUSIC CURRENT Music meets cutting-edge electronics.

Two days of interactive electronic music featuring leading international composer and computer musician Karlheinz Essl.

Dublin Sound Lab presents Irish premières of some of Essl’s own compositions, as well as a one-day workshop led by Essl in which participants will devise their own “real-time compositions” to be performed in the final concert.

KARLHEINZ ESSL PORTRAIT CONCERT 21 OCT | 8.00PM | TICKETS €€15/10 (CONC) CONCERT OF WORKSHOP-DEVISED PIECES FEATURING KARLHEINZ ESSL 22 OCT | 8.00PM | TICKETS €€15/10 (CONC) REAL DEAL – SEE BOTH CONCERTS FOR JUST €20!

PLUS REAL-TIME COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 22 OCT | 11.30AM – 5.30PM Email info@dublinsoundlab.ie for information on how to take part.

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SPACE UPSTAIRS VARIOUS (SEE ABOVE) 21 – 22 OCT 2011

Composed by Karlheinz Essl Performed by Karlheinz Essl and Fergal Dowling (Live electronics), Roger Moffat (Percussion), Julie Maisel (Flute), Annette Cleary, Adrian Mantu (Cello), Alexis Nealon (Sound), Michael Quinn (Conductor).

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WOWOS BY SEÁN CARPIO 8PM, 26 OCT 2011 | TICKETS €15/12 (CONC) A sextet led by Irish drummer/composer Seán Carpio featuring his friends from far away places. One night of Jazz featuring the newest music composed for this band as part of a commission for Project Arts Centre. “Seán Carpio may be the finest drummer ever produced here” Ray Comiskey, The Irish Times STRING MACHINE II PRESENTED BY GOETHE INSTITUT 8PM, 28 OCT 2011 | ADMISSION FREE Celebrating 50 years in Ireland, the Goethe Institut Dublin have commissioned an Irish/German String Machine project, a collaborative music project focusing on the composition, development and recording of new work.

ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH BY ERGODOS 8PM, 29 OCT 2011 | TICKETS €15/10 (CONC) A performance which connects the elemental purity of medieval vocal music with three contemporary Irish compositional voices to present a programme of arrangements of, and new works inspired by, medieval French master Magister Léonin.

THE FOURTH QUARTER LIVE CONCERT & RECORD LAUNCH BY YOU’RE ONLY MASSIVE 8PM, 31 OCT 2011 | TICKETS €12/10 (CONC) Two musicians, live synth, electronic music. This live concert features Blood in, Blut Raus the new record from You’re Only Massive as well as favourites such as Here Is Home and It Won’t Work. “light years ahead of what their peers are doing” The Irish Times SEÁN MILLAR SOLO LIVE 8PM, 3 NOV 2011 | TICKETS €15/12 (CONC) A debut of new songs by Seán Millar (composer of The Blue Boy and Silver Stars by Brokentalkers) alongside some of his better known material. “Millar is half Leonard Cohen and half Jarvis Cocker...along with Mark Cullen of Pony Club, he remains Ireland’s greatest lyricist” RTE Guide **** CIAN NUGENT & FRIENDS BY STRANGE PASSION 8PM, 4 NOV 2011 | TICKETS €12/10 (CONC) Following the release of the internationally acclaimed album Doubles Strange Passion present a night of music with Cian Nugent and friends, including performances

by American guitarist Steve Gunn. “Nugent’s already mastered dynamics tone and articulation… and his tunes are sturdy and lovely things.” The Wire NIGHTHAWKS (THE CHARITY SHOW) 8PM, 5 NOV 2011 | TICKETS €15/12 (CONC) The hugely popular Nighthawks are back for one night of music, comedy, theatre and poetry, all in aid of the Arthrogryposis Association of Ireland. Featuring music from Engine Alley, Emilie Conway, Stephen James Smith and Enda Reilly, stand-up comedy from Colum McDonnell and Edwin Sammon, a new short play entitled Death and the Beatles Fan, plus poetry from Colm Keegan and Rosaleen McDonagh.

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Nervousystem WEAVING THE CRY Weaving the Cry is a journey through a dark wave toward a threshold that is both an end and a beginning. It explores our capacity for survival inside the rituals of living and dying. This contemporary re-imagining of Synge’s Riders to the Sea exposes a complex and eternal bond between mother and son concentrated in the relationship between Mauyra, her missing son Michael, and Bartley, her only remaining son of six.

With Michael gone and Bartley headed for another dangerous sea crossing, the inevitable and its repercussions must once again be reconciled by those left behind, a mother and her two daughters.

Weaving the Cry mixes theatre with traditional songs from Ireland and Galicia to create unique theatrical experience, a stark and daring re-imagining of one of the greatest dramatic works from the Irish literary canon.

Best Play of 2010 “…utterly beautiful…” Irish Independent There will be a post show discussion following the performance on 28 October.

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CUBE 8.15PM 28 & 29 OCT 2011 €15/12 (CONC) 27 OCT 2011, €10

BY NERVOUSYSTEM & JEFFREY GORMLEY DIRECTED BY AIDEN CONDRON PERFORMED BY MARIÁN ARAÚJO, SOPHIE CAMPBELL, GEMMA MCGILL & JOSEPH MOYLAN

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Una McKevitt Productions THE BIG DEAL Dear Cathy, It’s 10.30pm on Tuesday night. I have just finished your recent email.

You are now on the way to recovery. You are here now as you should have been and will be until the day you die. So whilst I struggle slowly onward and upward, you are already there. Love Deborah Following the hugely successful premiere of The Big Deal at Kilkenny Arts Festival 2011 Una McKevitt (Victor and Gord, 565+) brings us an extraordinary real life story of two women who knew from a very young age that they were born into the wrong bodies. Scripted from original material provided by the contributors – including journals, poems, songs and interviews – The Big Deal charts the incredible personal gains and losses each has made to become the women they have always been.

“Moving and sometimes stunning.” The Irish Times “The subjects in McKevitt’s important new work remind us there are many voices yet to be heard.” Irish Theatre Magazine Una McKevitt is part of PROJECT CATALYST, an initiative of Project Arts Centre REAL DEAL – 31 OCT ALL TICKETS JUST €10!

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CUBE 8.15PM 31 OCT – 5 NOV 2011 €16/14 (CONC) 31 OCT & 1 NOV, €12 5 NOV, 3.00PM, €12

Directed by Una McKevitt Performed by Úna Kavanagh and Shani Williams

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Fitzgerald & Stapleton THE SMELL OF WANT The Smell of Want is a new dance theatre performance from Fitzgerald and Stapleton. Graphically honest, deeply-affecting and often darkly funny the work unfolds through a series of provocative short speeches and choreographed scenes which invite us to rethink our relationship to the boundaries between life and art.

Check your budget and chose from a luxury seat in the Winners Enclosure (only seven available per show), an averagely comfy Plebeian seat, a bog standard bench in Steerage or ask Box Office about the Lovers’ Swing for an extra special trip.

Suitable ages 16+, may contain nudity.

Please also note that audience members may be asked to leave the auditorium at points during the performance.

“Cutting edge theatre…” The Sunday Times on Fitzgerald & Stapleton There will be a post show discussion on Mon 7 and Wed 9 Nov 2011.

REAL DEAL – 8TH NOV ALL TICKETS 2 FOR THE PRICE OF 1!

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CUBE 8.15PM 7 – 12 NOV 2011 €12 – 17

Choreographed & written by Emma Fitzgerald & Áine Stapleton Performed by Conor Donelan, Emma Fitzgerald, Carl Harrison, Mark McCabe, Elliot Moriarty, Brian O’Riordan, Áine Stapleton & Arturo Vidich

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Doug Fishbone, Hayley Newman, Kim Noble, Sally O’Reilly, Michelle Owoo, Colin Perry, Caroline Smith & Bedwyr Williams LAST OF THE RED WINE (THE PREQUEL/ SEQUEL) “Oh come on Simon, he’s made some good projects. Remember the hedge fund he did at the ICA managed by monkeys? He earned two million pounds! Didn’t even have to pay the monkeys!...”

Early in 2011 an unlikely group of artists, comedians and writers worked together on The Last of the Red Wine, a radio sitcom set in the artworld. Used to being the subject of their own work, the collaborators instead cast themselves in a collective farce, written and performed in the course of one week.

The next installment of the sitcom at Project Arts Centre, The Last of the Red Wine (the prequel/sequel), dissects the mix of people and personalities involved in the original project and examines the processes of self-representation in their individual practices.

Presented as a selection of videos and installations, it reveals the further absurdities of art and the artworld, as experienced by serious artists with ridiculous ideas.

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Curated by Tessa Giblin GALLERY 11AM – 8PM 11 NOV 2011 – 14 JAN 2012 ADMISSION FREE 10 NOVEMBER 2011, 6 – 8PM, ALL WELCOME 15

Image: Nick McGough by Robb McKindles

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CoisCéim Dance Theatre TOUCH ME Set among the remains of a boarded up room, a group of strangers look in from outside. A set of keys unlocks the door to hidden gems left behind. What was that promise that you made?

In 1995 , CoisCéim produced the critically acclaimed Reel Luck which looked at Ireland on the cusp of the Celtic Tiger. Touch Me looks at society today and its transformation from tiger visions to the exodus of the once majestic cranes. From this lonely landscape David Bolger rakes through the spoils of an unprecedented era to discover a new beauty, in the promise of the future.

What are the new symbols of fortune? What makes us happy now?

There will be a post show discussion on Monday 14 November.

REAL DEAL – 14 NOV ALL TICKETS ONLY €15!

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SPACE UPSTAIRS 8PM 11 – 19 NOV 2011 €20/15 (CONC) 9 & 10 NOV 2011, €15 16 & 19 NOV, 3PM, €15

DIRECTED/CHOREOGRAPHED BY DAVID BOLGER PERFORMED BY KENNETH EDGE, JEN FLEENOR, OLWEN GRINDLEY, ROBERT JACKSON, NICK MCGOUGH & EMMA O’KANE

Image: Agata Stoinska

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Siren Productions THE MAKING OF ’TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE A film director assembles a cast and crew to film the darkly comic and brilliantly horrific play Tis Pity She’s a Whore, John Ford’s Jacobean Masterpiece. What ensues is the recreation, on a contemporary film set, of this story of forbidden love, lust and obsession.

Through Ford’s vivid characters the classic tale begins to resonate with the actors and crew on the set and as the boundaries of these two worlds blur reality, fantasy, life and art collide with disastrous results. With a combination of live and filmed scenes this innovative re-imagining is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast.

Influenced by the works of filmmakers from Fellini to Lynch The Making of Tis Pity She’s a Whore is directed by The Irish Times Irish Theatre Award-winner, Director Selina Cartmell.

“Selina Cartmell is the most radical presence in our theatre world” The Dubliner There will be a post-show discussion following the performance on 7 December.

Suitable ages 12+ PLACE TIME DATE TICKETS PREVIEW MATINEE

THE MAKING OF ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE’ BY SPACE UPSTAIRS JOHN FORD 8PM DIRECTED BY SELINA CARTMELL CAST INCLUDES: CATHY BELTON, BARBARA BRENNAN, 6 – 17 DEC 2011 KATE STANLEY BRENNAN & LOUIS LOVETT €25/20 (CONC) 1,2,3 & 5 DEC 2011, €18 3, 10 & 17 DEC 2011, 2.30PM, €18

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Lynnette Moran LIVE COLLISION | BITE SIZE FESTIVAL Live Collision | Bite Size Festival is generating some of the most exciting work from both Irish and international artists across and between art forms.

This is where tectonic plates of creative energy collide. It’s where imagination grows, where the world gets bigger and the possibilities become greater then ever. It’s where you can find a place for the work you like, for your taste, for your experience… it’s the future of performance in the making.

For three concentrated days Live Collision will host cross-cultural residencies for artists, public discussions alongside three nights of performances.

Enter, fire, accelerate... the outcome is infinite Suitable ages 16+ For full line festival line up visit projectartscentre.ie.

Live Collision | Bite Size Festival is supported by Arts Council and Dance Ireland.

REAL DEAL – FESTIVAL PASS, SEE ALL 3 NIGHT (6 SHOWS) FOR JUST €40 PLACE TIME DATE TICKETS

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PRODUCED BY LIVE COLLISION CUBE 8.15PM please check our website for individual start times of the discursive events 1 – 3 DEC 2011 €15/12 (CONC)

Stacy Makishi photograph by Vick Ryder

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Dublin Youth Theatre SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR Six characters conceived and then abandoned. So what happens next and who will tell their story?

Dublin Youth Theatre presents an exciting adaptation of the classic Pirandello play Six Characters In Search of an Author. Finding themselves abandoned by their playwright the characters invade a theatre and demand that their story is told. With the help of a director and actors their lives unravel as the tragic story they were created for is finally completed.

Adapted and directed by Loose Canon’s Jason Byrne (A Midsummer Night’s Dream? & Phaedra’s Love) with the members of Dublin Youth Theatre.

REAL DEAL – ALL PREVIEW TICKETS 2 FOR THE PRICE OF 1!

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CUBE 8.15PM 7 – 10 DEC 2011 €15/12 (CONC) 6 DEC 2011, €12 10 DEC 2011, 2PM, €10

BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO DIRECTED BY JASON BYRNE PERFORMED BY DUBLIN YOUTH THEATRE

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