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PROGRAMME OCT—DEC 2013
Project Arts Centre
OCT—DEC 2013
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME
October – December is ALL GO
the Chelsea by Janet Behan, directed by and
at Project Arts Centre.
starring Adrian Dunbar and Dead Centre’s hit production Souvenir.
We are mid-way through our festival season with a host of wonderful Irish and International works still to come as part of
fascinated by how they not only challenge an
Dublin Theatre Festival.
audience and experiment with theatrical form
Music forms a big part of our programme
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Ever since I first saw Tim Etchell’s work with Forced Entertainment, I have been
but their ability to connect right to the very
this autumn with new work from Dublin Sound
heart of human experience. I am delighted to
Lab, a very special gig from Sean Millar and
be bringing Tomorrow’s Parties to Dublin.
new opera initiative OPERA SLAM. I am thrilled to welcome back our music ensemble-in-
New writing and the support of playwrights is at the very core of what we do,
residence, Crash Ensemble, with a new concert,
so I am delighted to be presenting Smashing
Baltic, co-curated by Icelandic composer,
Times’ Witness, Elizabeth Moynihan’s Marvel
musician and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson. I am proud to be bringing a number
and Johnny Hanrahan’s JFK in Black & White. The support and development of new artists is
of shows seen on my travels around Ireland
also at the core of our activities and two new
to the centre this season including the Lyric
productions will take to the Project stage in
Theatre, Belfast’s production of Brendan at
December as part of the Rough Magic SEEDS
Showcase, featuring some of our finest up-
fall somewhere between sculptures, found
and-coming theatre talent.
objects and sets. The Company, one of the
In December, Project Catalysts
Ireland’s most progressive and self-reflective
THEATREclub will present HISTORY, the
theatre companies have been invited to use,
culmination of their public art commission
respond to, and be a part of this environment.
from Dublin City Council. This vast project
To finish the year in style, we welcome
examines not only the history of a unique
back our old friends ponydance with a new Pony
area of Dublin, but also goes to the very core
Panto – the perfect start to the holiday season!
of our nation’s story. In our gallery the current show is
In November we bid farewell to our wonderful General Manager & Executive
Practical Magic, by Dutch artist Jennifer
Producer, Niamh O’Donnell, who leaves Project
Tee, featuring a host of new works, newly
after 12 years to take up a new position as
commissioned for Project Arts Centre. In
Director of the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray. It is
November we will present a very special
impossible to convey the impact and influence
collaboration in the gallery. Céline Condorelli’s
Niamh has had on Project and the artists with
wonderful exhibition Additionals will be
whom we work. Niamh, we love you, we will
presented alongside Project Catalyst artists The
miss you and we wish you every success!
Company who will be in residence throughout the exhibition. Condorelli’s sculptural objects
Cian O’Brien, Artistic Director
OCT—DEC 2013
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OCT—DEC 2013
EVENTS AT A GLANCE DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL Theatre p18
WINNERS AND LOSERS Theatre Replacement &
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New World Theatre Theatre 26 – 29 September p20
GERMINAL Antoine Defoort & Halory Goerger Theatre 26 – 28 September p22
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NEUTRAL HERO New York City Players Theatre 9 – 12 October p32
DUSK AHEAD junk ensemble Theatre 1 – 6 October p24
riverrun TheEmergencyRoom
NCFA COMEDY FUNDRAISER Comedy 19 October p34
OPERA SLAM: DER FLEDERMAUS
Theatre
Opera SLAM
2 – 6 October
Music
p26
1 & 2 November p36
THREE FINGERS BELOW THE KNEE Mundo Perfeito Theatre 2 – 5 October p28
TARAMANDAL
MIRRORS OF EARTH Dublin Sound Lab Music 9 November p38
WITNESS – PLAYS, READINGS AND PERFORMANCE
The Tadpole Repertory
Smashing Times
Theatre
Theatre
8 – 12 October
5 – 9 November
p30
p40
BRENDAN AT THE CHELSEA Lyric Theatre, Belfast Theatre 12 – 16 November p42
ABECEDARIUM BESTIARIUM Antonia Baehr Performance 18 & 19 November p44
LIFE BEHIND THE VENUE Clinic Media in association with the Everyman Theatre Theatre 19 – 23 November p46
MARVEL Elizabeth Moynihan
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Theatre 12 – 23 November p48
TOMORROW’S PARTIES Forced Entertainment Theatre 21 – 23 November p50
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NORDIC
SOUVENIR
Crash Ensemble
Dead Centre
Music
Theatre
29 November
3 – 14 December
p52
p62
SEAN MILLAR
HISTORY
Music
THEATREclub
30 November
Theatre
p54
18 – 22 December
JFK IN BLACK & WHITE Chameleon Theatre 25 – 29 November
p64
PONY PANTO ponydance Cabaret 19 – 22 December p66
p56
PRACTICAL MAGIC
ASSASSINS
Jennifer Tee
Rough Magic SEEDS Musical Theatre 5 – 14 December
Visual Art 29 August – 26 October p70
p58
ADDITIONALS
WAY TO HEAVEN
Céline Codorelli (in collaboration
Rough Magic SEEDS
7 November – 18 January
Theatre
p72
with The Company) Visual Art
5 – 14 December p60
RGKSKSRG, FOR PROJECT ARTS CENTRE Visual Art p74
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OCT—DEC 2013
PROJECT CATALYST
Dusk Ahead by junk ensemble
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Who are we?
language, our codes, our essence as a people,” Seamus himself said on
It’s very difficult to try to define who
becoming a poet ‘I began as a poet
we are. National identity is generally
when my roots were crossed with my
defined as a person’s sense of belonging
reading’. He was a kind, generous,
to one state or to one nation, a feeling
warm-hearted man of whom we as
one shares with a group of people,
a country, as a nation were deeply
regardless of one’s citizenship or status.
proud. His dignity, his gentle brand
Ireland’s national identity is
of wit, his modesty combined with
intrinsically linked to our cultural
his learned intellect and his sense of
identity which is defined by our sense
solidarity inspired us and bound us
of place, our sense of history and our
as countrymen and women. He wrote
sense of self. I can’t put into words what
about himself and for himself but
it means to be Irish but I believe our
in so doing he wrote about us. He
national identity is defined by what it
wrote about our lives, our politics and
means to be able to participate in Irish
our fears and more over about the
society. To live in a modern inclusive
importance of being ourselves, and
Ireland, in a modern diverse world. It is
going your own way, in poetry as in life.
not something governments can invent.
Our Catalysts, the artists Project
It’s more a feeling than an opinion and
Arts Centre supports in the creation
it is definitely not a policy statement.
and presentation of their work are all
Seamus Heaney was a man
finding their own way. They are looking
whose mind, character and writing
at what makes us who we are, how we
greatly contributed to our contemporary
are influenced and how we live and
world. He was one of Ireland’s best
they are asking questions about where
ambassadors in that his poetry gave
we are going. Wim Wenders states in
voice and meaning to what it is to be
his book The Act of Seeing ‘the most
human, but also what it is to be Irish.
politically indoctrinating thing you
Of all of the honours in the media over
can do to a human being is to show
recent weeks I was most moved by a
him, every day, that there can be no
sentence from Enda Kenny. “For us,
change.’ Our artists’ work responds to
Seamus Heaney was the keeper of
contemporaneous events and politics.
Their work takes on political and social
Catalysts Work in the coming quarter;
dimensions and in so doing each piece,
CURE by Fearghus O’Conchuir
each creation looks at the possibility and
3 Oct: Siamse Tire, Kerry
the absolute requirement of change.
12 Oct: George Bernard Shaw Theatre,
OCT—DEC 2013
For twelve years at Project Arts
Carlow
Centre, I have worked with some of the
22 / 23 Oct: Centre Culturel Irlandais,
most talented artists, activists and makers
Paris
in the country as well as international
1 Nov: Draiocht Arts Centre,
artists visiting our shores. In my work I
Blanchardstown, Dublin
have had the pleasure to plan, work and
The Blue Boy by Brokentalkers
stand alongside incredible people, from
8 November: Euro Scene Festival, Leipzig
those who have served on our board to each and every single one of Project Arts
Dusk Ahead by junk ensemble
Centre’s team whose level of belief and
1 – 6 October: Project Arts centre,
commitment has inspired me.
as part of Dublin Theatre Festival
The work that we have made together, the art and artistic expression
Panto Collapsar by Mikala Dwyer
has served many functions but for me
26 Oct – 7 Dec: Riverbank Arts Centre,
it has lifted my self-esteem, grown my
Kildare
understanding and knowledge and given me a real sense and appetite for
THEATREclub
collaboration, credibility and solidarity.
The Family & Heroin
I have experienced a true sense of
17 – 18 October: axis Ballymun
belonging and of common purpose.
Heroin
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I am so happy and grateful to have
30 October: Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
been part of Project Arts Centre and to my
History
colleagues and our artists I say; you are my
18 – 22 December: Project Arts Centre
inspiration, my friends and my champions. Additionals, Céline Condorelli in collaboration with The Company 7 November – 18 January 2014: Project Arts Centre Niamh O’Donnell, General Manager & Executive Producer of Project Catalyst
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Additionals, CĂŠline Condorelli in collaboration with The Company
You can help us to support the work of Project Catalyst by becoming a Project Person. For more information about becoming a Project Person contact Kate O’Sullivan at kate.osullivan@projectartscentre.ie or on +353 1 8819 608
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PERFORMANCE
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OCT—DEC 2013
DUBLIN T FESTIVA
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THEATRE AL
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Theatre Replacement and New World Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
WINNERS & LOSERS
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Cube
Winners and Losers begins as a
26 – 29 September
conversation between lifelong friends.
7.45pm
Theatre artists Marcus Youssef and
€20 – €25
James Long sit at a table and play a
Matinées 2.45pm 28 & 29 September
game they made up; naming people,
Contains strong language
are winners or losers.
POST SHOW DISCUSSION – WITH MARCUS YOUSSEF
things get personal. The focus of debate
places and things and debating if they But as the competition heats up AND JAMES LONG FOLLOWING THE 7.45pm PERFORMANCE
shifts from Pamela Anderson, microwave
ON 28 SEPTEMBER
ovens and Goldman Sachs to social class and family histories, and the ruthless
Written and performed by
logic of capitalism that the players had
Marcus Youssef and James Long
embraced is brought to bear on their
Directed by Chris Abraham
closest and most personal relationships.
Lighting Design by Jonathan Ryder Stage and Production Management
Combining scripted and improvised
by Elia Kirby
performance, Winners and Losers questions how much a friendship can
“Hands down, one of the most innovative, interesting and brutal theatre pieces I’ve ever seen” Jo Ledingham
bear in the face of such stark honesty.
OCT—DEC 2013
Antoine Defoort & Halory Goerger as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
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GERMINAL
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Space Upstairs
In the beginning there was nothing. Then
26 – 28 September
there was light. Then darkness. And then
7.30pm
light again…
€25 – €30
Germinal is a playful and inventive production in which four performers
Performed in French with English surtitles.
draw from sources as diverse as
Performance briefly includes strong,
philosophy, strategy video games and
flashing lights.
the films of Jacques Demy to conjure a universe in a black box. Using simple
POST SHOW DISCUSSION – WITH MEMBERS OF
theatre tools – mixers, microphones,
THE COMPANY FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON
intercoms – they discover telepathy
26 SEPTEMBER.
and invent speech, moving quickly to construct the very foundations of social
Conceived by Halory Goerger
interaction. The explorers map reality
and Antoine Defoort
bit by bit in speech bubbles, on digital
Lighting and Video by Sébastien Bausseron
screens and in exuberant sing-alongs. As
Lighting Consultant Annie Leuridan
their environment becomes increasingly
Technical Direction by Maël Teillant
complex, a challenge is posed: in a
Sound by Robin Mignot
world-system founded on categories and
Production by l’Amicale de production
classifications, how can they maintain
Production Manager, Outside Eyes
togetherness?
by Julien Fournet Production Assistance by Mathilde Maillard
Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort
Administration by Sarah Calve
move freely between visual art, music and interactive performance, combining
Cast includes Arnaud Boulogne, Ondine
their eclectic interests to create constantly
Cloez, Antoine Defoort, Halory Goerger
shifting visions of theatre.
& Mathilde Maillard (Hotliner) “A feast for language lovers…They have more than earned the thunderous applause afterwards” cobra.be
junk ensemble as part of
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Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
DUSK AHEAD
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Space Upstairs
junk ensemble are a multi award-
1 – 6 October
winning company, creating bold
6.30pm 1 – 3 October
productions that stretch the
6pm 4 – 6 October
boundaries of dance theatre.
€20 – €25
Exploring blindness and invisibility, Dusk Ahead expresses the murky fading light of dusk – that hour between dog and wolf, domestic and wild – when it is difficult to discern what is real from
Concept & choreography by
what is imaginary. Throughout the
Jessica Kennedy and Megan Kennedy
performance, a talented cast of
Lighting Design by Sarah Jane Shiels
international and Irish performers
Visual and Costume Design
also act as the band, playing live
by Sabine Dargent
music from an original score.
Sound Composition and Design by Denis Clohessy
Creators of 2012’s festival sell-out
Music by Zoe Reardon
Bird with boy and artists-in-residence at Tate Britain last year, junk ensemble
Cast includes Justine Cooper, Miguel
fuse dance, music and theatre in
do Vale, Ramona Nagabczynski,
dynamic and imaginative ways.
Ryan O’Neill, Jaiotz Osa junk ensemble are part of Project “junk ensemble have guts and ingenuity” The Irish Times
Catalyst, an initiative of Project Arts Centre. Dusk Ahead is a coproduction with Kilkenny Arts Festival and Project Arts Centre.
OCT—DEC 2013
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Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
riverrun
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Space Upstairs
One of Ireland’s leading theatre-
2 – 6 October
makers, Olwen Fouéré has been
9.30pm
intrigued by James Joyce’s Finnegans
€20 – €25
Wake for many years. Inspired by the
Matinée 1pm 5 & 6 October
extraordinary musicality of the text and by the voice of the river running through it, she has created this powerful new adaptation of Joyce’s famous ‘book of the night’. A force of constant renewal, the
Performed in French with
river ‘Life’, Anna Livia Plurabelle, ALP,
English surtitles.
becomes a universal call to wake
Performance briefly includes
up, surrender the past and confront
strong, flashing lights.
the betrayals that might lie at the
POST SHOW DISCUSSION – WITH OLWEN FOUÉRÉ
an exciting creative team, rivverrun
FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON 3 OCTOBER.
will give audiences an opportunity to
Adapted and performed by Olwen
Joyce’s extraordinary ‘sound-dance’.
heart of our histories. Together with
witness Fouéré’s unique approach to Fouéré, through the voice of the river in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Directed by Olwen Fouéré Co-Direction by Kellie Hughes Sound Design and Composition by Alma Kelliher Costume Design by Monica Frawley Lighting Design by Stephen Dodd “Olwen Fouéré achieves a pure theatricality that is rare indeed.” Fintan O’Toole
Mundo Perfeito as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
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THREE FINGERS BELOW THE KNEE
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Can words be dangerous?
2 – 5 October 7.45pm
Prompted by this question, Tiago
€25 – €30
Rodrigues delved into the archives of
Matinée 2.45pm 5 October
the censorship commission operating in Portugal under the rule of António de Oliveira Salazar. Of the thousands of plays ripped apart in censorship reports – both classic and new works – it is not what was left that interested Rodrigues, but rather
Performed in Portuguese with English surtitles.
what was cut and why… Three Fingers Below the Knee exposes the oppression of artistic and
POST SHOW DISCUSSION – WITH TIAGO RODRIGUES
political freedom felt in Portugal during
AND MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY FOLLOWING THE
the 48 year dictatorship that governed
PERFORMANCE ON 3 OCTOBER.
the country. Drawing directly from censorship reports for his play text,
Written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues
Rodrigues interrogates and subverts
Lighting and Technical Direction
the hidden histories of his country,
by André Calado
transforming censors into playwrights
Set Design by Magda Bizarro,
and probing what was left unsaid. Moving
Rita Barbosa and Tiago Rodrigues
seamlessly between poetry, narration and
Costumes by Magda Bizarro
documentary, this is a penetrating work
and Tiago Rodrigues
from one of the most influential young
Research and Dramaturgy by Joana Frazão
artists in Portuguese theatre.
Translation to English by Kevin Rose Surtitling by Rita Mendes Cast members include Isabel Abreu, Gonçalo Waddington “An extraordinary moment for reflection on the present dangers to freedom of thought” Jornal Público
The Tadpole Repertory as part of Dublin Theatre
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Festival 2013
TARAMANDAL
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Taramandal is based on Satyajit Ray’s
8 – 12 October
short story, ‘Patol Babu, Film Star’,
7.45pm
which tells of a chance opportunity
€20 – €25
to fulfil a lifelong dream.
Matinée 2.45pm 12 October
At fifty or so, Patol Babu has led a rather unglamorous life. His one passion, acting, has never really amounted to anything other than a few theatre performances in his local community group as a child
Performed in English, Hindi and Bengali with English surtitles.
or at school. So when one day the possibility of a part in a Bengali film opens up, Patol embraces the chance
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – WITH NEEL CHAUDHURI AND MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON 9 OCTOBER.
with open arms. Humorous and melancholy, Taramandal tells stories that seem to be about people we have met and
Written and directed by Neel Chaudhuri
known in our own lifetime. Devised
Lighting Design by Rahul Rai
and performed by The Tadpole
Stage Design by Vaibhavi Kowshik
Repertory, one of Delhi’s most
Sound Design and Original Music
prominent and prolific theatre groups,
by Samar Grewal
this is a play which captures the sincerity and ardour of human dreams
Cast includes Andrew Hoffland, Bikram
and the courage and determination it
Ghosh, Kriti Pant, Mallika Taneja, Neel
takes to follow them.
Debdutt Paul & Tarun Sharma “Compelling stories of dreams and failure and the resurrection of the spirit” The Hindu
OCT—DEC 2013
New York City Players as part of Dublin Theatre
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Festival 2013
NEUTRAL HERO
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Twelve characters assemble to tell a
9 – 12 October
story of epic ordinariness concerning a
7.30pm
young man searching for his father in
€25 – €30
the wide open landscape of the American
Matinée 12 October 2.30pm
Midwest. Journeying through gas stations and drive-ins, family routines, work schedules, small-town dreams and desires, his Neutral Hero unearths an ancient stream of humanity. Listed as one of The New York
Contains strong language
Times’ top 10 shows of 2012, Neutral Hero
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – WITH RICHARD MAXWELL
of portraying neutrality on stage. Maxwell
AND MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY FOLLOWING THE
employs the elemental materials of the
undertakes the seemingly impossible feat
PERFORMANCE ON 10 OCTOBER.
theatre – text, movement, and music – and asks us to consider a world in which even
Written and Directed by Richard Maxwell
the most humble existence is charged
Set and Lighting Design by Sascha van Reil
with something mythic and extraordinary.
Costume Design by Kaye Voyce A leading ensemble of the experimental Cast includes Lakpa Bhutia, Janet Coleman,
downtown scene, New York City Players
Keith Connolly, Alex Delinois, Bob Feldman,
are celebrated for their unique style,
Jean Ann Garrish, Rosie Goldensohn,
championing the downbeats, the anti-
Paige Martin, James Moore, Philip Moore,
heroes, the alienated and the outlaws.
Andie Springer & Andres Weisell “Mr. Maxwell’s great achievement as a writer here is that he makes the soaringly heroic feel like the natural and inevitable subtext of the numbingly quotidian” The New York Times
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NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ARTS & PROJECT ARTS CENTRE
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Whether as one-third of Après
19 October
Match, as his German alter ego
8pm
Günther, or as his surreal and
€20
wonderful self, Barry is “one of the high kings of Irish comedy” (Hot Press) and is simply not to be missed. Accompanied by established and emerging talents such as Paul Currie, Eleventyfour,
The National Campaign for the
Sonya Kelly, Christina Talbot,
Arts and Project Arts Centre are
Totally Wired!, Aidan Strangeman
delighted to present a night of
and more, we guarantee an
unbridled joy to raise funds for
evening of quirky insights and
the NCFA’s work in 2013!
scathing asides. Just what you
Hosted by Kalle Ryan
need to brighten these dark days…
(brownbread mixtape), and eaturing comedians David
BOOK NOW to laugh in the face
McSavage and Barry Murphy,
of adversity – and support the
LAUGH YOUR ARTS OFF
National Campaign for the Arts.
presents a luminous line-up of Ireland’s best and brightest
A good cause and a great night
comedic voices on stage at
promised!
Ireland’s premier arts centre.
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Opera Slam
OPERA SLAM: DIE FLEDERMAUS
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Opera: it’s a great night out. Don’t
1 & 2 November
believe us? Then come and see for
8.15pm
yourself as Opera Slam presents
€5
this fun and furious re-imagining of Johann Strauss’ classic comic opera. Prince Orlovsky throws an overthe-top party. Masked and costumed guests cast off their tedious lives, pass as celebrities and swap lovers.
Written by Johann Strauss
And behind it all: one man’s plot
Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks
for revenge.
Produced by Emma Coen
Director Aoife Spillane-Hinks
Music by Tom Lane
and composer Tom Lane challenge
Cast includes Megan Riordan
sounds, and feels like, with this two-
conventions of what opera looks, person performance featuring Project CATYLYST Megan Riordan.
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Dublin Sound Lab
MIRRORS OF EARTH
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The Irish premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s
9 November
seminal chamber-ensemble Maa.
8pm
Originally conceived as a ballet, in
€15 / €10
this re-imagining as Mirrors of Earth the complete work (duration 1h15m) is performed with a newly commissioned video by Cork-based artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain. The seven movements, varying in force from surround-sound ‘tape’ to
Composed by Kaija Saariaho
an ensemble of seven musicians, display
Video art works by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Saariaho’s characteristically luxuriant textures and the themes with which she
Performers include:
infuses her work – distance, longing,
Conductor, David Adams
journey and sense of place. Ní Bhriain’s
Violin, Bogdan Sofei
seven accompanying videos reference the
Viola, Andrea Banciu
sense of dislocation within a landscape
Cello, Adrian Mantu
using constructed imagery to create
Flute, Julie Maisel
scenes in which the dimensions of time
Harp, Cliona Doris
and place are out-of-joint.
Harpsichord, Michael Quinn Percussion, Maeve O’Hara
Dublin Sound Lab is a contemporary music
Computer, Fergal Dowling
ensemble specialising in electronic and
Video Projection, Mihai Cucu
computer-mediated concert performance.
Sound, Alexis Nealon
Founded in 2008 by organist Michael Quinn and composer Fergal Dowling, the
“One of the finest electroacoustic
group brings contemporary international
ensembles on this island”
repertoire to Irish audiences and performs
Lyric FM
new Irish music on an international stage in performances of the highest artistic and technical standards. As well as presenting established works, Dublin Sound Lab initiate new repertoire and use computerbased techniques to explore novel relationships between musical material, compositional process and performance practice to create new and genuinely engaging concert experiences.
OCT—DEC 2013
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Theatre Company
WITNESS – A SEASON OF PLAYS, READINGS AND PERFORMANCE
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Thou Shalt not Kill written
5 – 9 November
by Paul Kennedy and created
8.15pm
by Mary Moynihan
€15 / €12 Thou Shalt Not Kill and Uprising
An installation of ‘living theatre’
€5 Showcase Reading of New Work
performances exploring themes of
Testimonies is free
conflict and trauma. Using the body
(see our website for full details)
as a site of performance, memory and emotion and centering on experiences of
Matinée 2pm 9 November
conflict in Northern Ireland, Thou Shalt
(Showcase reading)
Not Kill imagines the future through a remembrance of things past. Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times
Suitable 15+
A fusion of text, physical movement and dance, Uprising explores memories and
Smashing Times Theatre Company
experiences of conflict and pathways to
present three plays and one showcase
peace. Uprising uses physical movement,
reading of new work over five days of
dance and text to explore personal
exciting performance exploring themes
journeys, memories and experiences of
of new beginnings and rising out of
war and peace and the struggle between
difficult situations.
peaceful non-violence and physical force political violence. Uprising is drawn from
Testimonies by Paul Kennedy
interviews, research, speeches, poems,
and Mary Moynihan
archive video material and new writing
Dramatic monologues adapted from the
centering on conflict in Northern Ireland
experiences of people who have lost loved
and internationally, and asks why do we
ones to suicide and from the experiences
kill for a cause, why do we die for a cause?
of people who have been through a mental health crisis and survived. Testimonies is
Showcase Reading of New Work
presented as part of Acting for the Future,
Reading of new work in progress from
a project using theatre to promote positive
playwrights including Sinéad O’Loughlin,
mental health and run in partnership with
Gerard Humphreys and Mary Moynihan.
the Samaritans and Irish Association of Suicidology and supported by ESB Electric Aid Ireland.
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Lyric Theatre, Belfast
BRENDAN AT THE CHELSEA
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Space Upstairs
Adrian Dunbar plays Brendan Behan in
12 – 16 November
this warm and funny drama of an Irish
8pm
national treasure. This Lyric Theatre Belfast
€22 / €18
production opened the Naughton Studio in
Matinée 3pm 16 November
2011 to great acclaim and is being revived for an international tour, starting at the Acorn Theatre in New York for a limited run, before returning to Ireland for a stint at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. It is 1960s New York in legendary
Suitable 16+
bohemian bolt hole, The Chelsea Hotel. Arthur Miller is just across the hall and the
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symphony of 24th Street is rising up and
Written by Janet Behan
Behan’s room. He is broke, hung over and
Directed by Adrian Dunbar
way past the delivery date of his latest
in through the open window of Brendan
Lighting Design by James C McFetridge
book, the first line of which he is yet to
Set and Costume by Stuart Marshall
write. He was told to stop drinking or
Cast includes Adrian Dunbar, Pauline
two years ago.
he’d be dead in six months – that was Hutton, Richard Orr, Samantha Pearl, Chris Robinson.
Today is not going well. His mistress keeps ringing, the bills aren’t paid and a wire arrives from Dublin with the kind of
“Adrian Dunbar is outstanding as the bitter, battered man, who’s burned his boats and
news that’s guaranteed to put his blood pressure through the roof…
is now at the mercy of the high seas.” Belfast Telegraph
Since reopening its doors in May 2011, the Lyric theatre has gone from strength to strength as Northern Ireland’s only full time producing theatre. The brand new £18.1 million building forms a cultural hub at the heart of Northern Ireland’s capital. The world class facilities enable the theatre to create performance work of the highest standard to entertain audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
OCT—DEC 2013
The Goethe Institute in association with
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Project Arts Centre and Dublin Dance Festival
ABECEDARIUM BESTIARIUM
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Cube
D is for Dodo, T is for the
18 & 19 November
Tasmanian Tiger…
8pm €14 / €12
ABeCedarium Bestiarium is an ABC of extinct animals performed by collaborative, Berlin-based artist Antonia Baehr. Baehr invited her artist friends to choose an extinct animal, with
Suitable 18+
each animal standing for a letter of
POST SHOW DISCUSSION – 19 DECEMBER
with their chosen animal, while also
the alphabet. Based on their affinity reflecting on their personal friendship Written and Directed by Antonia Baehr
with Baehr, she commissioned each artist to write a score for a short solo
Lighting Design by Sylvie Garot
performance.
Compositions by Fred Bigot
miniature solos on stage, giving herself
(electronicat), Pauline Boudry, Valérie
over to the varying styles and moods
Castan, Lucile Desamory, Vinciane
of each author.
Baehr performs these eclectic
Despret, Sabine Ercklentz, Dodo Heidenreich, Christian Kesten, Keren Ida Nathan (Ida Wilde), Andre Nuemann, Stefan Pente, Isabell Sepngler, Steffi Weismann, William Wheeler.
OCT—DEC 2013
Clinic Media, in association
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with the Everyman Theatre
LIFE BEHIND THE VENUE KINDLY SUPPORTED BY A CORK CITY COUNCIL ARTS OFFICE PROJECT GRANT.
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Cube
Clinic Media, in association with the
19 – 23 November
Everyman Theatre, present Life Behind
6.30pm
The Venue. This interactive tour brings
€10 (limited capacity)
the audience backstage to meet faceto-face with the characters in a promenade style performance. Exploring the notion of identity within the work place and the position of the individual within the group; the
Suitable 16+
audience are invited to take on the role of trainee ushers and learn the unique
Directed by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin.
methods of ushering at ‘The Venue’.
Starring Mary-Lou Mc Carthy,
Clinic Media is a Cork based Theatre
Charlie Kelly, Pauline O’Driscoll
and Filmmaking company. Producing
and Danny O’Connor.
since 2007 our credits include Life in The Venue (Everyman, 2012), A
“Very self referential and clever” Colette Sheridan – Irish Examiner
Serving of Pinter (Cork Opera House Half Moon Theatre, 2011), Falling Slowly (2010) and Howie The Rookie (Granary New Directors, 2007). Most
“Directed with a spirited faith in the
recently Clinic have created Talking
moment by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin…
Subtext in the Theatre Development
In a nice ensemble, Mary-Lou
Centre, Cork. Life Behind The Venue
McCarthy was particularly funny.”
is Clinic’s first tour to Dublin.
Liam Heylin – Evening Echo
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Elizabeth Moynihan
MARVEL
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Cube
Marvel is a searing portrait of
13 – 23 November
characters devastated by the end of
8.15pm
the spurious economic boom which
€14 / €12
had served them so well. A despairing
Preview 12 November
businessman and a resilient prostitute sustain and challenge one another in a gripping emotional pas de deux which burns with their particular passions, but also serves as a devastating commentary on the cycle of boom
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and bust – and the effect it has on its human victims.
Forced Entertainment
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OCT—DEC 2013
TOMORROW’S PARTIES
Image by Hugo Glendinning
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Space Upstairs 21 – 23 November
“One of Britain’s greatest theatre companies.” The Guardian
8pm €22 / €18
“The best group of stage actors in Britain.” The Times International innovators Forced Entertainment’s latest performance imagines a multitude of hypothetical
Suitable 16+
futures. Two performers wreathed in coloured lights, like a strange fairground
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attraction, speculate about what
Conceived and devised by Forced
and dystopian visions, science fiction
Entertainment: Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells,
scenarios, political nightmares and absurd
tomorrow might bring. Exploring utopian
Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy
fantasies, the audience is carried along on
Naden and Terry O’Connor
a flowing tide of conjectures, possibilities and dreams.
Performed by Robin Arthur
Sometimes collaborative,
and Terry O’Connor
sometimes competitive, the two
Directed by Tim Etchells
performers enjoy the pleasure of
Design by Richard Lowdon
invention as their suppositions take them
Lighting Design by Francis Stevenson
in different directions. Tomorrow’s Parties
Production by Ray Rennie
is Forced Entertainment in intimate and comical mode – a playful, poignant and at
Co-producers: Tomorrow’s Parties
times delirious look forwards to futures
is a production of Belluard Bollwerk
both possible and impossible.
International, made possible thanks to a contribution of the Canton of Fribourg
Forced Entertainment is regularly funded
to culture. In co-production with BIT
by Arts Council England.
Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Internationales Sommerfestival (Hamubrg), Kaaitheatre (Brussels), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Theaterhaus Gessnerallee (Zurich) and Sheffield City Council. With the support of Stanly Thomas Johnson Foundation.
Crash Ensemble
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OCT—DEC 2013
NORDIC
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Space Upstairs
string quartet “Nebraska”. Sigurðsson
29 November
will also join Crash on stage for a new
8pm
arrangement of “Past Tundra” from his
€20 / €18
acclaimed album “Draumalandið”. Programme Valgeir Sigurðsson: GHOSTS [World Premiere] Valgeir Sigurðsson: Past Tundra
“Massiveness and impact are characteristics
(new arrangement for Crash Ensemble)
that the Crash Ensemble rarely lack.”
Valgeir Sigurðsson: Nebraska
The Irish Times
Tobias Brostrom: Arena Rolf Wallin: The Age of Wire and String
“Crash Ensemble, an Irish new-music collective with international cachet and
Kaija Saariaho: Serenatas Rune Glerup: Dust Encapsulated #2
considerable chops” The Washington Post
Crash Ensemble is Ireland’s foremost contemporary music ensemble; a group
Crash Ensemble and special guest Valgeir
of world-class musicians who play the
Sigurðsson bring you music from the vast
most adventurous, ground-breaking new
landscapes and expansive beauty of the
music of today.
northern shores of Europe. Featuring works by Kaija Saariaho (Finland), Tobias Brostrom (Sweden), Rolf
The Ensemble has worked with many well-known artists from diverse musical backgrounds, such as Steve Reich, Gavin
Wallin (Norway), Rune Glerup (Denmark)
Friday, Dawn Upshaw, Terry Riley, David
and Valgeir Sigurðsson (Iceland).
Lang, Íarla Ó Lionáird, Julie Feeney, Gerald
Sigurðsson is founder of the Bedroom Community record label (home to Nico Muhly, Ben Frost and Sam Amidon), as well as Iceland’s top recording facility Greenhouse
Barry, Gavin Bryars, Michael Gordon and Louis Andriessen. As well as performing regularly throughout Ireland, Crash are well known
Studios, where his collaborators include
internationally, in 2013 appearing at
Björk, Feist, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Camille,
Carnegie Hall, NYC, The John F. Kennedy
CocoRosie, The Magic Numbers, múm and
Center for the Performing Arts, Washington
many others.
DC, and Princeton University.
Crash Ensemble will premiere a new work by Sigurðsson, written especially for
Crash Ensemble is music ensemble-
the ensemble, his evocative and scenic
in-residence at Project Arts Centre.
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OCT—DEC 2013
SEAN MILLAR
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Space Upstairs
One of the greatest Irish singer-
30 November
songwriters presents an evening of
8pm
breath-taking songs, both old and new.
€15 / €12
From the controversial The Bitter Lie, released at the age of 29, to the critically-acclaimed Dublin Fringe Festival 2012 hit production The Last Ten Years, Sean Millar has been at the forefront of the Irish music
“I envy Sean his lyrics a lot of the time,
scene for nearly 20 years. Now, for
he’s a brilliant writer and one of the
one spectacular evening, Sean Millar
best lyricists in the country. Songs like
presents a showcase of his best songs
‘Saint Stephen’, ‘You’re Grand’ and
from his extensive back catalogue, and
‘Alcohol Problems’ – they’re all time
new gems from his latest release, C48.
classics. Everyone should have them in the house.” Damien Dempsey Critics on C48: “Prescribed listening” The Mail on Sunday “Millar’s voice has gained an added timbre with age…simple arrangements allow him to soar.” The Sunday Business Post “delivers an album full of honesty and integrity.” Thejournalist.ie “This record is a triumph” Metro Herald
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Chameleon
JFK IN BLACK AND WHITE
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Cube
Using contemporary documents
26 – 29 November
and provocative commentary,
8.15pm
along with a set list comprised of
€14 / €12
startling renditions of Nina Simone,
Preview 25 November
Randy Newman, Billie Holliday and other classic American musicians, performer Karen Underwood parallels the life of a legendary American president with that of black family life in Chicago in the 1960s and
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onwards. Joined by a special guest
Written by Johnny Hanrahan
and journalism, with a daring script
each night from the fields of politics Performed by Karen Underwood
by Johnny Hanrahan, Underwood
Music direction by Johnny O’Brien
explores the legacy of JFK – and why
Performed by Johnny O’Brien
it continues to evolve now, fifty years after his assassination. Chameleon is a creative projects company which works in the broad cultural areas of the arts, entertainment, education, tourism, and community building. It combines performances and arts projects of all kinds with longer-term programmes designed to energise and empower individuals, groups and communities.
Rough Magic SEEDS
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OCT—DEC 2013
ASSASSINS
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Space Upstairs
“What a wonder is a gun!
9 – 14 December
What a versatile invention!
9.15pm
First of all when you’ve a gun –
€16 / €14
Everybody pays attention.”
Preview 5 – 7 December, €12 Matinée 3.15pm 14 December, €12
On the 50th Anniversary of the shooting of John F. Kennedy, Rough Magic SEEDS present Stephen Sondheim’s killer musical Assassins. Featuring a formidable ensemble of actors and musicians, this dangerously
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funny show takes the audience on a kaleidoscopic ride through the lives, loves and lunacy of the nine men and women
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
who killed or tried to kill American
Book by John Weidman
presidents, from John Wilkes Booth to
Directed by Ronan Phelan
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Set and Lighting Design by Zia Holly Musical Direction by Dan Forde
With a stylish score by Tony and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd,
“Nothing quite prepares you for the disturbing brilliance of Assassins” The New York Times
Company, Sunday in the Park with George) and a witty, provocative book by John Weidman, Assassins daringly examines success, failure and the dark side of the American Dream. Winner of 5 Tony Awards in 2004. Assassins is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr.
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Rough Magic SEEDS
WAY TO HEAVEN
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Space Upstairs
Rough Magic SEEDS present Way to
9 – 14 December
Heaven by Juan Mayorga, translated
7pm
by David Johnston.
€16 / €14 Preview 5 – 7 December, €12
1942. In a town square 30 kilometres
Matinée 1pm 14 December, €12
outside Berlin, two young boys play with a spinning top. Lovers quarrel on a park bench as a balloon seller passes by. The sound of trains in the distance. This is what the Red Cross official observes. But what should his report say?
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“I know why you’re here. The rumours. You imagined terrible things and you believe you should do something
Written by Juan Mayorga
about them. Fantasy overtakes us all once
Translated by David Johnston
in a while.”
Directed by Rosemary McKenna Set and Lighting Design by Zia Holly
Way to Heaven is inspired by the true story of the elaborate deception of international inspectors and aid
“a compellingly constructed play” The Independent
workers that took place at Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Second World War.
“eloquent and haunting”
Written by award-winning Spanish
The New York Times
playwright Juan Mayorga, this powerful drama was a hit at the Royal Court in
“powerfully written” The Guardian
2004 and has since been performed all over the world. Way to Heaven investigates the nature of perception, reality and performance and asks, how much courage is needed to take responsibility for what you see?
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Dead Centre
SOUVENIR
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Cube
A fellow will remember a lot of things
4 – 14 December
you wouldn’t think he’d remember.
8.15pm
Take me, for example…
€14 / €12 Preview 3 December
Arriving back in Dublin, where it played
Matinée 2.30pm 14 December, €12
a critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Fringe 2012, Souvenir spins off from Marcel Proust’s In Remembrance of Things Past, to create a giddy, freewheeling exploration of memory, jealousy and time. In the centenary year of the novel’s
Suitable 14+
publication, we join an aging Marcel as he
Features some strobe lighting.
struggles to understand the man he was. Using language, music and magic tricks,
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to help him get to grips with what Proust meant when he said, “it’s better
“A hilarious hour-long negotiation with Proust” Irish Theatre Magazine
to dream your life than to live it.” Borrowing (some might say stealing) from a range of other literary masters including T S Eliot, Charlie Kaufman,
“Long after the performance finished
Beyoncé Knowles and Orson Welles,
its meanings were still unfurling”
Souvenir turns the longest book ever
Irish Times
written into a 56 minute theatre show. Written and performed by Bush Moukarzel, directed by Ben Kidd, with music by Adam Welsh, Souvenir has toured to London and New York. It returns to Dublin hot on the heels of Lippy, Dead Centre’s second show, winner of best production and best design at Dublin Fringe Awards 2013.
OCT—DEC 2013
THEATREclub, Project Arts Centre
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and Dublin City Council
HISTORY Image by Pat McGrath
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Space Upstairs
The housing estate and the people who
18 – 22 December
lived there have battled drugs, recession
7.30pm (6pm 22 December)
and social exclusion. Yet St Michael’s
€16 / €12
has become a hub of activism that is world-renowned for its community development and creative protest. romised regeneration four times in fifteen years, the former residents of the old St. Michaels Estate are still waiting for the
Suitable 16+ Strong language and adult themes
homes they’ve been promised. By telling the unwritten stories of this land, THEATREclub are going to bring you
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through the last 100 years of our countries social history, so we, the people, can think
Written by Grace Dyas and
about what we want to happen next. We
devised by the cast
want you to know what happened here.
Directed by Grace Dyas
We want you to remember. HISTORY is
Lighting Design by Eoin Winning
a story about Ireland’s future. Will you
Set Design by Doireann Coady
walk with us?
Costume by Emma Fraser
HISTORY is commissioned as part
Performed by Shane Byrne,
of the Dublin City Public Art Programme
Lauren Larkin, Gerard Kelly,
with funding from the Department of
Louise Lewis and Barry O’Connor
the Environment, Community and Local Government under the Per Cent for Art
“At this time of societal questioning and
Scheme. The development of HISTORY
re-evaluation that seems laden with
was generously supported by Senator
significance, THEATREclub are breaking
Fiach McConaghai.
down those fundamentals in the hope we might build them back up again.” The Irish Times
THEATREclub are a young Dublin based theatre collective founded in November 2008 comprised of Shane Byrne, Doireann
HISTORY is a story about a place. A
Coady and Grace Dyas. Over the last five
fourteen acre site in Inchicore called
years, the company have developed a
St Michael’s Estate, and a history that
regular ensemble of actors, designers
spans the housing of imprisoned 1916
and production team, working together to
revolutionaries to the building of Ireland’s
make shows about us and the people and
first social housing in the 1960s.
things around us.
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ponydance
PONY PANTO
OCT—DEC 2013
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Cube
Join us for a panto with a big
19 – 22 December
difference and watch as ponydance
8.15pm (7pm, 22 December)
unleash their time honoured and
€14 / €12
much loved irreverent approach to everybody’s favourite season. With a host of special guests, compered by the ever-giddy MC Leoniepony, featuring the brand new PONYBOIS and the best of the best
Some strong language.
of ponydance. Spend a night with us and remember why Christmas can be
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so much fun.
Directed by Leonie McDonagh
2013 saw ponydance touring the
Designed by Ciaran O’Melia
world, selling out shows from the American Dance Festival in North
“utterly hilarious…highly recommended” The Irish News
Carolina to Peggy Gordon’s Irish Bar in New Plymouth, New Zealand. This year saw the birth of the PONYBOIS, the mostly male, all champion, dance masters and a brand new show called Ponies Don’t Play Football.
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OCT—DEC 2013
VISUAL ARTS
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PRACTICAL MAGIC by Jennifer Tee
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Gallery Until 26 October 11am – 8pm Admission Free
Curated by Tessa Giblin A newly commissioned exhibition by Amsterdambased artist Jennifer Tee for Project Arts Centre. The exhibition features rugs that have been intricately hand-dyed, hand-sewn and produced on a hand-powered knitting loom, while throughout the room – on tables, on the floor, adorning other sculptures – are a series of ceramic totems, evoking both flower forms and the bodily interior. Exploring the fundamental contradictions we are all composed of, Tee creates forms that are both geometric and spontaneous, industrially made and hand-crafted – practical and magical.
Céline Condorelli
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OCT—DEC 2013
ADDITIONALS
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Gallery 7 November – 18 January 11am – 8pm Admission Free
Curated by Tessa Giblin The gallery will become the site of a performance collaboration that opens the meaning and potential of sculptural objects into uncharted territories. Céline Condorelli works on the structures of art, architecture and civil society, and this exhibition Additionals (based on The Tiger’s Mind score of Cornelius Cardew) is being brought to Dublin in an exciting collaboration with a Irish theatre collective, The Company. You are welcome to join us for the opening of this exhibition from 6pm – 8pm on Wednesday 6 November 2013.
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RGKSKSRG, FOR PROJECT ARTS CENTRE Image credit: Edwin Deakin (American, born England, 1838 – 1923), San Gabriel Mission, (detail), n.d. Oil on canvas, 22 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Gerald D. Gordon. 2007.9
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Grotto
RGKSKSRG, for Project Arts Centre
Until 14 January
inhabit the Grotto in the foyer, using
11am – 8pm
the space as an insta-archive of the
Admission Free
art centre’s gallery programme. It is a site for reflection on the rolling nature of exhibitions, and their immediate passing legacies. This season, RGKSKSRG envisage a response to the episodic
Curated by RGKSKSRG
Mario García Torres, Until It Makes Sense (5 July – 17 August 2013). The manifestation of this insta-archive runs in parallel with Jennifer Tee, Practical Magic (29 August – 26 October 2013). A new installation, reflecting on Practical Magic, will then run alongside Céline Condorelli’s Additionals (8 November 2013 – 18 January 2014). Based between Amsterdam and Dublin, RGKSKSRG is the paired curatorial practice of Rachael Gilbourne and Kate Strain. Core activities include commissioning, presenting and contextualising contemporary art.
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