DEMOTAPE SIDE 1: 6PM: €6: 30 mins
Tuesday 15th 6pm
A SONNET FOR DARK LOVE
Devised by Ruairí Donovan
Kindly supported by Daghdha Dance Company
A Sonnet for Dark Love is an invitation to explore identity and community. The Sonnet echoes a dead poet and a living crisis. A dark portrait of the artist as a young man.
The Sonnet is propaganda re-imagined, a new theatrical experience, a social choreography.
The Sonnet is a protest, demanding we dream for a moment in the darkness and begin a discussion of sexuality and equality in a new way.
Wednesday 16th 6pm
BUSK
Devised by Sarah Kinlen and Maisie Lee
Why busk? Is street performance art in its rawest form; brutally exposed to passers-by and the elements? Or is it a way of life? An old art form you can truly believe in? In a city with so many competing sounds, why busk?
Sarah and Maisie both burn the candle at both ends and when not running round the town, have enjoyed spending many hours in Joy of Cha discussing and creating this piece!
Thursday 17th & Friday 18th 6pm
IT’S A PLEASURE TO BE CAUGHT IN THE RAIN
La-Di-Da Theatre Company
Directed by Donna Douglas
College days, Prison Visits
And one eye on the clock
A 9' x 7' cell with no natural light,
A detached house on the southside,
La-di-da Theatre Company introduce you to these two social opposites,
As they quickly find out about each others lives,
their typical social barriers begin to break,
Have they realised they’re not so different?
Don't be too quick to judge as you may find,
A surprising outcome from an unlikely pair.
Donna is amazing at making poached eggs and likes to clean whilst listening to dance music.
Amanda wishes she was Kat Slater, And would love to live in the world of Albert Square!
Saturday 19th 6pm
HAWK/HARE
CARAVAN/ON/FIRE/COLLECTIVE
Written by Mairin O’Grady
Directed by Aoife Courtney
It's bare. With your mother gone. Hold your sister's hand. And walk the day long. Everybody is gone.
Alone in the badlands, the barrens, the back-country. Two sisters, Nanny and Angel, surviving by solitary and disunited instincts. The hawk and the hare.
One of sharp eyes to the sky. One of the ground racing to hide in hedges.
Look onto the stage of struggling. Two characters unified against the wilderness and ruptured by the others strength.
Nanny and Angel. The hawk and the hare.
Mairin O Grady: Loves getting you in the corner and chewing the ear off you. She'll steal the secrets right from your teeth.
Aoife: Is your hair real / is your hair really curly / can I touch it? Yes, Yes, No.
NEW RELEASES SIDE 2: 7PM: €10: 45 mins
Tuesday 15th 7pm
THE VERY BEST OF JOHN LENNON
By Waterdonkey Theatre
Join us in our very own 21st Century “bed in”. You are welcome to join us on or off stage in this intimate and relaxed encounter. You may want to recline with us on a big white bed at a party in the 1970s, or to look on from the future. An exploration of the part words play in performance, whether we are performing a fictional onstage character or performing our selves in the course of day-to-day history. Can words hold human identity?
WATERDONKEY are in the business of learning; of learning from the process, of learning from the audience, of learning from each other. We love to be unexpected and true. We are always beginning. WATERDONKEY: swim like a dolphin, splash like a horse.
Wednesday 16th 7pm
BOXES
Written by Louise Melinn
A nightclub in Dublin. A boy and a girl. Smoky eyes, vomit, lies. They drink and then they talk and then they vomit. Oh and they dance. Drink talk vomit dance. The lights come up. They try to find their way home...
Louise loves pyjamas and dressing gowns and finds it difficult to wear anything else.
Thursday 17th 7pm
SCRATCHER
Devious Theatre
Directed by John Morton
They have demands, they have plans and they have guns. They are making the sentence fit the crime. Scratcher is a farce about a farce that gets even more farcical by the day. On a rainy Tuesday morning in a non descript social welfare office, six twenty somethings step out from behind the statistics and bring the live registrar to life.
Devious Theatre were born in 2006 due to an overwhelming need to entertain. They spend their time rehearsing in kitchens and buildings they managed to get keys cut for. Their artistic credo is mostly ADHD based and fairly guerrilla. To this end, their goal is to kidnap as many young people away from gigs and cinemas and pubs and drag them to the theatre. They can bring their own cans if they want.
Friday 18th 7pm
A LOVE OF GOODBYES
Devised by Mary-Frances Doherty
“But what about us? – We’ll always have Paris.” (Casablanca)
Goodbye to a lover. Goodbye to a friend. Goodbye to a childhood dream. Goodbye to a man who needed more time, to a friend who will never know, and a city you once called home.
A passionate and touching performance that explores the ephemerality of life and our attempts to make it all make sense.
Mary-Frances likes to hula-hope, disco dance and eat cakes.
Saturday 19th 7pm
I AM A HOMEBIRD (IT’S VERY HARD)
Shaun Dunne and Talking Shop Ensemble
Written and performed by Shaun Dunne
Directed by Oonagh Murphy
A conversation with a city that feels empty.
A post card from the ones who couldn't stay.
Trapped between Terminal 2 and a very hard place-
We feel like Nadine Coyle and are caught in a rat race-
To where? Anywhere.
As long as it's out of here.
I am a Home Bird (IT'S VERY HARD) was born off the back of one too many going away parties.
We need to know; should we stay or should we go?
Shaun and Oonagh are great friends. Together they enjoy cheap wine, Barry's Tea, and low-brow Reality T.V. references.
LPs (LONG (PLAY)ING RECORDS) SIDE 3: 8.30PM: €12: 60 minutes
Tuesday 15th & Wednesday 16th 8.30pm
I DREAMT TOM STOPPARD’S EMAIL ADDRESS
Let’s Do That
Written by Lydia Prior
Directed by Edwina Casey
Produced by Lara Hickey
Artistic Associate Louise Lewis
Dear Tom
Remember all those emails I wrote to you? The ones about how my dad died and how I got sort of obsessed with Shakespeare in Love and Twelfth Night and the idea of being shipwrecked and washed up on a beach like Gwyneth Paltrow? Well, I've made them into a show. Bet you wish you'd thought of it. I'm not sure you'd approve of the way I did it, though. We've done a few mad things, but you'll have to come and see it if you want to know what they are.
I hope you're keeping well and writing something brilliant yourself.
lots of love
Lydia
P.S. You really should come. I put your name in the title and all.
P.P.S. That fella who played Shakespeare is gorgeous. Can I have his number?
Lydia studied at Oxford before moving to L.A., where she modelled for Vidal Sassoon and wrote TV shows about celebrities for E!. She now lives in London, teaches Latin and writes plays.
Thursday 17th 8.30pm
TASTE
Spilt Gin
Written by James Hickson
Directed by Maeve Stone
When someone goes without saying goodbye,
There's a lot to finish.
Meet Kate, meeting Rose,
There's dinner. It's late.
Too late?
It's the new year and the last chance for two lost souls to wrestle an old ghost.
Taste is an invitation to suck the bitter lemon.
A new work from Spilt Gin Theatre (creators of ‘Soh' and 'Andy Warhol's Nothing Special'),
Written by James Hickson and directed by Maeve Stone.
Maeve is from Limerick and yes, she has a horse outside.
James would swap with David Bowie, dislikes rogue apostrophes, and makes theatre to make more Facebook friends.
Friday 18th & Saturday 19th 8.30pm
THE FAMILY
THEATREclub
Conceived by Grace Dyas and Doireann Coady
Directed by Grace Dyas
Design by Doireann Coady
Costume Design by Seymour’s Vintage
Devised by the cast, Grace Dyas and Doireann Coady
Cast includes Louise Lewis, Barry O'Connor, Ger Kelly, Shane Byrne, Lauren Larkin, Brian Bennett & Gemma Collins
"A family is a very good thing to write a play about""- Tom Murphy, playwright.
The Family is a show about your family.
This family is made of CARDBOARD and FAKE GRASS.
This family are in a show about being a family and they have neighbours who borrow their stuff too often.
The Family fight. love and try to make dinner.
The Family cry and stare as funds get thinner.
but The Family love each other.
Cos, after all you can choose your friends...
THEATREclub are tearing up 'An Teachlaigh'
Fresh from their sell-out run at ABSOLUT FRINGE, Spirit of The Fringe winners THEATREclub are taking a fresh look at the contemporary and the traditional Irish Family.
EPs (LATE NIGHT FUN) SIDE 4: 10PM: €10: 30 mins
Tuesday 15th & Wednesday 16th 10pm
WHERE DO I START?
Devised and performed by Nyree Yergainharsian
Nyree is ready to talk about it now. She's going to invent her identity and then discover it. She's going to find the clues in her shoes. She's giving herself a pop quiz about who she is. And she's needs you to join her. Find links to the past, map out memories and take a journey through time. Discover your identity by inventing it.
Nyree is an actor sometimes. The rest of the time she probably does similar stuff to yourself. She's cool like that.
Thursday 17th & Friday 18th 10pm
LaMelia: A LATE NIGHT LULLABY
Conceived and performed by Ciaran O’Melia
It’s time for bed now. Still can’t sleep.
Lie there. Staring at the ceiling. Nothing doing.
1 am. 2 am. 3 am. 4 ...
Light bleeds in through your bedroom window.
The muted TV flickers in the background.
Laptop. Online. Offline. Invisible.
You close your eyes. Long Blink. Still Awake.
A song seeps into your brain...
a latenight lullaby from LaMelia
Ciarán O'Melia has been busy designing all the plays in all the theatres all over the world - everything, ever. He loves his bed, his bedroom and the bathroom. He can close the door, switch off and listen... Now he's dragging himself and his bed onto the stage so that you can listen too.
Saturday 19th 10pm
TRASH – LIVE ART ELECTRO TRASH BAND
Devised by the band
Produced by Lynnette Moran
The Band includes Ciaran O'Melia, Brian Bennett, Doireann Coady, Niamh McCann and Emma O'Kane
TRASH - Live Art Electro Trash Band is what happens when live art meets electro trash - It's when Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Tim Etchells, Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Ron Athey, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George, Leigh Bowery, La Ribot, Karen Finley and Allan Kaprow all check in to The Chelsea Hotel for one night only. It's anti POP, it will be to THEATRE what SEX (boutique) was to the Kings Road in 1970's London, what Basquiat (aka SAMO) was to lower Manhattan, what Joan of Arc was to Orléans, what Princess Diana was to the Royal Family...but at the same time there will be loads of popular culture references as you can see…so it’s basically a lot like…the Late Late Show... oh and everyone in the band is a RIDE.
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