TheatreDog Show
Company: Peer Pressure Productions
Boy dog meets girl dog. They start going out. Then he sees her with someone else... Even the dogs in the street know there's a price to pay for a broken heart. A psychedelic canine thriller. Love, sex, jealousy and death. The Collie, the Labrador, and the red-eyed Mutt. LIVE from the Bank of Ireland Theatre at Galway Arts Festival, Dog Show - a radio drama on stage... SEE the valley ring with laughter, HEAR the gunshots, SMELL the blood, TREMBLE as the tractor comes to take the corpse away...
Venue: Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway A Distant Country Called YouthCompany: Andrew McCarthyA Distant Country Called Youth powerfully illuminates a series of letters by Tennessee Williams to his family, friends, lovers, agents, producers and literary luminaries. Written over a 20-year period, the letters follow Williams from his youth in Clayton to his first triumph on Broadway. The Glass Menagerie's famously introverted heroine, Laura, was inspired by Williams' sister Rose, whose mental deterioration is chronicled in heartbreaking detail in the play through her brother's letters. Andrew McCarthy has appeared in many Broadway and off Broadway productions most notably in Sideman and The Boys of Winter. A well-known TV and film actor he has appeared in Mulholland Falls, The Joy Luck Club, Pretty in Pink, Less than Zero and St. Elmos' Fire amongst others. Adapted and directed by Steve Lawson from The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams.
Venue: Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway Aurélia's Oratorio
Company: Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin with Aurélia Thiérrée
Welcome to a world of illusion and fantasy, where dreams come to life and the impossible happens before your very eyes... Aurélia's Oratorio is inspired by the magic of music hall, variety and circus, conjuring a concoction of theatrical mystery and dreambound delirium. In this topsy-turvy world of improbable encounters and incongruous characters, nothing is as it seems. Aurélia's Oratorio, a bewitching feast of invention and magical adventure, is created and directed by Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin and stars her daughter Aurélia Thiérrée (sister of James, whose Junebug Symphony and La Viellée des Abysses received their Irish premieres at Galway Arts Festival).
Venue: Black Box Theatre The Small Things
Company: Paines Plough
The last two people left in the world. They have to speak to stay alive. Who will have the last word? Two houses, perched on top of mountains, stare at each other across a deep valley. A man and a woman talk about the small things ? parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, the memory of mother's breasts, brown sauce and soggy chips. But these minutiae disguise a bigger story of brutality and unfaltering loyalty which emerges horrifically through the chit-chat. Enda Walsh is one of the most innovative and thrilling playwrights of his generation following global success with his plays Disco Pigs and Bedbound. Paines Plough present the Irish premiere of The Small Things, directed by Vicky Featherstone - an aching exploration of language and our need for words to survive.
Venue: Druid Theatre Showcase Galway: TeacherCompany: Galway Youth TheatreA group of teenagers are gathered for dinner and a crisis meeting at Mags' house. It's a week since their class destroyed their teacher Miss Adams, with the razor-edged cruelty of children, and she has not been seen since. Hilarious new play from the author of The Good Father and Inside I'm Dancing.
Venue: Nun's Island Studio Showcase Galway: Strings (new work from Galway)
Company: Chrysalis Dance
Strings is a unique collaboration between Chrysalis Director Judith Sibley and singer/ songwriter Paddy Casey. Fusing the grace and elegance of classical ballet with the red-hot energy of contemporary dance Chrysalis presents a dynamic performance of unrivalled emotional power inspired by Casey's lyrics.
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel Entertainment Centre Showcase Galway: Burntout (new work from Galway)Company: CatastropheAlice thought that she was the only employee loyal enough to show up at the office on a Saturday. But with the appearance of an over-eager mailroom clerk, her needy boyfriend and a wannabe arsonist, it may take more than loyalty to get through the day alive. Catastrophe Theatre are a young Galway company who have built a reputation for original and darkly comic work, unusual staging and a physically engaging acting style.
Venue: An Taibhdhearc Studio Phoenix Dance Theatre
Company: Phoenix Dance Theatre
One of the UK's leading contemporary dance companies, Phoenix Dance Theatre make their Irish debut with a fresh and powerful triple bill from three of today?s most exciting and original choreographers. Henri Oguike is known for intricate, rhythmic choreography and his instinctive translation of the moods and themes of music into exhilarating movement. His rousing Signal sets five performers against the pounding rhythms of Japan's Taiko drums. Inspired by the anthemic music of Jimi Hendrix, the archetype of rock excess, Rui Horta has drawn on the individual strengths of the Phoenix dancers to explore personal limits and the fine line between individual expression and burnout in Can You See Me. Artistic Director Darshan Singh Bhuller's Eng-er-land takes us through the madness of Friday night in Anytown, England. Pushing the relationship between live performance and film, the stage is flooded with multimedia projections of a virtual city. KMA's computer generated graphics respond and react to the dancers in a true integration of technology, theatricality and raw physicality. DJ Blessed's eclectic mixed soundtrack provides the pulse for this expose of the UK's binge culture.
Venue: Black Box Theatre Mother Courage & her children in Purgatory
Company: Teatro del Silencio & Karlik Danza Teatro
Mother Courage & her children in Purgatory is the latest creation from Mauricio Celedon, director of Teatro del Silencio, in collaboration with Spain's Karlik Danza Teatro. On their first visit to Galway in 2000, Teatro del Silencio astonished audiences with the extraordinary Alice Underground and now they return to the Festival to present the world premiere of their latest creation. Mother Courage & her children in Purgatory continues the tradition of the company to break through the barriers separating acrobatics, mime, dance, music and drama. Based on Brecht's landmark anti-war drama, Mother Courage and her children in Purgatory, performed in the open air, is a powerful reflection of the times we live in. Not suitable for children Open air performance
Venue: Fisheries Field Here Lies
Company: Operating Theatre
In 1937, inspired by an apocalyptic vision, French actor/writer Antonin Artaud arrived in Ireland carrying a cane, which he believed to have been the staff of St. Patrick. His journey brought him to Inis Mor and to Galway where he stayed in the Imperial Hotel without the means to pay his bill. Some days later, he was arrested in Dublin and subsequently deported as an undesirable and destitute alien. Here Lies is the first in a series of live installations by Operating Theatre which retraces Artaud's journey through Ireland. Created by the company in collaboration with director Selina Cartmell and designer Paul Keogan with sound design by Roger Doyle, Here Lies is performed by Olwen Fouere.
Venue: Meeting Room Imperial Hotel, Eyre Sq. DruidSyngeCompany: DruidIn what promises to be the theatrical experience of a lifetime, Druid presents six plays by John Millington Synge in this landmark tribute to one of the world?s greatest playwrights. DruidSynge can be enjoyed as a series of double bills over two or three days, or as a very special experience when - on selected dates - all six plays are presented on the same day. This unique celebration of Synge?s life and work is the first time that all of his plays will have been performed together.
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