Artist Talks at Draíocht this March
March 9, 2011
Artist Talks @ Draíocht March 2011
As part of our current season of exhibitions Draíocht is delighted to present two artist talks –artists Sarah O’Brien and
Nuala O’Sullivan will both hold public discussions on their work this March. Sarah O’Brien on Saturday March 19th at 3pm
and Nuala O’Sullivan on Thurday March 24th at 11am.
Sarah O’Brien - A Circle Dance - Artist Talk - Sat 19 March 2011 @ 3pm
Exhibiting artist Sarah O’Brien will discuss her practice and current exhibition “A Circle Dance” in Draíocht First Floor Gallery on
Saturday March 16th @ 3pm.
This is a free event.
A Circle Dance - Until March 26- First Floor Gallery
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Nuala O’Sullivan – Surfacing - Artist Talk & Screening - Thursday 24 March 2011 @11am
Draíocht will host a morning of discussion and exploration of Nuala O’Sullivan’s exhibition Surfacing. O’Sullivan
will discuss her practise and influences in the context of her current exhibition followed by the screening of a
Super 8 film, used by the artist as source material for her current series of paintings.
This is a free event but place are limited and booking is essential. Please contact Draíocht’s Box office on
01 885 2622 to reserve your place.
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Recycle for Draiocht with Green Your Goods
March 2, 2011
Do you have old gadgets at home, phones, cameras etc? Now you can donate their recycle value to Draiocht Blanchardstown via Green Your Goods
We are hosting an online gadget drive through GreenYourGoods to raise money for Draiocht Blanch D15, and would love your support.
A gadget drive is a new way to fundraise that turns your used electronics (laptops, cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, and more) into cash to support a cause.
Contributing to our drive is simple. Just visit our drive webpage,
http://www.greenyourgoods.ie/Draiocht-Blanch-D15-donp3033480275304644.html
find the value of the gadgets you would like to donate, and send them to Greenyourgoods (shipping is free). The value will go to support Draiocht.
You will receive a confirmation of your donation by email, and Draiocht will be notified as soon as you make your donation.
Thank you so much for your support.
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THE TINKER’S CURSE is a heart-searing, heart-searching piece of work ...
February 14, 2011
Ten42 Productions presents The Tinker’s Curse
WRITTEN AND PERFORMAED BY MICHAEL HARDING
WITH LIVE MUSIC PERFORMED BY FINBAR COADY
WED 2 MAR 2011 8.15PM Draíocht Studio // €16 / €12 conc
Now Booking
Michael Harding’s highly acclaimed production “The Tinker’s Curse”, which tells the story of a travelling man who climbs Croagh Patrick to do penance for the sins of a lifetime. Performed by the writer, accompanied by musician Finbar Coady, The Tinkers Curse is a funny and sad night in the theatre; a rare insight into the joys and sorrows that make up the life of an Irish Traveller. Harding plays Rattigan, a traveller old enough to remember the old days when the travelling people had a place in the scheme of things, fixing pots and pans. However “Plastic killed the Travelling People” he tells us and much of the traditions and lore have been lost.
In what is a tour de force Harding breaks many of the conventions of the theatre as he embarks on his story, Rattigan’s story, and his need to tell us who he is. Along the way we meet his wife Julia, the 7th daughter of a 7th daughter, who has “been in the audience of the Late Late Show”; his daughter Michelle, who is blissfully unaware of the effects her blossoming sexuality has, and Johnny Reilly, a “buffer” or settled man who comes a courting. Rattigan has no grá for Johnny, whom he describes as looking like a “haunted horse at midnight” and thinks of him as being “as useless as a chocolate teapot”. However like Johnny we are drawn into crossing the threshold of a travellers wagon and true to Rattigan’s description this is a very big journey.
Emer O Kelly (Sunday Independent Jan 2010) had this to say of the production "He stands on the stage, defeated, shambolic, rambling. He is a helpless father, a bewildered husband, an angry butt of majority hatred ... a travelling man .... MICHAEL HARDING'S NEWLY ADAPTED VERSION of his own THE TINKER'S CURSE is a heart-searing, heart-searching piece of work, provoking tears and haunting the soul. If it doesn't live in dramatic memory, we have neither folk memory nor capacity for pity........Harding's performance is nothing short of GLORIOUS - a piece of sustained dramatic economy that is performance art of SOARING, INCANDESCENT STRENGTH. Every gesture tells, every step is measured, every pause significant, every subtle change of tone adding to a threnody for a dying soul... If audiences are not hanging out of the rafters in future venues, there is no soul for drama in Ireland."
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Tom Courtenay in Pretending to be Me
January 28, 2011
PRETENDING TO BE ME
A witty, affectionate and intimate tribute to the poet Philip Larkin
"Courtenay is simply masterful" Sunday Times
"A rare, rich pleasure" Daily Telegraph
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY IN BLANCHARDSTOWN
FRIDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 8PM
Main Auditorium, Draíocht, Blanchardstown
Tickets: 20/16 conc
“What a man. What a poet. And what a performance” – Daily Telegraph
Sir Tom Courtenay hails from Hull where Philip Larkin, one of the foremost figures in 20th-Century English poetry, was a university librarian. In this hilarious and moving one man show, which Tom Courtenay devised and has performed in the West End, Larkin reflects wryly on writing and life.
Knighted in 2001, actor Sir Tom Courtenay is known for his film roles including Billy Liar, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Golden Compass, Last Orders, Dr. Zhivago and The Dresser, and he received Oscar nominations for his performances in The Dresser and Dr Zhivago. He has also won two BAFTA Awards for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and A Rather English Marriage and was nominated for three others. His extensive stage work ranges from Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests to Uncle Vanya and Art and recent television performances include a part in The Royle Family.
And now you can see him in Blanchardstown for one night only!
“One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen – terrific” – The Times
BOOK TODAY: TEL: 01-885 2622 or Book Online
Days
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.
Philip Larkin
Autobiography At An Air-Station
Delay, well, travellers must expect
Delay. For how long? No one seems to know.
With all the luggage weighed, the tickets checked,
It can't be long … We amble too and fro,
Sit in steel chairs, buy cigarettes and sweets
And tea, unfold the papers. Ought we to smile,
Perhaps make friends? No: in the race for seats
You're best alone. Friendship is not worth while.
Six hours pass: if I'd gone by boat last night
I'd be there now. Well, it's too late for that.
The kiosk girl is yawning. I fell stale,
Stupified, by inaction - and, as light
Begins to ebb outside, by fear, I set
So much on this Assumption. Now it's failed.
Philip Larkin
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I Keano director Terry Byrne brings his acclaimed production of Elysium Nevada to Draiocht
January 14, 2011
COMING TO DRAIOCHT
AS PART OF A NEW LUNCH TIME THEATRE INITIATIVE
on Saturday 22 January at 2pm
ELYSIUM NEVADA
An international hit by Barry McKinley
Starring Steve Curran, Ian Blackmore and Ann Russell
Nominated as BEST NEW PLAY in the 2010 IRISH TIMES THEATRE AWARDS
…. full of brilliant barbs and humour...the performances are uniformly excellent...a hugely enjoyable and thought provoking production.
Sarah Keating, Sunday Business Post
….a study in wizened impotent rage, measured out in wicked one-liners...it would be tempting to call the whole thing Beckett meets Shepard..
Peter Crawley, Irish Times.
….packed with punchy one-liners, the setting and quirky style of the piece brings to mind Sam Shepard, but what emerges is nearer Beckett.
Terry Byrne’s production acquires an ever increasing poignancy…brimming with apocalyptic undertones……….
Alan Chadwick, Glasgow Herald
….the playing is assured and beautifully timed ... and has a nice balance of cynical humour and genuine emotion.’
Michael Moffatt, Mail on Sunday
...(Barry McKinley) ‘handled his quirky scenario with intelligence and humour.... directed more than competently by Terry Byrne... with three good and convincing performances’.
Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent
ELYSIUM NEVADA
A Pandora Production
I Keano director Terry Byrne brings his acclaimed production of Elysium Nevada to Draiocht in Blanchardstown on Saturday 22 January in a new lunchtime theatre initiative this Season. The play, written by Carlow playwright Barry McKinley, got rave reviews from the critics when first presented in Bewleys Cafe Theatre last year, and was nominated as best new play in the 2010 Irish Times Theatre Awards.
An Arts Council supported tour followed which has taken the show all over Ireland. Then, a highly successful run in Glasgow played to packed houses and renewed critical acclaim.
Elysium Nevada is set in a retirement home on the edge of the Nevada Desert, with two grumpy old men, played in Odd Couple mode by Steve Curran and Ian Blackmore, chewing the fat over the old days and pondering how the grim reaper sneaks up in soft shoes armed with “a baseball bat”, while at the same time berating the young and their lack of manners and obsession with sex.
The play turns on its head as the elderly hot “babe” of the first act with the oxygen mask (Ann Russell) joins the conversation. New truths are revealed in a fascinating and poignant conclusion.
Writing in the Glasgow Herald, Alan Chadwick said -‘Packed with punchy one-liners, the setting and quirky style of the piece brings to mind Sam Shepard, but what emerges is nearer Beckett. This could be Endgame with Hamm and Clov in wheelchairs and Hawaiian shirts ...Terry Byrne’s production acquires an ever increasing poignancy … brimming with apocalyptic undertones’.
NOW BOOKING AT DRAIOCHT’S BOX OFFICE
TEL: 01-8852622
Open Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm
Or Book Online 24 hrs at www.draiocht.ie
Tickets: 14 euro / 10 euro concession
Draiocht Studio
Saturday 22 January, 2pm
BETELNUT CAFÉ MEAL DEAL: 30% of lunch with your show ticket on Saturday 22 January.
FOR INTERVIEWS PLEASE CONTACT:
Terry Byrne, Director, Phone 086-2266865; email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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