NEW Early Bird Offers - Book Before 31 December 2011

BE AN EARLY BIRD AND BOOK BEFORE 31 DECEMBER FOR THESE 2012 SHOWS AND GET THESE GREAT DISCOUNTS!


JANUARY

Beckett x 3

Full price: €10 // Early Bird:  €8

FEBRUARY

Welcome to the Forty Foot

Full price: €15 // Early Bird:  €10

FEBRUARY

The Magic Flute

Full price: €28 // Early Bird:  €22

FEBRUARY

Touch Me

Full price: €18 // Early Bird:  €12

MARCH

Salome

Full price: €18 // Early Bird:  €12

APRIL

The Wheelchair on my Face

Full price: €14 // Early Bird:  €8

Tickets must be paid in full before 31 December to avail of these Early Bird Offers.

A maximum of 6 tickets can be bought at these prices per person.

Not applicable to group bookings.

BOX OFFICE: 01-8852622

Further show details here ... 

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By Draíocht. Tags: Theatre

DO YOU LIKE ACTING?

Draíocht is offering a drama project which includes free acting classes for people resident in the Dublin 15 area.

How is this possible? 
Well, The Arts Council and Fingal County Council are funding a one year Theatre Director in Residence programme in Draíocht for 2011/2012 and we are delighted that Liam Halligan will take up this position in November.

So who can participate? 
Anybody between the ages 16 and 116! In fact, we are looking for individuals who have no or very little acting experience. We need a good mix of age, background and gender so once you’re 16 or over, then we’d like to talk to you.

When does it start? 
Liam will meet with individuals and groups from November 2011 to February 2012 to explain the Project in detail. Various groups of 8/10 people each will be formed and the acting workshops will take place in Draíocht from March-May 2012. Times will be arranged to suit the participants.

Is there a next stage? 
Liam would like to create a piece of theatre based on issues that come up during the acting workshops. Approximately 15 people from the various groups will be invited to work with Liam for a further 6 workshops during the month of June. These will take place in the evening time. Liam will write a final script over the summer.   

What about performance? 
The final group of 15 will come back in September 2012 to rehearse and perform the play in Draíocht’s Studio Space in November 2012.

What will it cost?  
Nothing but time, commitment and a sense of adventure.

What do I do if I or my community group are interested in getting involved? 
Get in touch with Emer McGowan, Draíocht’s Director by phone 01 8098027 or by e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and let her know that you’d like to hear more.

We have an application form that we can send you.


Liam Halligan is an established actor, tutor, theatre director and theatre maker nominated as Best Director for two productions by the Irish Times Theatre Awards

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By Draíocht. Tags: Blanchardstown, Theatre, Workshops

West United Football Player turns his hand to writing

For many years Christian O’Reilly enjoyed a top class playing career with West United and the playwright took more than most from his time between the white lines as he has recently put his playing experience to good use with the penning of a new play called ‘Here We Are Again Still’. Legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once described football as “more important than life or death”. O’Reilly’s play is a celebration of soccer and it explores what it means and why it happens.
Now people say it is only a game but as anyone who played or follows it will testify – it is much more important than that. The play is funny and entertaining and based on two men, one older and one younger who discover an unlikely connection through their shared passion for the sport.
- Mike Rafferty, Connacht Sentinel, May 17, 2011

"If I was coaching some young lad over there, I'd tell him his job is simple: to allow yourself to play football. That means when someone tells you you're s***e, you tell yourself you're good. When they roar at you for making a mistake, you tell yourself mistakes are human. When they scream at you for missing an open goal, you say to yourself, 'I'll score the next one'. Your job -- your job more than anything -- is to encourage yourself because you can't rely on anyone else to do it for you. Does that make sense?"
Some lines taken from Christian O'Reilly's wonderful play 'Here We Are Again Still', coming to Draiocht on Tuesday 31 May, 8pm ...

Paddy sits on the same bench outside his flat every night, unable to sleep since the death of his wife. His elderly neighbour Imelda does her best to drive him indoors, but there’s no talking to him. Then one day Paddy is annoyed to find a troubled young man called Tony sitting on his bench. Despite his reluctance to connect with anybody, Paddy strikes up a grudging acquaintance with Tony and discovers in him a damaged soul struggling to deal with the past and fearful of the future. As they build a tentative friendship, they catch glimpses of matches played in the nearby playing fields and realise they share a forgotten passion for soccer. But Paddy hasn’t coached since he lost his wife to cancer and Tony hasn’t played since he lost everything to heroin. 


Full details here ...

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By Draíocht. Tags: Theatre

Writer Dermot Bolger confirmed for Post Show Chat

Just confirmed, a post show chat and reading with writer Dermot Bolger, after this weeks 'The Parting Glass', Saturday 21 May, 8pm ... show lasts 92 minutes straight through, no interval ... http://www.draiocht.ie/events/the_parting_glass/

'In The Parting Glass, Eoin has come back to Ireland with his wife and their son Deiter after 15 years in Germany. Like many emigrants, he has always been bound to home by his relationship with his parents, and his mother's Alzheimer's has precipitated his move back. He returns a few years before the collapse of the Celtic Tiger. There's this sense that he is the lunatic who left the casino just before the slot machine paid out, he missed out on that. In the first play 'In High Germany', Eoin's father was also a returned emigrant. In 'The Parting Glass', all the things that happened the father happen to Eoin all over again. As the econony collapses, his son Deiter, now 20, faces the prospect of emigration, and Eoin realises that the whole process of people leaving the country to find work is a never-ending cycle' ... Dermot Bolger in conversation with Marc O'Sullivan, Irish Examiner

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By Draíocht. Tags: Theatre

Free Rehearsal Space 2011

Draíocht is offering rehearsal space from 02 August to 03 September 2011 FREE of charge to professional artists/performance companies participating in the Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival 2011. There will be 3 spaces available (Main Auditorium, Draíocht Studio and Rehearsal Room). Spaces can be viewed on our virtual tour facility here ...





As interest may outweigh availability, please write to or e-mail: Emer McGowan, Director, Draíocht. The Blanchardstown Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 / Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) / Direct Line Tel: 01-809 8027.

With the following information (no more than 2 A4 sheets double spaced)
- Name of company and/or artists involved
- Concise details of the project to be rehearsed and if there is/are performance(s) scheduled
- Dates that the rehearsal space is required and if there is flexibility within those dates
- Which space you are interested in using
- How the piece is being funded
- Benefit of free rehearsal space to the success of the project

Closing date for receipt of information is: 31 May 2011
Offers of space will be made at the end of June 2011.

Draíocht is generously funded by Fingal County Council with additional funding provided by the Arts Council.

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By Draíocht. Tags: Arts in Ireland, Theatre