The Absolut Fringe Festival kicks off in Dublin this Saturday the 5th of September. One of the events that has caught my eye is Loose Cannon’s Piggyback Project.

In this time of recession it’s a very clever idea to use the same crew for two show in the one festival. As the press release says;

New times call for new ways of making work. And so, as part of Absolut Fringe 2009, Loose Canon are presenting two new shows, by two cutting-edge directors, which will share designers, cast, space and time in order to serve audiences with a double helping of work from one of Ireland’s most exciting theatre companies.

The shows in question are Anatomy of a Seagull and Jesus Has My Mom In There And Has Beat Her Up Real Bad (more…)

I’ve been missing for a while as I’ve been working on my first short film “Breakfast” by Jody O’Neill. When I saw this I had to share it here on BifSniff though.

It’s nice to be back.

Clinic Media will be making their first short film in June. We are delighted to announce that actress and author Jody O’Neill has agreed to turn her short play Breakfast into a short film.

Originally written for Project Brand New, Breakfast tells the story of a Man and a Woman in love. They have the perfect relationship, the perfect house and the perfect toaster… As interest rates rise, inflation soars and house repossession reaches all time highs, this Man and Woman make a choice. With no way to make their next mortgage payment (or the one after that) we find them enjoying one last breakfast together.

O’Neill will be taking up the female role, but we’re still looking to fill the male role. He is a restaurant manager in his late twenties/early thirties. An all round dependable type of guy.

The 2-day shoot will be directed by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin for Clinic Media.

Please send Showreel (or examples of work), Headshot and CV to clinicproductions@gmail.com or post to 33 Slieve Mish Park, Kinsale Road, Cork, Ireland.

As this is a no-budget short film it will be an un-paid job, but expenses will be covered.

See Clinic Media for further details.

Mary-Louise Mc Carthy and Victor Burke in Penny

Penny, written and directed by Patrick O’Shea, won the Best Drama award at the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival this weekend.

It tells the story of Penny, a young teenage girl, played by Mary-Louise Mc Carthy, who discovers she is pregnant on the morning she is to sit her first leaving cert. exam.

O’Shea, pictured right, is a Cork filmmaker who produces his films independently. His past credits include An End To Dreaming, Uncle Joe and The Sign. He is in post production for Tunnel at the moment, which should be ready for the Cork Film Festival in November.

Check out the trailer for Penny.

As someone who has done some acting myself, this is a complete nightmare!

From The Times;

Try this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna’s Burgtheater, one of Europe’s oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character’s desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor’s neck. But something’s not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That’s because the knife, and the harm that it’s done, are both tragically real.

Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller’s play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. (more…)