Cork based theatre practitioners Eoin Ó hAnnracháin (director, Howie The Rookie & Falling Slowly) and Kate McSwiney O’Rourke (actress, Lifeboat & Vanity, Vapours and Dizzy Debutantes) are developing a play based on the themes of fear and obsession.

As part of the evolution of this project we are inviting actors to join us for a two hour workshop where we can test out our ideas and experiment with participants’ points of view.

The number of characters involved in this project and the direction for the story have not yet been finalised but, with regard to the final production, we are not making any promises to those who attend the workshop.

The workshop will explore your imagination, utilise your instinct, require you to think on your feet and be creative, all in the space of two hours!

Class size is limited so if you are interested in participating please send your CV, Headshot and/or relevant experience to clinicproductions@gmail.com

For further details see clinicmedia.net

I’m probably the last to see this, I think it’s been doing the rounds, but I only saw it today. From some group called ‘Improv Everywhere’.

There has been a great response for the workshops in Spain and there are only a few places left in each workshop. If anybody is still interested in participating please let me know as soon as possible and I will send you details on how to book a place. If you want more info, dont hesitate to contact me and I will answer asap. If you are interested click under my name where it says “Read the rest of this entry>>”

Best wishes,

Marcus

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Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,

Here is a bulletin with some information for you. Some workshops, some
auditions and a casting, as well as some interesting news coming from
the Irish Theatre Institute. I hope you find it useful!

Best wishes,

Marcus

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Any regulars on here will know that Frank, Dave and I work in theatre as regularly as possible. You may also know that Dave and I have set up our own production company called Clinic Media. As a result of this move I have been looking for information about the Irish Theatre scene and new plays being produced or written. It’s easier to find out about what’s going on in the Theatre and TV industries in America and England than it is the Irish one. Any sites I do find that are marginally useful fail to provide an RSS feed so it takes a lot of time and effort to keep up with them (and since they, like most Irish sites, aren’t updated regularly it is also very frustrating).

I decided I’d call on you the good readers of bifsniff for some assistance, just in case there are some gems of sites out there that I’ve missed in my google searches. (at the moment I am focusing on theatre but if anyone knows any great sites for the Irish Film & TV industry I’d be delighted to hear about them too.)

Here’s what I know;

The best paper for the theatre news seems to be the Irish Times. I don’t read it myself, but then I don’t read papers anymore. I’m more of an internet person these days. Their site does have RSS feeds but other than The Ticket I can’t figure out which link will give me the theatre news and reviews. Doesn’t the Ticket only come out on Friday’s? The Times website also charges for any archive news. GREAT!

The Irish Theatre Institute is split into 3.

Irish Playography - every new Irish play, produced professionally since 1904.
Irish Theatre Online – theatre, dance and opera companies, festivals, venues, and support organizations.
Irish Theatre Artists – theatre and dance professionals

None of them have RSS and the playography don’t have They Never Froze Walt Disney! I’m delighted to hear there will eventually be a database of people to go along with the already existing database of companies.

Theatre Forum Ireland “supports, represents and develops the environment in which professionally led performing arts are made.” They have no RSS feed or news page although they do have a notice board. They also charge a membership fee, but there are some free sections.

Auditoria is another useful database for performance venues. Again no RSS but I guess it’s not very necessary for a database anyway.

The Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Blog was a nice find by Frank some time back. They have an RSS feed but most of their news is UK related. Still I don’t get it anywhere else and they’re making an effort.

And that’s it. There are databases of workers being built up but not much news on the work that is being done. Anyone got anything else to add? My thanks in advance!