Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,

A new year, a new bulletin ripe and ready with lots of interesting
possibilities. Hopefully something will grab your attention!

Best wishes,

Marcus

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Auditions & Services for Actors
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CASTING FOR RTE TV PILOT IN CORK

Director: Patrick O’Driscoll. Vico Films are currently casting for
“Sullybags” a pilot episode for RTE which will be shot in Cork.
Commissioned under the RTE ‘Storyland’ scheme, “Sullybags” is a
Cork-based crime comedy caper — but deep down, beneath the violence,
the treachery and the sarcasm… it’s a bit of a love story.
We are currently accepting submissions from actors who have a base in Cork.
Please Note: The deadline for submissions is: 8th February 2009.
Casting will take place in Cork. Shooting mid February for 3 days in
Cork.
Web: http://www.sullybags.com
Apply to: Vincent Lambe (producer): casting@vicofilms.com

5 breakdowns:

1 – SULLY: Male, late twenties, a tough-as-nails Cork scumbag who’s
almost unstoppable.
Male / 25-30 yrs. / Caucasian.

2 – MCKAYLA: Female, late twenties, a ballsey D4 girl who’s very
nearly lost her reason.
Female / 25-30 yrs. / Caucasian.

3 – SEANOG: Male, late fifties, a battle-hardened Dublin criminal
who’s just about back in the game.
Male / 51-60 yrs. / Caucasian.

4 JUSTIN: Male, late twenties, a Cork dealer who smokes his profits.
Male / 25-30 yrs. / Caucasian.

5 REALTOR: Female, mid thirties – mid forties, a stern, presentable
realtor who would rather have been a banker.
Female / 31-40 yrs. / Caucasian.

Professional Actors required.
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AUDITIONS IN DUBLIN

Garbo Productions are bringing their T.I.E production ‘Bruscar The
Tidy Giant’ out to schools in South Dublin for a two week run in
March/April and are re-casting two roles in the show. We require an
actor who can sing and move with rhythm age 20-35.We require an
actress who can sing age 18-28. Dates for rehearsal March 9th-13th and
16th-20th. Show dates March 23rd-27th March 30th-April 3rd.
Auditions Feb 10th and Feb 12th 09 in our offices in Wicklow St.
D2.Please forward your c.v and photo if you would like to be
considered for audition. We will forward rates of pay and other
details.
e-mail Zak Powers Production manager garbo@indigo.ie

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*HEADSHOTS IN CORK- BRENDAN HARRINGTON

Due to the huge success of Brendan’s last visit to Cork, another
session has been organised for Saturday Feb 21st. Brendan has been
working in the business since 1974 and is in high demand around
Ireland.

The Cork Package includes: SESSION FEE: €100.00, I hour session, 4/5
Hard copies, Web gallery CD

NB All finished work is scaled to size and retouched as necessary.
This includes removing “Flyaway Hair” and dealing with skin problems
–spots etc.

All actors/directors etc. photographed will be included in the Cork
gallery(currently being created) on Brendan’s website,
www.brendanharringtonphotography.com

Brendan: My involvement with Theatre/Film and all performance related
photography commenced in 1974. Over the next 2 years I photographed
many professional actors and productions. I got to know Actors who
have become the pillars of Irish Theatre TV and Film, including an
Oscar winning Director. In 1989 I became a Full Time Professional
photographer who has photographed many thousands of actors. Actors
HEADSHOT Photography requires the need to understand what CASTING
DIRECTORS expect to see. Therefore it has to present a reality Sitters
can explore their range so that the resulting photography are
versatile and allow multiple choice. I have good working relationships
with Actors agencies throughout Ireland.

To book your session or find out more, contact Kate McSwiney O’Rourke
at puoreproductions@gmail.com

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Theatre Jobs
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Myriad Dance is looking for an Education & Outreach Director

Myriad Dance seeks to appoint a prominent and experienced Education &
Outreach Director to facilitate, manage and develop its extensive
Education & Community Programmes.

Qualifications / Experience: Candidates must have obtained a
Postgraduate Degree or MA in Community Dance / Dance in Education, or
a minimum of 5 years experience working as an Artist in Residence or a
Community Dance / Arts Practitioner. Experience of facilitating,
initiating and developing long-term dance projects. Experience of
working in an administrative arts environment.

Salary Scale: €26,000 – €30,000 commensurate with experience.

For a detailed Job Description please log on to www.myriaddance.com

Myriad Dance is supported and funded by The Arts Council and Wexford
County Council.

Applications, to include an email cover letter and CV, should be
emailed to the Artistic Director at deirdre@myriaddance.com by 5pm,
Mon 16th February 2009.

Address : 59, South Main Street
www.myriaddance.com
Telephone 053 91 74665

Closing Date: 16 Feb

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Workshops & Courses
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A SLIVER OF VOICE WORKSHOP IN CORK

THERE ARE ONLY TWO PLACES LEFT FOR THIS WORKSHOP!

I am helping with the organization of a ‘A Sliver of Voice’ workshop
in Cork for the middle of February. The facilitators are Maia Monaco
and Guillermo Pessoa, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. During the month
of February they will be in Ireland facilitating workshops and
performing their show.

‘A Sliver of Voice’ is a workshop devised by prominent Buenos Aires
performer, poet and singer Maia Monaco which focuses on exploring the
colours, intensities and textures of the voice and on movement and
contemporary dance techniques for expressing music and emotion. Monaco
shares her own devised techniques for sonic meditation, which she
terms ‘the vibration of the infinite voice’, focussing on exercises in
vocal technique and basic guidelines for improvisation that feed the
imagination and amplify hearing.

Incorporating the techniques of Guillermo Pesoa to explore connections
between music and theatrical performance, workshops will enhance the
participants’ abilities to connect music, emotion and movement, and to
improvise instinctively from music.

The workshop begins with bodily warm-ups and stretches to improve
awareness of posture, relaxation and responsiveness. They then move on
to exercises in vocal technique and basic guidelines of improvisation.
Different vocal qualities are explored such as ‘the voice in repose’,
the voice in speech’, ‘the animal voice’, ‘the agitated voice’, ‘the
ritual voice’, with emphasise on breath and pulse as the basis of the
voice, employing percussion accompaniment. Pesoa will introduce basic
principles of musical analysis and composition; exploring music-based
performance through a series of physical and vocal tasks and exercises
based on rhythmic units, music dynamics, music structure and tempo.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO PLACES LEFT FOR THIS WORKSHOP!

Here is a link to a YouTube video of Maia Monaco performing, where you
can listen to some of her work:

Workshop Details

When? : Saturday 14th of February, 2009
What time?: 11.30am to 17.30pm
Where?: Blackrock Castle Observatory
How much: €60 per participant.

How to book a place for this workshop:

If you are interested in booking a place for this workshop please do
the following:

Contact me via email (marcusbale@gmail.com) asking to book a place for
the workshop. I will provissionally book a place for you.
(A booking fee of €20 will be required from all participants to be
paid before the 20th of January, but I will send details on how to pay
this fee after provisionally booking the places).

If you need any more information, please dont hesitate to contact me:
marcusbale@gmail.com

Hope you can make it , and please forward this information to anyone
whom you think might find it interesting! Thanks!!

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As part of The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
CASTING SYMPOSIUM

Spotlight, the UK’s leading casting service (www.spotlight.com), will
sponsor an international panel of top casting directors who will speak
on topics of interest to actors.

The discussion will focus on how Irish actors can break into the
international scene and the importance of the Internet in casting and
actor marketing. This two-hour symposium will include a one hour
question and answer session, with casting directors and a Spotlight
representative taking questions from the audience.
Moderator:

Nancy Bishop, CSA (US/Prague).
Projects include “Wanted” and “Prince Caspian” (www.nancybishopcasting.com)

Panellists:
John and Ros Hubbard (UK/Ireland), “King Kong,” “The Bourne Ultimatum.”
Lucinda Syson (UK) “Batman Begins”, “Syriana”
Maureen Duff (UK: London/Glasgow) “Closing the Ring”, “Crime and Punishment”
Frank Moiselle (Ireland) “The Tudors”, “Veronica Guerin”
Pippa Harrison (UK) Spotlight (www.spotlight.com)

This event is designed for actors & acting students and other related
professionals.
Saturday 14th February at 4pm – Conrad Hotel – Tickets 10euro

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WINTER 2009 IMPROV IN DUBLIN
A NEW SIX-PART, CRAIC-FILLED, INTENSIVE WORKSHOP WITH JOHN DAWSON

Improvisation develops a performer’s confidence and spontaneity,
making them more reactive or ‘in the moment’. In addition to being a
mode of live performance, improv can be used as a tool to create
characters, develop original material and as part of a rehearsal
process to explore written text for auditions and plays.

In this workshop, performers will collaborate and work step-by-step
through a process that includes games and exercises that develop and
fine-tune intuitive skills with an emphasis on creating truthful and
emotionally-full characters. The elements of narrative such as plot,
theme, conflict and resolution are emphasized and explored so that
story-telling skills are developed.

The workshop concludes with a live performance in a Dublin city centre venue.

WHEN: Six workshop classes, starting on Monday, February 9th
(No class on March 16th due to St. Patricks Day bank holiday. Final
workshop on Monday, March 24th)
TIMES: 7:15PM to 10:15PM
WHERE: Smithfield/Stoneybatter area, Dublin 7
COST: 185.00 Euro (170.00 Euro for full-time drama students and 3 or
more members of a troupe or theatre company)

To enroll, a 95.00 Euro non-refundable deposit is required before Feb. 2nd

John Dawson has studied, written and acted with numerous theatre
companies and comedy troupes including N. America’s famous Second
City, the forerunner of Saturday Night Live. John works
internationally and has taught at The Gaiety School of Acting,
London’s Actors Centre, Trinity’s Samuel Beckett Centre and Toronto’s
Equity Theatre. As a playwright and director, he has had productions
at Andrews Lane Theatre, The Project, and the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival 2005. He is a produced screenwriter/director with numerous
projects in development with the Irish Film Board.

To enroll, email to: dawsondramaworks@gmail.com

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CETL(NI) is planning to set up a one-year intensive postgraduate
performer training to begin January 2010.

Training will include traditional performing skills but will focus on
ensemble work and will have a strong emphasis on physical work and
devised work.
The course will be run by the Centre’s Artistic Director, Anna Newell,
who has worked as a freelance director for the past 19 years with
companies including Borderline Theatre Company, TAG Theatre Company,
The Royal Court YPT, The Theatre on The Square (Memphis) and Dundee
Rep (where she was Associate Director). She recently directed BRUISED
for Tinderbox and BE MY BABY for the Lyric Theatre.

The Centre is running a pilot of this course which is scheduled to run
20th April to 3rd July 2009. Although there will be fees attached to
the one-year course, this pilot is offered free of charge.

It will involve attendance 10am-4pm Monday to Friday and will be run
by Anna in conjunction with various visiting artists. There will be
two public shows during these eleven weeks to which agents, theatre
companies and other arts organisations will be invited.
There will be workshop auditions for this course in February 2009.

If you’d like to audition for this course, please contact:
Anna Newell
a.newell@qub.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 5112

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NATIONAL FOLK THEATRE OF IRELAND

PERFORMER AND MUSICIANS INTERNSHIPS

SUMMER 2009

The National Folk Theatre of Ireland and Siamsa Tíre are offering
three internships this summer as part of its ‘Home Season’ in 2009.
The Company performs a repertoire of five productions this year (San
Am Fadó, Tearmann, Clann Lir, Oileán and Siamsa Printz) from May
through to September at Siamsa Tíre in County Kerry.
As part of a commitment to developing emerging talent and a new
generation of traditional artists, The National Folk Theatre is now
seeking to award three internships (2 Musician and 1 Performer award)
to support those who wish to develop a career in the performing arts
and develop their skills in Traditional Arts Practice.
Please see below for details of each award, criteria, and how to apply….

Musicians Internships
The music internship is offered to develop skills in traditional music
and allow access to professional practice. The successful applicant
will have the opportunity to join the professional company for five
months working closely with the Musical Director on the development of
new projects, working in collaboration with the resident company and
performing in the National Folk Theatre Repertoire as part of the home
season.

Criteria
The successful applicant(s) must be able to demonstrate performance
standard skills in one or more of the following instruments:
Accordion, Concertina, Violin/Fiddle, Pipes, Piano, Flute, and Bango.
The ability to read music is not essential but desirable. A good
knowledge of traditional music styles is preferred, along with an
ability to work well within a team. Each intern will receive a weekly
stipend of €450 per week for 21 weeks. Applicants must be available to
commit exclusively to the National Folk Theatre between 1st May -26th
September 2009.

Performer Internship
The Performer internship is offered to develop skills in traditional
forms of performance (such as: Traditional Irish Dance, Contemporary
Dance, Choral work and traditional Irish song) and allows access to
professional practice.
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to join the
professional company for five months working closely with the Artistic
Director of the National Folk Theatre on the development of new
projects, working in collaboration with the resident company, and
performing in the National Folk Theatre Repertoire as part of the home
season.

Criteria
The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate performance
standard skills/high level of proficiency in one or more of the
following: Singing, Traditional Irish Dance, Sean Nós or Contemporary
Dance. The ability to speak Irish is not essential but desirable.
Knowledge of theatre or dance practice is also preferable, along with
an ability to devise as part of a team. The successful candidate will
receive a weekly stipend of €450 per week for 21 weeks. Applicants
must be available to commit exclusively to the National Folk Theatre
between 1st May -26th September 2009.

How to Apply
Please send a copy of your CV along with a recent photograph and a
letter of application to the Artistic Director, Jonathan Kelliher at
the address below stating why you would like to be considered for an
internship. Please note that the application process is a two part
process: a written application followed by an interview/audition.
*Auditions will take place on: 14th March 2009.

Deadline(s) for applications is Saturday 21st February 2009.

All applications should be sent to:
Artistic Director, National Folk Theatre of Ireland
Siamsa Tíre, Town Park, Tralee, Co Kerry.

Please note that emailed applications are not accepted and any
application without a photograph will not be considered.
*Please note that only certain candidates will be invited to the
audition days. Not all applicants will be requested to attend.

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ACTING COURSES WITH PAT KIERNAN

Pat Kiernan artistic director of Corcadorca Theatre Company will
conduct two ten week acting courses beginning March 2009. Pat has
worked and directed some of Irelands best actors with his own company
Corcadorca. Pat has also directed productions at the Abbey, Gate
Theatre London. Red Kettle Theatre Co., Kilkenny Arts festival etc.
Pat has worked in Trinity College Dublin on the BA Theatre Performance
course and in Wimbledon School of Art Theatre Dept

Beginning to act
This course is designed for people with have never acted before or
have very little experience. Each participant will learn and put into
use performance skills with and without texts. Each participant will
learn how to build confidence and become comfortable performing in
front of an audience. This course will work towards each participant
performing scenes and monologues at the end of the course.

Developing my craft
This course is aimed at people who have acted before and have
performed in a production in front of an audience and are interested
in further developing their acting ability. We will look different
approaches to texts. The course will look at scene analysis. How to
approach a chartacter. We will work on both modern and classic texts.
Each participant will work on a new monologue specifically for
audition purposes.

Cost 280 euro per course
Courses begin March 2009 run to May 2009 (10 Weeks)
For further information contact patkiernan@corcadorca.com or 087 7533252
For more information on Pat Kiernan www.corcadorca.com

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PHILIPPE GAULIER will teach a Clown Workshop in DUBLIN

World renowned clown and acting teacher Philippe Gaulier will teach a
clown workshop at the DanceHouse (Liberty Corner, Foley Street, Dublin
1), the week just after Easter, from Tuesday 14 till Saturday 18 April
2009.

Early booking is recommended as places are limited.

You can check this page for updates:

http://sites.google.com/site/gaulierdublin2009

“Philippe Gaulier is the greatest living teacher of clown and modern
theatre. He is also the funniest man I have ever met. Students travel
from all around the world to spend as little as a month with him.”
(From the preface by Sacha Baron Cohen to Philippe Gaulier’s book “Le
Gegeneur (The Tormentor)”, edition Filmichko, www.Filmichko.com

Find out more about Philippe Gaulier’s school Ecole Philippe Gaulier
on: http://www.ecolephilippegaulier.com

Philippe Gaulier, born in Paris in 1943 studied at the Ecole Jaques
Lecoq from 1968 to 1970. Subsequently he worked there as a teacher for
9 years. In 1980 he founded his own theatre-school in Paris. He moved
the school to London in 1991 to return to Paris in 2002. Philippe
Gaulier toured the world as a clown together with Pierre Byland. He is
busy directing and writing and has taught masterclasses in nearly all
of Europe, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Argentinia, Brazil,
Japan, Hongkong, USA and Canada. He frequently works with the Cirque
du Soleil.

DATES: starting on Tuesday 14 April 2009, ending on Saturday 18 April 2009.

VENUE: Studio 1, Dancehouse, Liberty Corner, Foley Street, Dublin 1.

WORKSHOP FEE: 390€ if you register early, by December 14th 2008. 430€
after December 14th 2008.

To book a place, please send a deposit of 200€. The registration is
binding only after the deposit has been received. The remaining
balance is to be paid before the workshop, up to the first day of the
workshop, before the first class starts. The deposit will be returned
in full upon cancellation before March 14th 2009.

For payment details or more information please visit:

http://sites.google.com/site/gaulierdublin2009

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Projects
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A Play for Gaza

Project Brand New in association with Trócaire is organising an aid
initiative for Gaza to take place over the weekend of the 7th/8th of
March.
Caryl Churchill has written a ten minute play which is opening in the
Royal Court next week.

On the 21st of February, this play will be online and free for anyone
to download and perform –with one condition, that tickets are free and
instead a collection is held afterwards with all proceeds going to
help the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Project Brand New and Trócaire would love to see this play performed
or read in as many towns, cities, villages, by as many theatre
companies, youth groups and amateur groups as possible over the 7th
and 8th of March. 100 per cent of all funds raised will go directly to
Trócaire’s work in Gaza.

If you or someone you know would like to take part, please email
projectbrandnew@gmail.com

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Plays & Events
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Blackthorn Theatre Company Presents

HAMLET

This production is an updated version of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of
Hamlet. Thier take on Hamlet updates the setting to a modern one
without changing the dialogue. In this production they transform the
bard’s characters into modern-day Cork social stereotypes (Hamlet as
an emo, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern as snobby private – schoolers and
Claudius as an underhanded politician etc)

From 05/02/2009 to 07/02/2009
At Cork Arts Theatre
Tkts €12/€10 conc
call 021 – 4505624 for bookings

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For One Night Only at the Firkin Crane, Shandon

Friday, February 6th at 8pm, Tickets 18/15, 021 (4507487)

Maeve Higgins – Kitten Brides with special guests Pappy’s Fun Club

Maeve Higgins’ sweetly gentle delivery disguises a sharp wit. In this
whimsical stand-up show, she chats rapidly to the audience about her
hometown in Ireland, her cat and her travels around to Australia.

Deliberately air-headed, Higgins has a fine ability to present her
material as though straight off the cuff, appearing easily distracted,
but with a twinkle to her talk. Despite the deceptively dappy persona,
her material is wry and amusing, causing the audience to chuckle
throughout, with a few outbreaks of near hysteria.

An air of quirkiness pervades the whole show. A random doll’s house
sits on stage, but is used only to prop up various enlarged photos of
her cat and his unnervingly blank expression.

The comic highlight is her dramatic enactment of the three alternate
reunion scenarios that she envisages to cope with a traumatic
break-up. Her self-consciously awkward acting adds to the humour of
the scenes, in which the ill-fated ex-boyfriend is struck down
repeatedly by her conspicuous success.

With her playful energy, sharp claws and flights of fancy, Higgins
proves herself an accomplished and appealing comedienne.

Maeve Higgins is a firebrand. Well, more like a sparkler. She is
controversial and doesn’t care who gets hurt. Except that she does
really.
Since beginning stand up four years ago, she has performed in comedy
festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Adelaide
and Kilkenny.

In her 2006 debut show, ‘Ha Ha Yum’, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
Maeve did stand-up while her sister Lilly made cakes. The show went on
to a season in Dublin’s prestigious Andrews Lane Theatre, followed by
a sold-out stand-up tour around Ireland. In 2008, the show was invited
to Melbourne for their comedy festival. In between that, Maeve wrote
and performed two more solo show in 2007 and is set to bring her brand
new show ‘Kitten Brides’ to the Edinburgh festival this year.

Maeve rapidly rose to an uncomfortable level of notoriety on Irish
television in the past three years, on the most watched comedy show in
the country, RTE’s Naked Camera. She is also a regular contributor to
the Ray D’arcy show on Today FM.
“Throughout the whole hour the room is filled with laughter at
Maeve’s risqué and highly intelligent act.” The Irish Independent,
‘Charming and iconoclastic Irish stand-up’ The Age, Melbourne 2008
“Higgins is a great relief from the big loud boys and will win many
people over with her quietly charming quality of comedy.” The Skinny,
2007
“Maeve Higgins is here to demonstrate how to do Irish charm. She’s
not daft, she doesn’t lay it on with a trowel, dimpling and twinkling
away, hers is probably the most natural and uncontrived performance
you could wish for.” Chortle, 2007

Guests Artists
Pappy’s Fun Club
“EXTRAORDINARILLY FRESH AND FUNNY… GLORIOUS STUFF.” “IF YOU LIKE YOUR
COMEDY LIGHT, FROTHY AND SUPREMELY DAFT, THESE BRIGHT-EYED BOYS ARE
EXPERTS…A SHOW THAT PAIRS CLEVER, WITTY SKETCHES WITH BRILLIANT
CLOWNING.”
Box office (021) 4507487 Tickets 18/15
The Firkin Crane, Shandon

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COMEDY CRAIC-DOWN in Dublin
A Night Of Laughs and Lunacy In Aid Of The Less Fortunate

MC extraordinaire DANNY KEHOE of the Ha’Penny Laugh and Banker’s Craic
Pack presents off-the-cuff improv comedy with FLUFFERS, stars of the
Ha’Penny’s Battle of the Axe Comedy Nights

Plus more improv and original sketch comedy with GHOST TRAIN WILLY and
SPECIAL GUESTS

This is a totally non-profit event, all proceeds going to:
Oxfam Ireland and SafetyNet, a mobile surgery providing urgent medical
and social care to the homeless

The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2
www.thesugarclub.com

Sunday, February 8th Doors open 8pm/Show starts 9PM

15.00 Euro CASH Tickets at the door on the night. No Debit/Credit Cards

For more info or to arrange advance tickets, contact:
John: dawsondramaworks@gmail.com
Danny: dannykehoe@gmail.com

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To Celebrate Valentine’s Day
The Cork School of Music Adult Drama and The Cork School of Music
Vocal Ensemble with String Quartet
present

Love is…Shakespeare
Lovers from the Bard’s Greatest Works

Directed by Peadar Donohoe
Musical Director Robert Craig

What is love? Do we have any choice? Or is it illusion? Fed by Lust?
Do we Compromise ourselves because of it? Can we stand our ground?
Or do we need to make Sacrifices?
Or is it all in vain?

For Valentine’s Day these questions will be answered by some of
William Shakespeare’s greatest lovers including:

Juliet
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Portia and Bassanio
Titania and Bottom
Olivia and Orsino
Katharina and Petruchio

In an evening of song, music and the joyful language of the world’s
greatest playwright,
William Shakespeare.

Tuesday, February 10 and Thursday, February 12 @ 8pm
Tickets 15/10
Stack Theatre, Cork School of Music, Union Quay
Call 086-3477867 for more information

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Last Minute Productions presents:

Valentine Special:
Fantastic Night Out!

With The Roaring 40′s Big Band
and Swing DJ Gary Bas

9pm Sat. Feb.14

Come and Swing

At the West Cork Hotel
Skibereen

also: Match Making by Father Fergal
Prizes: for the Longest Kiss
Longest dancing Couple
and
The best dressed couple

Advance tickets: One €14 Two for €25
at the door €15
Limited numbers

tickets available at:
Roaring Water Wholefoods, Schull
West Cork Hotel, Skibereen
Ballydehob Post Office
Organico Wholefoods, Bantry

For info and tickets ring 028-37792

all proceeds for Youth camp facilities
at An Sanctoir in Ballydehob

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A Sliver of Voice Performance

The result of a long process of investigations by the Buenos Aires
actress and singer Maia Monaco, ‘A Sliver of Voice’ presents its
audience with a rich sonic tapestry of fleeting impressions and
textured, mesmeric sound that explores the limits of theatre, poetry
and music in perpetual feedback. Without relying on any technological
devices beyond an old tape-recorder and with minimal scenic elements,
the vocalist and lyricist Maia Monaco and the composer Guillermo Pesoa
have created a richly resonant soundscape, without conventional plot
but luring the audience into forming their own images and
associations.

‘UN HILO DE VOZ’ PREMIERED AT THE BORGES CULTURAL CENTRE IN BUENOS
AIRES WHERE IT RAN FOR ALMOST A YEAR TO GREAT PUBLIC ACCLAIM, BEFORE
BEING INVITED TO THE INTERNATIONAL VEO THEATRE FESTIVAL IN VALENCIA,
SPAIN.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY – FRIDAY 13TH FEBRUARY 2009 AT 7PM, MAIA MONACO AND
GUILLERMO PESOA WILL PERFORM AT BLACKROCK CASTLE OBSERVATORY.

TICKETS €10.00. LIMITED AVAILIBILITY

w www.bco.ie e info@bco.ie t 021-4357917

THE SHOW WILL BE FOLLOWED BY EVENING MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY PESOA AND
MONACO IN THE CASTLE BAR & TRATTORIA ON 13TH & 14TH FEBRUARY.

Performance Meal Deals €60.00 includes the performance and 4 course meal.

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CnC productions offer you the two sides of Comedy, an evening of
entertainment featuring the two One Act Plays No Exit &
MacBeth…Almost!
Cork Arts Theatre | February 12th to 14th | 8pm to 10pm | Tickets 15
Euros/10 Euros for Students| Special Offer on Valentine’s Day: 2
tickets for the price of one
Box Office 021-4505624

No Exit
3 people, a living room which could have been designed by Picasso and
an intriguing valet form the frame of this One Act Play, full of witty
and sarcastic dialogues
Written by the French writer Jean Paul Sartre just after the second
world war, this adaptation of the play is amazingly modern due
especially to its razor sharp dialogues.
Meant to be a dark psychological comedy, and with quotes such as “So
all is for the best, you see, the war is over, my wife’s dead and I’ve
carved out my place in history” or “Hero or Coward it’s all the one,
provided he kisses well”, this play will leave you surprised,
astonished or pensive, but certainly won’t let you indifferent…

MacBeth…Almost!
Transforms a Shakespeare drama into One of the funniest Comedy ever!
Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy has been transformed into a One Act
Comedy… Ancient prophecies and modern conveniences lead to murder,
mayhem and madness (literally!).

Endorsing the light side of Comedy, the frenetic witty dialogues will
bring tears in your eyes…from laughing!

For Further information, please contact:

Caroline Giraud
Producer
Phone: 087-7624756
Email: caro.giraud@gmail.com

Catriona Daly
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LEADING FIGURES OF 20TH CENTURY PUBLISHING AND THEATRE COLLABORATE IN
SPECIAL PRODUCTION OF
SAMUEL BECKETT’S ‘ENDGAME’

John Calder brings The Godot Company on national tour in a production
featuring Henry Woolf

At the Everyman Palace Theatre from 16TH – 21ST February

Acclaimed London-based troupe The Godot Company are set to embark on
national tour in February with a very special production of Samuel
Beckett’s ENDGAME. Fronted by John Calder, Beckett’s principle
publisher, The Godot Company return to Ireland with a production
featuring actor Henry Woolf. ENDGAME will tour the country for five
weeks, with a six-night run at the Everyman Palace Theatre.

In a tiny house by the sea, the last survivors on earth toy with fears
and illusions of a possible change, all the while sensing the
inevitability of their end. Grim and bleak and yet monstrously funny,
ENDGAME is a play fraught with contradictions.

The Godot Company make a highly anticipated return to Ireland
following their critically acclaimed production in 2006 of WAITING FOR
GODOT. The national tour of ENDGAME opens fittingly in Potora Royal
School in Enniskillen, where Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde were
educated.
The cast features Henry Woolf, longtime friend and collaborator of
Harold Pinter. Woolf commissioned and directed Pinter’s first play THE
ROOM in 1957 and has worked with some of the greatest actors of the
20th century including Laurence Oliver and Orson Welles. In 2007 Henry
Woolf appeared in the National Theatre’s production of Pinter’s THE
HOTHOUSE alongside Peter Pacey, who also stars in the forthcoming tour
of ENDGAME.

ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett is Directed by Tony Rohr, with a cast
featuring Peter Pacey as Hamm, Henry Woolf as Clov, Collette Kelly as
Nell, and Royston Kean as Nagg.

ENDGAME is at the Everyman Palace Theatre from Monday 16th – Saturday
21st February at 8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7
students Monday – Wednesday.

Booking: 021 4501673 or Online at www.everymanpalace.com