Wow, another bulletin with lots and lots of interesting workshops, plays, events, and festival opportunities. Hopefully something for everyone. Pay special attention to the last entry of the bulletin, Snatch Comedy: Uncut & Extended. Its our latest development in Improv. Welcome the Long-form Improv!

Best wishes,

Marcus

Workshops
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Kinsale Arts Week

Carnival Workshops
Circus Skills * Performance * Percussion * Art and Design

16 workshops over 4 weekends for 12 – 16 year olds

Sat 21 Jun – Sun 13 July

Over four weekends Kinsale Arts Week is offering a series of workshops
with a street carnival flavour. If you are bursting to try new things
why not tap into that creative energy and learn all about Circus
skills, Percussion, Performance and Design. Try everything or focus
your energies on one skill – the choice is yours. Fill your weekends
with fun and then take to the streets on Street Day, Sunday 20th July
to showcase your new- found talents.

Please contact Kinsale Arts Week at 021 4700010 for further information.

Venue: Municipal Hall, Weeks 1, 2 and 3 (21 Jun/28 Jun/5 Jul)
Temperance Hall, Week 4 (12 Jul)
Fees: €15 per workshop. Discounted amounts for more than 1 workshop
16 workshops - €200, 8 workshops - €100, 4 workshops - €50, 1 workshop
- €15 See over for Booking Form and other information
www.kinsaleartsweek.com

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SHORT NOTICE: 3-day LeCoq Technique Clown Workshop in Vic,
Barcelona. Only a few places left!

On the weekend of 27, 28 & 29 of June a LeCoq tecnique Clown Workshop
is happening at the Actors Space in Vic, Barcelona. The price of the
weekend workshop is 150€ and that includes the accomodation (in a
beautiful XVI Century Farm in the mountains of Catalunya!) but not the
food. All the participants will chip in for food and cook together.

If you are interested please contact me: marcusbale@gmail.com or
0863173543 as soon as possible!!!

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The Galway Community Circus , in association with the Galway City
Partnership and Arts Council.

Partner Acrobatics and Acroyoga workshops
Discover Acroyoga on the Saturday 21st of June and Sunday 22nd of June
in Craven House. the Claddagh.

AcroYoga blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of
Thai massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. These three ancient
lineages form the foundation of a unique new practice that cultivates
trust, connection and playfulness. Our highest aim is to bring
individuals into a state of union with themselves, with each other,
and with the divine. From this place of mutual support the true self
can be realized, honored and shared for the benefit of all.more info
www.acroyoga.org

A typical AcroYoga session starts with an opening circle, in which
participants connect by moving and breathing together. Then, the group
moves through a series of Asanas or yoga poses to warm up, before
flowing into partner work. People can bring their own practice
partners, or they can meet up with people at the AcroYoga session.
Partner routines incorporate stretches which require two people,
building a connection and trust before moving onto the next stage of
the session, inversions.

Inversions are exactly what they sound like; poses in which a
participant is upside down. In some cases, both partners are inverted,
and in all instances participants support each other through these
challenging poses. Inversions are meant to bring out a sense of
playfulness, and also to encourage people to look at the world in a
new way. After building trust with inversions, the session moves on to
partner acrobatics, including flying, in which one partner remains on
the ground as a base to support the other in an aerial position.
Finally, the session ends with Thai massage, which is intended to
stimulate the balance of energy while honoring the partnership which
was built during the session.

This style of partner yoga can be very demanding, but classes are
offered at all levels of difficulty. As a general rule, people are
asked to have some familiarity and confidence with headstands,
although this is not required.

Marjolene and Leigh are experienced acrobats living in the
Netherlands. they currently perform together in two shows and teach
regularly in and around Amsterdam. more info
www.compagniewithballs.com

Workshops on Saturday 21st 10AM to 2 PM Sunday 22nd of June 9AM to 2PM
(break 11 to 12)

Participants are then welcome to join in the Galway solstice Festival Parade
Prices TBC
prebooking necessary, by phone or email. Amelie Bal:
ameliedotbal@gmail.com (0851525541)

Galway Circus Project
c/o Galway City Partnership
3 the Plaza
Headford Road
Galway
tel: 091 762940
http://galwaycircusproject.com

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THEATRE METHODS 08
Between Tradition and Contemporaneity

July 7-13, 2008
Malpils, Latvia

Annual professional festival-fair bringing up the question of the
Bridge between Tradition and Contemporaneity in performing arts. The
Festival is uniting performers from all over the world interested in
the research of theatre methods between tradition and contemporaneity.

PROGRAMME: workshops, work demonstrations, lectures and performances
by performers and theatre teachers from Singapore, Japan, Italy,
Russia, USA, Germany and Canada:

‧ Intrigues In The Qing Imperial Court: Chinese Opera performance by
Chinese Theatre Circle (Singapore)
‧ The Fascinating World of Chinese Opera : Workshop by Joanna Wong,
the Artistic Director of Chinese Theatre Circle (Singapore)
‧ Swinging Horizon : Performance by Ritsuko Tsumaki - dancer,
choreographer (Japan)
‧ Performers Physicality : Workshop by Sergei Ostrenko - theatre
director and teacher (Russia)
‧ Commedia Dell’Arte - A Tradition of Playing Now : Workshop and
performance fragment by Fabrizio Paladin - actor, director,
playwright, musician (Italy)
‧ Staging the Dream: Ella Jaroszewicz and the Studio Magenia :
Presentation by Michael Pape - actor, director, playwright, theatre
scholar (USA)
‧ “Thrown” Project Workshop and performance presentation by Nightmare
Before Valentine (Andriana Seecker, Birgitt Bodingbauer, Lydia Ziemke
- Germany)
‧ BoxWhatBox: Performance Creation Workshop: Workshop presentation by
Michael Devine - actor, director, playwright (Canada)
‧ Exploring Pause Behavior: Workshop by Mandy Fox - playwright,
director, actor, voice specialist, educator (USA)

PARTICIPANTS: actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, teachers,
playwrights, stage designers, script writers, theatre critics,
journalists, cultural managers.

REGISTRATION:
Candidates should send a CV (resume) and a brief letter of motivation
to globtheatre@gmail.com stating the title, dates and location of the
event.

Participation fee: 500 EUR if payment is made before June 15th.
(580 EUR if payment is made after June 15th).
The fee covers attendance of all events of the festival programme,
accommodation (six nights), three meals per day (breakfast, lunch,
dinner) and tea/coffee breaks.

PROGRAMME DETAILS: http://www.iugte.com/projects/TheatreMethods08.php
Registration details: http://www.iugte.com/projects/register.php

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Open Workshop in Commedia dell’Arte for New and Experienced Players
led by Annie Ryan, artistic director of The Corn Exchange

Venue: Players Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin
Date: 10am - 5pm, Monday 14th - Friday 18th July
Cost: €140*
For: New and experienced players who would like to explore the
Commedia dell’ Arte style.

About Commedia dell’Arte
Commedia dell’Arte is a deeply physical and percussive improvisational
style of theatre that goes deep into the core of a story, explodes it
from the inside and presents it in a show of grotesque fun and
heartfelt intensity. The style is at once extreme and truthful, tragic
and deeply funny. Over the past ten years, The Corn Exchange’s
evolving, renegade take on Commedia continues to challenge and
invigorate actors, and excite audiences at home and abroad.

This workshop explores physical approaches to creating characters,
mask work, ensemble play and improvisation. Always exhilarating, it
deeply challenges the multi-layered tasks and skills of the actor.

How to apply:
For anyone interested in any of these workshops please apply by email
a with brief cv / description of experience to
workshops@cornexchange.ie. Closing date for applications is Friday
20th June, 2008. For more information please contact Rowena at The
Corn Exchange at (01) 679 6444 or email workshops@cornexchange.ie.

Please note that places at the Workshops are strictly limited to 15
and submission of details does not guarantee a place on the programme.
Successful applicants will be notified by Wed 2nd July.

*Payment in full required from successful applicants by Monday 7th
July to secure place. Payments can be made by cheque, cash or postal
order.

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Festivals
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Killarney Summerfest Parade is looking for street performers and/or
drummers to participate on 16 July in Killarney. Anyone wishing to
submit proposal or application please email me at zagone@eircom.net.

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Plays & Events
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The Granary in assoc. with Everyman Palace Theatre presents
DISCO PIGS
By Enda Walsh
Directed by Tony McCleane-Fay
June Tue 3rd – Sat 14th
Everyman Palace Theatre

Born on the same day, in the same ward, Pig and Runt have been
inseparable since birth. As their 17th birthday approaches, they
embark on a hedonistic and violent rampage through the nightclubs of
‘Pork City’. Disco Pigs follows the story of these two extraordinary
Cork teenagers, who speak a language and live in a world they have
created for themselves. A mixture of high energy physicality and deep
poeticism, Disco Pigs was Enda Walsh’s break-through play.

Tickets €25 / €20 / €7( Mon – Wed )
Booking:021 4501673 or Online at www.everymanpalace.com

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Cork Musical Theatre Company presents

The hilarious HIT MUSICAL
“I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE”
3rd – 7th June at 8.00pm at the Cork Arts Theatre

Cork Musical Theatre Company presents off-Broadways longest running
musical, the hilarious “I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE”.
Running for over 12 years and with more than 4,500 performances to
date this hilarious musical celebrates the modern-day suburban mating
game. Audiences fill the theatre with laughter as the cast explores
the joys of dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives, and
in-laws. It’s ‘Seinfield’ set to music!
“I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE” is the most proposal-friendly
show in theatre history. There has already been forty-eight different
occasions when surprise proposals have taken place at performances. So
for those intending to pop the question, this may be the perfect
place!
The show is presented in the form of a series of vignettes connected
by the central theme of love and relationships. With few exceptions,
the scenes stand independent of the others, but progress in a fashion
designed to suggest an overall arc to relationships throughout the
course of one’s life.
The play’s tagline is ‘Everything you have ever secretly thought about
dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but
were afraid to admit.’
The show is written by playwright/lyricist Joe DiPietro and composer
Jimmy Roberts.

Cork Arts Theatre, June 3-7, 8pm, Bookings: 021-4505624.

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GRANARY presents
WALKING AWAY
A Play by Helena Enright
Granary Theatre | 5 - 7 June | 8pm

“It takes strength to endure abuses;
” It takes courage to stop them.”
“Stories deserving to be told and stories deserving to be heard”
…Irish Independent

Following it’s storm away success in 2007 Walking Away by Helena Enright
Hard hitting yet powerfully moving Walking Away is based on the
testimony of women who have survived domestic abuse and offers a
powerful and moving insight into the realities of living with abuse,
be it physical, mental or emotional.

Winner of Best Production at the UnFringed Festival 07 and Best Play
at the Midwest Arts Media & Culture Awards Jan 08, Walking Away is
directed by Enright herself and produced by Amalgamotion Theatre
Company, Limerick of which Enright is a co-founder.

The cast of eight includes Laura Jane Allis, Eleanor Bennett, Niamh
Coghlan, Helena Enright, Karen Fitzgibbon, Liam O’Brien, Aideen Wylde
and Sinead Vaughan. Tom O’Donnell provides a unique and imaginative
lighting design while production and costumes are by Ciarda Tobin and
Ella Daly.

Supported by The Breaking The Silence Project, Adapt House & Limerick
City Council

Granary Theatre
Mardyke
Cork
Ireland
T: +353 (0)21 4904275
F: +353 (0)21 4904272
E: info@granary.ie
W: www.granary.ie

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The time has come again for a hopping BOUTIQUE BURLESQUE party and I
hope to see you all joining us on our very last night this season!:

Next week Wednesday 11th June, 8.30pm - 2am, Crane Lane Theatre, €9,
presale at Plugd records.

The programme is again super-full featuring The Swingin Blue Cats (a
really cool swing-jazz band from dublin), DJ Divine Miss P (with tunes
from when your gran was on the dancefloor!), Passe Partout (with a
primeur burlesque circus show they’ve been working on for months!),
Foxy Schmackabum (and her soft delicious mangoes), No Frontiers Dance
Company (incl. lots of boys!!), JP (and his cheeky puppetry),
Propeller (with a dance you’ve got to master!).. all hosted by the
uber-fabulous hostess of the mostest Damian Puncherello!

Get out your fake lashes, dicky bows, corsets and top-hats again.. and
dont miss this night cause the programme is the best so far and you
wont get the chance to be do this any other time soon! don’t believe
the hype.. but do believe me! hehehe.. (always wanted to say that!) Ah
yeah… and arrive early and prebuy your tix.. cause its very likely
that it’ll be sold out again!

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SNATCH COMEDY IMPROV & Cork Midsummer Festival presents

SNATCH COMEDY: UNCUT & EXTENDED

Cork Arts Theatre
Monday 16 – Saturday 21 June, 9:30pm
Tickets €15/€12

Snatch Comedy have been stretching the limits of skill and
inventiveness for six years. Now, for the first time ever in Cork,
they will improvise an entire play! There is no safety net, and you,
the audience, are the catalyst. A different show every night, this is
improvisation as you’ve never seen it before! Snatch Comedy’s
“short-form” improv and sketch shows have earned them huge popularity
over the years. This new style is one they have developed themselves
specially for the Cork Midsummer Festival. The group will use quick
wits and skill to make up the show with no rehearsal whatsoever.

There will be thrills — and there may be spills — as they juggle ideas
and make entertainment out of chaos. Will it be sad? Terrifying?
Romantic? Fantastic? Nothing is certain until the moment it happens.

“Snatch Comedy are surreally inclined, daftly imaginative and gifted
people… This is the most truly interactive and happening comedy in
Ireland now” Cork Now

In order to get tickets you can:

- Buy them personally from the Festival Box Office at Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre, St. Patrick’s Street, Cork;
- Buy them on the phone: 021-4274077
- Buy them online at: www.corkmidsummer.com

See you there!!!