Check out the next couple of events happening these coming weeks. The first Cork Comedy Festival is happening this week in Cork (publicity for it has not been huge!), check more details at www.corkcomedyfestival.com. A New Directors Festival is to be
organized by the Granary and they are looking for submissions. Also check out the Combat Training Boot Camp for actors at the bottom of the bulletin. Lots of interesting stuff!!

Best wishes,

Marcus

Snatch Comedy Improv Shows for the Cork Comedy Festival

Snatch Comedy Improv is doing a couple of shows for the Cork Comedy Festival 2007 (check http://www.corkcomedyfestival.com)

The gigs are:

- Friday 27th of July: Snatch Comedy Improv Night Show!
A night of laughter and crazy humour in Nancy Spain’s Pub, (Barrack St.,Cork). Show starts at 8pm. Tickets: 10euro

- Saturday 28th of July: Snatch Comedy Improv Night Show!
Another night of hilarious mayhem and humour in Nancy Spain’s Pub, (Barrack St.,Cork). Show starts at 9pm. Tickets: 10euro

- Sunday 29th of July: Improv Battle!!
Come and see members of Snatch Comedy Improv and other improv groups (Craicpack (Dublin), Bad Ass Clowns (Cork) and Comedy Dublin Improv (Dublin)) compete in teams for your laughs! You are the judge! You give the points! In Nancy Spain’s Pub, (Barrack St.,Cork). Show starts at 8pm. Tickets: 10euro

For more information you can contact us via email to: info@snatchcomedy.com

Snatch Comedy Improv Show: A comedy sketch show with a difference! No script, nothing rehearsed. A team of comics make it all up on the spot. And to prove it… you say what happens next! Snatch Comedy improvises an entire show based on the audience’s suggestions. The hugely popular local troupe are back to entertain you with an evening of spontaneous mayhem. Fast-paced and full of fun!

Snatch Comedy Improv are: Annette Roche, George Hanover, Damian Punch, Cathal Carroll, Adrian Scanlan & Marcus Bale

Check our new website at www.snatchcomedy.com and tell us what you think of it!!!

Spread the word! See you there!

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THE Pook Performers in conjunction with the Cork Shakeaspearean Company (aka. The Loft) as part of the cork comedy festival present a weekend of Midsummer madness!! This Friday, Saturday and Sunday night at the unitarian church on Princes Street at 8pm nightly (doors open 7.30pm) come see the World premiere of Dell Richardson’s adaptation of the William shakespeare classic “A midsummer Nights Dream”.

The prologue, written by Dell herself, features Will Shakespeare along with other famous characters of that period and explores the Irish and more particularly Cork connection to one of Shakespeares most comic of plays. This prologue nicely blends in to will’s dream of strange occurences happening in the forest on this special of midsummer’s eves.

Tickets are 10 euro and can be bought at the door. For further information contact Liam at 0879819244

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Call Back theatre in association with the Cork Arts Theatre present a wide and diverse series of humorous shows from the 19th - 28th of July

Irish Summer Festival
Cork Arts Theatre
Camden Court, Carroll’s Quay, Across the Bridge from the Opera House
Bookings: 021 – 450 56 24
Web: http://www.corkartstheatre.com/

24th to 28th July @8pm
The Tailor and Ansty: by Eric Cross A One Hour Adaptation

All human life is here: marriages, matchmaking, wakes and always the Tailor, his wife and their black cow. The earthy humour of the pair makes this show a delight from beginning to end.

‘Powerful!’ ‘I would go see it again tonight’. South Tipperary Rural Arts Group

Followed by

Letters of a Match Maker: by John B. Keane A One Hour Adaptation.
Letters, hilariously Irish, tells the story of Dicky Mick Dicky the Matchmaker and his clients, including Fionnula Crust a woman who is
looking for a husband who ‘functions in all areas’! And Thady Thade Biddy a married man looking for his wife to ‘function more than once a year’.

‘John B would be delighted’. Limerick County Arts Officer

Irish Festival For Children

Suitable for 4 to 9 year olds.
Fri 27th and Sat 28th July @ 2.30pm

Dorothy DoLittle’s Magical Adventure:

Interactive Puppet Show on Healthy Eating and Physical Activity.

Dorothy has already been performed to thousands of children to date in schools, theatres, libraries and numerous festivals. This show was featured in the hugely successful Cork Midsummer Festival 2005. Running for approx. 50 minutes this professional show uses puppets and actors against a colourful magical stage. It encourages interaction from the children as they learn about the importance and methods of healthy eating and physical activity/friendship. The show is a hugely enjoyable, magical adventures, whose message on health has never been more relevant for children. It has been highly praised and recommended by teachers, parents and pupils.

‘I would recommend this show to any primary school’. Principal of Ardpatrick NS

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NEW DIRECTORS FESTIVAL 2007

The Granary is looking for submissions from emerging Stage Directors for their NEW DIRECTORS FESTIVAL. This new Festival, in its second year of production, celebrates emerging work in new and diverse forms of theatre. This years Festival takes place at the Granary in October 2007.

Plays must be fully realised, and performed with the technical elements thought out (stock Granary technical equipment will be available). Please note that plays with running times less than 60 minutes may be combined with other selected short pieces into a themed full-length presentation.

Criteria:

- directors should NOT previously have worked professionally in a directing capacity:
- preference will be given to published plays - this is NOT a new writing festival

Selected directors will be provided with a reasonable budget, performance space, some limited rehearsal space, promotional support
(postcards/brochures for the festival, media exposure etc.), basic technical support and professional mentoring.

Proposals should include:

* A description of the play, running time etc;
* 10 pages of script (if appropriate);
* Bios of involved artists;
* A short statement of purpose (how the play might be served, what the artist/company hopes to achieve, etc.).

Further information on proposals may be requested.

Deadline: Monday 30 July 2007.

Please submit via email to: info@granary.ie or by snail-mail to:

Granary Theatre
New Directors
The Mardyke,
Cork City,
Cork

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Combat Boot Camp in Cork

The Gaiety School of Acting is running an intensive 5 day training workshop in August.

Paul Burke, IDCA Instructor/Equity Fight Director and Philip Philip D’Orleans, Sword master at the Globe in London will run this course. They will use with the same approach Paul used when he was part of the team that trained the lead actors for King Arthur.

This is a very intensive course that would be very valuable for any performer approaching a movie. The course will include rapier and dagger fight performance system, unarmed combat for stage and screen, broadsword and some acrobatics

Bookings for the Cork Stage Combat Boot Camp will have to be received by the end of this week.

Thanks

For more information contact Stella Majewsky: 087-277 20 29 or check www.gaietyschool.com