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DTF Brochure 2016 2-012 Principal Funder buy tickets online dublintheatrefestival.com Grant Aided by phone +353 1 677 8899 in person Dublin Theatre Festival Box Office, Festival House, 12 Essex Street East, Dublin 2, D02 EH42 Opening hours Tickets may also be purchased Accommodation Partner Media Partner Radio Partner Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm at most Dublin Theatre Festival Sat 10am – 5pm venues or on the door if (Sept 24 – Oct 15 only) available (see page 76). Sun 12pm – 3pm Follow us on Twitter, Facebook (Oct 2 – Oct 16 only) and Instagram for news, ticket Broadcasting Partner Festival Champion Social Media Analysis Partner 26 July, 1pm competitions and special Priority booking opens offers throughout the festival. for Friends of the Festival. @DubTheatreFest 16 August, 10am DublinTheatreFestival Public booking opens by @dublintheatrefestival phone, in person and online. Please note that our Box Become a Friend of the Office and phone lines are Festival to avail of priority open at weekends only in booking. See page 58 for September and October, more information. during the dates specified above. Online booking is available all day, every day. dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com welcome02 to the 2016 edition contents 02-03 of dublin theatre festival This year’s festival has twenty critical thinking of people in Ireland, so do our audiences. Irish theatre 04 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 24 Ireland Shed a Tear? 42 Every Brilliant Thing eight shows that offer many great this cannot be left to chance continues to develop in exciting Lyric Hammersmith and The New Theatre Paines Plough days and nights out in the city this and must be shaped by policy new directions as, alongside our Filter Theatre Pavilion Theatre autumn. The programme is aimed and by more public, private and celebrated playwriting tradition, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 26 Guerrilla – El Conde at all ages and devised to appeal philanthropic support. new forms and new approaches de Torrefiel 44 It’s Not Over – THEATREclub to those attending for the very first are being used to grapple with 06 Don Giovanni – Opera Theatre Project Arts Centre Samuel Beckett Theatre time as well as to seasoned theatre the complexity of contemporary Company (Space Upstairs) goers. Since I took up the role of Artistic experience. This year’s programme Gaiety Theatre 46 Donegal – Abbey Theatre Director in 2011 my continuing includes drama, opera, both 28 Swan Lake/Loch na hEala on the Abbey stage aim has been to present a broad classical and experimental, dance, 08 Ancient Rain – Far and Away Michael Keegan-Dolan The festival took shape against selection of artistically driven work performance art, documentary Productions and Brink OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 48 First Love – Gate Theatre a background of brutal and on large and small stages as well theatre and film. What is evident Productions OReilly Theatre, Belvedere unsettling events that brought as in places where there is no throughout the works are common The Olympia Theatre 30 The Circus Animals’ global conflicts much closer stage at all. While 2016 is a year concerns about how we live, how Desertion 50 This is Not a Love Story to home than usual. Like many that is strong in retrospection, I we make sense of the past and how 10 These Rooms – ANU and Brokentalkers Gunilla Heilborn Irish people, I have friends and am determined that the festival we can live together now and in the CoisCéim Dance Theatre Samuel Beckett Theatre Project Arts Centre colleagues in Paris and Brussels programme maintains a forward future. 85 / 86 Upper Dorset Street (Space Upstairs) and they shared their rawness and momentum. Our artists are 32 Death at Intervals distress with me in the aftermath immersed in the present day and 12 ZVIZDAL (Chernobyl – Kellie Hughes and Galway 52 The Last Siren – Ian Wilson of the attacks in November and alive to possibilities for the future. This programme is the culmination so far so close) – BERLIN International Arts Festival Project Arts Centre March. They also communicated They are confidently making work of plans and conversations that Samuel Beckett Theatre Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space (Space Upstairs) their wounded defiance to return to that is rooted in where they live and have spanned many years. Artists the café terraces and to continue that speaks to the world with their have imagined a future and now it’s 14 Crisis Meeting – Kriðpleir 34 Backstage in Biscuit Land 54 Theatre for Children to engage in artistic dialogue when own accent. We set out each year here. Their work will delight, inspire and LÓKAL Performing Arts Jess Thom / Touretteshero political discourse had failed. to make the best festival possible and challenge, as the best theatre Project Arts Centre (Cube) axis:Ballymun 58 Become a Friend of the Festival that feels authentically ‘of Dublin’, should, and I look forward to their presenting the city’s vibrant theatre being met by an adventurous 16 The Remains of Maisie Duggan 36 The Seagull – The Corn Exchange 59 Gala Night The stakes may not seem to scene, complemented by a keen public that is excited for the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival be as high in Ireland, for the international perspective. This possibilities of theatre in 2016 and on the Peacock stage Gaiety Theatre 60 Festival+ moment. However, this year of approach has been rewarded by beyond. Programme of special events commemoration, unfolding in a growing local and international 18 Helen and I – Druid 38 Alien Documentary new political reality of ‘uncharted audiences in the past five years. Civic Theatre Una McKevitt, Ireland 66 Accessibility Information waters’, affords a moment to reflect Thank you to the artists who have Project Arts Centre (Cube) on how culture can help to imagine conceived this festival, to the 20 The Father 69 Visitor Information a way through such testing and We are proud of the role that funders and stakeholders who have Gate Theatre 40 Wishful Beginings divisive times. Dublin Theatre Festival has played believed in it, to all our colleagues VERK Produksjoner 72 Venue Details in expanding the scope of Irish who will deliver it and to you, the 22 Breaking Rainbows – Orla Barry Project Arts Centre theatre since its inception in 1957. audience, who make the work Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (Space Upstairs) 74 Festival Schedule at a Glance If we neglect culture we put our For our 60th anniversary next year I complete. common future at risk. Culture is am ambitious to expand further the – key to our sense of who we are, reach of the festival, to see more how we communicate with each people participating for the first Willie White other and how we learn to embrace time and more artists creating bold Artistic Director difference. Thanks to concerted new work. We have a rich history advocacy work in recent years, but, rather than looking backwards, there is a greater appreciation of I am more interested in the future the value of arts and culture along that this legacy can propel us with an awareness of the need to towards. invest in Ireland’s capacity for these into the future. There is also an increased understanding that, if we The festival is a crescendo of wish to nurture the imaginations of theatre making in the city. Artists artists and the self-expression and use it as a platform to take risks and dublintheatrefestival.com Lyric Hammersmith Filter’s Dream is part rock Quite brilliant. 04-05 and Filter Theatre, gig, part exuberant joke, ««««« UK exploding the conventions of Independent on Sunday the form and remaking them in dazzling new shapes. «««« Metro A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Created by Filter This gleefully mischievous take on Shakespeare’s Co-Directed by Sean Holmes and best-loved comedy is knock-you-sideways funny Stef O’Driscoll with a heart of Shakespearean Gold. Design: Hyemi Shin Lighting Design: Oliver Fenwick In the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s death, this Sound Design and Original comic gem is given a fresh cut. The Lyric Hammersmith and Music: Chris Branch and Tom Filter Theatre have created a high-spirited jewel of a show Haines that’ll have you jumping out of your seat. – Venue: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Every imaginable comic device is here, from spontaneous Dates: Sept 28 – 29, 7.30pm bursts of song and lycra-clad superheroes to Nerf guns and Sept 30 & Oct 1, 2.30pm & 7.30pm an epic food fight. The furious physical comedy is matched Tickets: €15 – €40 with an equally thrilling soundscape. A live band double as Duration: Approx. 1 hr 40 mins. the Mechanicals and exuberantly channel Barry White and No interval. The Ramones, from doo-wop to grunge and a tiny orchestra – of electronic tweets, buzzes and magical trills. Talking Theatre: Sept 30, post-show (7.30pm). A dazzlingly anarchic dream for our times, raucous and With Stef O’Driscoll and members irreverent and bursting with life. of the company. Captioned performance: Suitable for ages 14+ Oct 1, 2.30pm The production contains flashing lights. With the support of Photo © Tristram Kenton Photo © Tristram dublintheatrefestival.com 06-0706 Opera Theatre Company, This company is driven Ireland’s premier 06-07 Ireland by ideas, takes risks, purveyor of and always a fresh and quality operatic interesting approach. productions. Sunday Business Post Opera Britannia Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a new translation by Roddy Doyle Directed by Gavin Quinn Don Giovanni is the greatest seducer of all time. He loves Conducted by Fergus Sheil women. Not individual women, no, he loves all women Cast: David Kempster, Máire regardless of their size, shape, age or marital status. Flavin, Tara Erraught, John Molloy, Alexander Sprague, Daire Halpin, One of Mozart’s operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni tells the Brendan Collins, Jonathan May, tale of a ‘womaniser’, his thirst for pleasure and his complete Chorus of Opera Theatre Company lack of regard for human consequences.
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