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CULTUREFOX.IE GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 16–29 JULY 2018 JULY 16–29 FESTIVAL ARTS INTERNATIONAL GALWAY 16—29 JULY 2018 giaf.ie NEVER MISS OUT The Arts Council’s new, upgraded CULTUREFOX events guide is now live. Free, faster, easy to use – and personalised for you. Never miss out again. Contents Theatre, Opera, Circus & Dance 4 Street Art & Spectacle 26 Music 30 Visual Arts 52 First Thought Talks 60 Comedy 68 Booking, Information & Festival Club 74 Venues & Map 75 Festival Diary 76 Festival Garden This year we introduce the new Festival Garden — the home Eyre Square of the Festival in the heart of Galway. Enjoy a chilled out 18–29 July, 12noon–10pm BOOK NOW at giaf.ie atmosphere at the new Festival Lounge with great food and Free In person from 18 June at drinks, occasional DJs and live sets from guest artists. With Festival Box Office, Galway Tourist Office, a Festival Information Centre & Box Office, the new Festival Forster Street, Galway, Ireland Garden is a great new space for artists and audiences alike Phone: +353 91 566 577 to come together and join in the celebration. IMAGE: MUSEUM OF THE MOON [SEE PAGE 27] – PHOTO: ED SIMMONS #GIAF18 1 Funding Agencies & Sponsors Government Support Corporate Support PRINCIPAL FUNDERS LEADERSHIP PARTNER EDUCATION PARTNER Festival Staff DRINKS PARTNER Chief Executive Selected John Crumlish Shelley Troupe, Manager ® Artistic Director Artist Liaison Paul Fahy Philip Sweeney, Michael Mulroy Hugh Lavelle, Liam Parkinson Financial Controller FESTIVAL PARTNERS Gerry Cleary Photography & Filming Administration Andrew Downes Elizabeth Duffy, Administrator Moose Kady Perry, Assistant Colm Hogan | Festival Poster Marketing and Development Programme Consultants SUPPORTING PARTNERS Hilary Martyn, Development & Marketing Manager Catriona Crowe, First Thought Talks Aisling O’Sullivan, Fundraising Manager Gugai McNamara, Heineken Big Top Brendan O’Regan, Traditional Music FUNDING AGENCIES Operations John Donnelly, Manager Graphic Design Hilda Reid Production Adam Fitzsimons, Manager Web Design Rob Usher, Manager Pixel Design Box Office Print Sarah Callaghan, Manager iSupply Naoimh Ní Mhaolagain, Assistant Manager Media Support Publicity O’Doherty Communications MEDIA PARTNERS Sinead McPhillips Niall Horisk, Digital Marketing Executive Programmes Tracey Ferguson, Editorial Manager Galway International Arts Festival Volunteers Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road, Carly Zimmerman, Manager Galway, Ireland Merchandise Administration +35391509700 Vincent Nally, Manager [email protected] 2 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 3 Theatre | Ireland World Premiere ‘One of the outstanding elegies Galway International Arts Festival and Jen Coppinger of the 20th century.’ in association with Poetry Ireland THE GUARDIAN ON INCANTATA Incantata by Paul Muldoon directed by Sam Yates starring Stanley Townsend INCANTATA adj. [feminine singular of incantato] 1. enchanted, spellbound ‘for there’s nothing, you’d say, nothing over and above the sky itself, nothing but cloud–cover reflected in the thousand lakes…’ Incantata is a man’s concentrated attempt to speak across Town Hall Theatre the barrier of death and recapture the essence of someone Courthouse Square lost. Now re–imagined for the theatre, Incantata, written 16–21 July, 8pm in memory of the artist Mary Farl Powers by poet Paul 24 & 27 July, 6pm & 9pm Muldoon, is an attempt to understand the void that remains Matinees 19 & 21 July, 2pm following the death of a close friend and lover. Previews 16 & 17 July, 8pm Paul Muldoon has published over thirty collections and Tickets €20–€25 won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Duration 45 minutes approx. Directed by Sam Yates, an award–winning film and theatre director, whose recent production of Glengarry Glen Ross ran in London’s West End. Incantata stars Stanley Backstage at the Festival Townsend, one of Ireland’s leading actors and a familiar 19 July, following 9pm show face on both Irish and British stages and screens. Moderator, Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway 4 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PHOTO: PETER SEARLE #GIAF18 5 Circus | Australia Irish Premiere Gravity & Other Myths Watch in awe as 10 skilled acrobats literally throw around the Bailey Allen Hall perception of what strength is, where it comes from and how it NUI Galway Backbone is measured. 17–21 July, 7pm devised by Gravity & Other Myths With jaw–dropping virtuosity and extraordinarily disciplined Matinee 21 July, 2pm teamwork, Backbone is utterly charming, contagiously joyful, Tickets €20–€29 and a thrilling high–octane exploration of human strength. directed by Darcy Grant Duration 1 hour 20 minutes Gravity & Other Myths create shows with a focus on human No interval connection and acrobatic dexterity, continually pushing boundaries and breaking new ground. In just a short few years, Adelaide’s acrobatic sensations Backstage at the Festival have rocketed to international acclaim, taking contemporary 18 July circus to a whole new level. Their Festival 2016 show A Simple Post–show talk with the company Space, wowed audiences during its Galway run and took the Moderator, Ian Walsh, world by storm playing Australia, Europe and America. NUI Galway ‘Circus at its best. Extraordinary.’ HHHHH SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ‘Circus as you’ve never seen it.’ HHHHH INDAILY ‘Achieving the impossible.’ TIME OUT SYDNEY 6 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PHOTO: CARNIVAL CINEMA #GIAF18 7 Theatre | South Africa Irish Premiere The Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town THE SCOTSMAN Fringe First The Fall Award devised by members of the company director/facilitator Clare Stopford cast Ameera Conrad, Oarabile Ditsele, Tankiso Mamabolo, Sizwesandile Mnisi, Sihle Mnqwazana, Cleo Raatus and Zandile Madliwa Black Box Theatre Dyke Road 16–21 July, 7pm Matinees 19 & 21 July, 2pm Tickets €22–€29.50 Duration 1 hour and 20 minutes ‘Exhilarating… stirring… transporting… No interval an infectious, heady joy…’ Backstage at the Festival BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES, CRITICS’ PICK 17 July Post–show talk with the company HHHHH HHHHH Moderator, Charlotte McIvor, NUI Galway THE SUNDAY TIMES THE STAGE The atmosphere among my fellow comrades is euphoric. We have brought this change. As the statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, seven students wrote the sensational play The Fall, which marshals the power of protest song and dance, to unpack discrimination in all its forms. The production took South Africa, Edinburgh, London and New York by storm, captivating audiences and wowing critics, and now comes to Galway for an exclusive limited Festival run. As colonialist and patriarchal icons are dismantled across the world, The Fall goes to the heart of how race, class, gender, power and history’s voices intersect. 8 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 9 Theatre | Ireland World Premieres Druid Druid Furniture Shelter by Sonya Kelly by Cristín Kehoe directed by Cathal Cleary directed by Oonagh Murphy cast Niall Buggy, Peter Campion, Garrett Lombard, Clare Monnelly, cast includes Aaron Monaghan, Rory Nolan, Brendan Conroy Rebecca O’Mara and Aisling O’Sullivan and Lauren Larkin Furniture is not sentimental. You can love it, We’re meant to be in here, we own this place. We’re the but it won’t remember who you are. sons of Ireland and I don’t care what anybody says. Three short plays about chairs and tables, and the people The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane Fus is front–page news, but not all news is good. As he The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane who love them. 12–28 July hides out in a disused warehouse, he soon learns that 13–29 July Furniture is a playful new piece about perceptions and Previews 12 July 8pm & 14 July 5pm Tommy has lost his job and their hideaway is under Previews 13 & 14 July, 8pm possessions. Told through the lives of six individuals, this 16, 18, 20, 23, 25 & 27 July, 8pm threat. As friends trickle through the building, they drink, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 & 29 July, 8pm fresh, new comedy looks at how the things we own shape 17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26 & 28 July, 5pm dance, row and reminisce while the clock counts down. 18, 20, 25 & 27 July, 5pm Tickets €18–€26 22 & 29 July, 3pm our worldview and even ourselves. Shelter is a portrait of life on the edge. It is at turns Duration 1 hour 20 minutes Tickets €18–€26 Written by Sonya Kelly [The Wheelchair on My Face; brutal, touching and funny in its portrayal of those No interval Duration 1 hour 30 minutes, No interval How to Keep an Alien], Furniture is a new Irish play with a whose lives are washed over in the name of progress. lot to say about who we think we are. Backstage at the Festival Backstage at the Festival 18 July 19 July Furniture and Shelter are playing in repertory as part of Druid’s Post–show talk with the company Shelter and Furniture are playing in repertory as part of Druid’s Post–show talk with the company season of new Irish work at GIAF 2018 featuring two world members. Moderator, Miriam Houghton, season of new Irish work at GIAF 2018 featuring two world members. Moderator, Miriam Houghton, premieres and two Druid Debuts. NUI Galway premieres and two Druid Debuts. NUI Galway 10 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IMAGE SONYA KELLY [L] AND CRISTIN KEHOE [R] – PHOTO ROS KAVANAGH AND JOHN FOLEY #GIAF18 11 Opera | Ireland Irish National Opera in association with Galway International Arts Festival, ‘A star is born.’ a co–production with United Fall THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST in partnership with Irish Baroque Orchestra ON SHARON CARTY Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Gluck directed by and choreographed by Emma Martin conducted by Peter Whelan ‘Let love triumph, and all the world serve the empire of beauty’ A story so weighted in tragedy, the power of the Orpheus myth Town Hall Theatre lies in its balance between mortality and hope, transcendence Courthouse Square and love.