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THANK YOU! ARTIST TALK: On Truth (and Lies) in Alan H. Fishman, Joyce in conjunction with riverrun Chairman of the Board Work on the adaptation and Hosted by Simon Critchley with Olwen William I. Campbell, development of riverrun has been Fouéré co-presented by BAM and the riverrun Vice Chairman of the Board ongoing since 2011, including Onassis Cultural Center NY, part of the Adam E. Max, generous support from: Colm Hellenic Humanities Program, a new Vice Chairman of the Board

O’Callaghan; Michael Mushalla of initiative to further Hellenic ideals and Karen Brooks Hopkins, Double M Arts and Events, NY; Lee culture into the 21st century. President Anne Donnolley of Arts Projects Joseph V. Melillo, Australia; Centre Culturel Irlandais, The actors are appearing with the per- Executive Producer Paris; Art and Geography/ mission of Actors’ Equity Association. TheEmergencyRoom and Dance Days 2013; and Rough Magic. The American stage manager is a Galway International Arts Festival member of Actors’ Equity Association. in association with Cusack Projects Limited Contributing artists to date include: composer Mikel Rouse; directors Tom Creed, Annie Ryan, and Sarah-Jane Scaife; designer Paul Keogan; and choreographer Megan Kennedy. DATES: Sep 17—20 at 7:30pm riverrun presentations: LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Galway International Arts Festival (World Premiere), July 2013 RUN TIME: 60min (no intermission) Kilkenny Arts Festival, August 2013 Theatre Festival, October 2013 ARTIST TALK: On Truth (and Lies) in Joyce The National Theatre, , March Hosted by Simon Critchley 2014 With Olwen Fouéré Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, August Fri, Sep 19 post-performance 2014 Free for same-day ticket holders Season Sponsor BAM (US Premiere), September 2014 Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts,

Princeton, NJ, September 2014 Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Production support provided by Rough Festival Sponsor

Magic. riverrun is made possible with Major support for theater at BAM provided by: the support of the Arts Council and The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Dublin City Council. Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen Jr. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund All international touring of riverrun The SHS Foundation is made possible with the support of The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Culture . Presented in association with Irish Arts Center

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GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS The Festival is led by chief executive riverrun FESTIVAL John Crumlish and artistic director A creative collision on the edge of Paul Fahy; with Gerry Cleary, financial Europe. controller and Elizabeth Duffy, administrator. ADAPTED, DIRECTED, AND PERFORMED BY Founded in 1978, Galway International OLWEN FOUÉRÉ Arts Festival is one of Europe’s leading Board of Directors: Bernadette international arts festivals. Mullarkey (Chair), Padraic Brennan, CO-DIRECTED BY John Grealish, Gary Joyce, Maccon KELLIE HUGHES The world premiere of ’s Keane, and Maria Mahon. new play Ballyturk starring Cillian Galway International Arts Festival, SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION Murphy, Mikel Murfi, and Stephen Rea, Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road, BY ALMA KELLIHER a Galway International Arts Festival Galway, Ireland and Landmark production, opened in www.giaf.ie LIGHTING DESIGN BY Galway in July 2014, and is currently STEPHEN DODD running at the National Theatre in London. Galway International Arts CUSACK PROJECTS LIMITED COSTUME DESIGN BY MONICA FRAWLEY Festival and Landmark’s production of Misterman by Enda Walsh starring Pádraig Cusack is a director of Cusack PRODUCED BY Cillian Murphy () Projects, a company dedicated to JEN COPPINGER premiered in Galway in 2011 and international theater producing. He toured to St. Ann’s Warehouse in is currently associate producer for 2011 and National Theatre of the National Theatre of Great Britain, Great Britain in 2012. international tour consultant for the Abbey Theatre, international advisor for In recent years the Festival has Headlong Theatre (UK), and is advisor presented the work of seminal artists to several companies in Ireland, UK, and producers across the artforms and Japan. Recent projects: National including Joni Mitchell, Bill Viola, Theatre: People, One Man, Two The National, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, Guvnors, Grief, Phèdre, The Pitmen John Gerrard, Hughie O’Donoghue, Painters, The Year of Magical Thinking, Cormac McCarthy, David Hockney, Waves, Happy Days, Primo, and The Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Fabulous History Boys; Abbey Theatre: John Beast, Michael Clark, Hofesh Shechter, Gabriel Borkman, The Plough and Stephen Petronio, Steppenwolf, Royal the Stars. Headlong: Six Characters Court, New York Theatre Workshop, in Search of an Author, ENRON; and Circa, and works regularly with Broadway: The Pitmen Painters, leading Irish companies including Waves, Happy Days, and Not About Galway’s Druid. Nightingales. Current projects: riverrun, Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby, The James Principal Funding Agents: Arts Plays, and the international tours of Council of Ireland and Fáille Ireland. The Testament of Mary and A Girl is a Photo: Olwen Fouéré by Colm Hogan Photo: Olwen Fouéré Festival’s Leadership Partners: National Half-formed Thing. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

brought Amy Conroy’s Eternal Rising of The first three words are Sanskrit, STEPHEN DODD the Sun and I ♥ Alice ♥ I to 23 venues FOLLOWING THE FLOW OF meaning the twilight of dawn: Lighting Designer and festivals in Australia, Croatia, THE WAKE “Sandhyas! Sandhyas! Sandhyas!...” Who’s Ireland, and New Zealand. By Olwen Fouéré and where all time appears co-existent. Stephen Dodd is a lighting designer from Dublin where he trained at the Currently project manager for the One day, at a public event in honor of Cartoon- like heroes, music- hall gags, a Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. Laureate for Irish Fiction for the James Joyce, I chose to read the last giant body and its cosmic counterpart, WhoRecent lighting designs include: Arts Council of Ireland, Coppinger page of Finnegans Wake, where the the constellation of Orion, the Egyptian Tom and Vera (Desperate Optimists previously worked with Arts Audiences, river Liffey (Life) calls out to us as she book of the dead, multiple languages, and Dublin Theatre Festival), 2013 Irish Theatre Institute, City Arts dissolves into the great ocean of time. ideas and entities—celestial, human, Dublin Theatre Festival; Lippy (Dead Centre, Dublin Writers Festival, RADE Something happened during the animal, vegetal and mineral—hover, Centre), winner of best design and (Recovery through Art, Drama and reading, a collective shift of atoms, a spin, and morph on rhythms as best production— 2013 Dublin Fringe Education), and the Abbey Theatre. moment where a seam of dark matter subversive and agile as Charlie Chaplin. Festival; Way Back Home (Louise She sits on the boards of RADE, emerged, somewhere between energy He is sure to be in there somewhere, White, Performance Maker) and In Dog Dublin Fringe Festival, and NAYD (the and form, music and language, while as is, without a doubt, the voice of Years I’m Dead (Mirari Productions), National Association of Youth Drama). the river approached her death and Lucia, Joyce’s incarcerated daughter, 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival; Dogs Coppinger is an independent producer transformation in the arms of the sea: waking our silence, making us laugh. (Emma Martin Dance), winner of best in residence at Rough Magic. design and best production— 2012 “... the moyles and moyles of it, “Cockalooralooraloomenos”. Dublin Fringe Festival; and Listowel THEEMERGENCYROOM maonanoaning, makes me seasilt “Rise up now and Aruse! Norvena’s Syndrome (Emma Martin Dance), saltsick and I rush, my only, into over.” Wake up! Rise up! 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival. TheEmergencyRoom (a necessary your arms. I see them rising! Save space) was created by Olwen Fouéré me from those therrble prongs! Two Navigating the ever-changing Dodd has been nominated for best in 2009 for projects “in need of more. Onetwo moremens more. So. universe of the Wake is an amazing lighting at the 2013 Irish Times immediate attention” and as a virtual Avelaval ... Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far journey to embark on. The river leads Theatre Awards for his work on holding space for the development calls. Coming, Far! End here. Us the way in a cosmic “sound- dance” riverrun. of performance-based ideas which then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlee, of revolutionary energy, unwinding are followed by partnerships with mememormee! Till thousends thee. the boundaries of our imagination, JEN COPPINGER established production companies The keys to. Given ...” pulling us along, filling us with Producer for the full creation of the work. negative ions, while we swim like a By the end of the reading, inspired “cara weeseed” through the swirling Jen Coppinger is producer for Dylan TheEmergencyRoom’s first project was by the buzzing of atoms and a moment world that made us, on a different Tighe, TheEmergencyRoom, Emma Fouéré’s translation of Sodome of flight, a performance idea was journey each and every night. Martin Dance, HotForTheatre, ma douce by Laurent Gaudé, which taking shape: The river Life (Liffey/ Raymond Scannell, and Sean received its world première as Lethe) as all the rivers of the world, END MacErlaine. She is currently producing Sodome, my love in February 2010, including our body’s bloodstream, a an Irish tour of Deep by Raymond directed by Lynne Parker and force of constant renewal, moving us Scannell. Earlier this year she produced produced by Rough Magic. The onwards towards the dawn. Tundra by Emma Martin Dance which production was nominated for four Irish opened the 2014 Dublin Dance Times Theatre Awards, receiving best Then I simply traced the river’s (A version of this article appeared in Festival. sound design and best actress. path backwards, to a source and the on July 13, 2013.) Other projects include a 30-minute film place where the performance begins, In 2013, for HotForTheatre, she by Olwen Fouéré and Kevin Abosch, at the meridian of day and night, produced Break by Amy Conroy as well Cassandra: fragments of a playscript, male and female, earth and space, as a national and international tour of written by Anne Enright, featuring island and sea. HotForTheatre—HotForTouring, which Fouéré and artist Alice Maher. Photo: Olwen Fouéré by Colm Hogan Photo: Olwen Fouéré 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Dance Theatre (ENO, Sadler’s Wells with Operating Theatre includes The at the Roy Hart Theatre of the Voice, and Movimento Festival Wolfsburg Diamond Body (1984—87), The Maleragues, holds a first class BA 2013); and a season with Theater Pentagonal Dream (1986), Angel/ honors in theater and history, and Who’s for a New Audience, New York Babel (1999), Chair (2000), an MA honours in physical theater. (Spring 2012). Passades (2004), Here Lies (2005— She is currently director in residence 07), and Here Lies in film... (2008). at University College Dublin and Other work of note includes Terminus Fouéré was awarded the Irish Times artistic director of the UCD Ad Astra Who by Mark O’Rowe (Abbey Theatre Special Theatre Award in 2013 Performing Arts Academy. international tour, 2011); Yellow for outstanding achievment and re-performed (2010 Dublin Theatre contributon to Irish theater. She also ALMA KELLIHER OLWEN FOUÉRÉ Festival); her translation and received the Herald Archangel in 2014 Sound Designer-Composer Adaptor-Director-Performer performance of Sodome, my love for her sustained contribution to the by Laurent Gaudé (Rough Magic/ Edinburgh festivals. Recent theatre credits include Born in Galway of Breton parents, TheEmergencyRoom, 2010,); Under Way Back Home (Louise White, Olwen Fouéré is a leading Irish Glass (The Clod Ensemble); Paula KELLIE HUGHES Performance Maker), The Churching actor and creative artist. Recent film Spencer, La Femme Qui Se Cognait Co-Director of Happy Cullen (Louise Lewis and appearances include No Compass Dans les Portes,her Simon Manahan), Gibraltar: An in the Wilderness by Hadi Shuaib of a French stage adaptation of two Kellie Hughes is a director, actor, Adaptation after Ulysses (Irish Rep (Wigwam films); The Wake by Oonagh books by Roddy Doyle (Bouffes du and theater maker. As an ensemble Theatre, New York), Cure and Starlight Kearney (Invisible Thread); If Those Nord Théâtre, Paris); The Bull with member of Blue Raincoat Theatre (Fearghus Ó Conchuir), The Man Lips by Pat McCabe (VIP/RTÉ, 2014); Fabulous Beast (Dublin Theatre Company for seven years, Hughes Jesus (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Elevator Camillo’s Idea by Aurélien Froment Festival 05/Barbican BITE 07/Berlin created a number of new works with (THISISPOPBABY), Travesties (Rough (2013 Venice Biennale); Horse Speilzeiteuropa 08—nominated for two the company including The Poor Magic), and Minute After Midday by Yvonne McDevitt; Cassandra: Olivier Awards); and Titus Andronicus Mouth, At Swim Two Birds, The Third (15th Oak—Edinburgh Fringe first fragments of a playscript by Anne (Siren Productions, 2005). Policeman, The Strange Voyage of award-winner). Enright, co-directed by Olwen Fouéré Donald Crowhurst, The Hollow in the and Kevin Abosch (Irish Museum of At the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, she Sand, and Sanctuary. Directing credits Kelliher has a BA in music from Trinity Modern Art, 2013); This Must Be created the role of Hester Swane in for Blue Raincoat during this time College, Dublin, and an MSc in sound The Place by Paolo Sorrentino (Indigo By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr in include The Cat and the Moon, At design from Edinburgh University. Films); The Rafters by ; 1998 for which she received numerous the Hawk’s Well, The Bald Soprano, She studied organ to diploma level The Other Side of Sleep by Rebecca awards. She also starred in Life is and A Brief Taste of Lightning. Film with the London College of Music and Daly (Fastnet Films); and Yellow, the a Dream directed by Calixto Bieito and radio work includes Astray by Media and is a graduate of the Rough film by Amanda Coogan and Paddy (1998 Edinburgh International Festival/ filmmaker Johnny Gogan, Swansong Magic SEEDS Programme and the Next Cahill (JDIFF, 2012). Barbican Theatre, London/BAM). At (Zanzibar Films), and Know Your Stage Programme. Kelliher is musical the Gate Theatre, Dublin, she created Station ( RTÉ Radio—shortlisted for director of the performance group Pop Her most recent stage appearances the role of Salomé in Steven Bekoff’s the Prix Europa). Hughes has assisted Céilí who regularly perform at Electric include Juliet in A Tender Thing production of Oscar Widle’s Salomé director Mikel Murfi on a number of Picnic and the Dublin Fringe Festival. adapted by Ben Power and directed which toured internationally. She also projects including B for Baby (Abbey Her most recent projects include by Selina Cartmell (Siren Productions, features in several artworks by the Theatre international tour), Bird by Elephantom at the National Theatre. Dublin); Dr. Chasuble in Gerald Barry’s internationally renowned Irish artist Julie Feeney (Dublin Theatre Festival In Kelliher was awarded best sound at the opera of The Importance of Being James Coleman. Development program), and Manchán 2013 Irish Times Theatre Awards for Earnest directed by Antony McDonald Magan’s bilingual play Focal Point. her work on riverrun. (NI Opera/Wide Open Opera); El Fouéré was an artistic director of Duende in María de Buenos Aires Operating Theatre, which she co- Hughes trained at Ecole de Mime ( Opera House, 2013); The Rite of founded with composer Roger Doyle. Corporel Dramatique, London, and Spring/Petrushka with Fabulous Beast Her extensive performance work