Event Guide January to April 2015
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CLÁR IMEACHTAÍ Event Guide January | April 2015 1 Celebrating Irish Culture through the Arts, Home to the National Folk Theatre Box Office 066 7123055 Value Deals & Special Offers Siamsa Tíre is offering patrons a variety of EURO SAVING OPTIONS this season from Early Bird Ticket offers, Dinner+Theatre offers, Music Season Tickets and Drama Season Tickets, all of which will suit your pocket! Early Bird Dinner UNDERNEATH (5th Feb) &Theatre Book before 31st Jan to avail of €14 tickets. ARTHUR’S DIG (12th Feb) CATALPA (20th Feb) Book before 6th Feb to avail of €12 tickets. OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND (26th Mar) HANGING WITH THE ELEPHANT (6th Mar) Book before 23rd Feb to avail of €10 tickets. SYLVIA (5th Mar) Book before 23rd Feb to avail of €10 tickets. YOU CAN AVAIL OF SIAMSA SPECIALS at Bella Bia (Ivy Terrace, 0667144896) & BASSAM (18th Mar) Finnegan’s Restaurant (Denny Street, Book before 9th Mar to avail of €11 tickets. 0667181400) on presentation of a ticket for that night’s performance at Siamsa Tíre. SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. 3 Tuesday 30th Drama Season Ticket December Saturday 2014 24th UNDERNEATH (5 Feb) Friday Sunday January nd to th GOD BLESS THIS CHILD (7 Mar) 2 4 January January Music THE MATCHMAKER (27 Mar) €39 John O’Shea A saving of up to €12 Aladdin Pantomime Oliver Hurley Productions “Alchemy on a six string” ” Irish Music Magazine €16 • Family of 4: €60 • Family of 5: €72.50 Performances 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sunday 4th 2.30pm only Show 8pm • €11 Music Season Ticket Hop on your magic carpet this pantomime season for a magical Part of a new breed of Irish talent, John O’Shea is emerging journey, with stunning sets, sparkling costumes, loads of laughs as one of the most exciting musicians in the country. This and more than a touch of magic, fantastic special effects, hissing performance celebrates the launch of John’s Debut album, VOICES AND HARPS (8 Feb) and sing-along moments from you! All this is to be found in Irish Guitar which is a collection of original arrangements of Aladdin as he sets out to rescue Princess Jasmine and searches traditional Irish music. THE HENRY GIRLS (14 Feb) for the Magic Lamp! Aladdin is one of the funniest, glitziest Panto’s you will see this Christmas and a tremendous treat for The concert will also feature Anna Jane Ryan (one of Ireland’s TRIAD (20 Mar) €44 all the family This is an age old story of forbidden caves, magic leading young Violinists) and will include for Violin and Guitar lamps, flying carpets and Happy Ever After for a boy from the covering traditional Irish music and original arrangements of A saving of up to €13 laundry and an Arabian Princess. works by Handel and Rodrigo. 4 5 The Many Voices of Reeling in Mark Leen The Plough the Showband Years With Special Guest & The Stars Music Mercy Mounthawk School DJ Curtin Drama Thursday Saturday Music ‘This show is going 29th to 31st 8pm • Tickets €18/€15 to bring out the best in January January Sunday me. I really hope the st people enjoy it..’ 1 Two fabulous entertainers from the Kingdom join forces to bring Show 8pm • Tickets €12/€10 Show 8pm • Tickets €30/€27 February you a night not to forget. From Las Vegas, DJ Curtin returns Mark Leen to perform his many hits, including Noreen Bawn, A Boy from Friday Nowhere and Almost Persuaded. Set in Dublin 1916, amidst the turbulence of growing nationalist Reeling In the Showband Years returns with RTE’s Ronan Collins rd sentiment, the plot centres on a young couple, Jack and Nora. as host and compere. Concert includes: Roly Daniels - a living 23 Through their relationship, Sean O’Casey exposes the turmoil of the legend of showbiz with his great big soaring voice; Eileen Reid The second half will see the ever popular Mark Leen in his new January show, The Man of Many Voices where he will thrill audiences impoverished Dublin tenements, on the cusp of the 1916 Rising. - quite simply the biggest female vocalist of the Showband era; with his uncanny ability to bring you over 50 voices from the Paddy Cole - multi-instrumentalist and entertainer supreme; Ronan stars of Stage, Screen and Comedy. O’Casey provides the audience with a remarkable set of memorable Collins with his tributes to the Great Joe Dolan and Dickie Rock; characters that give great insight into the ordinary lives of Dubliners. Lorraine McDonald - one of the brightest talents to emerge from First staged in 1926 at the Abbey Theatre, this play challenged the the latter days of the Showband Boom; the Conquerors Showband, idealistic view of the time, provoking riots due to its unflinching Eurovision stars, Tommy and Jimmy Swarbrigg - all bringing 6 portrayal of tenement life. you back in time to this magical musical period… 7 Drama Thursday Friday Underneath 5th & 6th February February Presented by Fishamble: The New Play Company Written and performed by Pat Kinevane Directed by Jim Culleton Show 8pm • Tickets €18/€16 Sticks and stones didn’t break Her bones, but words and pointing crushed Her. Is Beauty really only skin deep? Does Ugliness hide somewhere deeper? ‘Passionate one-man show carefully wrought production Following the runaway international success of Forgotten and Silent, Fishamble Kinevane (is) an artist of the theatre’ presents Pat Kinevane’s third solo play, Underneath, directed by Jim Culleton. New York Times (on Silent) This stunning new play is a blackly comic, rich and vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life. Drop everything... Book now... It explores the surface, and what lies underneath. captivating, moving and, yes, even unforgettable’ Irish Times (On Forgotten) Fishamble is funded by the Arts Council, Playwriting Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland. Workshop 8 (See page 40) 9 Music/Folk Arthur’s Dig By Mark Wale with Declan Mills Voices & Thursday Drama 12th February Harps Show 8pm • Tickets €14/€12 Sunday th A Journey Through Time 8 The construction industry is in crisis. Sacked from his job, February Arthur punches his brother-in-law boss, Bill. The fallout from Show 8pm • Tickets €19/€17 the punch is devastating for Arthur and his wife, Jenny. As they struggle to recover by building their own house, the Voices and Harps features the first Lady of Celtic Music, mounting pressure fractures their relationship. When Jenny Moya Brennan, and harp virtuoso, Cormac De Barra, discovers she’s pregnant, Arthur’s obsession with bricks and in a partnership combining the simplicity, depth and mortar forces Jenny into the arms of the enemy. beauty of the extraordinary skills which make them unique in their own field. Arthur’s Dig charts one man’s epic struggle to bulldoze through the crash and build his own future. This is a virtuoso Both are well versed in Irish traditional music and solo performance that is guaranteed to win the hearts of ‘A captivating and enchanting collaboration language with Moya’s beguiling voice (admired anyone who has ever dreamed of creating their own home. between two of Ireland’s foremost talents. around the world as the Voice of Clannad) and Cormac’s mastery of the Irish harp combining to In a word, beautiful..’ beautiful effect. Together, they take us deep into ‘An extremely thought-provoking account of someone www.tradconnect.com the heart of their music with haunting and intricately at the coal face of the property collapse. Mills shines arranged music and songs. in a demanding, multi-faceted performance.’ 10 11 Children/Family Age range: 4+ Live, Comedy Monday’s Love & Laugh ‘A trip to Monday’s Child is worth every Child second of the performance. Some Eilish O’Carroll Saturday by Brendan Murray th gorgeous theatre for young and old.’ Friday Barnstorm Theatre Company 14 Ken McGuire, Arts Presenter, KCLR th February 13 8pm • Tickets €18/€16 February Show 12noon & 2pm • Tickets €6 Monday’s Child tells the simple poetic story of the Best known as Winnie McGoogan in her brother Brendan’s unique bond between a little girl and an old woman successful BBC sitcom, ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, Eilish O’Carroll suffering memory loss. Together in a dream-like comes into her own here with this reflective look on an garden, they sing and dance and dress up, as they eventful life that includes a strict Catholic upbringing, two joyously explore a treasure trove of memory boxes. failed marriages (one of them abusive), and coming out as a lesbian at the age of 50. While poignant and deeply moving This sensitive, imaginative, yet funny play explores how it is also packed with humour. we collect memories, how these shape who we are, and how they help us to meet the challenges of growing A huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013, this is one show old. Children will fully engage with the characters and not to be missed! It is one of the most life-affirming hours adore a succession of colourful surprises, but the play you could hope to spend in a theatre. will also resonate strongly with adults, making this an ideal family show. 12 13 Saturday Science Valentine Special 14th Looking at The Henry February The Stars Word of Mouth Agency An Introduction to The Night Sky Girls Music Thursday 19th Show 8pm • Tickets €18/€15 With David Moore of Astronomy Ireland February The Henry Girls are three sisters from Donegal. Their Show 7pm • Tickets €8/€5 music is infused with the rich cultural heritage of their native county but infused with a transatlantic flavour.