A GRANT AIDED BY Dublin Theatre Festival Fresh 44 East Essex Street, Design. www. Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Bookings fresh .ie 01 677 8899 www.dublintheatrefestival.com 27 SEPT –14 OCT 2012 PRESENTING PARTNER OFFICIAL ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER YOUR CITY, YOUR STORIES Chairman irish theatre trust Benefit night Declan Collier The Trust funds projects and Every year a group of corporate initiatives aimed at inspiring, and individual patrons support the CounCil cultivating and celebrating Festival through their attendance Michael Colgan emerging and established artists at our Benefit Night. We would like Michael M. Collins and enhancing the vitality of Irish to thank all our patrons for their Peter Crowley theatre. We would like to thank support. For more information Garry Hynes the following patrons for their contact: Pauline McLynn generous support of the Trust: [email protected] Terence O’Rourke Gavin Quinn Founding Patrons Declan Collier & Jan Winter festival Partners Peter Crowley, FL Partners Abbey Theatre artistiC DireCtor Denis Desmond The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children anD Chief exeCutive Dermot Desmond Gate Theatre Willie White Moya Doherty & John McColgan Denis O’Brien DireCtor of Programme Rosaleen O’Kane volunteers anD ProDuCtion Each year the Festival benefits Stephen McManus Patron from the dedicated commitment Gay Moloney of a large team of enthusiastic general manager volunteers who give generously Tríona Ní Dhuibhir of their time, energy and expertise. festival frienDs DeveloPment manager In return we offer a stimulating Chloë O’Connor and engaging work environment Directors’ Circle and an insight into the business Dermot S. L. Butler aDministrator / of organising Dublin Theatre Peter Crowley & Clodagh O’Brien Box offiCe manager Festival. Volunteers are required Gay Moloney Maeve Whelan from September and primarily Vincent O’Doherty for the duration of the Festival, marketing manager Andrew & Delyth Parkes 27 September – 14 October. For Shauna Lyons (until May 2012) Darren Roddy more information and an application marketing Consultant Producers’ Club form please contact the Festival Annette Nugent (from June 2012) Aisling Daly office on 01 677 8439 , look up the Carmel Naughton website: dublintheatrefestival.com Programme eDitor Anthony Mourek & or email Caroline Williams Dr Karole Schafer [email protected] Friends’ Council Gabrielle Croke – Chair sPeCial thanks Dearbhail Shannon – Deputy Chair 2012 Volunteers and Interns Dympna Murray – Secretary Business to Arts Ann-Marie Carroll Fresh Deirdre Dunny Fusio Sharon McIntyre Hudson Killeen Madeleine Nesbitt Vincent O’Doherty Andrew Parkes Darren Roddy Mary Stephenson 2 dublin theatre festival.com PRESENTING PARTNER GRANT AIDED BY OFFICIAL ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER ONLINE MEDIA PARTNER OFFICIAL RADIO PARTNER NATIONAL RADIO PARTNER OFFICIAL VEHICLE PARTNER 1 Contents 4 DuBliners 20 the Coming Gaiety Theatre storm Samuel Beckett Theatre 6 PuBliC faCe iii 22 everYone is king lear in his oWn home Smock Alley Theatre 8 DruiDmurPhY 24 mYsterY magnet Conversations Samuel Beckett Theatre on a homeComing Gaiety Theatre 10 DruiDmurPhY 26 tristan unD a Whistle in the Dark isolDe Gaiety Theatre Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 12 DruiDmurPhY 28 the last famine summer Gaiety Theatre Gate Theatre 14 the talk of 30 the PiCture of the toWn Dorian graY Project Arts Centre Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey stage 32 16 the seleCt (the sun also rises) 32 halCYon DaYs OReilly Theatre Smock Alley Theatre 18 hamlet OReilly Theatre 2 dublin theatre festival.com 34 the BoYs of 47 BeYonD the foleY street BrooklYn skY The LAB Festival On Tour 36 Politik 49 BirD With BoY Samuel Beckett Theatre 12 Henrietta Street 38 shiBari 50 eternal rising Abbey Theatre, of the sun on the Peacock stage The Lir 40 Your Brother. 51 PineaPPle rememBer? The Lir Project Arts Centre 42 the 14 th tale 52 Project Arts Centre familY season 44 the house that 57 sPeCial events JaCk filleD Project Arts Centre 45 have i 70 timetaBle no mouth Project Arts Centre 46 reCorD The New Theatre 3 the Corn exchange and Dublin theatre festival irelanD P h o t o © R i c h a r d G i l l i g a n 4 dublin theatre festival.com adapted by “Better pass boldly into that other world, Michael West in the full glory of some passion, than and Annie Ryan fade and wither dismally with age.” The Dead Directed by In Dubliners , James Joyce offers an astonishing and Annie Ryan enduring portrayal of the city – a mirror in which the people set and Costumes by of Dublin, as Joyce once wrote, could take “one good look Joe Vaněk at themselves.” Nearly a hundred years since its publication, music and sound by Dublin Theatre Festival and Ireland’s acclaimed ensemble Conor Linehan company The Corn Exchange presents an extraordinary lighting Design by opportunity to experience a collection of Joyce's stories Sinéad McKenna staged on a large scale for the first time in the city of their origin. video Design by Jack Phelan Following the award-winning productions Dublin By Lamplight, Freefall and Man of Valour , The Corn Exchange Cast deftly captures the rich humour, the small cruelties and Derbhle Crotty Mark O’Halloran the celebrated epiphanies of Joyce’s iconic stories in Barbara Bergin the company’s ground-breaking transformational style. Janice Byrne Jack Hickey Dublin Theatre Festival is proud to present this world Stephen Jones première of The Corn Exchange’s adaptation of Dubliners , Mark Lambert which promises to be a provocative and startlingly relevant Nick Lee witness to a masterpiece. Ruth McGill Gus McDonagh SupporteD By IrISh theatre truSt. DuBliners By James Joyce talking theatre venue Gaiety Theatre Annie Ryan, Michael West and Dates Sept 27-30 members of the company. PrevieW Sept 26 Sept 28, Post-show 10.30pm times 7.30pm. Sept 30, 6.30pm (approx.) matinées Sept 29, 2pm Sept 30, 1pm ProuDlY suPPorteD BY PriCes €10 – €35 Duration 2hrs 45mins (approx., incl. interval) 5 Julius von Bismarck, richard Wilhelmer and Benjamin maus germanY P h o t o © A r n e F e h m e l art/sCienCe salon: PUBLIC (INTER)FACE PuBliC faCe iii A panel of speakers from arts, Visible at night on the Dublin skyline from a distance of several science and academia in kilometres, public Face III is a giant neon smiley created by Ireland discuss issues and Julius von Bismarck, Richard Wilhelmer and Benjamin Maus, responses arising from the which will reflect the mood of the city. Using sophisticated ‘Public Face III’ installation. software developed by the Fraunhofer Institute to read facial Chaired by Ariane Koek. expressions of passersby, this interactive installation will capture the humour of Dublin and Dubliners in real time – venue Science Gallery, Oct 3, 6pm displaying a smile, a frown or an indifferent grimace… preSenteD In aSSocIatIon wIth For his role in this and other innovative art and technology ScIence GaLLery, an InItIatIVe projects, Julius von Bismarck became the first artist to be oF trInIty coLLeGe DuBLIn. awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN, a new international prize for digital artists. public Face III will be visible on the city skyline throughout the Festival – look up, see how the city’s feeling. preSenteD aS part oF DuBLIn cIty oF ScIence 2012, a year LonG ceLeBratIon oF ScIence that BrInGS toGether a coMMunIty oF cuLturaL InStItutIonS, orGanISatIonS anD InDIVIDuaLS who are paSSIonate aBout ShowcaSInG the BeSt oF IrISh cuLture, artS anD ScIence. 6 dublin theatre festival.com Directed by the festival is delighted to welcome back Druid with this Garry Hynes unique celebration of one of ireland’s most acclaimed living dramatists, tom murphy. associate Director Design Francis O’Connor DruidMurphy is the story of generations of Irish emigration; associate Director stories both of those who went and those who were left Movement David Bolger behind. Told through three of Tom Murphy’s greatest plays: Conversations on a Homecoming , A Whistle in the Dark and Costume Design by Famine , it covers the period from The Great Hunger of the Joan O’Clery 19th Century to the ‘new’ Ireland of the 1970s. Reflecting an lighting Design by all too recognisable country, these three extraordinary plays Chris Davey vividly explore what it means to call a place home. With an ensemble cast of 16, many of whom play multiple roles, this sound Design by remarkable project is not to be missed and is guaranteed to Gregory Clarke be the theatrical event of the year. Composer DRUIDMURPHY IS A CO-PRODUCTION WITH QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY Sam Jackson CONNECTICUT, NUI GALWAY, LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL AND GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL. Dramaturgy Thomas Conway “ murphy is, i suspect, the greatest dramatist writing in english.” the finanCial times DruiDmurPhY Plays by Tom Murphy PriCes single show €20 – €35 Cycle (all three shows) €48 – €84 For the complete DruidMurphy experience you can see each play individually over the period oct 2 -13 or all three plays in a single day, ProuDlY suPPorteD BY 1pm – 10pm on oct 6 & 13. 7 Druid irelanD “staged by hynes with a breathtaking poetic realism.” the guarDian P h o t o © C a t h e r i n e A s h m o r e talking theatre venue Gaiety Theatre Garry Hynes and members Dates Oct 2, 5, 6, 9, 12 & 13 of the company. Oct 5, times 7.30pm. Oct 6 & 13, 1pm Post-show 9.30pm (approx.) Duration 1hr 50mins (no interval) 8 dublin theatre festival.com Cast County Galway in the 1970s and the humble small-town Beth Cooke pub is a magnet for dreamers. The White House, once Garrett Lombard frequented by the hopeful and radical youth of the town, Aaron Monaghan is the arena for a reunion of old friends. Marie Mullen Now in his 30s, and recently returned from “living the Rory Nolan dream” in New York after a ten year absence – Michael Marty Rea holds court over a long drinking session on a winter’s Eileen Walsh evening.