CLÁR IMEACHTAÍ Event Guide September | December 2014
Sive by John B. Keane, Abbey Theatre on Tour
1 Celebrating Irish Culture through the Arts, Home to the National Folk Theatre Box Office 066 7123055 Home of the National Folk Theatre of Ireland
We bring together the people of Kerry and visitors from all over the world to enjoy the best of Irish culture - music, song and dance. Come and join us for a performance in our wonderful theatre in Tralee, in beautiful County Kerry, looking out over the Slieve Mish Mountains and the Dingle peninsula.
Siamsa Tíre protects, develops and explores Irish culture and traditions, who we are, where we come from and who we are going to be. Thousands of visitors have enjoyed our performances of Irish music, song and dance as a highlight of their trip to Ireland. There is an energy, a wildness, a passion about these performances, using the best of traditional arts, which come together to create a memorable and emotional experience for our visitors.
So, check out our reviews on Trip Advisor, see some fabulous footwork and clips of the performances on our website - www.siamsatire.com and then come and visit us. We look forward to welcoming you! www.siamsatire.com Value Deals & Special Offers Drama Music 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! Season Ticket Season Ticket
FEMALE GOTHIC (26 Oct) A STÓR MO CHROÍ (4 Oct)
Early Bird Dinner DEFENDER OF THE FAITH (20/21 Nov) FIACHRA GARVEY (7 Nov)
TRIALS OF GALILEO (5 Dec) THE VOICE SQUAD (6 Dec) A STÓR MO CHROÍ (4th Oct) &Theatre Book before 26th Sept for €15 tickets. NEITHER EITHER (6th Nov) SYLVIA (23rd Oct) €38 A saving of up to €16 €40 A saving of up to €15 Book before 13th Oct for €10 tickets. DEFENDER OF THE FAITH (20th Nov) FEMALE GOTHIC (26th Oct) Book before 1st Oct for €12 tickets. THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT 2014 (30th - 2nd Nov) A saving of up to €13 Book before 10th Oct for €15 tickets. YOU CAN AVAIL OF SIAMSA SPECIALS 4 for Forty Five €45 at Bella Bia (Ivy Terrace, 0667144896) & TRIALLS OF GALILEO (5th Dec) Finnegan’s Restaurant (Denny Street, Book before 14th Nov for €13 tickets. IRELAND’S WEATHER (3 Oct) POST SCRIPT (8 Nov) 0667181400) on presentation of a ticket ALADDIN for that night’s performance at Siamsa Tíre. MARY DEADY (24 Oct) TRIALS OF GALILEO (5 Dec) (30th Dec 2014, 2nd & 3rd Jan 2015) SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. Book before Friday 12th Dec for €14 tickets. 4 5 National Folk Theatre Join the Siamsa Tíre Sign up for the
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Sign up on www.siamsatire.com we’ll add you th th th th to the list! Clann Lir 8 -11 15 -18 September September The Story of the Children of Lir It’s FREE to join & you will receive Event News & Updates, Special Discount Show 8.30pm Tickets and Exclusive Invites - direct to your phone! Get the latest updates, special One of the jewels of Irish Storytelling, Clann Lir tells the tale of the four children of King Lir turned into swans by their wicked stepmother, Aoife. Free to join mobile club. Free to receive text messages. offers and competitions via This is an enchanting and spell-binding narrative delivered using all of Opt out anytime by texting REMOVE to 50050. the strengths of Ireland’s traditional arts - dance, music and song. Powered by www.textrepublic.com e-mail to your inbox every month. 6 7 Annie Children Thursday Saturday Jack & Light Opera Society of Tralee 25th to 27th Family/Musical September September The Beanstalk Lyngo Theatre Show 8pm • Tickets €14/€12 Family of 4 €44 Show 10.30 am & 12noon • Tickets €6
The National Award award-winning Light Opera Society of Tralee presents the ever popular Annie, a touching rags- Fee Fi Fo Fum! It’s a giant of a show and we’d love you to to-riches tale of a feisty and very courageous 11 year old come! Jack and the Beanstalk, a classic fairy tale, now gets orphan adopted with some reluctance by the hard-nosed the LYNGO Theatre treatment! So expect lots of surprises, industrialist Oliver Warbucks. Annie’s refreshing charm, a gripping story and beautiful images as Jack sells his ‘LYNGO knows the score when it comes indomitable spirit, and winning ways force Warbucks to reappraise his life values and even influence government cow for five magic beans and finds himself in the land to producing theatre for the very young.’ social policies in depression America. above the clouds. It’s a show for the over 5s (and their The Stage giants) with something for everyone - enormous shoes, Directed by Aidan O’Carroll. tiny houses, showers of silver and gold and a big, leafy explosion! Thursday Suitable nd LYNGO is a UK based children’s theatre company whose for Age 5+ 2 Matinees shows have delighted children and adults for over 10 years October Thurs 25th & Fri 26th, 10am • Tickets €5 with their unique mix of fun and beautiful imagery. 8 Saturday 27th, 2.30pm • Tickets €11 9 Music Kerry Film Ireland’s A Journey Through Time A Stór Saturday Talk/Science th Mo Chroi 4 Film Festival Weather October A Musical Gathering 7pm • Tickets €10
by Evelyn Cusack, Deputy Head of Forecasting, Met Éireann
Evelyn will take us on a whistle stop tour through the Sunday Sunday varying climates of early Earth to the beginnings of 5th to 12th civilization and the Weather Gods on to the Age of October October Enlightenmen’ and our own Robert Boyle and then to Show 8pm • Tickets €20/€18 the present high-spec numerical forecast models which can predict weather about a week ahead. Following the success of their sold-out shows in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral and The Sugar Club, the award winning This year Kerry Film Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary. The This is a great opportunity to get to grips with Ireland’s Friday members, Karan Casey, Éilís Kennedy, Pauline Scanlon, Muireann programme celebrates this milestone with some special music and national preoccupation with our ever changing rd Nic Amhlaoibh, John Spillane, Donogh Hennessy, Dónal film events, an extended short film programme, and an exciting weather! 3 O’Connor and John McSherry offer a rare opportunity to witness list of new independent and rare classic feature films from around October the collaboration of such talent together on one stage. the world. Local filmmakers will also feature in the now traditional Made in Kerry slot mid-week. There are films for everyone and every Through traditional and contemporary arrangements and songs in taste every day at this milestone festival, don’t miss it! both Irish and English, they connect the past with the present while 10 creating a new tradition. See www.kerryfilmfestival.com for more details. 11 Abbey Theatre on Tour
Drama Tuesday Saturday th th Sive by John B. Keane 14 to 18 October October
Show 8pm • Tickets €26/€21
‘Isn’t it only bringing two people together in wedlock we are?’
One of the greatest Irish plays of the 20th Century, John B. Keane’s Sive stands tall in the Irish theatre canon. ‘A deeply moving This gripping new production by director Conall Morrison was enjoyed by over performance’ 30,000 people during a sell out run at the Abbey Theatre. Now Sive returns for a major All Ireland tour. Irish Independent
Beautiful young Sive lives with her aunt and uncle in rural Kerry. Seán Dóta, an elderly farmer, offers the local match-maker Thomasheen Seán Rua, a large sum CREDITS for her hand in marriage. Will this be too much for her aunt and uncle to resist? Directed by: Conall Morrison Composer & Sound Design by: Conor Linehan Don’t miss this chance to rediscover this dark, powerful story of greed and passion. Set Design by: Sabine Dargent Costume Design by: Joan O’Clery 12 Lighting Design by: John Comiskey 13 Sylvia Drama Mary Deady The Nualas Female The College Players, By AR Gurney The Irish Lark The Great Big Shiny Show From Ireland to America & Back Comedy Gothic Drama Show 8pm • Tickets €16, Rebecca Vaughan - Dyad Productions Students €5 Show 8pm Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after years of child-rearing in the suburbs. Tickets €17/€14 Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding In the unquiet darkness between down, while Kate’s career as an English Friday Music life and death, a haunted woman teacher is beginning to offer her more th opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he Saturday tells strange tales of the macabre 24 A Musical Journey in Song found bearing only the name ‘Sylvia’ on her October th and terrifying; eerie stories that name tag. Sylvia becomes a major bone of 25 have gathered dust and contention between husband and wife. October been forgotten. Until now. Show 8pm • Tickets €15/€13 To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. Show 8pm • Tickets €19/€17 In the thrilling tradition of M R James And Sylvia thinks Kate doesn’t understand Sunday and Edgar Allan Poe, this literary spine- the relationship between man and dog. The Mary’s concert traces her origins from a small village in Kerry th chiller celebrates three lost gothic works marriage is put in serious jeopardy and a to finding a home in New York City. Drawing upon the richness They are buffed, they are detoxed, they are booty-lish AND 26 from the great Victorian female writers. series of hilarious and touching complications Thursday of the American Songbook, we hear echoes of Ireland filtered THEY ARE TOTALLY UP FOR IT! The Nualas are jetting in for October Adapted and performed by Rebecca ensue. rd through an American sensibility. But mostly, it is the story of one night only with their shiniest show ever. Expect shine, Vaughan (Austen’s Women, I, Elizabeth). 23 a journey requiring untried courage, reflections on love and expect glitz, expect cleavage (on their knees). Directed by Gerry Creechan, an ITT Charities children, an affirmation of Life both specific and universal. A performance that holds the audience in the palm October You will laugh, you will cry, you will probably need to go to of its hand... a near perfect piece of theatre’ Committee production. 14 the toilet at some point. Prepare to beNuala’ed. The Scotsman 15 Variety Thursday Post Show th Talk That’s Tralee Musical Society Neither 6 Thursday Sunday November th to nd
30 2 TRUFFARELLI :: LUCA PHOTO Entertainment October November Either Dance A Liz Roche Company and Maiden Show 8pm • Tickets €18/€16 Voyage Dance Co-Production
Over the past 25 years, Tralee Musical Society has enthralled local Show 8pm • Tickets €16/€13 audiences with shows that have everyone singing and dancing in their seats. Renowned for its side-splitting comedy, this year promises Two dance companies, one from Belfast and one from Dublin, to be no exception. That’s Entertainment 2014 will be a feast of come together to perform a new dance work that looks at music, song, dance, and comedy with one of Ireland’s leading the predicament of living out two conflicting states of mind musical societies. This year’s production will feature excerpts from at once. Choreographed by Liz Roche and set to Neil Martin’s Hairspray, Smash, Matilda, Neil Diamond, and Wicked, with an all-star score, identities, beliefs, emotions and aspirations are put to cast of performers and hilarious comedy from Tralee Musical Society the test in this poignant blend of dance, poetry and music. comedians. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Book now and don’t miss out - Northern Ireland, Dublin City Council, Belfast City Council, it’s always the Hottest Ticket in Town! Dance Ireland and Dance Limerick.
Post Performance Talk : Contradiction and Creativity, a talk curated and chaired by Dr Aoife McGrath with an invited panel Matinee of artists from different disciplines and backgrounds alongside Sunday 2nd choreographer Liz Roche and cast. 16 2.30pm • Tickets €15 17 Music Sunday Fiachra Postscript 9th Friday November 7th Drama Garvey November Classical Pianist Show 8pm • Tickets €16/€13 The Academy Saturday He is young. He is cool. He has a string of firsts of all kinds behind th him already. He has been named as National Concert Hall Rising 8 Star and last month he received a standing ovation when he made November of Dance Family his debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London. Annual Performance Fiachra’s programme tonight includes Beethoven’s heartbreakingly Show 8pm • Tickets €15/€12 beautiful sonata op109, a selection of nocturnes from our own national treasure John Field, Chopin’s melodically virtuosic Andante Show 3pm • Tickets €15/12 Spianato et Grande Polonaise op22 and the mighty force of the A poignant and humorous account based on a true story of an mammoth Liszt piano sonata. adopted person’s search for identity. Under the direction of Clarissa Michaux, the Academy of ‘From an early age I was told I was adopted. While I loved being able Fiachra Garvey studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Dance is delighted to present their annual production. Join to say I was adopted as a child (it made me feel exotic), I also learned His concerto performances include appearances with Janacek us for a performance of ballet, tap and jazz, and don’t miss that it was a word that was used by adults with a dropped voice.’ Philharmonic, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE Concert out on what promises to be another great production from Orchestra, UCD Symphony, and Hibernian Orchestra. This will be ‘A moving story stoically enacted by Brown and Bríd Ní the Students of The Academy of Dance after a busy year of Fiachra’s first performance in Kerry to the delight of his father who Neachtain, who beautifully brings to life the letters that form great dancing success. hails from the Kingdom! the linchpin of Browne’s journey..powerful piece of work’ 18 The Irish Times 19 Circus Festival Double Bill 13th Nov, 8pm • Tickets €11/€9, Family of 4 €28 Thursday Sunday Fragments of a Mind by award winning, Darragh McLoughlin, th to th and The Tale of The Ancient Lights by Riuchi. November13 November16 Lost in Translation Circus, The Hogwallops 14th Nov, 8.30pm • Tickets €15/€13, Family of 4 €40 This show centres around a family of misfits whose animalistic approach expresses itself in cruel jokes & games with an outcome that is dark but hilarious!
Festival Club 14th Nov, Fels Point Hotel, 10.30pm • Tickets €5 Circus Siamsa Join us at ‘Circus Sideshow’, a bespoke festival club full of impromptu performances, great music from King Kong Company, fab décor & some surprises! Full details on all events are to be found on www.circusfestival.ie Children’s Circus Workshops 15th & 16th Nov, 11am & 12noon Daily, Circus Fels Point Hotel • Tickets €10 Learn how to juggle, spin plates, to the hula hoop & throw the Diablo.
Circus Siamsa 15th Nov, 2pm & 5.30pm • Tickets €12, Family of 3 €30, Family of 4 €40 Convention Ticket €36 Circus Siamsa is at the heart of the Circus Festival! For the good people Access to the Circus Convention, Festival Club, of Tralee and beyond, Fanzini Productions bring the stars of contemporary Friday Show, 1 Circus Siamsa Show & 20 circus and street performance, magic and variety to the stage. All Workshops (excl. Children’s Workshop) 21 By Stuart Carolan (Creator/Writer of LOVE/HATE)
Echoes of Music Harlem Defender Drama Thursday Friday 20th & 21st Home Gospel Choir of the Faith November November THE Solo Piano of Phil Coulter Family Decadent Theatre Company
Show 8pm • Tickets €31 Show 8pm • Tickets €19/€16
Having performed for Nelson Mandela, the Pope, and with the Chieftains and U2 on tour, the Harlem Gospel Choir will, once Galway based Decadent Theatre are back with one of the most anticipated Sunday again, return to Ireland for an extensive tour. Their songs of productions of 2014. ‘Defender of the Faith’ is the debut play of Stuart Carolan, the th inspiration touch the depths of the soul and raise spirits to author and creator of RTE’S infamous, LOVE/HATE. 16 angelic heights. November Defender of the Faith is a brilliant thriller set on a farm in Armagh 1986. The play tells the story of a family, entrenched in paramilitarism and under the constant watch of British forces. When a visitor arrives with the job of rooting out a police informer, Show 8pm • Tickets €26/€23.50 paranoia grips the farm. Joe, his son Thomas, and a long-serving farm hand, Barney, all fall under suspicion…The family’s isolated farm becomes the setting for the Up in that pantheon with the biggest selling recording artistes electrifying exploration of a family tested by loyalty and love. ‘Defender Of The Faith’ of all time in Ireland, rubbing shoulders with Bono and the is blackly comic and chillingly real, with an atmosphere taut with tension. Boys, you might be surprised to bump into Phil Coulter. He has written at least four titles that can be added to the list of Great Saturday Directed by Andrew Flynn, Set Design by Owen MacCarthaigh, Irish Songs - the anthems ‘The Town I Loved So Well’, ‘Ireland’s nd Costume Design by Petra Breathnach, Sound Design by Carl Kennedy. Call’ and the haunting ‘Scorn Not His Simplicity’ and ‘Steal Away’. 22 *Please note the production contains strong language. Recommended age 15 upwards Phil will be joined by his special guest Geraldine Branagan November 22 for an unforgettable evening of music and song. 23 The Elixir of Love The Elixir of Love is a co-production with Opera Theatre Company, Ireland’s National Touring Opera Company NI Opera and was nominated in the Best Opera category in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013. Opera by Donizetti Saturday 29th November ‘A real tour de force’ Show 7.30pm • Tickets €30/€25 Irish Times
Famous for its spellbinding music and sublime arias (especially Una Furtiva Lagrima), Donizetti’s ever-popular romantic comedy, The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore) has it all, from unrequited love, to devious deception and thwarted passion. Innovative director Oliver Mears (NI Opera) updates the action to a university campus, where Adina is a lecturer and Nemorino a nerdy student. Desperately in love with the beautiful but unattainable Adina, Nemorino is conned by fraudster Dr Dulcamara to buy some fake love potion, pledging himself to the army in order to pay for it.
Sung in English, The Elixir of Love features a powerful cast led by Anthony Flaum (Nemorino) and Anna Patalong as Adina with Irish Soprano Sarah Reddin ‘who sparkles as the coquettish Giannetta’. John Molloy is the crafty Dulcamara and James McOran Campbell is Belcore, the lusty army recruitment officer.
Conducted by Fergus Sheil, Design by Annemarie Woods, Costumes by Ilona Karas, Lighting by Kevin Treacy.
24 25 Trails of The Voice Squad A Concert for the Winter Solstice
Galileo Drama Music Icarus Theatre
Show 8pm • Tickets €18/€15 Show 8pm • Tickets €19/€17
The first flowerings of scientific truth crushed by the bully Irish traditional music harmony group, Phil Callery, Fran church. McPhail and Gerry Cullen, otherwise known as the Voice Squad, are back on the road celebrating the release of ‘The Universe is a divine miracle Galileo, not a clockwork toy! their third album in nearly three decades - Concerning ‘Proof’ denies faith, and without faith we are nothing.’ This of Three Young Men. The union of the distinct tenor reprimand of Pope Urban contained Galileo’s tragedy - a voices of Fran and Phil plus the bass of Gerry, along with mistaken belief that all he had to do was show his reasoning their own particular arrangements of good songs, has and evidence and the church would fall in behind him. made them one of the most distinctive unaccompanied singing groups of recent times. Members of the group After premiering in Indianapolis in 2008 this one-man have made music as far back as the1970s. Saturday Friday rollercoaster stars Tim Hardy (professor at RADA, veteran of The Voice Squad has worked with Sinead O’Connor on th th The Royal Shakespeare Company, and star of major European her Universal Mother album, and also recorded a tribute tours) and is written by Emmy Award winner Nic Young. 6 5 album for the songs of Van Morrison with Elvis Costello. December December
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Sunday A Most Peculiar Yesterday 7th December Wintery Thing Once More The Ark with Music Network Children The Music of the Carpenters Music Show 11.15am • Tickets €6 Wednesday th Show 8pm • Tickets €20/€18 December10 As the nights draw in and the days get colder, a rolling snowball of four wondrous musicians Kim Dickinson was touched by Karen Carpenter’s breathtaking voice, and some light fingered animation will explore and by the wonderful arrangements of The Carpenter’s beautiful songs. the magic and mystery of all things snowy with favourite memories of winter and some new ones Kim transports her audiences with the natural and uncanny likeness too. of her voice to that of Karen Carpenter. Throughout the show Kim will deliver the songs that made The Carpenters famous, such as Close To With a dynamic blend of original music, You, Superstar, For all we Know and Top of The World. improvisation and audience interaction, this brand new festive music show by composer Brian Irvine Kim Dickinson has the vocal quality and emotion to take you through a has been commissioned and specially created for journey that will recreate the voice of Karen Carpenter. children, their schools and families.
28 29 ABBA Thursday Swan th Saturday th December11 December13 Forever Ballet Lake Music The Christmas Show Returns! Ballet Ireland
Show 8pm • Tickets €23/€19, Show 8pm • Tickets €23/€19 Group of 5+ €16
This most famous of ballets combines romantic themes, classical What a way to kick off your seasonal celebrations! It’s always party time technique and ethereal imagery together with Tchaikovsky’s when ABBA is about, but when it’s the Christmas Show, then that’s a real majestic score, to ensure this masterpiece’s immortality. excuse for a party! And it’s EXACTLY 40 years since ABBA burst on to the world stage with their Eurovision win with Waterloo. This happy sing-a- Swan Lake tells the story of Odette, a beautiful princess, who by long tribute, celebrates with a loud and proud fanfare! It’s the perfect way day is turned into a swan by evil magician Von Rothbart, only to to start your Christmas season! regain her human form at night. Out hunting by the Lakeside, Prince Siegfried encounters her and falls in love with her. But will Expect a dazzling, fantastic performance including the most iconic hits, he be able to break Von Rothbart’s spell…? Mamma Mia, S.O.S, Money, Money Money, The Winner Takes It All, Gimme Gimme, Gimme and many MANY more! Get your glad rags on, brush up Featuring 25 leading professional dancers from Ireland and ‘Moving production and on the lyrics, don the dancing boots and come to the best party in town! abroad, this enduring story of love and tragedy, good and evil, has enthralled audiences since it premiered in 1877. beautifully choreographed’ The Sunday Business Post 30 31 Saturday Sunday th st Liam Monday Seussical JR. 20 & 21 th December December 15 Bryan Carr School of Performing Arts Lawton Music December Family
Show 8pm • Tickets €20 Show 7.30pm • Tickets €14 Group of 4 €55, Group of 5 €65
Drawing from the sacred and rich tradition of his culture Liam has found a contemporary voice for ancient longing and the quest for ‘Oh, the thinks you can think’ when Dr Seuss’s best-loved characters the Divine in modern life. collide and cavort in an unforgettable musical caper with unforgettable fun for the whole family! His music finds echoes in ages past and his voice has a beauty of its own, gentle, ethereal and full of pathos. Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat, and all of your favourite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life in Seussical the Musical. This Liam will be joined by a special guest choir on the night. Broadway Junior version is a fantastical musical extravaganza from Tony winners Ahrens and Flaherty, transporting audiences from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus, with the Cat in the Hat, as our narrator. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, and kidnapping, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community emerge triumphant!
This amateur production is presented by permission of JOSEF Matinee WEINBERGER LIMITED Sunday 21st • 2.30pm 32 33 Monday Pantomime nd O Holy Night Aladdin Oliver Hurley Productions 22December Tickets €16, Family of 4 €60, 5 €72.50 with Red Hurley Performances 2.30pm & 7.30pm each day and his musicians Music Welcome to the most magical pantomime ever! Hop on your magic carpet and fly on a magical journey, with Show 8pm • Tickets €26 stunning sets, sparkling costumes, loads of laughs and more than a touch of magic, fantastic special effects, hissing and sing-along moments from you, and this is all to be found in Aladdin as he sets A magical evening of Seasonal, Christmas and Spiritual favourites with out to rescue Princess Jasmine and searches for the Magic Lamp. But Red Hurley and his musicians. will he be successful? Aladdin is one of the funniest, glitziest Pantos you will see this For this special Christmas show, Red and his musicians will perform Tuesday Friday Saturday Christmas, coupled with Oliver Hurley’s renowned reputation for seasonal classics such as Silent Night, White Christmas, Rudolph the th nd rd Red Nosed Reindeer, O Holy Night, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open high quality, professional pantomimes that are among the most 30 2 3 Fire, When A Child is Born and many others. spectacular in the Land, this is a tremendous treat for all the family December January January you won’t want to miss! It’s so funny it’ll have you rolling in the aisles, Red will also sing a selection of his favourite spiritual hits such as with the hysterical pantomime Dame, Tralee’s very own Tom Hanafin, Something Inside So Strong, The Living Years and many more. ensuring that everyone has a great time. Early Bird Savings on tickets available O Holy Night is the perfect way to start off a musical festive season! This is an age old story of forbidden caves, magic lamps, flying Book before Friday 12th December and carpets and happily ever after for a boy from the laundry and an get your tickets for a magical €14. Arabian Princess. We recommend this production for 34 children of all ages, from 5 to 95! 35 Friday Friday th th Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Silver Membership Nocturnes 26 to 24 th th rd September October 8 5 3 2pm €25 Jack Hickey October November December Screenings SS Season!
Dealing with Ireland’s social nightlife, Nocturnes, Jack Hickey’s most First Wednesday of Every Month recent collection, illustrates the beautiful, the ridiculous, and the Kerry Film Festival Presents... menacing of the clouded contemporary cityscape.
The work explores the shaded underclass of the nocturnal urban terrain and pursues the disenfranchised as they search their city for ...a matinee screening giving the young and the young at heart meaning once darkness falls. an opportunity to experience a slice of quality cinema with a nice cup of tea! The Silver Screening Club has previously shown Jack Hickey was born in 1988 in the small town of Cobh, Jack classics like The Searcher and The Apartment as well as modern graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design in 2011 and has greats like Mamma Mia and the Irish comedy Waking Ned. since garnered much critical acclaim.
We promise something for everyone and encourage His work attempts to illuminate the emptiness at the centre of human you to come along. Find out more about the film line relationships, the inherent lack of meaningful interaction between up and pick up a brochure at the screenings or ring different people, different sexes and different realities. The open space in the work represents the distance between individuals, the unsaid Kerry Film Festival on 066 7192234 for details. and the unrequited. It is an example of the void inherent in a modern, socially fractured world, where true human contact has become Membership available for the entire Silver Screening season illusive, almost impossible. This will be Jack Hickey’s fourth solo show available for only s25 (including free teas and coffees). and his first solo exhibition in Kerry. Visual Arts Visual 36 37 Post Tralee Friday Saturday Colony 31st to 6th Art Group Gareth Kennedy October December
Post Colony is a film project which explores the natural, industrial Tralee Art Group is happy to return to Siamsa for its annual and colonial histories of Killarney National Park. A master exhibition. This year the exhibition will again be curated by woodwright initiates seven participants in greenwoodworking artist and printmaker Niall Naessens. This is the groups’ second processes to produce charcoal burners’ one legged stools from collaboration with Niall. the invasive species Rhododendron. Finally the group holds an overnight vigil to reduce the troublesome plant to pure charcoal. In contrast to our last exhibition, when the emphasis was on printmaking, this year members will explore the theme of the four Shot in 16mm, the film investigates ideas concerning the social and elements sacred to the ancients, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. The cultural agency of handwork in the 21st century and the production artists will produce work in oils, acrylic, watercolour and mixed and performance of new and experimental material cultures for the media. Some members of the group will take elements from their camera. Gareth Kennedy’s work is invested in a socially engaged work and use them to create prints. practice which addresses specific environmental, social, aesthetic and economic concerns within located contexts. Recently, he has been developing an anthropological aesthetic to generate ‘folk fictions’. These works draw on the social, cultural and economic Saturday Monday th th history of a people and a place to craft work that is a meaningful 13 to 16 composite of these histories. December February 38 39 2 Day Stained Wednesday Friday Christmas Craft nd th 22 & 24 October October Workshops For Adults and Children Glass Workshop
From 10am – 5pm Each Day Saturday Places are Saturday Parents th limited! Children’s th Cost €180 Workshop 6 Book in Workshop 13 December advance! December This is a beginner’s course for those wishing to learn more about the basics of stained glass. The course will be run 11am - 1pm • Cost €9 11am - 1pm • Cost €9 over two days, from 10am to 5pm with a maximum of 10 participants. At the end of the two day workshop each participant will have their own panel of stained glass that Christmas is the perfect time to settle down to some good Activities for kids to make, and celebrate Christmas. they can keep! All you need is glasses if you wear them and kids crafts: crafting will keep your kids busy and take away Lots of easy to make ideas! comfortable clothing. some of their impatience and excitement while they wait Handmade Cards The course content will include ~ for Christmas Day to arrive. 3D Snowman Card 3D Christmas Tree Card We will explore simple, inexpensive craft ideas which you INTRODUCTION TO STAINED GLASS, SAFETY ISSUES, TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS can make at home. With family and friends visiting your Christmas Angel STAINED GLASS DESIGN house there is no better time to display some of your Paper Christmas Baubles Tree Decorations LAYOUT & DRAWING OF YOUR DESIGN children’s crafty talents. GLASS CUTTING • GLASS GRINDING LEADING • SOLDERING PRESENTATION OF STAINED GLASS 40 41 Opening hours General, Christmas & New Year
September On evenings where a performance is scheduled for the theatre, the Box Office will remain open until 7.30pm for general and Monday – Saturday 9am – 6pm phone bookings, and until 7.50pm for ‘in person’ tickets for that WANT TO ACT ON STAGE? Sunday 5pm – 8pm* night’s performance. October, November & December TICKET EXCHANGES/REFUNDS Once purchased, tickets cannot be exchanged or refunds given. Refunds will only be made in the DEVISE • ACT ENSEMBLE • IMPROVISE • BE INSPIRED Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm event of a cancelled performance. Sunday 5pm – 8pm* CREATE • EXPRESS YOURSELF • WRITE LATECOMERS Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable 24th, 25th, 26th & 28th Closed break in the performance. Sessions take place in Siamsa Tíre every Saturday from 4-7pm from Saturday 27th 12 noon – 5pm October 4th with a taster session on Saturday 27th of September WHEELCHAIR USERS Wheelchair spaces are available within - all are welcome! Annual membership is €75 and new members Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th 10am – 6pm the building. Please inform the Box Office when you book your aged 15-20 are welcome! Wednesday 31st 10am – 2pm tickets and they will be able to advise you on suitable seating. HARD OF HEARING An induction loop is in operation in the January auditorium for patrons with hearing difficulties. People with COME ON, BE RADICAL! 1st - New Year’s Day Closed hearing aids should set them to ‘T’.
To find out more, call Fran or Catríona on From 2nd 10am - 6pm (Business as usual) CHANGE OF ADVERTISED PROGRAMME Siamsa Tíre reserves 066 7123055 or email the right to add, withdraw or substitute artists and vary the *Only when a performance is scheduled for that night advertised programme if necessary. [email protected] 42 43 At a Glance
SEPTEMBER The Nualas 25th DECEMBER Female Gothic 26th Clann Lir 8th - 11th & 15th - 18th Silver Screening 3rd That’s Entertainment 30th - 2nd Turas 13th & 14th, 20th & 21st Trails of Galileo 5th Silver Screening 3rd NOVEMBER The Voice Squad 6th Annie (LOST) 24th - 27th Yesterday Once More 7th Silver Screening 5th A Most Peculiar Wintery Thing 10th OCTOBER Neither Either 6th ABBA 11th th nd Fiachra Garvey 7 Jack & The Beanstalk 2 Swan Lake 13th th Ireland’s Weather 3rd Postscript 8 Liam Lawton 15th A Stór mo Chroí 4th The Academy of Dance 9th Seussical JNR 20th & 21st Kerry Film Festival 6th - 12th Circus Festival 13th - 15th O Holy Night with Red Hurley 22nd Silver Screening 8th Phil Coulter 16th Aladdin 30th Abbey Theatre on Tour - Sive 14th - 18th Defender of the Faith 20th & 21st Aladdin 2nd & 3rd January Sylvia 23rd Harlem Gospel Choir 22nd
th th Mary Deady - The Irish Lark 24 The Elixir of Love 29 DESIGN ::: MIDPOINTCREATIVE.COM
Siamsa Tíre, Town Park, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland E. [email protected] • www.siamsatire.com Box Office 066 7123055