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DTF Brochure 2015 2-012 Principal Funder buy tickets online dublintheatrefestival.com Grant Aided by phone +353 1 677 8899 in person Dublin Theatre Festival Box Office, 44 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Opening hours Tickets may also be purchased Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm in advance at most festival Sat 10am – 5pm venues, or on the door if Accommodation Provider Media Partner Radio Partner (Sept 19 – Oct 10 only) available (see page 72). Sun 12pm – 3pm Get social for news, ticket (Sept 27 – Oct 11 only) competitions and special 22 July, 1pm offers throughout the festival. Broadcasting Partner Festival Champion Festival Partner Priority booking opens @DubTheatreFest for Friends of the Festival. DublinTheatreFestival 12 August, 10am dublintheatrefestival Public booking opens by DublinTheatreFest phone, in person and online. DublintheatrefestivalIreland Become a Friend of the Please note that our Box Festival to avail of priority Office and phone lines are booking. See page 51 for open at weekends only in more information. September and October, during the dates specified above. Online booking is available all day, every day. dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com welcome02 to the 2015 edition contents In order of opening 02-03 performance of dublin theatre festival Since the end of last year we new forms to respond to the challenge We continue to work hard to raise 04 The Night Alive – Dublin Theatre 22 Clôture de l’amour 36 The Cherry Orchard – tg STAN have been working through the of describing the contemporary world the resources to further develop a Festival and Lyric Theatre Belfast TG2 and Pascal Rambert OReilly Theatre, Belvedere practical business of scheduling 28 in which they find themselves. They festival that is authentically of Dublin Gaiety Theatre Samuel Beckett Theatre productions and the events in our are preoccupied with the things that – one that provides a platform for 38 The Train – Rough Magic 06 By Heart – Teatro 24 Luck Just Kissed You Hello Project Arts Centre accompanying Festival+ programme. matter most to us – love and loss, artistic projects that is the equal Nacional D. Maria II HotForTheatre and Galway (Space Upstairs) We have also been considering what identity and belonging, power and of any other city in the world. Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space International Arts Festival are the most urgent and interesting resistance – and even when dealing Project Arts Centre (Cube) 40 The Game – THEATREclub stories to tell right now in Ireland. It with the gravest of subjects they Dublin is currently preparing a bid for 08 Wallflower – Quarantine Project Arts Centre (Cube) all comes together in the festival, the manage to do so with humanity and European Capital of Culture 2020. So Project Arts Centre (Cube) 26 Oedipus – Abbey Theatre moment where artists and the public wry humour. much has changed in the city since it on the Abbey Stage 42 Shibboleth – Abbey Theatre finally meet, and I believe that we have last had the designation in 1991. We 10 A View from the Bridge on the Peacock Stage a programme this year that will make Theatre happens in Dublin throughout are more confident, more global and Gate Theatre 28 Corps Diplomatique for an array of rich and rewarding days the year but its possibilities multiply more diverse, but there is still a sense Halory Goerger 44 Dancehall – United Fall / 12 I’m Your Man – Project Arts Project Arts Centre Emma Martin and Dublin and nights at the theatre. and intensify during festival time. that the city is not everything it can Centre and THISISPOPBABY (Space Upstairs) Theatre Festival The festival is conceived with a local be. We’re emerging from the worst of Project Arts Centre Samuel Beckett Theatre Programming starts when I audience in mind. If we get that bit times and now have an opportunity (Space Upstairs) 30 Dancing at Lughnasa get excited and inspired by an right it is also very attractive to visitors to think about what will make Dublin Lyric Theatre Belfast 46 Family Season international production that I’ve who relish the opportunity to see so thrive into the future. The festival is 14 At The Ford – Rise Productions Gaiety Theatre seen or by an idea that an artist much new work, of a high standard ready to play its part in this story by The New Theatre 51 Become a Friend of the Festival has shared with me. I think of our and of such diversity, in a compact creating rewarding experiences for 32 The Curious Incident audiences and imagine how they and welcoming city that has a genius the time we spend together. If the 16 Chekhov’s First Play – Dead Centre of the Dog in the Night-Time 54 Festival on Tour might respond. My aim is to present for storytelling. city succeeds in its bid it will not Samuel Beckett Theatre The National Theatre of Great Britain 59 Festival+ a selection of projects each year that be due to artistic merit alone, but 18 The Last Hotel – Landmark Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Programme of special events is diverse, provocative and artistically We are currently building up to because it has made a compelling Productions and Wide Open Opera th ambitious, and that represents the celebrating the festival’s 60 case for how the culture of the OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 34 The True Story of Hansel 66 Accessibility Information state of the theatre art form in Ireland anniversary in 2017, preceded by capital, in the broadest sense, can be and Gretel – Theatre Lovett and internationally. Many Irish artists the high point of the Decade of transformed through this opportunity. 20 Newcastlewest – Pan Pan Theatre Smock Alley Theatre, Boys’ School 69 Visitor Information premiere projects at the festival Commemorations marked by the There are exciting times ahead. Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box and I know that we can count on a centenary of the Easter Rising next 72 Venue Details dedicated core audience who have an year. We are collaborating with Irish One of the pleasures of theatre, as appetite for adventure and are excited and international artists on a number well as one of its challenges, is that, 74 Festival Schedule at a Glance to witness the creation of this new of projects that will offer sophisticated as a collective art form, it takes many work. I am also eager that the festival artistic responses to the question of people acting together to make will be welcoming and inviting to new where we find ourselves as a nation it happen. Dublin Theatre Festival audiences who may be attending for and a people one hundred years after exists through the collaboration of the first time. There is a great range in the transformative events of 1916. hundreds of people over the past the programme, whether you would year and longer. To our Council, our like to see just one show or many. The festival has a great capacity team and volunteers, to the artists for growth and the potential to and their teams, to our funders The theatre that I am interested in is reach even more people. The and stakeholders and to you, the always evolving and responding to its experience of having work at the audience, thank you so much. economic and cultural environment Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in recent Look what we made together. and there has been a remarkable years, in addition to our regular – expansion of Irish theatre practice presentations at the Gaiety Theatre, Willie White in recent years. In addition to the has shown that there is an appetite Artistic Director excellent play writing that we are for large-scale, world-class theatre renowned for, artists are also taking on by Irish and international artists. dublintheatrefestival.com 04 Dublin Theatre Extraordinary. The A spellbinding and 04-05 Festival and Lyric play can only be absolutely gorgeous Theatre Belfast, called transcendent. new play by one of the Ireland and UK A heaven-sent vision. true poets of the theatre. ««««« ««««« The New York Times ★★★★ Time Out New York The Night Alive by Conor McPherson Directed by Conor McPherson Following hit runs at the Donmar Warehouse London and at Cast: Adrian Dunbar, Frank Grimes, the Atlantic Theater New York – where it won the 2014 New Laurence Kinlan, Ian Lloyd- York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play – The Night Anderson, Kate Stanley Brennan Alive makes its Irish premiere in a highly anticipated new co- Design: Alyson Cummins production with the Lyric Theatre Belfast. Lighting Design: Zia Holly Sound Design: Gregory Clarke Set in Dublin, The Night Alive tells the story of Tommy – – a middle-aged man, just about getting by. He’s renting Venue: Gaiety Theatre a run-down room in his uncle Maurice’s house, keeping Previews: Sept 22 & 23, 7.30pm his ex-wife and kids at arm’s length and rolling from one Dates: Sept 24 – 25 & Sept 29 – Oct 2, get-rich-quick scheme to the next with his pal Doc. 7.30pm / Sept 26 & Oct 3, 2.30pm & 7.30pm / Sept 27 & Oct 4, 2.30pm Then one day he comes to the aid of Aimee, who’s not Tickets: €15 – €45 had it easy herself, struggling through life the only way TX3 (see page 67) she knows how. Their past won’t let go easily. But together Duration: 1 hr 45 mins. No interval. there’s a glimmer of hope that they could make something – more of their lives. Something extraordinary. Perhaps. Talking Theatre: Sept 26, post-show (7.30pm). With inimitable warmth, style and craft, this spellbinding play With Conor McPherson and members of the company. by the writer of The Weir and The Seafarer deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations.
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