Discover something new This Spring at the MAC

January - June 2019

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THE LUMINAIRE BOUNCERS CLUB AT THE MAC 30 March - 20 April, “ The MAC creates various times opportunities for £25 (premium cabaret) everyone to enjoy the £25 - £12.50 (standard) best of the arts, from home and abroad. One club. One night. One of the funniest plays you’ll ever see.

Top-class international performers are Set in the MAC’s Luminaire Club, joined this season by an outstanding Bouncers is a hilariously raucous tale showcase of home-grown talent, of one night in the late 1980s. Powered including a double-bill of theatre from by a soundtrack featuring all the hits Prime Cut Productions, Night Music of the era, you’ll hear from Lucky Eric, presented by Moving on Music and Judd, Les and Ralph as they share Belfast Music Society, and Tinderbox their stories in this outrageous disco Theatre’s modern take on the absurdist parody. All the familiar characters are masterpiece, ‘Ubu The King’. out on the town: the boys, the girls, the cheesy DJ, the late-night takeaway As with all organisations funded by man and all under the watchful eyes the Arts Council, the MAC underpins of the Bouncers. It’s a quick-witted these wonderful performances with a rollercoaster of a play featuring four of commitment to reaching out to new Belfast’s finest comedic actors - Ciaran audiences, so that all this great theatre Nolan, Conor Grimes, Martin Maguire and art can be shared by all.” and Chris Robinson – who play all the parts. So, stick your name on the guestlist and come on in to enjoy what Roisín McDonough, Chief Executive The Guardian called, ‘not so much a Arts Council of Northern Ireland Step into our all-new Luminaire Club, as we transform our play as a social phenomenon’. theatre into something altogether more intimate. Written by John Godber A MAC and Big Telly co-production On sale now themaclive.com

THE LUMINAIRE CLUB AT THE MAC

5 weeks of world-class music, comedy and theatre.

MOTHERS RUIN: CHRISTINE A CABARET BOVILL’S PIAF ABOUT GIN

15 – 16 May, 7:45pm 17 May, 7:45pm £25 (premium cabaret) £25 (premium cabaret) £25 - £12.50 (standard) £25 - £12.50 (standard)

Hysterical and historical, Mother’s No glamour. No gimmicks. No Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin takes you pretence. Nothing but a voice, on a journey through 18th Century singing of life’s triumphs and RICH HALL’S London, New York speakeasies and tragedies. Christine Bovill’s PIAF Australian bush. Performed by comic is both a personal narrative and a HOEDOWN cabaret duo, Mother’s Ruin, discover powerful musical homage to one more about your favourite tipple in a of France’s most endearing icons. 29 – 30 May, 7:45pm mixed up musical history lesson with An evening of unforgettable stories £25 (premium cabaret) well-known hits by Amy Winehouse, and some of the finest songs of The Pretenders and Jessie J. 20th century France. £25 - £17 (standard)

You’ll recognise him from his BBC Four documentaries ‘Countrier Than You’ and ‘Presidential Grudge Match’, plus guest appearances on QI, but if you’ve only ever watched Rich Hall on TV, you haven’t seen the half of “Sheer joie de vivre! Well it. For a night of stand-up comedy, worth raising a glass to.” improvised ballads, cracking good musicianship, and a hilarious, foot- - The Scotsman stomping, shin-kicking good time, don’t miss this hoedown. On sale now themaclive.com THEATRE UPSTAIRS AT THE MAC

PRIME CUT CHRIS KENT: PRODUCTIONS LOOKING UP DOUBLE BILL 8 February, 8pm £18 - £12.50 29 – 30 January, 7:30pm Cork comedian Chris Kent has £18 spent the past year balancing comedy with being a stay at home EAST BELFAST BOY dad and trying to grow a beard. Find hilarity in this mundane, in brand Meet Davy. The things he sees. His new show Looking Up. streets. His mates. His girl and… The Boys. With pumping techno, pulverising movement and street sharp poetry, East Belfast Boy is a bucking bronco of a ride and a NIGHT MUSIC cliché-free zone. 14 March & 11 April, 8:15pm £10 - £6 EVERY DAY I WAKE UP HOPEFUL Moving On Music and Belfast Music Make a night of it with a Malachy has made a decision, Society present Night Music - a delicious pre-show meal in perhaps for the first time in his series of short concerts involving top our new MAC Café Bar. life. Tonight, is the night. He has Irish and Northern Irish musicians, six bottles of wine, a bucket of performing familiar masterpieces Offer includes 2 courses and a chicken and he wants to talk with new and contemporary works. glass of wine for £20. Simply about it. He really wants to talk add on to any booking at about it. Poignant, confessional 14 March: Crash Ensemble themaclive.com yet desperately funny, you’ll leave 11 April: Nathan Sherman & hopeful too. Alex Petcu On sale now themaclive.com

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PART OF CATHEDRAL QUARTER ARTS FESTIVAL

KIERAN THE SUITCASE UBU THE KING HODGSON: ‘75’

7 May, 8pm 1 – 2 February, 8pm & 10:30am 12 – 23 February, 8pm & 3pm £10 £18 - £12.50 £18 - £12.50 Character comedian Kieran In Vienna, a woman dreams of Grotesque, gruesome and hilariously Hodgson returns with the epic and becoming a dancer. In Belfast, a absurd, Tinderbox Theatre Company surprising tale of how Britain joined man revisits a painful past, while bring the primal monster, Ubu The King, Europe in the first place. a mother and daughter unearth to life through a succulent feast of sheer an elusive piece of family history, inventiveness and fearless theatricality. hidden in their home. Returning to Belfast and marking Holocaust Age guidance: 18+ Memorial Day, The Suitcase is not FALLEN FRUIT only a love story, but a hymn to the redemptive power of art. 11 May, 8pm £18 - £12.50

In 1989, as the Berlin Wall splits “A story well told, except it’s open, a young girl looks forward to not a story... experiences of the life beyond communism; a couple Holocaust are real. A remarkable unravels, and 80s TV permeates piece of theatre.” everything. A story of love, breaking - Irish News free and Europe, byTwo Destination Language. On sale now themaclive.com THEATRE UPSTAIRS BILLY COTTON AT THE MAC FINGERS

16 – 18 May, 8pm 22 – 23 May, 8pm £18 - £12.50 £18 - £12.50

BILLY wants to help you make space. A smart, funny young Northern BILLY is about your ‘stuff’ drawer, your Irish woman has a big decision to plastic bag cupboard and your unused make about her future. As a historic Nutri-Bullet. A disbelieving look at the referendum on the 8th amendment weird ways we try and order our lives. took place in the Republic of Ireland, This is a show for anyone who has ever join us for an emotional coming been excited about a trip to IKEA. of age story about relationship, secrecy, guilt and the power young Created by Sarah Gordon and Alice women hold over their futures. Malseed Written by Rachel Trezise

WALK OF SHAME 2 (REALITY BITES) SOMETHING IN KILLYMUCK 5 – 6 April, 8pm £18 - £12.50 THE AIR 28 May – 9 June, 8pm & 3pm 13 – 14 June, 8pm Conway’s last blackout was 4 years £18 - £12.50 £18 - £12.50 ago and she’s missing her old friend. So, what happens when you wake up On the 15th August 1969, Bombay Based on real events, Niamh and realise the party is over? She’s Street in West Belfast was burned to navigates life through the living life in real time now and reality the ground. Hundreds of families fled parameters, trials and tribulations is harsh when you don’t have south to refugee camps, escaping the of being a kid from the benefit something to take the ‘edge’ off. violence, but one young woman lost class system. Lack of opportunity, more than just her home. Fifty years educational barriers, addiction and Comedian Eleanor Conway, returns later, she is forced to confront the depression are the norms as her to the MAC with her hotly anticipated events of that summer in a way she struggle to escape the underclass sequel to Walk of Shame. could never have imagined. stereotype becomes a priority. Age guidence: 18+ Presented by Brassneck Theatre Company On sale now themaclive.com THEATRE DOWNSTAIRS AT THE MAC Book early to save up to 50%

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THE RAP RAMBERT2: CORA BISSETT: GUIDE TO MIXED BILL WHAT GIRLS CONSCIOUSNESS ARE MADE OF

19 February, 7:45pm 22 - 23 February, 7:45pm 1 – 5 May, 7:45pm & 3pm £25 – £12.50 £25 - £12.50 £25 - £12.50

Canadian rapper, science Rambert is world famous as Britain’s It’s 1992. An ad in the local paper communicator and award-winning original dance company. We are declares: Band Seeks Singer. In a hip-hop playwright Baba Brinkman’s pleased to announce that Rambert2, small town in Fife, a schoolgirl is brain consists of roughly 80 billion a new group of the world’s best young catapulted into a rock star lifestyle. neurons with trillions of connections. dancers, will showcase exhilarating Touring with Radiohead, partying with None of them has any clue that he and fiercely choreographed works Blur, she was living the dream, until exists. Yet somehow those cells come at the MAC. Named as one of The she wasn’t. Based on her meticulously together to produce a steady stream Guardian’s top ten dance shows for detailed teenage diaries, this is the of ill rhymes, laughs, and mind- 2018, Rambert2 takes the company’s “A life-changing litany true story of Cora Bissett’s journey blowing scientific findings. Come and reputation for bold moves with of pure joy.” from the girl she was to the woman find out how in his award-winningRap technical virtuosity and introduces it she wanted to be. Guide to Consciousness, presented as to a new generation. - The Herald part of NI Science Festival. Presented by Raw Material Arts Free Admission ART AT THE MAC 12 April – 7 July

CHRISTOPHER JAMES BURNS LIMBO LAND

Sunken Gallery

Christopher James Burns is a Frances Hegarty & Andrew Stones - The Land That... Production still. Copyright © 2018, the artists. Northern Ireland based artist whose work is concerned with the history, culture and identity of this place, once aptly described by Seamus Heaney as a ‘Limbo Land’. Working FRANCES Tall and Upper Gallery “Land” in the wider anthropological, predominantly in sculpture and cultural and political sense. At the HEGARTY & The Land That… is a video and mixed- installation, Burns’ works challenge MAC, The Land That… comprises media project by Frances Hegarty the context, value and physicality of ANDREW STONES a large-scale video projection & Andrew Stones, based on their the objects around us. The resulting with surround-sound in one space, collaborative engagement with a ten- exhibition presents a landscape that THE LAND THAT... and a suite of smaller, interlinked acre plot of land in Co. Donegal. This is both physical and psychological, installations in another. personal project is also concerned with mapping what it is to live in a place of perpetual limbo. MAC International continues across all three galleries until 31 March. Remember, this is just a taster of what’s on at the MAC this Spring.

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