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elcome to the inaugural Lughnasa It is particularly fitting that the festival is being Each morning our programme for Donegal International Friel Festival , Ireland’s first held in Donegal and Belfast as ’s life reaches to the very edges of the county whereas W annual cross border arts festival - a and work has demonstrated a certain duality. He the afternoons and evenings are centred in West festival that comprises two territories: Donegal, lived in Northern Ireland from 1929 to 1967 but Donegal’s Ballybeg landscape. In Belfast we Welcome to Friel Country (August 20-23) and since then his home has been in , Co. stretch across the city with five distinct responses

Belfast, Here I Come! (August 27-31) Donegal; his work also has been set on both sides to the themes and activity of this year’s of the border. Dualism is a powerful theme in the signature play, . All in all, We consider it an honour to be curating a festival work (think of Gar Private and Gar Public in it’s a wonderfully rich and diverse terrain in devoted to Brian Friel, the third of our Philadelphia, Here I Come!) through the endless which to explore and celebrate a writer of such biofestivals this year following fascination with how we see ourselves as complexity and brilliance. and Oscar Wilde. Brian Friel is undoubtedly one opposed to the faces we present to the world. of Ireland’s greatest writers, his plays having a We would like to acknowledge Brian Friel for his profound influence on how we view ourselves The festival locations play with duality and personal warmth, generosity and support in and our place in history in Northern Ireland and geography. Our opening weekend is in Donegal helping us bring to life the first of many festivals . His work asks difficult but our first event starts in Northern Ireland, in in his honour. But most of all, we acknowledge questions, is highly innovative and provocative, County Derry; our last weekend is in Belfast but Brian for the extraordinary range of work that he yet it is lyrical with an almost unparalleled the festival circles back to Donegal for the closing has given us and for the beauty of his artistic understanding of the power of memory in our event. The political and geographical landscape imagination. lives. means that Belfast is of course both east and north of Donegal, while Donegal is west and Sean Doran south of Belfast. One is urban, the other rural. Founder & Artistic Director One is Ballybeg, the other Ballymore. Liam Browne Co-Founder & Deputy Artistic Director brian friel was born in 1929 in Omagh, He left the teaching profession in 1960 to Friel’s most famous play, Dancing at Lughnasa County Tyrone, his father a schoolmaster from pursue a career as a writer. He had already (1990), won three in 1992, Derry and his mother a postmistress from begun writing short stories for The New Yorker including Best Play. He followed this with a Glenties, Co Donegal. Friel attended Long Tower and his stories would subsequently be published version of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country School in Derry and continued his education in two collections, The Saucer of Larks (1962) (1992), The Vertigo ( from Charles there at St Columb’s College before studying for and The Gold in the Sea (1966). He had also Macklin’s The True Born Irishman), Wonderful the priesthood at St Patrick’s College, been writing radio plays for BBC Northern Tennessee (1993), (1994) and Maynooth. Ultimately, though, he decided to Ireland, and stage plays, A Doubtful Paradise Give Me Your Answer Do! (1997). follow his father into the teaching profession (1960) and The Enemy Within (1962). Between 1997 and 2003, Friel wrote three one- and went on to enter St Joseph’s Teacher Following a stint at the Tyrone Guthrie theatre act plays, The Bear , The Yalta Game and Training College in Belfast. He taught as a school in Minneapolis, Friel had his first major stage . The latter two plays demonstrated teacher in and around Derry from 1950-60. success, Philadelphia, Here I Come , which was once again Friel’s continuing fascination with the undisputed hit of the Theatre Chekhov’s work. His most recent work is Festival in 1964. Two years later he moved from Performances (2003), which combines drama Derry to Donegal and future work included The and a staged performance of Janacek’s Intimate Loves of Cass McGuire (1966), (1967), Letters for string quartet and The Mundy Scheme (1969), The Freedom of the (2005) which returns to Friel’s fictional setting City (1973), Volunteers (1975), of Ballybeg (1977) and (1979).

In 1980, Friel co-founded the Field Day Theatre Company with Stephen Rea and the company’s first production was Friel’s play , the premiere of which took place at Derry’s Guildhall in 1980 (the play was awarded the Ewart-Biggs Peace Prize). Other plays produced under the Field Day banner included The Communication Cord (1982) and (1988). Friel also adapted Chekhov’s Three Sisters (1981), and Turgenev’s novel (1987), CONTENTS DONEGAL, WELCOME TO FRIEL COUNTRY 4'17 FESTIVAL SIGNATURE PLAY 6 & 21 OPENING TALK 7REHEARSED READINGS 8, 9, 11 THE CASIMIR CONCERTS 10 BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS 12'15 SUMMER SCHOOL 16 FESTIVAL CLOSING EVENT 17 BELFAST, HERE I COME! 18'39 REHEARSED READINGS 22'23 AMONGST WOMEN 24'31 THE MUNDY CONCERTS 32'33 DANCING CRANES & NEW NORTHS 34'37 KITETANICA KITE FESTIVAL 38'39 DONEGAL,

4 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 DONEGAL, WELCOME TO FRIEL COUNTRY!

Donegal County Council is delighted to support and to work with the inaugural Lughnasa International Friel Festival to explore, to interpret and to celebrate the work of one Ireland’s finest living playwrights, Brian Friel. A much-loved and valued member of our community, we are proud that he has made his home here and has been a beacon of inspiration to creative artists in this county for nigh on 50 years.

There is no better way to experience and enjoy the plays of Brian Friel than here among the villages and and the communities of Donegal, that have so inspired his writing. We welcome the Lughnasa International Friel Festival to Donegal and we are confident that this timely celebration of Brian Friel’s unique artistic talent will inspire, entertain, and hopefully surprise, the local community and visitors to the county alike.

Mícheál Uas. ó hÉanaigh, Director of Service, Community, Culture and Planning Development, Donegal County Council.

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 5 FESTIVAL SIGNATURE PLAY

DANCING AT LUGHNASA BY BRIAN FRIEL An Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny Thursday 20 - Sunday 23 August Thursday - Saturday 8:00pm, Sunday 2:30pm Thurs ¤20, Fri & Sat ¤25/¤20, Sun ¤20/¤15 2hrs 15mins

Winner of an Olivier Award and a Tony Award, Dancing at Lughnasa is one of the most acclaimed and loved Irish plays of recent times.

Set in in 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters and their brother Jack, who has returned home from the missions after 25 years away.

This new production, which marks the 25th anniversary of the play’s premiere in Dublin, is directed by award- winning Annabelle Comyn.

Presented by Lyric Theatre, Belfast in association with the Lughnasa International Friel Festival.

For more information and to book tickets, see website: www.angrianan.com

6 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 FESTIVAL OPENING TALK

FINTAN O’TOOLE FESTIVAL INTRODUCTION BY GARY MCKEONE The Guildhall, Derry Thursday 20 August 7:30pm | £8/£6 | 75 mins

“Confusion is Not an Ignoble Condition” Brian Friel and the Courage of Uncertainty

Brian Friel’s work is about people coming up against the limits of what they thought they knew and the limits of what they can express. No living dramatist gives us such a powerful sense of how people really live, not with full knowledge of the forces that are shaping their lives but borne along on invisible currents of history. Yet his plays also find the courage and nobility that lies in a facing of these truths and finding a life beyond certainty.

Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s most respected and controversial political and cultural commentators, and an acclaimed biographer and critic. His books include White Savage , A Traitor’s Kiss , Meanwhile Back at the Ranch , the number one bestseller Ship of Fools , which Terry Eagleton called “a brilliant polemic”, and its sequel Enough is Enough . Fintan O’Toole is literary editor of The Irish Times . LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 7 REHEARSED READING LOVERS BY BRIAN FRIEL PART 1 WINNERS. PART 2 LOSERS Point Inn, Magilligan Point Co. Derry & Greencastle Co. Donegal Friday 21 - Sunday 23 August Friel’s work is an Irish 10:00am & 11:45am (ferry at 11:15am) treasure for the entire ¤10/8 | 2hrs 30mins REHEARSED READING Lovers premiered at the in Dublin in THE ENEMY WITHIN BY BRIAN FRIEL world. It is his 1967 and the Broadway production the following PRESENTED BY KABOSH THEATRE year was nominated for a . Pobail Teach Naomh Colmcille “extraordinary Lovers is composed of two complementary parts, ((St. Columba’s Church), , Winners and Losers. Winners involves two young Co. Donegal understanding of people, teenage lovers, Mag and Joe, whilst Losers focuses Friday 21 & Saturday 22 August on an unnamed, middle-aged man and woman. In 11:00am | ¤10/8 | 75mins their motivations and this unique rehearsed reading for the festival, the play begins with Winners at 10:00am at the Point First staged in 1962, The Enemy Within is an their dreams, and their Inn Magilligan Point, followed by Losers at imaginative account of the voluntary exile of approximately 11.45am in Greencastle, Co. Donegal. Columba (or Columcille). The play is set in Iona, sense of themselves and The audience crosses between the two venues by where Columba lived for thirty-four years following boat on the 11.15am ferry (crossing 20 mins), from his departure from Ireland in 563, and it others that keeps pulling east to west, from Northern Ireland to the Republic concentrates on the private man, a charismatic, of Ireland. worldly personality who struggled to combine skills of scholar, bard and ruler with a fearless us back to Friel again Director: Frankie McCafferty Cast: Paddy McBrearty, commitment to his vocation, and it probes the theme Amanda Doherty, Dessie Gallagher, Ali White, Julia of exile, a subject Brian Friel would later return to in and again. Deardon, Carol Moore. Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Bill Clinton, Founder of the Clinton Foundation & 42nd Director: Paula McFetridge. Cast: Cast of ten President of the United States of America actors to include Peter Ballance, Vincent Higgins, Gerard Jordan, Terence Keeley, Frank McCusker, ” Seamus O’Hara and Lalor Roddy.

8 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 REHEARSED READING THE GENTLE ISLAND BY BRIAN FRIEL DIRECTED BY DAVID GRANT Gairmscoil Mhic Diarmada Island, West Donegal Sunday 23 August 10:00am departure on the ferry from (boarding at 9:45am). Reading begins at 10:30am. ¤15/¤10 (includes sandwich lunch) 2hrs 30mins, return ferry at 1:30pm (later ferries available, see www.arranmoreferry.com)

Brian Friel’s visionary play The Gentle Island is about the encounter between two city visitors, Peter and Shane, and the last remaining family on Innishkeen. Like his namesake from the classic western, Shane, an engineer, seems at first to be a benign presence, helping Manus (the self- declared king of the island) and his family with much needed repairs. But when Peter and Shane are suspected of being lovers their welcome wanes. Neither nostalgic nor romantic, The Gentle Island serves as a metaphor for the continuing tension in Irish life between progress and tradition. Unlike Innishkeen, Arranmore, with its breathtaking views of Mount and the Derryveagh Mountains, bustles with resilient life; but the sight of abandoned dwellings on smaller islands during the short ferry crossing is a stark reminder of the social changes that inspired Friel’s play, providing a resonant connection between play and place.

Not recommended for under 12s.

Cast: Kieran Kelly, Deirdre Kelly, Patrick Quinn, Brian Diamond, David Grant, Aaron Hickland, Jack Boyle, Cailum Carragher, Siobhan Cox, Michael Early, Mark Phelan, Shea Phelan, Brenda Winter, Richard Palmer. Music: Anne Conaghan

Audience members must book their own places on the ferry (¤15 for an Adult Return) on the website www.arranmoreferry.com or by phone +353 (0) 749542233 (0) 749520532. Over 65s travel free on the ferry. Early booking is advisable. LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 9 CLASSICAL MUSIC THE CASIMIR CONCERTS THE MECCORE STRING QUARTET (POLAND) St. Conal’s Church, Glenties Friday 21 - Sunday 23 August Friday 5:00pm, Saturday 5.00pm, Sunday 7:00pm | ¤12/¤10 friday concert - 70mins (inc. interval) Morning concerts by the Polish Meccore String 1st prize: International Chamber Music

Karol Szymanowski String Quartet in C major No.1 Op.37 Quartet playing the favoured composers of Brian Competition, Weiden Leoš Janacek String Quartet No. 2 Friel’s plays – Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Janacek, Mozart. Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op.10 1st prize: Max Reger International Chamber featuring: Music Competition saturday concert - 80mins (inc. interval) Jarosław Nadrzycki, Wojciech Koprowsk i - Violins Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in F major No.1 Op.18 Michał Bryła - Viola 2nd prize: Wigmore Hall String Quartet String Quartet No.3 Krzysztof Penderecki Karol Marianowski - Cello Competition, London Edvard Grieg String Quartet in G minor No.1 Op.27 sunday concert - 50 mins (inc. interval) André Tchaikovsky String Quartet No.2 in C Peter Tchaikovsky String Quartet in D major Op.11

10 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 REHEARSED READING FAITH HEALER BY BRIAN FRIEL DIRECTED BY DENIS CONWAY Glenties, Portnoo, Ardara Friday 21 - Sunday 23 August 6:00pm (Pick up at 5.45pm at Market Hall, Glenties) ¤25 (includes bus and barbecue) | 4hrs

A special reading of Brian Friel’s play Faith Healer will transport audiences on a journey across West Donegal to explore the life of faith healer Frank Hardy. The play’s four monologues, given by Hardy, his wife, Grace, and his stage manager, Teddy, will each be performed against the backdrop of a different venue. Audiences are invited to join in a unique barbecue experience on Portnoo Pier as the sun begins to set over the ocean. programme 6:00pm part i Edeninfagh Hall (near Glenties) 7:00pm part ii Inishkeel Hall, Portnoo 7:45pm interval A Tennessee Barbecue on Portnoo Pier, the setting of Friel’s play Wonderful Tennessee. 8:45pm part iii Methodist Hall, Ardara 9:30pm part iv Market Hall, Glenties

Buses will transport audiences between each venue.

Director: Denis Conway. Featuring: Denis Conway as Frank Hardy, Conleth Hill as Teddy and Eleanor Methven as Grace.

Please see p.17 for Special Festival Closing Event (Faith Healer) at the Highland Hotel, Glenties at 3:00pm on Mon 31 August.

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 11 THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS PADDY WOODWORTH & TURLOUGH O’DONNELL TERRY EAGLETON Market Hall, Glenties Market Hall, Glenties Friday 21 August Friday 21 August 3.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 75mins 5.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 75mins

“To remember everything is a form of madness” : the Terry Eagleton’s play on Wilde, Saint Oscar , was right to historical memory, the case for historical staged and toured by Field Day Theatre Company in amnesia. 1989. In a special festival event, Terry Eagleton delivers a monologue from his own play. Taking a line from Translations as their starting point, Paddy Woodworth and Turlough O’Donnell Terry Eagleton has written over forty books and is explore the theme of history and memory, both in widely regarded as one of the UK’s most influential Friel’s work and more broadly, in the context of literary critics. He is currently Distinguished contemporary Ireland and elsewhere, as we live Professor of English Literature at the University of through a decade of commemorations across Europe. Lancaster.

Paddy Woodworth is an author and journalist. A The play concerns among other things an Anglo-Irish former arts editor at The Irish Times, he has written disagreement within a single identity; and to put it widely on the political and cultural history of Spain that way is to suggest that behind the figure of Wilde and on a range of environmental themes. Turlough looms another protagonist, which is political history, O’Donnell is a senior Counsel in practice at the Irish and which unlike him does not today lie quiet in its Bar, a former Chairman of the Bar Council and a grave. Terry Eagleton (programme notes, 1989) member of the Board of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.

Chaired by Joe Mulholland.

12 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Market Hall, Glenties Saturday 22 August 1.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 75 mins

“Brian Friel’s Sense of Place and Displacement ”

Few writers capture the relationship between self and place, the weight of history on the present-day, and the ambiguities and ambivalences experienced in relation to our sense of home as well as Brian Friel. In a special lecture written for the festival, Christopher Murray explores these issues further.

Christopher Murray has been a pioneer and inspiration in the critical field of modern and THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS contemporary Irish Drama, and has written widely on Brian Friel. He is Emeritus Professor of Drama ON CHEKHOV: and Theatre History in the School of English at ROSAMUND BARTLETT AND éLLIS Ní DHUIBHNE University College Dublin. Market Hall, Glenties Saturday 22 August 3.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 75 mins

The work of Chekhov has been an enduring presence in Brian Friel’s life and the two writers’ sharing of certain preoccupations and sensibilities has even led to Friel being described as ‘the Irish Chekhov.’ Rosamund Bartlett and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne celebrate Chekhov and that great period in Russian literature of which he was a part. Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, scholar and translator. She has written a biography of Chekhov, and her most recent translation is of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina , which was published last year. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a novelist and short story writer, who writes in both English and Irish. The Dancers Dancing was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and her most recent novel is The Shelter of Neighbours .

Chaired by Carlo Gebler.

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 13 THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS CELEBRATING THE SHORT STORY: MARY COSTELLO AND NUALA NI CHONCHUIR Market Hall, Glenties Sunday 23 August 1.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 75 mins

THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Early in his career, Brian Friel turned to the short FRANK SHOVLIN story. A number were published in The New Yorker and his stories were later brought together in two Market Hall, Glenties collections, The Saucer of Larks (1962) and The Gold Saturday 22 August in the Sea (1966). To celebrate this aspect of his 5.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 60 mins work, Mary Costello and Nuala Ni Chonchuir discuss both the challenges and joys of writing short stories “Brian Friel’s Donegal” and the writers whose work has most inspired them.

Both actually, as a long resident of the county, and Mary Costello’s short story collection, The China creatively, as a writer who has been repeatedly Factory was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book inspired by Donegal, Brian Friel has, over the course Award and her recently-published first novel, of a long writing life found himself drawn to the Academy Street , was shortlisted for the Costa First county, whether it be the Errigal of his short story, Novel Award. Nuala Ni Chonchuir has written Among the Ruins , or that thinly veiled version of novels, short stories and poetry. Her most recent Glenties that appears so often in his work, Ballybeg. novel, Miss Emily , reimagines the private life of the This talk will be a quick tour across several of these poet, Emily Dickinson. moments with a particular focus on Glenties and Downstrands. Chaired by Carlo Gebler.

Originally from the west of Ireland, Frank Shovlin has been living and working in Liverpool since 2000 and is head of department at the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.

14 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS JOE DOWLING Market Hall, Glenties Sunday 23 August THE BALLYBEG TALKS & DISCUSSIONS 3.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 75 mins THOMAS KILROY “Brian Friel and Tyrone Guthrie: Giants of the Theatre” Market Hall, Glenties Joe Dowling recently brought to a close his role as Artistic Director of the Sunday 23 August Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, a position he has held for the last twenty 5.30pm | ¤8/¤6 | 75 mins years. Brian Friel spent a very important part of his early career at that same theatre during its inaugural season and in a special talk for the In a wide-ranging conversation Thomas Kilroy festival, Joe Dowling explores the influence of Tyrone Guthrie on both his discusses Brian Friel’s work, with particular and Brian Friel’s life. reference to the plays being presented at this year’s festival. Thomas Kilroy sat on the board of Field Day Before the Guthrie, Joe Dowling was Artistic Director of the Company and was the Director of its touring Theatre, Managing Director of the Gaiety Theatre and founder and company. He is one of Ireland’s leading playwrights; director of the Gaiety School of Acting. He has stated that Brian Friel has his work includes The Death and Resurrection of Mr been the most significant influence on his work as a director and, indeed, Roche, Talbot’s Box, Double Cross and The Secret Life , it was a performance of Philadelphia, Here I Come! that inspired his desire as well as adaptations of Chekhov and Ibsen. to work as a director. His directing in 1979 of Donal McCann in Faith Healer is seen by many as the definitive performance of the play. Chaired by Emer O’Kelly. LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 15 THE 2015 BRIAN FRIEL LECTURE: THE BRIAN FRIEL SUMMER SCHOOL SEAMUS DEANE PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH ORGANISED BY QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS) The Whittaker Suite, Guildhall, Derry Redcastle Hotel, Inishowen Monday 24 August Monday 24 - Thursday 27 August 12:00pm | £8* | 75 mins As a part of the inaugural Lughnasa International “War Among the Generations” Friel Festival August 20 - 31, Queen’s University is holding a four-day Summer School dedicated to the This year’s lecture will be delivered by Brian Friel’s work of the great Irish dramatist, Brian Friel. long-friend and associate, Seamus Deane. The annual Brian Friel Lecture has been a highlight in the Located in the luxurious Redcastle Hotel, in Friel’s university calendar since it was introduced in 2007. adopted homeland of Inishowen, a packed Previous speakers have included Thomas Kilroy, programme will include seminars, drama workshops, Anna McMullan and Anthony Roche. Seamus Deane a bus-trip around ‘Ballybeg’, and the prestigious was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast, and the annual Brian Friel Lecture which will be delivered University of Cambridge. He has been a Director of this year by Friel’s long-friend and associate, Field Field Day since its inception in 1980 and has taught Day founder member, Seamus Deane. at University College, Dublin, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Notre A Summer School Showcase shall end proceedings Dame, in the United States. His publications include on Thursday 27th at 5.00pm at the Brian Friel Celtic Revivals (1985), A Short History of Irish Theatre, Queens’s University Belfast. All are Literature (1986), Selected Poems (1988), The Field welcome and admission is free. Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), Reading in the Dark (1996), Strange Country (1997). For more information please see www.brianfrieltheatre.co.uk *includes a sandwich lunch 16 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 ◆ FES♣TIVAL NT VE G E N FAITH HEALER SI CLUB O Highland Hotel Glenties CL Monday 31 August | 3:00pm TRADITIONAL MUSIC L ¤12/¤10 | 120 mins (inc. interval) IA EC To close the Festival an extra special final P presentation of Faith Healer will return to Glenties SEISIúN S from Belfast, just as it is written in the play on the exact day the play was set, August 31st. This time AT THE the reading will be conducted straight through and not as a promenade presentation. HIGHLAND A mock wedding will also be orchestrated for the final play denouement and festival closing by the Glenties Drama Group. HOTEL Also see page 11. GLENTIES FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 21'23 AUG ◆ FROM 10PM/FREE! BELFAST,

18 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 BELFAST, HERE I COME!

As Lord Mayor of Belfast, I am delighted to introduce the programme for the ‘Belfast Here I Come! Lughnasa International Friel Festival. This is the inaugural year of what will be a ground BELFAST, breaking festival celebrating the life and work of one of Ireland’s greatest living legends – Brian Friel.

Belfast is delighted to support a programme which exudes quality and one which has the capacity to elevate the city’s standing as a top European cultural tourist destination. The festival will use a wide and interesting range of venues and locations in Belfast to showcase both the genius of Friel and the vibrancy of our city; it enhances Belfast’s reputation as a city rich in creativity and steeped in culture.

I am confident that you will enjoy not only the diversity of the festival but also the warmth of the welcome which awaits you here in Belfast, and look forward to welcoming you all in person when the festival opens.

Arder Carson, Lord Mayor of Belfast

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 19 For our Belfast, Here I Come! weekend, we have specially created a bespoke festival model for Belfast with the programming stemming mostly from a single work of , Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of this play we have created five Belfest responses in talks, music, dance, kite-flying and cuisine. Our five Belfests:

AMONGST WOMEN THE MUNDY CONCERTS DANCING CRANES NEW NORTHS KITETANICA Dancing At Lughnasa uniquely The Mundy sisters of the play are The pairs of -crested Japanese The ancient Lughnasa festival Throughout the length of features five women as its main modelled on Brian Friel’s five birds (known as dancing cranes) celebrated the new harvest. The the play, Dancing at characters. In response, we have aunts – Kate, Chris, Maggie, are a delight to watch, as is play Dancing at Lughnasa is set in Lughnasa , the boy Michael decided to present our talks & Agnes & Rose. In response, we Belfast’s man-made and the kitchen. Brian Friel lives on is designing and playing discussions’ programme as an all have programmed three classical extraordinary graceful towering the 55th North Parallel in north with his kites in the garden. women celebration of female music artists, Leonora, Katya and cranes Samson and Goliath – Donegal as did his literary hero Our response is to create achievement today, by comparison Ruby. Classical music features in Belfast’s answer to Antony Anton Chekhov in Moscow. Belfast’s first kite-fest. to the frustration of aspiration for most of Mr Friel’s plays. Gormley’s ‘The Angel of the Belfast is also on the 55th North. women in the 1930s, when the North’! We are borrowing their So in response we will celebrate play was set. iconic imagery for our dance the 55th – 60th Northern corridor celebration. There are six dances of Scotland, Scandinavia, the (one silent) in Dancing at Baltic Countries and northern Lughnasa and in response we Russia in a shared food fest of the have devised five outdoor dance different countries using Northern sites over the weekend, all free to Ireland best produce. The New the public. Dance is the space Norths food fest will be available beyond words… Celebrations in at all five Dancing Cranes events ancient times were at iconic sites and KiteTanica. of rivers & hilltops. We have chosen to highlight Belfast’s iconic New Norths festival is funded by sites of today for celebration– the Northern Ireland Regional Titanic slipways, Lagan Weir Food Programme. footbridge, the Peace Wall, Giants Ring and City Hall!

20 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 FESTIVAL SIGNATURE PLAY

DANCING AT LUGHNASA BY BRIAN FRIEL Lyric Theatre, Belfast 26 August - 27 September Tue - Sat 7:45pm, Sat & Sun 2:30pm £26.50/£15* | 2hrs 15mins

Presented by Lyric Theatre, Belfast in association with the Lughnasa International Friel Festival.

Winner of an Olivier Award and a Tony Award, Dancing at Lughnasa is one of the most acclaimed and loved Irish plays of recent times.

Set in County Donegal in 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters and their brother Jack, who has returned home from the missions in Africa after 25 years away.

This new production, which marks the 25th anniversary of the play’s premiere in Dublin, is directed by award-winning Annabelle Comyn.

*Concessions available, see website for details.

For more information and to book tickets, see website: www.lyrictheatre.co.uk

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 21 It is entirely fitting that this REHEARSED READING REHEARSED READING

festival is taking place on a THE GENTLE ISLAND BY BRIAN FRIEL THE ENEMY WITHIN BY BRIAN FRIEL cross-border basis, given Friel’s DIRECTED BY DAVID GRANT DIRECTED BY PAULA MCFETRIDGE/KABOSH THEATRE First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary St. experience of living north and Brian Friel Theatre, Belfast Friday 28 August Saturday 29 August

“south of the border. In a certain 11:00am | £8/£6 | 2hr 30mins 11:00am | £8/£6 | 2hrs 20mins sense, Ballybeg is a metonym for Brian Friel’s visionary play The Gentle Island is about First staged in 1962, The Enemy Within is an the island of Ireland, if not the the encounter between two city visitors, Peter and imaginative account of the voluntary exile of Shane, and the last remaining family on Innishkeen. Columba (or Columcille). The play is set in Iona, wider world – a literary device “ Like his namesake from the classic western, Shane, where Columba lived for thirty-four years following an engineer, seems at first to be a benign presence, his departure from Ireland in 563, and it concentrates through which universal helping Manus (the self-declared king of the island) on the private man, a charismatic, worldly personality questions are addressed by and his family with much needed repairs. But when who struggled to combine skills of scholar, bard and Peter and Shane are suspected of being lovers their ruler with a fearless commitment to his vocation, and examining the individual and the welcome wanes. Neither nostalgic nor romantic, The it probes the theme of exile, a subject Brian Friel local. I wish all those involved in Gentle Island serves as a metaphor for the continuing would later return to in Philadelphia, Here I Come! tension in Irish life between progress and tradition. this project every success. Cast: Peter Ballance, Jim Doran, Thomas Finnegan, Vincent Higgins, Gerard Jordan, Terence Keeley, Frank Not recommended for under 12 years. McCusker, Noel McGee, Seamus O’Hara and Lalor Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland Roddy Crew: JP Conaghan Designer: Liz Cullinane

22 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 REHEARSED READING FAITH HEALER BY BRIAN FRIEL DIRECTED BY DENIS CONWAY Pick up Duncairn Arts Centre, North Belfast See website for more details. Friday 28 – Sunday 30 August Fri & Sat 6.30pm, Sun 2.30pm | £12/10 | Approx. 3hrs

A very special promenade rehearsed reading of Brian Friel’s play Faith Healer , which explores the life of faith healer Frank Hardy. The play’s four monologues, given by Hardy, his wife, Grace, and his stage manager, Teddy, will each be performed against the backdrop of a different venue. Audience members will be transported between venues by bus.

Cast: Denis Conway as Frank Hardy, Conleth Hill as Teddy and Eleanor Methven as Grace.

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 23 Brian Friel’s most famous play, Dancing at Lughnasa , is dedicated “to the memory of those five brave Glenties women”, who were, Ain rMeality, FriOel’s moNther anGd his foSur aunTts. And so at the heart of Belfast, Here I Come! is Amongst Women , a series of talks & discussions involving women who are working across a range of

disciplines. It’s a celebration of achievement, in contrast to the TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Wsocial/OeconomMic oppresEsion Nof the women in the play (and in real HOW TO DO IT LIKE A WOMAN: life). It will also reflect the challenges and obstacles that still exist CAROLINE CRIADO-PEREz for women today. Elmwood Hall Thursday 27 August 7.30pm | £10/£8 | 75 mins

Join one of the most tenacious campaigners of her generation to discuss her story of campaigning for women’s rights and dealing with cyber backlash as well as introducing us to some of the most pioneering women campaigners across the globe. Caroline Criado-Perez took on the Bank of England, Twitter and the criminal justice system. Her book debut Do It Like A Woman is a timely and necessary celebration of global women’s rights activists from the female fighter pilot in Afghanistan who escaped from the Taliban to anti-FGM campaigners — an inspiring manifesto for women everywhere. In 2013, she won the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award and was named one of the Guardian’s People of the Year.

In association with Queen’s School of Creative Arts

24 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 TALKS & DISCUSSIONS TALKS & DISCUSSIONS TALKS & DISCUSSIONS LOVING THE PART OF HISTORY THAT IS STORY: WOMEN LEADING THE WAY: TRANSFORMING SOCIETIES: KAMILA SHAMSIE AND MARGIE ORFORD FRANCES O’GRADY IN CONVERSATION NUALA O’LOAN AND GILLIAN SLOVO Elmwood Hall WITH SHAMI CHAKRABARTI Elmwood Hall Friday 28 August Elmwood Hall Friday 28 August 3:00pm | £10/£8 | 75 mins Friday 28 August 7:00pm | £10/£8 | 75 mins 5:00pm | £10/£8 | 75 mins Join a meeting of great minds: Kamila Shamsie, ‘the South Africa and Northern Ireland have both gone Virginia Woolf of Pakistan’ and Margie Orford, ‘the Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades through enormous political transformation, in which Queen of South African Crime’. “I love the part of Union Congress of the United Kingdom, was women have played a major role. Nuala O’Loan, history that is story,” says Shamsie. “If a thing is appointed in January 2013 – the first woman ever to Northern Ireland’s first Police Ombudsman and now interesting enough, then I want to find the story in hold the post. Before that, she held various positions a member of the House of Lords and the novelist it.” Shamsie’s novels explore themes such as war, in the TUC, as well as working for the Transport and and memoirist, Gillian Slovo, the daughter of Joe love, poetry, popular culture, global patriarchy and General Workers Union, and before that, “had a lot Slovo and Ruth First — both famous South Africans imperialism. Orford’s modern-day literary thrillers of rubbish jobs as well; it took me a while to find my and major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle - exemplify the vitality and social conscience of crime feet.” In this landmark conversation with Shami discuss the times they have lived in and how they fiction as well as the continuing engagement of noir Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, two of the UK’s have responded in their work to the turmoil of their with some of the most challenging issues of today’s leading women talk about gender equality, feminism; respective societies. world and the ubiquity of gender violence, politics the role of trade unions and human rights campaigns and freedom of expression. in Britain today; and what can be done to encourage more women to seek leadership positions.

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 25 TALKS & DISCUSSIONS TALKS & DISCUSSIONS TALKS & DISCUSSIONS WOMEN AND PUBLISHING: EVERYDAY SExISM: ON LIBERTY: KAMILA SHAMSIE AND SINEAD GLEESON LAURA BATES AND IONE WELLS LECTURE BY SHAMI CHAKRABARTI Linen Hall Library Elmwood Hall Elmwood Hall Saturday 29 August Saturday 29 August Saturday 29 August 12:00noon | £8/£6 | 75 mins 2:00pm | £8/£6 | 75 mins 4:00pm | £10/£8 | 75 mins

In a recent ‘provocation’ in The Guardian , Kamila When the Everyday Sexism Project was launched in Described as ‘Probably the most effective public Shamsie suggested that to counter the gender in- 2012, Laura Bates was unknown to the world. Three affairs lobbyist of the past 20 years’ Shami balance that exists in publishing houses, in terms of years later she has created a global movement that Chakrabarti, the UKs leading human rights reviews, top positions in publishing houses, literary highlights the casual sexism experienced by women campaigner, is the Director of Liberty, the UK prizes etc. the year 2017 should be given over to around the world on a daily basis. From National Council for Civil Liberties. In this keynote publishing women only, that none of the new titles documenting street harassment and sexual assault to talk, she discusses On Liberty, her best selling book published that year should be written by men. Her calling out sexism on Twitter and beyond, the published in 2014, that tells her story of article has inspired a wider debate and Kamila and Everyday Sexism Project campaign now operates in campaigning for rights and freedoms since 9/11 and Sinead Gleeson discuss the role of women today in 18 countries and has received media coverage makes her argument for saving the Human Rights the publishing world and how their situation has or around the world. The project inspired Ione Wells to Act and the European Convention on Human Rights. has not changed over recent decades. Kamila set up the NotGuilty campaign. Ione Wells came to She argues the vital importance of human rights Shamsie’s novels include Burnt Shad ows (which was public attention when she wrote an open letter to protection for women in particular, explains why she shortlisted for the Orange Prize) and, most recently, the 17 year old youth who attacked her in a London believes gender inequality to be the greatest A God In Every Stone (shortlisted for the Baileys street, an open letter that she hoped would injustice in the world and demonstrates the Prize). Sinead Gleeson is a freelance broadcaster and encourage other women to speak out as well. Laura importance of politics being in touch with emotional journalist. She currently presents The Book Show on and Ione discuss the power of online campaigns to reality. RTE Radio One and is a reporter on the RTE change women’s lives and influence political Television arts show, The Works . She reviews books thinking. and writes arts features and interviews for The Irish Times. Chaired by Razia Iqbal.

26 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 WOMEN IN MUSIC: VIV ALBERTINE Elmwood Hall Saturday 29 August 6:00pm | £10/8 | 75 mins

Viv Albertine discusses in conversation the role of women in the music world. How much has it changed in recent decades, is discrimination against women still an issue, and who are the women artists that have inspired her?

Viv Albertine was a member of the hugely influential all-female punk band, The Slits . After twenty-five years away from music, she returned with a new solo album, The Vermilion Border . She has also written a memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys and starred in Joanna Hogg’s film, Exhibition .

“No artist can compromise. You can’t create something that pokes its head above the surface if you’re living a compromised life. You have to be selfish; you have to say things that will have upset the people close to you. It’s a lonely life to be a female artist. But women are interesting.” Viv Albertine.

Chaired by Sophie Gorman.

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TALKS & DISCUSSIONS SANDI TOKSVIG LIVE AND UNLEASHED Elmwood Hall Saturday 29 August 8:00pm | £15/£13 | 75 mins

The legendary comedian, presenter, writer and now “MC ” of the newly formed Women’s’ Equality Party livens up Saturday night with her special feminist flavour of comic observations and then in conversation with actress Lisa Dwan. What does Sandi make of recent political developments in the UK? What motivated her to leave the BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz to co-found a new party? Should we laugh or cry at the state of gender inequality in the early twentieth century and what should we do about it? This promises to be as warm and hilarious an evening as a stimulating one.

Curated by Lisa Dwan.

28 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 TALKS & DISCUSSIONS THE LONG GAzE BACK: LUCY CALDWELL, EVELYN CONLON AND LISA MCINERNEY WITH SINEAD GLEESON Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre Sunday 30 August 12:00pm | £8/£6 | 75 mins

The Long Gaze Back: an Anthology of Irish Women’s Writing features 30 short stories by classic and contemporary female writers, including Mary Lavin, Anne Enright, Maeve Brennan, Eimear McBride, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Belinda McKeon and more. Amongst Women brings together three of the contributors, Lucy Caldwell, Evelyn Conlon and Lisa McInerney to discuss with the book’s editor, Sinéad Gleeson, the role of all-women anthologies and the state of women’s writing, both north and south, today.

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TALKS & DISCUSSIONS TALKS & DISCUSSIONS TALKING ABOUT REVOLUTION: ON FRIENDSHIP: AHDAF SOUEIF IN CONVERSATION WITH RACHEL HOLMES LYNN BARBER AND KATHY LETTE Elmwood Hall Elmwood Hall Sunday 30 August Sunday 30 August 2:00pm | £10/£8 | 75 mins 4:00pm | £10/£8 | 75 mins

Novelist, activist, commentator – Ahdaf Soueif is a Does friendship matter more to women than to leading public intellectual of our time. As the men? Are they better at it? Lynn Barber and Kathy Egyptian Revolution erupted in January 2011, she Lette consider this and other questions as they reported for the world’s media live from Tahir Square explore the role of friendship in their own lives. in her home city of Cairo. Soueif combines human stories with acute political analysis and Lynn Barber is an award-winning British journalist. understanding of the global political landscape. Here Her books include two collections of interviews , she reads from her work and talks with Eleanor Mostly Men and Demon Barber , and her memoir, An Marx’s biographer, Rachel Holmes about modern Education , was made into an award-winning film globalisation, communications, ideology and the role starring Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike. Kathy of feminism in revolutions. How can we build and Lette was born in Sydney, Australia. She had early broaden a common ground in which everybody is success with her first novel, Puberty Blues , written welcome? when she was just 17. After several years as a columnist and sitcom writer she returned to novels and has penned 11 international bestsellers to date, including Mad Cows and her most recent novel, The Boy Who Fell to Earth.

30 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 TALKS & DISCUSSIONS FEIST: IN CONVERSATION AND PERFORMANCE Elmwood Hall Sunday 30 August 8:00pm | £15/£13 | 75 mins

A festival exclusive and a rare UK public appearance by the Canadian singer/songwriter Feist . In conversation with actress Lisa Dwan, she talks about her musical heroes and performs both their songs and her own.

Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with Monarch, her subsequent studio albums, Let It Die (2004), and The Reminder (2007), were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. She was the top winner at the 2008 Juno Awards with five awards, including Songwriter and Album of the Year. Her fourth studio album, Metals , was released on 30 September 2011.

“Rich in atmospheric beauty. Feist’s quivering voice oozes sensuality, and acts as a focal point for the drowsy piano, rumbling blues workouts and ethereal soul ballads which segue Roberta Flack into Kate Bush with bewitching elegance.” Daily Telegraph on Metals

Curated by Lisa Dwan.

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 31 THE MUNDY CONCERTS

THE MUNDY CONCERTS: LEONORA (SOLO PIANO) Titanic Suite, Titanic Belfast Saturday 29 August 10.30am | £10/£8 | 100 mins

A romantic concert in the romantic setting of The Titanic Suite.

Leonora Armellini, at a youthful years old, has made over 300 public appearances in major concerts in Europe, Asia and the United States, including New York’s Carnegie Hall. The Italian pianist prodigy won the prestigious Janina Nawrocka Award for her “remarkable musicality and beauty of sound” at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010.

programme Alexander Scriabin Mazurka in B minor Op.3 No.1 Allegro de Concert Op.18 Fryderyk Chopin Four Mazurkas Op.33 Alexander Scriabin Allegro de Concert Op.46 -- Alexander Scribin Sonata-Fantasy No.2 Op.19 in G-sharp minor. Sergej Rachmaninov Prelude Op.23 No.3 in D minor Prelude op. 23 No.5 in G minor Sergej Prokofiev Scherzo and March from “Love of three oranges” Op. 33ter Sonata No.3 Op.28

32 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 THE MUNDY CONCERTS: RUBY First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary St. Sunday 30 August 6.00pm | £10/£8 | 100 min

Ruby Philogene MBE (mezzo-soprano) is a first prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and has sung at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin and with the San Francisco Symphony. She has sung under the baton of maestraos Ricardo Muti, Christoph Dochnanyi, Antonio Pappano, Michael Tilson Thomas, and at special request for Princess Diana. Afro-Caribbean in THE MUNDY CONCERTS: KATYA ethnicity, Ruby will specially sing a range of Titanic Suite, Titanic Belfast Spirituals, as well as classical songs, to acknowledge Monday 31 August the African connection in Dancing at Lughnasa . 10.30am | £10/£8 | 100 mins

In 1796, Thomas McCabe, a First Presbyterian of Rosemary Street Church, led the banning of a Belfast Slave Ship ever operating from Katya Apekisheva is one of Europe’s foremost pianists, in demand internationally as both a soloist and Belfast. chamber musician. A finalist and a prize-winner at the Leeds Piano Competition and Scottish Piano Competition, Katya has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the London Philharmonic, The Philharmonia Orchestra, The Halle Orchestra, The Moscow Philharmonic, The Jerusalem Symphony, The English Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Chopin is one of Friel’s favoured composers featuring in a number of his plays.

programme Fryderyk Chopin Two nocturnes Op.62, No.1, No.2 Fryderyk Chopin Etude Op.10 No.4 C sharp minor John Field Two nocturnes. No.5, No.2 Fryderyk Chopin Fantasie F minor -- Fryderyk Chopin Six Preludes from 24 preludes Op.28 Two waltzes Op.69 No.1, Op.34 No.1 Scherzo No.2 B flat minor

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 33 DANCING 55 | 60 NEW NORTHS FOOD HARVEST CRANES + There are six dances (one silent) in Dancing at Lughnasa and in response we have created five outdoor dance sites across the weekend, all free to the public. Dance is the space beyond words … Celebrations in ancient times were at iconic sites such as rivers and hilltops. We have chosen to highlight Belfast’s iconic sites of today – Titanic slipways, Lagan Weir footbridge, the Peace Wall, Giants Ring and Belfast City Hall and get the city dancing!

34 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 55 | 60 NEW NORTHS FOOD HARVEST

We are opening up a 55th/60th Northern corridor to include Scotland, Scandinavia and the Baltic Countries in a shared food fest of the different countries with the best produce from Northern Ireland. The New North ’s Food Harvest will be available at all five Dancing Cranes events. Each Pop-Up location will have it ’s own unique menu, featuring the best of local artisan produce, served with flair by the participating cafés and restaurants. 55 | 60 NEW NORTHS BELFAST BIG DANCE DANCING CRANES: CURATED BY DAVID HOLMES RYANGA RITUAL DAWN DANCE FOOD HARVEST Friday 28 August Saturday 29 August Belfast City Hall Giant’s Ring 9:00pm to 12:00am | Free 6.30am – 8.00am | Free

Join us at Belfast’s iconic City Hall for an eclectic Embrace the dawning of the day by joining in on a evening of dance mixed by some of the city’s most unique celebration of movement and dance, exciting talents. encircling the picturesque setting of one of Europe’s greatest iron-age ring forts. new norths mourne seafood bar – serving up some new norths incredible local seafood dishes including; Kilkeel deane’s eipic – serving up a smorgasbord of Apple sustainable seafood chowder, Local fish & chips, & spelt porridge with toasted almonds, north coast Hot smoked salmon with dill & comber hot smoked salmon, pickled Rathlin kelp & potato salad. homemade sour cream on rye and lingoberry & keen www.mourneseafood.com nut butter Danish. www.michaeldeane.co.uk/eipic brewbot – serving the best in local beer, cider, artisanal drinks and soft drinks. kaffe-o – serving up their wonderful hand roasted www.brewbotbelfast.com coffee from , Belfast’s Suki Tea and a delicious Scandinavian breakfast treat. oliver’s coffee bar – serving their Silvio blend of www.kaffeo.coffee coffee from Bailies. www.oliverscoffeebar.com

36 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 DANCING ON THE RIVER DANCING ACROSS THE PEACE WALL DROWSY MAGGIE’S WAVES OF TORY IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN DROICHEAD Lanark Way, Belfast IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN DROICHEAD Saturday 29 August Sunday 30 August Monday 31 August FUN Lagan Weir Footbridge 1.00pm – 6.00pm | Free Titanic Slipways CLOSING 6.00pm – 8.00pm | Free 12.00pm – 3.00pm | Free EVENT Dancing across the Peace Wall - discover a global Dancing above the Lagan Weir on the city’s newest programme of dance to engage and get your feet Be part of the city’s largest ever, outdoor Ceili. Join bridge, this showcase will present some of Belfast’s tapping. Throughout the afternoon eclectic styles of with friends, family and strangers as you dance in a best traditional dance troupes and lively tunes. dance from traditional through to contemporary can sea of hundreds of other dancers. Guaranteed to delight and get you into a dancing be enjoyed by one and all. mood for Saturday night. new norths new norths brewbot – serving the best in local beer, cider, new norths bubbacue – serving up their incredible smoky artisanal drinks and soft drinks. holohan’s – serving up sustainable a seafood dishes which feature local Pork and Beef and freshly www.brewbotbelfast.com chowder sourced through local fishmongers - Still made rolls from local Bakery, French Village. Waters; Rodgers corned beef & cabbage in stout www.bubbacue.com established coffee – serving up the finest coffees gravy, wild mushroom cream & local Drew’s organic on the market, hand selected and carefully paired veggies with boxty, champ or colcannon. brewbot – serving the best in local artisanal soft with the best brew method for the beans in www.holohansrestaurantbelfast.com drinks. www.brewbotbelfast.com question. www.facebook.com/establishedcoffee brewbot – serving the best in local beer, cider, cafe krem – serving a blend of Honduras, Brazil & artisanal drinks and soft drinks. Tanzanian Beans and a delicious flapjack packed www.brewbotbelfast.com with incredible local ingredients. New Norths festival is part funded by the Northern www.cafekrem.com Ireland Regional Food Programme. tony & jen’s – serving local coffee company Root & Branch Organic’s house blend, Jackrabbit alongside some dancefloor inspired Blissful Glitterballs that are a nutrient packed, taste sensation made from a collection of local lovelies including fresh berries, nut butter & even Jackrabbit coffee. www.tonyandjens.co.uk LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 37 KITETANICA

38 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 KITETANICA Titanic Quarter Saturday 29 August KITETANICA 1:00pm to 6:00pm Belfast is flying high!

Northern Ireland’s inaugural kite festival, in association with Lumiere Events.

KiteTanica will see mammoth monsters, sea creatures and animals dancing together in the sky alongside our iconic cranes at the expert hands of Andrew Beattie from Tug who creates some of the world’s largest kites.

The festival will also welcome Stafford Wallace, the UK’s top Indian fighter kite flyer who will be demonstrating moves from The Kite Runner and hosting a public workshop for local kite aficionados.

Precision kite displays, workshops and flying areas for the public are just some of the additional elements that will make Belfast’s first Kite Festival a day not to be missed.

new norths cast & crew – serving up Kalops Stew, a traditional stew that is believed to have been developed during the 1800s, when Sweden was heavily influenced by British cuisine. www.castandcrewbelfast.co.uk

To find out more and get involved go to: facebook.com/Kitetanica.

LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 39 DONEGAL DIARY OF EVENTS: LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015

Thursday 20 August 17.45 Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading (Pick up point @ Market Hall, Glenties) 19.30 Fintan O’Toole/Gary McKeone Festival Opening Lecture The Guildhall, Derry 20.00 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre An Grianan, Letterkenny Friday 21 August 10.00 Lovers Rehearsed Reading Point Inn, Magilligan Point, Co.Derry 11.00 The Enemy Within Rehearsed Reading Pobail Naomh Colmcille (St Colmcille’s Church) 15.30 Paddy Woodworth/Turlough O’Donnell Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 17.00 The Meccore String Quartet Classical Music St. Conal’s Church, Glenties 17.30 Terry Eagleton Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 17.45 Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading (Pick up point @ Market Hall, Glenties) 20.00 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre An Grianan, Letterkenny 22.00 Trad Seisiún Traditional Irish Music Festival Club, Highland Hotel, Glenties Saturday 22 August 10.00 Lovers Rehearsed Reading Point Inn, Magilligan Point, Co. Derry 11.00 The Enemy Within Rehearsed Reading Pobail Naomh Colmcille (St Colmcille’s Church 13.30 Christopher Murray Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 15.30 Rosamund Bartlett and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 17.00 The Meccore String Quartet Classical Music St. Conal’s Church, Glenties 17.30 Frank Shovlin Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 17.45 Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading (Pick up point @ Market Hall, Glenties) 20.00 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre An Grianan 22.00 Trad Seisiún Traditional Irish Music Festival Club, Highland Hotel, Glenties Sunday 23 August 10.00 Lovers Rehearsed Reading Point Inn, Magilligan Point, Co.Derry 10.00 The Gentle Island Rehearsed Reading Arranmore Ferry Point, Burton Port 13.30 Mary Costello and Nuala Ni Chonchuir Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 14.30 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre An Grianan 15.30 Joe Dowling Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 17.30 Thomas Kilroy Talks/Discussions Market Hall, Glenties 17.45 Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading (Pick up point @ Market Hall, Glenties) 19.00 The Meccore String Quartet Classical Music St. Conal’s Church, Glenties 22.00 Trad Seisiún Traditional Irish Music Festival Club, Highland Hotel, Glenties Monday 24 August 12.00 The 2015 Brian Friel Lecture Talks/Discussions Whittaker Suite, The Guildhall, Derry Monday 31 August 15.00 Special Festival Closing Event - Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading The Highland Hotel, Glenties

40 LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015 BELFAST DIARY OF EVENTS: LUGHNASA INTERNATIONAL FRIEL FESTIVAL 2015

Thursday 27 August 19.30 Caroline Criado-Perez Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 19.45 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre Lyric Theatre Friday 28 August 11.00 The Gentle Island Rehearsed Reading Brian Friel Theatre, QUB 15.00 Kamila Shamsie and Margie Orford Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 17.00 Frances O’Grady/Shami Chakrabarti Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 18.30 Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading (starting point @ Duncairn Centre) 19.00 Nuala O’Loan and Gillian Slovo Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 19.45 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre Lyric Theatre 21.00 Festival Opening Big Dance Dancing Cranes/New Norths City Hall Saturday 29 August 06.30 Ryanga Ritual Dawn Dance Dancing Cranes/New Norths Giant’s Ring 10.30 Leonora(solo piano) The Mundy Concerts Titanic Suite, Titanic Belfast 11.00 The Enemy Within Rehearsed Reading First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary St. 12.00 Kamila Shamsie and Sinead Gleeson Amongst Women The Linen Hall Library 13.00 KIteTanica KiteTanica Titanic Quarter 14.00 Laura Bates and Ione Wells Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 14.30 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre Lyric Theatre 16.00 Lecture by Shami Chakrabarti Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 18.00 Women In Music: Viv Albertine Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 18.00 Dancing on the River Dancing Cranes/New Norths Lagan Weir Footbridge 18.30 Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading (starting point @ Duncairn Centre) 19.45 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre Lyric Theatre 20.00 Sandi Toksvig Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB Sunday 30 August 12.00 Caldwell, Conlon, McInerney & Gleeson Amongst Women NaughtonStudio @ The Lyric 13.00 Dancing over the Peace Wall Dancing Cranes/New Norths (Peace Wall) Lanark Way, West Belfast 14.00 Ahdaf Soueif Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 14.30 Dancing at Lughnasa Theatre Lyric Theatre 14.30 Faith Healer Rehearsed Reading (starting point @ Duncairn Centre) 16.00 Lynn Barber and Kathy Lette Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB 18.00 Ruby (spirituals) The Mundy Concerts First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary St. 20.00 Feist: In Conversation and Performance Amongst Women Elmwood Hall, QUB Monday 31 August 10.30 Katya (solo piano) The Mundy Concerts Titanic Suite, Titanic Belfast 12.00 Drowsy Maggie’s Waves of Tory Dancing Cranes/New Norths Titanic Slipways

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