CLÁR IMEACHTAÍ EVENT guide JAN-APR 2014

Celebrating Irish Culture through the Arts, Home to the National Folk Theatre Town Park, , Co. Kerry, Tel +353 (0)66 7123055 Email [email protected] www.siamsatire.com 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 , looking out over the and the .

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! dANcE dANcE SOME GREAT VALUE DEALS ANsEAsON TicKET D SPEsEAsON TicKETCIAL OFFERS THIS SEASON...

Siamsa Tíre is offering patrons a variety of EURO SAVING OPTIONS this season from; Music Music Early Bird Ticket offers, Dinner +Theatre offers, Music Season Tickets and Drama SeasonsEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET Tickets, all of which will suit your pocket!

TicKET BuNdlE dANcE dANcE Early dRAMA dRAMA sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET Bird EARLY BIRD DINNER & THEATREsEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR; A BiT OF EVERyTHiNg Music Music Music THE MAN IN THE WOMAN’S SHOES (Fri 7 Feb) ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE (Tues 25th Feb) DRAMa sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET Book before 31st Jan and get your tickets for €13 ANDREW MAXWELL (Wed 19th March) THE LOVE HUNGRY FARMER (Thurs 3rd April) Season Ticket Season Ticket TicKET BuNdlE dRAMA dRAMA Includes: sEAsON TicKET InsEAsONclud TicKETes: WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (Tues 11–Sat 15 Mar) OilEAN clANN Book before Feb 21st to avail of €16 ticket • The Ma&n in the WoliRman’s Shoes (7 Feb) • My Brother Peter– Irish Chamber • Little Thing, Big Thing (20 Mar) Orchestra (21 Feb) You can avail of Siamsa Specials at A BiT OF EVERyTHiNg • The Love Hungry Farmer (3 Apr) • The Story of Soul BELLA BIA (Ivy Terrace, 0667144896) and LITTLE THING, BIG THING (Thurs 20 Mar) With Karen Underwood (8 Mar) FINNEGAN’S RESTAURANT (Denny Street, Book before 7th March to avail of €13 ticket • DFF (5 Apr) 0667181400) on presentation of a ticket for that night’s performance at Siamsa Tíre, Drama Season Ticket €39 Music Season Ticket €42 SOUNDS OF FOUR (Fri 4 Apr) subject to availability. & TicKET Book before 21st March to avail of €15 ticket - A saving for you of up to €12! OilEAN- A saving forclANN you of up to €19! 4 & liR 5

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National Folk Theatre of ireland 40th Anniversary

Siamsa Tíre’s 40th Anniversary Celebrations are kindly sponsored by Kerry Group 40 Years - Time to Celebrate! 2014 represents the 40th anniversary of the official founding of Siamsa Tíre. The origins of Siamsa go further back still, back to the first ‘Summer Season’ of performances in 1968 and beyond, but in 1974, Teach Siamsa in Finuge was built and officially opened, the first General Manager, Martin Whelan was appointed, the first Board of Directors was formed, and the training of young people in the unique Siamsa style, began.

So there is much to celebrate! And we hope you will be able to join us throughout 2014 when we remember the wonderful contributions of so many to the development of Siamsa Tíre. Most especially, we celebrate Fr Pat Ahern’s wonderful vision for a National Folk Theatre and his commitment to see that vision become a reality.

As part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations and during our Festival of Folk 2014, the National Folk Theatre will be refurbishing, and bringing back to the stage, one of our best loved productions, San Am Fadó.

Full details of our anniversary celebrations will be included in the next event guide – Bígí Linn! 6 7 Tackling the Questions SNOW WHITE AND L. Cert(H) English Revision Day THE SEVEN DWARFS With Philip Campion and Declan O’Neill Oliver Hurley Productions Sat 12th Jan • Educational • 9.15am - 4.30pm Thurs 2nd - Sat 4th Jan • 2.30pm & 7.30pm daily €50, Groups: €45 Pantomime • €14, Family of 4: €55, Family of 5: €65 Invaluable classes and tips on answering and revising for the Leaving Cert English (H) Exam. The day’s fee includes a 200 Mirror, Mirror on the wall... page book of notes on how to write lively essays; how to Who is the fairest of them all? crack the Comparative Question and more…. This is invaluable Mock preparation. In a true rags-to-riches story, Snow White manages, with the help of the craziest Seven Dwarfs you've ever seen, to meet a handsome Prince and make all her dreams come true! It’s so funny it’ll have you rolling in the aisles, with the hysterical pantomime Dame, Tralee’s very own Tom Hanafin, ensuring that everyone has a great time.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of the world's best known and most loved pantomimes, coupled with Oliver Hurley’s renowned reputation for Set against the terrifying dangers of the German Anschluss of 1938, high quality, professional pantomimes that are among THE SOUND OF MUSIC this powerful romance by Rogers and Hammerstein, takes us to the the most spectacular Christmas Pantomimes in the Mercy Secondary School, beautiful setting of Austria where Maria Rainer is sent as governess Land, this is a tremendous treat for all the family you Mounthawk to the seven unruly children of widower Captain von Trapp. Re-live won't want to miss! We recommend this production the most memorable songs of all time including My Favourite for children of all ages, from 5 to 95! Wed 29th- Sat 1st Feb • €14/12 Things, and Sixteen Going on Seventeen. Musical • 8pm Book early to get the best seats in the house or you Matinee Fri 31st • €8 • 11am The school has earned a reputation for the wonderful quality of 8 won’t be able to look yourself in the mirror! musicals and plays it has produced over the years as well as the 9 calibre of acting talent it has nurtured. Abbey Touring initiative for Primary Schools THE MAN IN THE ME, MOLLSER BY ALI WHITE WOMAN’S SHOES Priming the Canon - Abbey Theatre on tour Loco and Reckless Productions Thurs 6th Feb - 10am/12noon/3pm Fri 7th Feb • 8pm • Drama • €16/13 & Fri 7th Feb - 10am/12noon • Drama • €8

Me, Mollser is the story of a strong-willed, passionate It’s October 1978. Pope John Paul the young Dubliner coping with TB during the 1913 Lockout First is not long dead, autumn is closing and Easter Rising of 1916. Curious and enthusiastic, in and Pat Farnon has ‘some business’ Mollser guides you through the overcrowded Dublin to do in town. The Man in The Woman’s tenement where she lives. Her keen eye offers a view of Shoes follows Pat Farnon as he walks the daily life in turn of the century Dublin. Be part of the story five miles from his wee white cottage to and help her find her way back home. town and back again and the marvels that he meets along the way. It’s a charming Me, Mollser is an interactive performance for primary encounter - an ageing man with a schools and is part of the Priming the Canon series boundless enthusiasm for life. Hilariously from the Abbey Theatre’s Community and funny, tender and at times downright daft, Education Department. The Man in The woman’s Shoes, will leave dANcE dANcE sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET you uplifted and in love with life again. Written by Ali White, Director Sarah Fitzgibbon, Producer Phil Kingston, Assistant Producer Written by and staring Mikel Murfi. Mikel Lisa Farrelly, Performer Mary-Lou McCarthy created the show with Sligo County Music Music sEAsONand TicKET Facilitator AnthonysEAsON TicKET Goulding Council Arts Service and the Hawkswell Suitable for 5th & 6th Classes Theatre, Sligo as part of the Bealtaine Festival. TicKET BuNdlE dRAMAEarly dRAMA 10 sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET 11 Bird A BiT OF EVERyTHiNg

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Understanding Electricity EirGrid School Science Programme Tues 11th Feb • 10am & 1pm • Education Anyone who wishes to book a place can contact [email protected]

The EirGrid school science programme – From Power Station to Playstation® - engages with schools, students and teachers to provide assistance in preparing junior cycle students for science experiments in the THE CLASSIC BEATLES junior cycle curriculum. The programme consists of Sat 8th Feb • 8pm • Music • €21/18 an interactive show composed of live experiments, animations and demonstrations supported by audience Over two hours of the greatest songs participation. in the Beatles’ songbook - “performed with perfection and affection”. The show features real album gems as well as the obvious big hits. THE PRODUCERS A Classic Beatles show brings all the joys of Beatledom to a whole new generation Light Opera Society Tralee and allows first generation fans to relive Thurs 13th – Sat 15th Feb • 8pm • Musical • €16/14 the music that changed our lives forever. The attention to detail doesn’t end with the A down-on-his-luck Broadway producer teams up with delivery of the great songs, there’s plenty timid accountant in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the of witty banter along with exact replica world's worst show. Award winning Light Opera Society velvet collared suits made famous on the of Tralee presents Mel Brook’s darkly satirical uproarious, Ed Sullivan Show to 73 million viewers way gender conflicted, irreverent, outrageous comedy romp. 12 back in 1964 The Producers was originally a 1968 American comic cult 13 classic film written and directed by Mel Brooks. dANcE dANcE sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET

Music Music MY BROTHER PETER sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET EDDI READER IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Thurs 20th Feb • 8pm • Music • €23/18 Fri 21st Feb • 8pm • MusicTicKET • BuNdlE €26/21 dRAMA dRAMA sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET With a career spanning over three decades, The Irish Chamber Orchestra joins forces with award-winning theatre director Eddi Reader has effortlessly developed into Patrick Mason to presentA BiT OF EVERyTHiNg an original piece of music theatre, based on the life one of popular music’s most thrilling and and work of Pyotr Ilyich affecting performers. Though first brought into the limelight as front woman for Modest Tchaikovsky, the composer’s brother and biographer, is a man on a Fairground Attraction (their Number One mission. The gossip surrounding his brother’s marriage and sexuality, and single, Perfect topped the British charts) the rumours about his brother’s sudden death, are out of control. He is here it was Eddi’s subsequent albums that to settle the truth of the matter, once and for all. But certain truths are hard OilEAN clANN signaled her ability to assimilate to tell. He invokes his brother’s music & liR different musical styles and make to prove his narrative. But music tells them her own. many stories, and none.

Eddi’s 10th solo venture, Vagabond (Feb This fascinating piece of music theatre 2014) is a captivating, deeply personal, captures the achievement and the yet universal sounding recording. tragedy of a man who created some TicKET Produced by Eddi herself, it features of the greatest and most instantly & a cast of well-chosen musicians recognisable music ever written. and long-term musical collaborators. Katherine Hunka (Leader), Rudi de Groote (Cello) Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 (Allegro Vivace), Serenade for Strings Op. 48, Nocturne for Cello and Strings Op. 19/4 14 15 JOE ORTON’S - ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE London Classic Theatre Tues 25th Feb • 8pm • Drama • €21/17

The drab existence of Kath and her elderly father, Kemp is interrupted by the arrival of a new lodger, the enigmatic Mr Sloane. Provocative and sexually ambiguous, Sloane soon has Kath and her brother, Ed competing for his favours. But all is not as it seems. Behind Sloane’s nonchalant demeanour lies a calculating psychopath with a dark and secretive past. Seduction, blackmail and murder lie waiting in the wings.

Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in London in 1964, winning the London Critics ‘Variety’ award for Best Play of the Year. Its unique blend of farce and black comedy beautifully captures the suppressed desires of the period. This revival of London REELING IN THE SHOWBAND YEARS Classic Theatre’s 2003 production of the play celebrates Fri 28th Feb • 8pm • Music • €30/27 the 50th Anniversary of Orton’s classic black comedy. Reeling In The Showband Years, a complete sell out right around the country Directed by Michael Cabot, for the past four years, comes to Siamsa Tire, Tralee for the very first time. Designed by Simon Kenny A fantastic line-up includes RTE’s Ronan Collins as host and compere, Brendan Bowyer the living Legend of showbiz for the past 40 years; Gina from The Champions (looking as beautiful as ever and singing as well as ever), and Paddy Cole - multi instrumentalist and entertainer supreme!

16 All of the stars join in for a medley of songs from the unique Showband Years, 17 bringing you back in time to this magical musical period! New Voices Programme at Siamsa Tíre A PORTRAIT OF THE In Partnership with Listowel Writers’ Week ARTISTs AS A YOUNG MAN Written by James Joyce A DRAGON’S TALE New Theatre Directed by Jimmy Fay By Fergal O’Byrne Fri 7th Mar 8pm New Writing €6 Sat 1st Mar • 8pm • Drama • €19/16 • • •

This classic tale of Stephen Dedalus follows the (Winner of the Eamon Keane Playwriting Award 2013, Listowel Writers’ Week) young man during his formative years as he breaks away from the Irish Catholic conventions Siamsa Tire has teamed up with Listowel Writers’ Week as part of the Eamon of his past to become an artist who will Keane Full Length Play Award 2013. As part of the award, the winning “encounter for the millionth time the reality of playwright’s work is produced as a staged reading in Siamsa Tíre. This year, the experience and forge in the smithy of my soul award (adjudicated by Billy Roche) was given to Fergal O’Byrne from Wexford. the uncreated conscience of my race.” His play, A Dragon’s Tale tells the story of a Wexford man who has emigrated Unique among his contemporaries he laid claim but whose memories of home – particularly of Vinegar Hill – remain vivid. to the artist’s freedom to “forge the uncreated conscience of his race”. Thus began his life long task of sketching the universal human condition he had observed around him in Dublin in the real lives of ordinary people. In the course of A Portrait which covered the first decades of his life, we see him creating his own individual aesthetic.

18 19 THE STORY OF SOUL WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND WITH KAREN UNDERWOOD Tralee Musical Society Tues 11th – Sat 15th Mar • Musical • 8pm The Music of a Cultural Revolution €19/17 Family of 4: €64 Sat 8th Mar • 8pm • Music/Jazz • €19/16 Whistle Down the Wind, the massive West End hit The show features performances and is one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s finest musical narration by Karen Underwood with live band. masterpieces. ‘The Story of Soul’ is a musical journey from Gospel spirituals to funk. Soul Music was born Set in 1950s Louisiana, the audience follows the out of the Gospel revival of the 1950’s merging story of devoutly religious 15-year-old, Swallow, with Blues, Jazz and Rock & Roll and went on to who discovers a fugitive hiding in a barn. The become the driving force behind a social and cultural naive youngster believes the stranger is Jesus revolution. Soul music broke down racial barriers as Christ, so she recruits some of the local children both white and black could celebrate and share an and they make a pact to protect the stranger art form in a way that would have been inconceivable from the outside world, just as the town’s adults decades previously. set out on a manhunt for a murderer who is on the loose. With performances of the music of seminal artists such as Ray Charles, Etta James, Marvin Gaye, Aretha This a musical for all the family with hit songs Franklin, Nina Simone, Bobby Womack, James Brown, “No Matter What” “Whistle Down the Wind “and Stevie Wonder and more. dANcE dANcE also includes song collaboration with sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET Jim Steinman of Meatloaf fame. ‘The Story of Soul’ will have you singing in your seats!

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& TicKET ANDREW MAXWELL ANNOUNCES IRISH TOUR MR FOLEY, THE RADIO OPERATOR Theatre Lovett Andrew Maxwell: 12 noon Tues 18th Mar; 10am & 12 noon Wed 19th Mar Banana Kingdom Drama/Children • €9/8 Group of 10+ €7 Wed 19th Mar • 8pm • Comedy • €19 “One of the most significant comedians working in the Old Jack Foley has a sore toe and it’s not getting better. country today...” - Irish Independent Once when he was young and strong he dreamed of joining the circus. But now, tired and grey, he sits alone by his radio Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Andrew twiddling the dials on his memories. Maxwell is back in Ireland this spring with a brand new show. Packed full of fearlessly intelligent topical Theatre Lovett invite you into their world of radio waves, observations, delivered in his animated and inclusive style, sorrowful partings and hilarious slapstick comedy in Banana Kingdom recently completed a sell-out run in one Mr. Foley, The Radio Operator. Join Louis Lovett as he of the Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest venues (playing to over conjures characters and chapters full of charm from 10,000 people) and a hit run in London’s Soho Theatre. Mr. Foley’s colourful past. A familiar face on our TV screens, you’ve seen him star Theatre Lovett are one of Ireland’s most exciting on The Panel, One Night Stand for Dave, Monumental companies for young and old (The Girl who Forgot , Conspiracy Roadtrip and Live at the Apollo for the to Sing Badly - The Ark/Theatre Lovett/ BBC, 8 Out of 10 Cats for Channel 4, John Bishop’s Only The House that Jack Filled/ A Feast of Bones). Joking for Sky and Celebrity Juice for ITV2. Now see him (Suitable for age 6 years+ / 1st Class+) live!

Written by Frances Kay in collaboration with ***** (Scotsman). ***** (Herald). ***** (Scotland on Theatre Lovett, Directed by Muireann Ahern Sunday). ***** (Times). ***** (Independent). ***** (List). ***** (Time Out). ***** (Edinburgh Evening News). Kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. 22 23 Patrick Talbot Productions In association Fishamble: The New Play Company with Rathgannon Productions, Presents A Strollers Touring Network Tour The Importance of Being Wilde LITTLE THING, BIG THING By Stephen Burns by Donal O’Kelly Sat 22nd Mar • 8pm • Drama • €18/16 Directed by Jim Culleton The Importance of Being Wilde is a compelling documentary Thurs 20th Mar • 8pm • Drama • €16/14 play on the life and extraordinary career of Oscar Wilde, one of the most flamboyant and brilliantly original Irishmen of all time. In Nigeria, a frightened child puts an old roll Author of such classics as The Importance of Being Earnest, An of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacher Ideal Husband, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis, Sister Martha. In Dublin, ex-con Larry, with a Wilde went from being a celebrated literary icon to being vilified and imprisoned and dying a broken man in exile. wounded backside, has to get out of the city to

rob a convent. Meanwhile, Scarab Oil plans to Featuring Stephen Burns and Matt Murphy, this play takes unleash its new clean fuel of the future. audiences through the scintillating peaks and appalling lows of this unique life, and features extracts from some of his most The film roll Martha is carrying attracts the celebrated works. urgent interest of some very powerful and ambitious people. dANcE dANcE The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET Sorcha Fox and Donal O’Kelly play Martha and Fri 21st Mar • 6pm • Film • €5 Larry, who take a high octane jump into the brutal world of international energy skullduggery Philip Donnellan was an innovative and socially committed documentary filmmaker who worked for the BBC Music Music and awaken passions they thought were long from 1948-84. This film follows the journey of a young man from Ardwest in Connemara to Euston, London. sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET The film shows Irishmen working on British canals, railways and motorways, and explores the complexity of behind them. their ideas, their jobs, aspirations and experiences. The traditional Irish singing of Paul Lenihan and Joe Heaney and the powerful lyrics of Ewan McColl are set against the voices and opinions of Irish people in England. TicKET BuNdlE Commissioned by Fishamble in partnership with dRAMA dRAMA sEAsON TicKETEarly sEAsON TicKET the STROLLERS Touring Network. This screening is in conjunction with Denis Buckley’s exhibition, The Irishman: End of Exile. The screening 24 Bird will be followed by a discussion with artist, Denis Buckley and Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, Lecturer & Head of School of 25 A BiT OF EVERyTHiNg Languages, Literatures and Cultures at NUI Galway

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& TicKET DES KEOGH in THE LOVE HUNGRY FARMER NASC Theatre Network in association with BY JOHN B.KEANE Livin’ Dred Theatre Company present: Patrick Talbot Productions Thurs 3rd Apr • 8pm • Drama • €19/16

THE BRIDGE BELOW THE TOWN DES KEOGH, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, By Pat McCabe Directed by Padraic McIntyre brings his hugely successful and award winning show The Love Fri 28th & Sat 29th Mar • 8pm • Drama • €19/17 Hungry Farmer by John B Keane back to Kerry. It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, a bachelor of ‘indeterminate’ age and according to his own assessment, ‘past his best’ and evidently still a virgin. McLane’s amorous adventures range from the hilarious to the pitiful.

John B. Keane ranks among the great Irish writers. Love will survive us all. In this new play THE BRIDGE BELOW THE His plays include Sive, The Field and Big Maggie. TOWN, set in the colourful, innocent world of 1950’s small town d‘DesANcE Keogh is superb.dANcE A consummate actor Ireland, Golly Murray discovers this gratifying truth. sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET wedded to a skilled raconteur, the wine he Almost broken by the travails of life’s struggles, she and her offers is vintage’ - Irish Times husband Patsy are seen to triumph over adversity in the most Music Music sEAsON‘Fiercely TicKET serious andsEAsON TicKET bruisingly extraordinary and uplifting way. hilarious’ - New York Times

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& TicKET SOUNDS OF FOUR Oracle, Karrie, Ian O’Doherty and Sumdaze Fri 4th Apr • 8pm • Music • €16

An eclectic mix of alternative rock and contemporary folk with four unique Kerry sounds!

Karrie’s music was described dANcE dANcE in HOTPRESS as an ‘admirable’ sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET collection of soft-focus folk-rock with atmospheric slow numbers and ‘classy musicianship.’ Oracle has Music Music a sound that has been described DFF In Concert sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET as ‘folk with hints of rock, Irish Sat 5th Apr • 8pm • Music • €16/13 traditional and country music’. Solo TicKET BuNdlE artist Ian O’Doherty released Never DFF is a new super-group fronted by award-winning composer, DavedRAMA Flynn, acclaimed dRAMAcellist and sEAsON TicKET sEAsON TicKET In Colour’, to critical acclaim in May singer, Vyvienne Long, and the incredible Congolese guitarist, Niwel Tsumbu, alongside a dynamic 2013 before touring the length and rhythm section; Dan Bodwell – Double Bass, Ciarán Swift – Rhythm Guitar and two percussionists, A BiT OF EVERyTHiNg breadth of Ireland. Sumdaze are a Aidan Dunphy and Cion O’Callaghan. Between them the artists have worked with platinum selling melody driven four piece band who songwriters, symphony orchestras, jazz legends and Ireland’s finest traditional musicians. recently released their debut single We Live And Die In These Towns. Together they create a new musical world: African-tinged Chamber Pop Songs featuring glorious vocal harmonies and dazzling musicianship. clANN Early D.F.F. are touring in support of their debut album recently recorded in Peter Gabriel’sOilEAN Real World 28 & liR 29 Bird Studios. Supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Touring Award.

& TicKET WOMAN STOOD REGARDLESS BORN TO DANCE TOCHT dance festival Kerry School of Music Dance Academy Fri 11th Apr • 8pm • Dance • €13/10 Sun 6th Apr • 12 Noon & 4pm • Ballet TOCHT is a celebration of dance – €12, Family of 4: €44, Family of 5: €55 watching, learning, joining in and experiencing something new. Come and Students of the Kerry School of Music Ballet and join us for a taste of all kinds of dance: Modern Dance Department go through their paces Traditional Dance, Hip-Hop, Salsa and in a rich and varied dance tapestry devised and dance for people of all ages. directed by dance teacher and choreographer Colette Maguire Jensen. The highlight of Tocht 2014 will be the premiere of a new dance work by Catherine Young (Dancer in Residence with Siamsa Tíre and Kerry County Council). Woman Stood Regardless is a CAPTIVATING new full length work inspired by the true Sun 13th & Mon 14th Apr • 8pm stories of women Catherine has worked Family/Musical Theatre • €15/12 with in Kerry, all whom have undergone exceptionally challenging lives. The Tenacity School of Performing Arts takes to the stage this piece will explore the depths of what the April 13th and 14th with another fantastic show. This year human condition can endure in a life- the school reached the finals of “Kerry’s Got Talent” and all time, dredging the downs and the ups acts that took part in the competition will perform in the of life to find out what fuels us to keep show. Dances from competitions, in all styles of dance, will going, to get back up… Woman Stood be displayed along with vocals in groups and solos from Regardless will be highly physical and every age group and comedy sketches and acting from sinuous in nature with a rawness and performers aged four to twenty two. A guaranteed enjoyable depth that hopes to touch viewers. 30 night for every age group and a wonderful show for all the 31 family. NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSICALS Bryan Carr School of Performing Arts Tues 15th & Wed 16th Apr • 7.30pm • Family/Musical Theatre • €14, Family of 4: €55, Family of 5: €65

Now in its 5th year BCSPA present their annual showcase mixing some old Musicals The King and I, Joseph and the amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with some new stage and TV musicals such as In the Heights, Avenue Q, 13 the Musical and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to name just a few. With slapstick comedy, wonderful choreography and vocals from the students that is the trademark of Bryan’s School, this promises to be a musical treat for all the family. Bryan himself has been teaching singing in Kerry for over 11 years and is also Director of Musical Theatre Ireland; more info from www.bryancarr.ie UPSTAGED TIME FOR THE MUSIC Free Radicals Youth Theatre & Kerry Youth Dance Theatre Fri 25th Apr 8pm Youth Arts €12/10 Oliver Hurley School of Musical Theatre • • • 7.30pm Sat 26th Apr & 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sun 27th Apr Two groups of fantastic young people interpret the world through their own creative talents. Family/Musical Theatre • €14, Family of 4: €55 Kerry Youth Dance Theatre (KYDT) will premiere their new work (a piece currently in development) Following on from the sell-out Christmas Panto “Snow White & during Upstaged which will go on to tour to the Irish National Youth Dance Festival. They will also the Seven Dwarfs”, this award winning director Oliver Hurley perform “Forsaken” (2013) and screen a film of “Rise” (2012) both pieces which have toured extensively presents a variety of musical theatre excerpts from Blood Brothers, Tangled, Aida, Princess, Sophia and many, many throughout Ireland. more. This production is full of dynamic dance routines and beautiful musical numbers performed by some of the best Free Radicals Youth Theatre gives young people from 15 to 20 a chance to explore the world in a 32 up-and-coming young performers around. A show for all the dramatic way. Under the guidance of Jerry Fitzgerald (Facilitator) and Neil Flynn (Playwright), the group 33 family that will help kick off your summer. will stage a new work as the culmination of their year’s work. Silver ScreeningS IN ASSOCIATION WITH ACCESS CINEMA AND KFF The Pit and Other Stories Breda Lynch 11th January – 22nd of February Thoroughly Modern Millie Wed 5th March • Film • 2pm • €3 Official launch celebration takes place on Friday 17th of January

Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives “The body is always at risk of twisting from the in New York to test the “modern” ideas she had been human to the monstrous.”* reading about back in Kansas: “I’ve taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!” The destruction of self, emblematized by loss Stars Julie Andrews, James Fox and Mary Tyler Moore of face and voice, involuntary contortions of (1967) the body, postures of bizarre fits and spasms, paralysis of the limbs, inverted figures and faces, contortions and convulsions and the QUARTET body pushed out of its physical, psychological Wed 2nd April • Film • 2pm • €3 and social margins are central concerns of the resultant artwork. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of *(From ”The Face of a Fiend: Convulsion, Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. Inversion and the Horror of the Disempowered Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly Body” by James Clifton. Oxford Art Journal, Vol. Director: Dustin Hoffman (2012) 34, No. 3, 2011.)

34 35 V ISU A L ART S Creative Easter Workshop for 7 – 12 year olds on Saturday 12th April from 11am – 1pm

A fun, creative workshop where children will have the opportunity to put their own creative Lu La Lo A Chroí stamp on Easter…Join artist Bridie Brassil for THE IRISHMAN: Lullabies & Dandling Workshops this two hour workshop and create some very for Parents and their children special Easter treats! END OF EXILE Saturday 1st of March, 11.30am to 1.00pm DENIS BUCKLEY Decorating an Egg: The Easter egg is 1st March – 5th April Come and learn new lullabies to sing to the synonymous with the Easter tradition, so this children you love! Batsheva Battu will guide year, why not try decorating your own eggs? participants through learning a number of rare Handmade Cards: One of the simplest and songs from Ireland and Great Britain. most effective gifts you can give and they can Since 2001, in performance, stills and a trilogy of moving image works, artist Denis Buckley appeared be made in so many different ways. So let your only as the persona “The Irishman". This distancing device allowed the artist to explore perceptions of During the workshop, participants will go slowly imagination run riot! Make a clever Easter Pop- Irish identity and better understand the unforeseen losses inherent in long-term emigration. through songs, and may bring along recording up Card that hides a special surprise…. devices as memory aids. This is an ideal The persona is part based on the emigrant from Philip Donnellan's 1965 documentary of Irish emigration, workshop for families with young children or The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile. The Irishman’s emigration within the film was equally a polemical There are lots of possibilities during the two anyone with an interest in the Lullaby tradition. strategy. The suitcase he carries and the shovel he takes up are motifs the artist incorporates. hour session so you’ll be busy designing, constructing and decorating your very own Nostos: End of Exile, the centrepiece for this exhibition, is a moving image work shot in London and Co Batsheva Battu holds an MA in Irish Traditional Easter treats. Kerry. Nostos, the Greek term for Homecoming, applies to the completion of a journey and is based on Music from UL and has performed in Ireland and the experience of many Irishmen who, on dying alone in England, questioned the beliefs of their youth. internationally. €9 per child Places are limited so advance The exhibition signals the end for the artist of the persona, “The Irishman”. Cost per head for the workshop is €5. booking is essential! Places are limited, and booking is ESSENTIAL! 36 Image: A still from the film Searching for the Unimagined Conscience of my Race (2011) 37 DANCE THURSDAYS Every Thursday from February 27th to 3rd of April as part of Catherine Young’s Dance Residency

Step Up! Move and Groove Youth Dance Classes Adult Dance Classes in Children’s Dance Class • 4-5pm • €6 Dance Classes for the Active Retired 1-2pm 6.30-8pm • €10 Traditional Irish Dance For those who love to dance! Keep moving, have • €5 Are you between 14 and 20 years old? 8-9pm • €7 fun and make friends in this weekly dance class. Fun upbeat dance class for the over 55s that will Looking to be challenged, have fun and Classes in Traditional Irish Dance Participants will learn a variety of dance routines offer a ‘pot pourri’ of dance styles from jazz to get creative in dance? Well this class is are open to adults wishing to in modern and stage dance to popular and traditional Irish, line dancing to salsa. Classes for you! learn the unique Siamsa style of world music, as well as create their own routines will include a lovely yoga warm up to keep solo step dancing. individually and with others. bodies supple and strong followed by a nice cool down mediation after all the dancing fun.

Professional Contemporary Dance Class Places for all classes are limited and must be reserved 38 With Catherine Young 10-11.30am €10 39 • • with the Siamsa Tíre Box Office on (066) 7123055. Suitable for professional dancers only. Catherine Young is delighted to return to Kerry as Dancer in Residence Dance Artist in Residence at Siamsa Tíre (supported by Sign up for the the Arts Council’s Dance Artist in Residency Scheme in JOJOIINN THETHE SISIAMAMSSAA TTÍÍRERE partnership with Kerry County Council and Siamsa Tíre). MOBMOBILILEE CLUCLUBB siamsa tÍre Catherine Young’s new professional work, entitled Woman Stood Regardless will be devised in Kerry with It’s FREE to join & you will receive Event an international cast of professional dancers and will newsletter premiere at the Project Arts Centre, News & Updates, Special Discount Tickets and Dublin before touring to the Firkin Crane Exclusive Invites - direct to your phone! Get the latest updates, special in Cork and finally to the Siamsa Tíre offers and competitions via e-mail stage in April. to your inbox every month.

During her residency, Catherine will also be developing a new work with Kerry Youth Dance Theatre (a dance company for young people in Kerry aged 14-23) To: 50050 Sign up on our website using dance and movement as their primary form of To join free text ‘SIAMSA’ expression. Along with Jonathan Kelliher, Artistic Siamsa to 50050 and start getting www.siamsatire.com and Director with the National Folk Theatre, Catherine will entertained today! we’ll be happy to add you be co-directing Siamsa Tire’s dance festival - Tocht, to the list! (April 2014), now in its 4th year.

Another key focus is the creation of viable structures to ensure the continuity of dance and the development of dancers in Kerry. This in turns leads to the successful touring of these new dance works nationally and internationally. Free to join mobile club. Free Catherine’s residency will continue until June 2014. to receive text messages. For more information on Catherine’s work, please visit: Opt out anytime by texting 40 www.catherineyoungdance.com & www.kydt.ie REMOVE to 50050. Powered by www.textrepublic.com On evenings where a performance is scheduled for the theatre, the Box Office will remain open until 7.30pm BOX OFFICE for general and phone bookings, and until 7.50pm for ‘in person’ tickets for that night’s performance. Visa, Mastercard and Laser are accepted. There is no (066) 712 3055 extra credit card booking fee. Tickets are held at the Box Office for collection. Concessions available to unwaged, third level full-time students and senior citizens.

Sunday 2nd March at 7.30pm Tickets for most performances can be booked on-line SHINE A DARK at www.siamsatire.com. There is a ‘per transaction’ charge of €1.50. The budding thespians, writers, and directors of the future that comprise The CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S OPENING HOURS TICKET EXCHANGES/REFUNDS Once purchased, tickets Free Radicals Youth Theatre present a 24th - 26th & 29th DEC CLosed cannot be exchanged or refunds given. Refunds will thrilling evening of original no-holds-barred 27th, 28th & 30th DEC 12noon - 5.00pm only be made in the event of a cancelled performance. theatre. SHINE A DARK speaks to what it’s 31st DEC 10.00AM - 2.00pm like to be a young person today, and what 1st Jan Closed LATECOMERS Latecomers will not be admitted until a else, but life in all its glory. suitable break in the performance. GENERAL OPENING HOURS Wheelchair spaces are available nd th WHEELCHAIR USERS Join us at Siamsa Tire every Saturday from January 2 - APRIL 30 within the building. Please inform the Box Office when 4-7pm. Annual membership is €75 and is Mon - Sat 10.00am – 6.00pm you book your tickets and they will be able to advise open to those aged between 15 and 20. Sun 5.00pm – 8.00pm* you on suitable seating. Come on! Be radical. Easter Opening Hours HARD OF HEARING An induction loop is in operation To find out more, call Fran or Catríona Fri 18th (Good Fri) Closed in the auditorium for patrons with hearing difficulties. People with hearing aids should set them to “T”. on (066) 7123055 or email Sat 19th 10.00am – 6pm [email protected] Sun 20th & Mon 21st Closed CHANGE OF ADVERTISED PROGRAMME Siamsa Tíre 42 *Only when a performance is scheduled for that night. reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute artists 43 and vary the advertised programme if necessary. 13-15 FEBRUARY 6 -7 29-1 January at aglance 2-4 28 25 21 20 11 12 8 7 Reeling InTheShowbandYears Entertaining MrSloane Orchestra My BrotherPeter-IrishChamber Eddi Reader The Producers Understanding Electricity The ClassicBeatles The ManInWoman’sShoes Theatre OnTour Me, Mollser-PrimingTheCanon,Abbey The SoundOfMusic Tackling TheQuestions Snow WhiteAndTheevenDwarfs March 28-29 18-19 11-15 22 21 20 19 8 7 5 1 The BridgeBelowTown The ImportanceOfBeingWilde The Irishmen:AnmpressionOfExile Little Thing,BigThing Andrew Maxwell:BananaKingdom Mr Foley,TheRadioOperator Whistle DownTheWind Underwood The StoryOfoulWithKaren The Dragon’sTale Screening) Thoroughly ModernMillie(Silver A PortraitOfAnArtist April 26-27 15-16 13-14 25 11 6 5 4 3 2 Time ForTheMusic Upstaged Now That’sWhatICallMusicals Captivating Dance Festival) Woman StoodRegardless(Tocht Born ToDance Dff Sounds OfFour Love HungryFarmer Quartet (Silvercreening) Email [email protected] Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland Kerry, Co. Tralee, Siamsa Tíre, Town Park, Siamsa Tíre, www.siamsatire.com (066) 7123055 Tel (066) The The

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