Ramor Theatre September-December 2018 (1):Layout 1 13/07/2018 09:45 Page 1 Ramor Theatre is funded by Cavan County Council and theramortheatre the Arts Council Virginia, Co. Cavan. Tel: (049) 854 7074 www.ramortheatre.com PLEASE NOTE EARLIER STARTING TIMES OF ALL SHOWS IS NOW AT 8:00PM EVENTS PROGRAMME • SEPT – DEC 2018 Join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter Ramor Theatre September-December 2018 (1):Layout 1 13/07/2018 09:45 Page 2 YOUTH THEATRE @ The Ramor Youth Theatre @ The Ramor is a restructuring of Drama For Young Ramor Young Players and will now run for two 13 week periods from September to December 2018 People With Special and January to April 2019. It will take on a new Needs @ The Ramor emphasis of developing the skills of participants in the area of acting, drama and movement with Ramor Theatre with the support of Creative Ireland an end of year show in April instead of the traditional Christmas Pantomime. This is aimed at giving will run a 6 week Drama Course for Young People time, structure and continuity for the participants to explore the dramatic developmental process in a with Special Needs on Wednesday evenings safe and fun environment. commencing on 19th September for 6 weeks. This group will be affiliated to Youth Theatre Ireland and in keeping with their ethos we aim to These workshops aim to use: promote: • drama as a medium for learning and as a • drama as a medium for learning and as a means of expression for young people means of expression for children with special • the advancement of the artistic, personal and social development of young people through needs. drama and performance related skills • the advancement of the artistic, personal and • youth theatre as a medium to extend and enhance young people’s understanding of theatre social development of these children through as an art form drama and performance related skills. • the development of youth theatres in Cavan This will be done through dramatic explorations and playfulness through both group and individual Tutors are Mary Farrelly and Trina McCann. work. We believe that youth theatre is a place to develop This free pilot scheme is aimed at National School young artists and young citizens and we aim to promote children aged 6 to 12 and will be led by dance and youth drama opportunities that focus on the artistic, drama tutor Mary Farrelly and will include drama, personal and social development of young people so dance and movement. come and join us on this new and exciting adventure. Places are limited to 12. TIME: Junior 8-12 years (National Schools) Monday Evenings 5:00pm - 6:00pm Senior 12-18 years (Secondary Schools) Monday Evenings 6:30pm – 8:00pm. COST: Juniors €80 • Seniors €90 (Per 13 Week Period) COST: FREE but booking is essential. TIME: 7:00pm to 8:00pm Commencing on Monday 10th September for 13 Weeks. WEDNESDAYS Commencing Places are limited so Booking is essential. 19th September for 6 Weeks Ramor Theatre September-December 2018 (1):Layout 1 13/07/2018 09:45 Page 3 Big Guerilla Productions present Ramor Playwriting Group presents And Thank You . PLACEMAKING – A Workshop with Louise Lowe (ANU) Directed by Charles McGuinness The central question we ask of our Seamus O’Rourke joins forces with director Charles McGuinness audiences is ‘HOW DO YOU – The team who brought us ‘Padraig Potts’ Guide to Walking’ – CHOOSE TO ENGAGE? We ask audiences to witness, feel, comply or And once again we can expect a bit of everything... act. And thank you... is a play about an Much of our work is derived from ordinary man living in rural physical space and site, usually Ireland who gets saved... working within geographic or historical Saved from a life of pub talk contexts. We place these findings in and prophesising... King non-traditional sites and use immersive John O’Sullivan used to be engagement to create shared able to drink fifteen pints intimacies between audience and without having to piddle, place and audience and performer. now, it’s every nine... Going This workshop invites actors, to the Gents so often can directors, performers, installation wear a man out. artists, dancers and playwrights to The story is told by the join us in a fearless, vibrant and Reverend Thaddaeus challenging 2 day workshop to Clancy and O’Sullivan’s collaborate and uncover Virginia in two sons, Larry O and Martin. The sons run a new way. the family shop while Daddy, the king of McKenna’s bar makes up the rules. About ANU It’s a story of hard work and Cutting across form and context, ANU are a multidisciplinary company, success and dangling... There’s cross-pollinating theatre, visual art and dance. We are building a reputation bad driving and ice hockey and for creating transformative experiences in unconventional sites. Established there’s falling down. When the in April 2009, ANU have created 24 seminal works, public art commissions, ‘Divel’ starts to gnaw, the gallery installations and museum interpretations. Our most recent kingdom will fall... productions include THE LOST O’CASEY (Abbey Theatre) and THESE And thank you... ROOMS (London International Festival of Theatre). Friday 31st August & Friday 7th & Saturday 8th September Saturday 1st September Time: Friday 7.00pm – 10.00pm Time: 8.00pm Adm: €18 • €16 Saturday 10.00pm – 5.00pm Price: €30 Ramor Theatre September-December 2018 (1):Layout 1 13/07/2018 09:45 Page 4 Lakedaemon presents Ramor Theatre presents Ramor Film Club present Hero The 4 of Us Three Billboards Outside By Ken Rogan The 4 Of Us have been a steadfast part of Irish music Ebbing Missouri Starring Daithí Mac Suibhne history for over a quarter of a century. Formed and fronted by Newry-born brothers Brendan and Declan Murphy, they have developed a unique musical identity FILM which has produced original and award- winning recordings, as well as a large and loyal fan base. The 4 Of Us shot to early fame towards the end of 1989 with their debut Songs for the Tempted, which featured the massive hits Mary and Drag My Bad Name Down. The follow up Man Alive made Q magazine's prestigious Top 50 Albums of 1992 and included the UK Top 30 song She Hits Me. The 4 Of Us were recently listed No.7 in TV3's 'Top 10 Best Irish Bands Of All Time', and to date, the Murphy brothers have notched up an enviable catalogue of Director: Martin McDonagh timeless songs, including six top 20 Irish charting albums. Their music has also been featured extensively Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody on American, UK, and Irish TV soundtracks. Harrelson, Sam Rockwell Sugar Island, the latest album by The 4 Of Us, explores THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, the brothers' early years growing up in Northern MISSOURI is a darkly comic drama from Hero by Ken Rogan, is an original work about a Ireland; musically, it focuses on the trademark interplay Academy Award nominee Martin McDonagh man’s struggles with love. Life quickly grows of their acoustic guitars. (In Bruges). more complicated for Smithy (Daithí Mac After months have passed without a culprit in her Suibhne) after a chance encounter with daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Marissa. This is one man's hilarious, down to Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold earth odyssey through love, ankle injuries and move, painting three signs leading into her town what happens when you don't know how to with a controversial message directed at William lose... Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Daithí is currently appearing as Emmet O'Brien Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam in RTÉ's Fair City. He was also a series regular Rockwell), an immature mother's boy with a in Ros na Rún for TG4 along with roles in Éirí penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle Amach Amú (Wrecking the Rising), Corp+Anam between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is 2 and Scúp. only exacerbated. Friday 7th September Saturday 8th September Tuesday 11th September Time: 8.00pm Adm: €18 • €16 Time: 8.00pm Price: €20 Time: 8.00pm Adm: €7 Ramor Theatre September-December 2018 (1):Layout 1 13/07/2018 09:45 Page 5 The Virginians present Ramor Film Club presents Juno and the Paycock The Post BY SEAN O’CASEY Directed by Vincent Lee FILM After its successful sell-out run last M March, Sean O Casey’s ‘Juno and the Paycock’ returns for another three nights to the Ramor Theatre. Thursday night’s show will be in aid of local charities. Set in the Dublin tenements in 1922 Juno and the Paycock is one of Sean O’Casey’s best loved plays. His understanding of the impoverished life that the Director: Steven Spielberg inhabitants had to endure in these dwellings is evident throughout Staring: Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Alison Brie this play as he gives voice to their every day cares and struggles. The 1971 - leaked excerpts of top-secret added tension of Ireland’s Civil War documents detailing U.S. involvement in is never far away as tragedy strikes Vietnam become a media sensation. hard in household after household. The Washington Post and its editor Ben Even in a world of struggle and Bradlee frantically chase the documents. loss, O Casey injects moments of Amid mounting legal pressure from the warmth and humour that have highest levels of government, the Post’s made this play a favourite for publisher Katherine Graham has to decide theatre-goers for well-nigh a whether to risk potential financial ruin by hundred years.