2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Brooklyn Academy of Music THANK YOU! ARTIST TALK: On Truth (and Lies) in Alan H. Fishman, Joyce in conjunction with riverrun Chairman of the Board Work on the adaptation and Hosted by Simon Critchley with Olwen William I. Campbell, development of riverrun has been Fouéré co-presented by BAM and the riverrun Vice Chairman of the Board ongoing since 2011, including Onassis Cultural Center NY, part of the Adam E. Max, generous support from: Colm Hellenic Humanities Program, a new Vice Chairman of the Board O’Callaghan; Michael Mushalla of initiative to further Hellenic ideals and Karen Brooks Hopkins, Double M Arts and Events, NY; Lee culture into the 21st century. President Anne Donnolley of Arts Projects Joseph V. Melillo, Australia; Centre Culturel Irlandais, The actors are appearing with the per- Executive Producer Paris; Art and Geography/Galway mission of Actors’ Equity Association. TheEmergencyRoom and Dance Days 2013; and Rough Magic. The American stage manager is a Galway International Arts Festival member of Actors’ Equity Association. in association with Cusack Projects Limited Contributing artists to date include: composer Mikel Rouse; directors Tom Creed, Annie Ryan, and Sarah-Jane Scaife; designer Paul Keogan; and choreographer Megan Kennedy. DATES: Sep 17—20 at 7:30pm riverrun presentations: LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Galway International Arts Festival (World Premiere), July 2013 RUN TIME: 60min (no intermission) Kilkenny Arts Festival, August 2013 Dublin Theatre Festival, October 2013 ARTIST TALK: On Truth (and Lies) in Joyce The National Theatre, London, March Hosted by Simon Critchley 2014 With Olwen Fouéré Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, August Fri, Sep 19 post-performance 2014 Free for same-day ticket holders Season Sponsor BAM (US Premiere), September 2014 Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ, September 2014 Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Production support provided by Rough Festival Sponsor Magic. riverrun is made possible with Major support for theater at BAM provided by: the support of the Arts Council and The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Dublin City Council. Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen Jr. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund All international touring of riverrun The SHS Foundation is made possible with the support of The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Culture Ireland. Presented in association with Irish Arts Center BAM Fisher #riverrun BAM Fisher 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL For more information visit University of Ireland Galway, theemergencyroom.ie Ulster Bank and Absolut. GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS The Festival is led by chief executive riverrun FESTIVAL John Crumlish and artistic director A creative collision on the edge of Paul Fahy; with Gerry Cleary, financial Europe. controller and Elizabeth Duffy, administrator. ADAPTED, DIRECTED, AND PERFORMED BY Founded in 1978, Galway International OLWEN FOUÉRÉ Arts Festival is one of Europe’s leading Board of Directors: Bernadette international arts festivals. Mullarkey (Chair), Padraic Brennan, CO-DIRECTED BY John Grealish, Gary Joyce, Maccon KELLIE HUGHES The world premiere of Enda Walsh’s Keane, and Maria Mahon. new play Ballyturk starring Cillian Galway International Arts Festival, SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION Murphy, Mikel Murfi, and Stephen Rea, Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road, BY ALMA KELLIHER a Galway International Arts Festival Galway, Ireland and Landmark production, opened in www.giaf.ie LIGHTING DESIGN BY Galway in July 2014, and is currently STEPHEN DODD running at the National Theatre in London. Galway International Arts CUSACK PROJECTS LIMITED COSTUME DESIGN BY MONICA FRAWLEY Festival and Landmark’s production of Misterman by Enda Walsh starring Pádraig Cusack is a director of Cusack PRODUCED BY Cillian Murphy (Drama Desk Award) Projects, a company dedicated to JEN COPPINGER premiered in Galway in 2011 and international theater producing. He toured to St. Ann’s Warehouse in is currently associate producer for 2011 and National Theatre of the National Theatre of Great Britain, Great Britain in 2012. international tour consultant for the Abbey Theatre, international advisor for In recent years the Festival has Headlong Theatre (UK), and is advisor presented the work of seminal artists to several companies in Ireland, UK, and producers across the artforms and Japan. Recent projects: National including Joni Mitchell, Bill Viola, Theatre: People, One Man, Two The National, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, Guvnors, Grief, Phèdre, The Pitmen John Gerrard, Hughie O’Donoghue, Painters, The Year of Magical Thinking, Cormac McCarthy, David Hockney, Waves, Happy Days, Primo, and The Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Fabulous History Boys; Abbey Theatre: John Beast, Michael Clark, Hofesh Shechter, Gabriel Borkman, The Plough and Stephen Petronio, Steppenwolf, Royal the Stars. Headlong: Six Characters Court, New York Theatre Workshop, in Search of an Author, ENRON; and Circa, and works regularly with Broadway: The Pitmen Painters, leading Irish companies including Waves, Happy Days, and Not About Galway’s Druid. Nightingales. Current projects: riverrun, Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby, The James Principal Funding Agents: Arts Plays, and the international tours of Council of Ireland and Fáille Ireland. The Testament of Mary and A Girl is a Photo: Olwen Fouéré by Colm Hogan Photo: Olwen Fouéré Festival’s Leadership Partners: National Half-formed Thing. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL brought Amy Conroy’s Eternal Rising of The first three words are Sanskrit, STEPHEN DODD the Sun and I ♥ Alice ♥ I to 23 venues FOLLOWING THE FLOW OF meaning the twilight of dawn: Lighting Designer and festivals in Australia, Croatia, THE WAKE “Sandhyas! Sandhyas! Sandhyas!...” Who’s Ireland, and New Zealand. By Olwen Fouéré and where all time appears co-existent. Stephen Dodd is a lighting designer from Dublin where he trained at the Currently project manager for the One day, at a public event in honor of Cartoon- like heroes, music- hall gags, a Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. Laureate for Irish Fiction for the James Joyce, I chose to read the last giant body and its cosmic counterpart, WhoRecent lighting designs include: Arts Council of Ireland, Coppinger page of Finnegans Wake, where the the constellation of Orion, the Egyptian Tom and Vera (Desperate Optimists previously worked with Arts Audiences, river Liffey (Life) calls out to us as she book of the dead, multiple languages, and Dublin Theatre Festival), 2013 Irish Theatre Institute, City Arts dissolves into the great ocean of time. ideas and entities—celestial, human, Dublin Theatre Festival; Lippy (Dead Centre, Dublin Writers Festival, RADE Something happened during the animal, vegetal and mineral—hover, Centre), winner of best design and (Recovery through Art, Drama and reading, a collective shift of atoms, a spin, and morph on rhythms as best production— 2013 Dublin Fringe Education), and the Abbey Theatre. moment where a seam of dark matter subversive and agile as Charlie Chaplin. Festival; Way Back Home (Louise She sits on the boards of RADE, emerged, somewhere between energy He is sure to be in there somewhere, White, Performance Maker) and In Dog Dublin Fringe Festival, and NAYD (the and form, music and language, while as is, without a doubt, the voice of Years I’m Dead (Mirari Productions), National Association of Youth Drama). the river approached her death and Lucia, Joyce’s incarcerated daughter, 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival; Dogs Coppinger is an independent producer transformation in the arms of the sea: waking our silence, making us laugh. (Emma Martin Dance), winner of best in residence at Rough Magic. design and best production— 2012 “... the moyles and moyles of it, “Cockalooralooraloomenos”. Dublin Fringe Festival; and Listowel THEEMERGENCYROOM maonanoaning, makes me seasilt “Rise up now and Aruse! Norvena’s Syndrome (Emma Martin Dance), saltsick and I rush, my only, into over.” Wake up! Rise up! 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival. TheEmergencyRoom (a necessary your arms. I see them rising! Save space) was created by Olwen Fouéré me from those therrble prongs! Two Navigating the ever- changing Dodd has been nominated for best in 2009 for projects “in need of more. Onetwo moremens more. So. universe of the Wake is an amazing lighting at the 2013 Irish Times immediate attention” and as a virtual Avelaval ... Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far journey to embark on. The river leads Theatre Awards for his work on holding space for the development calls. Coming, Far! End here. Us the way in a cosmic “sound- dance” riverrun. of performance-based ideas which then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlee, of revolutionary energy, unwinding are followed by partnerships with mememormee! Till thousends thee. the boundaries of our imagination, JEN COPPINGER established production companies The keys to. Given ...” pulling us along, filling us with Producer for the full creation of the work. negative ions, while we swim like a By the end of the reading, inspired “cara weeseed” through the swirling Jen Coppinger is producer for Dylan TheEmergencyRoom’s first project was by the buzzing of atoms and a moment world that made us, on a different Tighe, TheEmergencyRoom, Emma Fouéré’s translation of Sodome of flight, a performance idea was journey each and every night. Martin Dance, HotForTheatre, ma douce by Laurent Gaudé, which taking shape: The river Life (Liffey/ Raymond Scannell, and Sean received its world première as Lethe)