CLÁR IMEACHTAÍ Event Guide September | December 2014 Sive by John B. Keane, Abbey Theatre on Tour 1 Celebrating Irish Culture through the Arts, Home to the National Folk Theatre Box Office 066 7123055 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 County Kerry, looking out over the Slieve Mish Mountains and the Dingle peninsula. 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! www.siamsatire.com Value Deals & Special Offers Drama Music Siamsa Tíre is offering patrons a variety of EURO SAVING OPTIONS this season from Early Bird Ticket offers, Dinner+Theatre offers, Music Season Tickets and Drama Season Tickets, all of which will suit your pocket! Season Ticket Season Ticket FEMALE GOTHIC (26 Oct) A STÓR MO CHROÍ (4 Oct) Early Bird Dinner DEFENDER OF THE FAITH (20/21 Nov) FIACHRA GARVEY (7 Nov) TRIALS OF GALILEO (5 Dec) THE VOICE SQUAD (6 Dec) A STÓR MO CHROÍ (4th Oct) &Theatre Book before 26th Sept for €15 tickets. NEITHER EITHER (6th Nov) SYLVIA (23rd Oct) €38 A saving of up to €16 €40 A saving of up to €15 Book before 13th Oct for €10 tickets. DEFENDER OF THE FAITH (20th Nov) FEMALE GOTHIC (26th Oct) Book before 1st Oct for €12 tickets. THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT 2014 (30th - 2nd Nov) A saving of up to €13 Book before 10th Oct for €15 tickets. YOU CAN AVAIL OF SIAMSA SPECIALS 4 for Forty Five €45 at Bella Bia (Ivy Terrace, 0667144896) & TRIALLS OF GALILEO (5th Dec) Finnegan’s Restaurant (Denny Street, Book before 14th Nov for €13 tickets. IRELAND’S WEATHER (3 Oct) POST SCRIPT (8 Nov) 0667181400) on presentation of a ticket ALADDIN for that night’s performance at Siamsa Tíre. MARY DEADY (24 Oct) TRIALS OF GALILEO (5 Dec) (30th Dec 2014, 2nd & 3rd Jan 2015) SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. Book before Friday 12th Dec for €14 tickets. 4 5 National Folk Theatre Join the Siamsa Tíre Sign up for the Turas Saturday Sunday th th th st Mobile Club Siamsa A Journey of Music, Dance & Song 13 &20 14 &21 September September Newsletter Show 8.30pm To join free text ‘SIAMSA’ Turas is a new Siamsa Tíre stage presentation featuring music from all to 50050 and start getting corners of Ireland beautifully interwoven with exciting dance and rich entertained today! vocals. Sign up on www.siamsatire.com we’ll add you th th th th to the list! Clann Lir 8 -11 15 -18 September September The Story of the Children of Lir It’s FREE to join & you will receive Event News & Updates, Special Discount Show 8.30pm Tickets and Exclusive Invites - direct to your phone! Get the latest updates, special One of the jewels of Irish Storytelling, Clann Lir tells the tale of the four children of King Lir turned into swans by their wicked stepmother, Aoife. Free to join mobile club. Free to receive text messages. offers and competitions via This is an enchanting and spell-binding narrative delivered using all of Opt out anytime by texting REMOVE to 50050. the strengths of Ireland’s traditional arts - dance, music and song. Powered by www.textrepublic.com e-mail to your inbox every month. 6 7 Annie Children Thursday Saturday Jack & Light Opera Society of Tralee 25th to 27th Family/Musical September September The Beanstalk Lyngo Theatre Show 8pm • Tickets €14/€12 Family of 4 €44 Show 10.30 am & 12noon • Tickets €6 The National Award award-winning Light Opera Society of Tralee presents the ever popular Annie, a touching rags- Fee Fi Fo Fum! It’s a giant of a show and we’d love you to to-riches tale of a feisty and very courageous 11 year old come! Jack and the Beanstalk, a classic fairy tale, now gets orphan adopted with some reluctance by the hard-nosed the LYNGO Theatre treatment! So expect lots of surprises, industrialist Oliver Warbucks. Annie’s refreshing charm, a gripping story and beautiful images as Jack sells his ‘LYNGO knows the score when it comes indomitable spirit, and winning ways force Warbucks to reappraise his life values and even influence government cow for five magic beans and finds himself in the land to producing theatre for the very young.’ social policies in depression America. above the clouds. It’s a show for the over 5s (and their The Stage giants) with something for everyone - enormous shoes, Directed by Aidan O’Carroll. tiny houses, showers of silver and gold and a big, leafy explosion! Thursday Suitable nd LYNGO is a UK based children’s theatre company whose for Age 5+ 2 Matinees shows have delighted children and adults for over 10 years October Thurs 25th & Fri 26th, 10am • Tickets €5 with their unique mix of fun and beautiful imagery. 8 Saturday 27th, 2.30pm • Tickets €11 9 Music Kerry Film Ireland’s A Journey Through Time A Stór Saturday Talk/Science th Mo Chroi 4 Film Festival Weather October A Musical Gathering 7pm • Tickets €10 by Evelyn Cusack, Deputy Head of Forecasting, Met Éireann Evelyn will take us on a whistle stop tour through the Sunday Sunday varying climates of early Earth to the beginnings of 5th to 12th civilization and the Weather Gods on to the Age of October October Enlightenmen’ and our own Robert Boyle and then to Show 8pm • Tickets €20/€18 the present high-spec numerical forecast models which can predict weather about a week ahead. Following the success of their sold-out shows in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral and The Sugar Club, the award winning This year Kerry Film Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary. The This is a great opportunity to get to grips with Ireland’s Friday members, Karan Casey, Éilís Kennedy, Pauline Scanlon, Muireann programme celebrates this milestone with some special music and national preoccupation with our ever changing rd Nic Amhlaoibh, John Spillane, Donogh Hennessy, Dónal film events, an extended short film programme, and an exciting weather! 3 O’Connor and John McSherry offer a rare opportunity to witness list of new independent and rare classic feature films from around October the collaboration of such talent together on one stage. the world. Local filmmakers will also feature in the now traditional Made in Kerry slot mid-week. There are films for everyone and every Through traditional and contemporary arrangements and songs in taste every day at this milestone festival, don’t miss it! both Irish and English, they connect the past with the present while 10 creating a new tradition. See www.kerryfilmfestival.com for more details. 11 Abbey Theatre on Tour Drama Tuesday Saturday th th Sive by John B. Keane 14 to 18 October October Show 8pm • Tickets €26/€21 ‘Isn’t it only bringing two people together in wedlock we are?’ One of the greatest Irish plays of the 20th Century, John B. Keane’s Sive stands tall in the Irish theatre canon. ‘A deeply moving This gripping new production by director Conall Morrison was enjoyed by over performance’ 30,000 people during a sell out run at the Abbey Theatre. Now Sive returns for a major All Ireland tour. Irish Independent Beautiful young Sive lives with her aunt and uncle in rural Kerry. Seán Dóta, an elderly farmer, offers the local match-maker Thomasheen Seán Rua, a large sum CREDITS for her hand in marriage. Will this be too much for her aunt and uncle to resist? Directed by: Conall Morrison Composer & Sound Design by: Conor Linehan Don’t miss this chance to rediscover this dark, powerful story of greed and passion. Set Design by: Sabine Dargent Costume Design by: Joan O’Clery 12 Lighting Design by: John Comiskey 13 Sylvia Drama Mary Deady The Nualas Female The College Players, By AR Gurney The Irish Lark The Great Big Shiny Show From Ireland to America & Back Comedy Gothic Drama Show 8pm • Tickets €16, Rebecca Vaughan - Dyad Productions Students €5 Show 8pm Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after years of child-rearing in the suburbs. Tickets €17/€14 Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding In the unquiet darkness between down, while Kate’s career as an English Friday Music life and death, a haunted woman teacher is beginning to offer her more th opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he Saturday tells strange tales of the macabre 24 A Musical Journey in Song found bearing only the name ‘Sylvia’ on her October th and terrifying; eerie stories that name tag. Sylvia becomes a major bone of 25 have gathered dust and contention between husband and wife. October been forgotten. Until now. Show 8pm • Tickets €15/€13 To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. Show 8pm • Tickets €19/€17 In the thrilling tradition of M R James And Sylvia thinks Kate doesn’t understand Sunday and Edgar Allan Poe, this literary spine- the relationship between man and dog.