OCTOBERNOVEMBERDECEMBER2010 www.tht.ie Sunday 5 Dec 3pm AUTUMN/WINTER 2010 Admission 6*/5* BURN THE BAD LAMP BY KEVIN BARRY 26 SEPT HEARTBREAKER CHRISTMAS FILM Dir: Pascal Chaumeil · France 2010 · 104 mins WITH ROD GOODALL AND AINE NÍ DHROIGHNEÁIN 3 OCT REVANCHE A NIGHT AT Dir: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy · Russia 2009 · 130 mins THE OPERA 10 OCT A ROOM AND A HALF Dir: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy · Russia 2009 · 130 mins Dir: Sam Wood · USA 1935 · 92 mins 17 OCT GAINSBOURG Dir: Joann Sfar · France 2009 · 130 mins One of the great Marx 24 OCT Bank Holiday - No Film Brothers comedies featuring some of their 31 OCT THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES most brilliant routines. It Dir: Juan José Campanella · Argentina 2009 · 129 mins follows Groucho, Chico 7 NOV No Film and Harpo as they battle 14 NOV LEAVING an arrogant opera tenor in Dir: Catherine Corsini · France 2009 · 90 mins an attempt to help their 21 NOV UNDERTOW friend Ricardo take centre An aging owner of an antique shop sits astride the Dir: Javier-Fuentes Loen · Peru 2009 · 100 mins stage and win the heart tumble down remains of a life’s work… Into this of Rosa. 28 NOV IN THE BEGINNING “rag and bone shop of the heart”, a lamp, a genie, Dir. Xavier Giannoli · France 2009 · 130 mins The fi lm will be screened a shaft of magic appear and a fairy tale for adults is 5 DEC MOTHER in a party atmosphere with spun. Challenging our cynicism, weaving wonder in Dir: Bong Joon-ho · South Korea 2009 · 128 mins carol singing, spot prizes your heart, it leaves you feeling good about life and Sundays 8.15pm and light refreshments 30 where you’re going. Membership/season ticket for above eight fi lms 38*/34* concession Tues 28 Sept - Sat 2 Oct 7.30pm mins prior to screening. € € Guest admission to single fi lms 8*/6*. Sold out 9 performances at this year’s Cuirt festival Tickets 10*/ 8* From 26 Sept- 3 Oct over 100,000 people in 200 MANHATTAN cities across six continents gather in cinemas for one purpose… to view and vote on the Finalists’ Films in SHORT FILM the Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival. See the FESTIVAL short-listed fi lms and participate in the worldwide vote. JOHN ARDEN PLAYWRIGHT AND NOVELIST Sun 3 October 3pm Tickets €7*/€5* John Arden fi rst came to prominence as one of the Royal Court playwrights in the late 1950s. His best known play, Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, shocked the Booking Is Easy critical establishment and his radical stance has been 1. Call to the box offi ce at the Town Hall Theatre at CONCESSIONS/GROUP RATES consistent ever since. In the 1970s he made Galway Courthouse Square, Galway, Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm Concessions are available to most shows for his home. To mark his 80th year, the Town Hall Theatre 2. Phone 091 569777 during the above hours. Seniors, Unwaged and Students. ID required. pays tribute to his lifetime achievement. Visa, Access, MasterCard and Laser are accepted. 10% discount for groups of 10+ . *Telephone and personal bookings are subject The evening will present a unique collage of short to Refurbishment Charge of 50 cent per ticket excerpts from Arden’s work, introduced by himself, 3. Buy online at www.tht.ie CONDITIONS OF SALE illustrating the wide diversity of his work. It will feature *Online bookings are subject to €1.50 Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded unless a mix of music, performance and archival fi lm clips, booking and Refurbishment Charge per ticket. a performance is cancelled or abandoned. including Arden in his acting role in Bob Quinn’s fi lm Caoineadh Art Uí Laoire. It will also feature a rehearsed SPECIAL OFFERS reading of selected scenes from Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, directed by Eamonn Draper. Family Special Student Special Seniors Special Two adults, two children Special rate for students. Special rate for anyone for a special rate. over 65. Friday 1 October 8pm Tickets €10* October Concerts PATSY CLINE MARC ROBERTS The Concert One of Galway’s best known singer/ Featuring the star of the original West End Production, Sandy songwriters returns with full band & special Kelly, and her musicians in a non stop evening of hits. All of guests. Performing songs from his new album Patsy Cline’s biggest hits including Crazy, I Fall To Pieces, ‘The Promise’, songs from Jimmy MacCarthy, Blue Moon of Kentucky and many more. Dan Fogelberg and a special tribute to the music of John Denver. Fri 8 October 8pm Tickets €22.50* Sat 2 October 8pm Tickets €20* JOE DOLAN PHIL COULTER The Reunion Show Sat 9 October 8pm There was no show like a Joe Show! Now the Tickets €27.50* magic of Ireland’s best-loved and greatest entertainer is set to come back reuniting his former band mates, his brother, Ben and nephews Ray and Adrian with a state of the art video-projected Joe. DAVID HULL PROMOTIONS FOSTER AND ALLEN’S Tues 5 October 8pm Tickets €30* BIG NIGHT OUT Wed 20 October 8pm Tickets €30* CATHY DAVEY VLADIMIR JABLOKOV 2010 is turning into a landmark year for Cathy Davey. Her album The Nameless Classical Twist hit number one the same day as a sell-out Olympia Theatre Show. Her gigs at Oxegen, Vladimir Jablokov is a violin virtuoso from Bratislava. His Slovak Electric Picnic and the Galway Arts Festival Festival Quartet has played some of Ireland’s most prestigious Big Top were real highlights. venues; including the National Concert Hall and Áras an Uachtaráin. Vladimir’s programme features a mix of classical, jazz and pop he calls ‘Classical Twist’. From Bach to Bowie, and from Mozart to Wed 6 October 8pm Johnny Mercer; it puts a fresh, contemporary spin on some of the Sat 30 October 8pm greatest melodies ever written with dazzling musicianship. Tickets €20*/€16* Tickets €22.50*/€20* GUNA NUA PRODUCTIONS This heartrending opera recreates the world of Anne Frank in hiding, LITTLE GEM living in hope and fear. Russian composer Grigory Frid, whose own BY ELAINE MURPHY family suffered under Stalin, was so inspired by Anne Frank’s diary that he created the opera in 1969. Sung in English, her powerful optimism and unbending will to live continue to instill awe. Andrew Synnott conducts OTC’s eight-piece chamber orchestra. Direction is by Ingrid Craigie and Annilese Miskimmon. Thurs 7 October 8pm Tickets €22*/€18* Three generations of women on a wild and constantly surprising journey through sex, birth, death, dildos and salsa classes: Kay’s got an itch that Gem can’t scratch… Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist… Amber has fi erce bad indigestion MUSIC FOR GALWAY and the Sambucas aren’t getting rid of it. And then there’s Paul, the b*****, who is just using Amber until he can get 30th ANNIVERSARY FUNDRAISING GALA “…this show, which made me laugh and cry with pleasure, is to Australia… Then Little Gem announces his arrival in no Reception and Concert like a really marvellous wake: uncertain terms and life is never the same again. it brings three generations Winner Best Play & Best Actress, FEATURING together in an emotive booze- Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009 Metropolitan Opera star up of sorrow, precarious joy and inappropriate laughter…“ Rodion Pogossov, baritone ★★★★★ Mon 18 - Tues 19 October 8pm Evelina Dobra ceva, soprano TIME OUT, LONDON Tickets €20*/€16* Dearbhla Collins, piano Rodion Pogossov, the sensational Russian baritone features regularly in the MET Opera CHRYSALIS DANCE line-up in New York. Recent engagements have included Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Malatesta in Don Pasquale. 3 PIECE SUITE Evelina Dobra ceva is a highly An eclectic triple bill of dance, created by three sophisticated singer whose versatile choreographers, Judith Sibley, Tanya McCrory dramatic artistry captivates her and Leighton Morrison, representing a skilful mix of audience. She has performed with classicism, contemporary music and modern themes. the Deutsche Staatsopern and the Bayerische Staatsoper. Sat 16 October Dearbhla Collins is regarded as one of Reception 7.15pm, Concert 8pm Mon 25 October 8pm € Ireland’s fi nest and most versatile pianists. Tickets 30* Tickets €18*/€15* Full programme details at www.baboro.ie Tickets for all Baboro shows €8* Family Special (4 people) €25* International Arts Festival for Children 11-17 October 2010 ECHOA With the magic of digital media two friends This enormously charismatic group KRI KRA KRO are taken through a portal into a journey of of dancers, drummers and physical imagination and visual poetry. They fl y through comedians seize the stage with an the clouds, visit inside a painting, race cars and electrifying brand of action percussion. watch people in a busy city, all without ever Infectious, inventive and utterly leaving the stage. unique, Echoa blurs the line between music and movement creating a new type of performance. Ages 3-8 Mon 11 October 11am & 7pm Ages 7+ Tues 12 October 10.15am & 12pm Mon 11 October 10am & 12pm Tues 12 October 11am & 7pm Wed 13 October 10am & 12pm Two clowns, “One” and “The IL CUBICO MAGICO Other” discover a strange world made only of cubes: big cubes and small cubes, red cubes and blue cubes. Two very different views of the world collide to create a wonderful clowning performance with horses, motorbikes, trains, castles, battles, love, laughs and even some tears. THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR AND OTHER FAVOURITES BY ERIC CARLE All ages Sat 16 - Sun 17 October Award-winning children’s book illustrator 2.30pm & 5pm daily and writer Eric Carle’s stories are Ages 3 - 7 presented in this stunningly beautiful Thurs 14 - Fri 15 October 10am & 12 pm daily blacklight puppet production.