The Irish Equity AGM will take place on Sunday 13th April 2014 For more information click here [Read more…]
1913 Tapestry
View in the 1913 Lockout Tapestry in the GPO
ICA Centenary Commemoration
On Saturday, March 22nd, there will be a Commemoration at Liberty Hall from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. including a dramatic interpretation by ANU Productions, Music by Des Geraghty and Friends, a Lecture on Foundation of the ICA by Ann Matthews and much more. More info [Read more…]
The Inquiry
In the autumn of 1913, as the social and political maelstrom of the Lockout raged around them, legendary union leader James Larkin faced his nemesis William Martin Murphy across a conference table in Dublin Castle. It was here, in the seat of British power in Ireland, that the two men passionately articulated their respective visions for the coming Irish state.
A one-week workshop lead by Donnacadh O’Briain at The Lab from February 24th – 28th
Preparation & Instinct – creating a living performance
Artistic director of Natural Shocks and Royal Shakespeare Company alumni, Donnacadh O’Briain, leads an intensive, exploratory one-week workshop for working actors (with two places for directors).
This workshop will look at the two distinct strands of preparing for a role – the process of preparing in isolation; both before the beginning of rehearsals and through the rehearsal process; and the very different and distinct process of working through a play with other actors and a director.
The group will work through a series of methods for maximizing the effectiveness of both of these periods which will give the participants an understanding of how to release their instinct, to help them find the elusive ‘being in the moment’.
Actors are invited to apply as pairs, or individually.
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“I feel inspired and emboldened.”
“Of all of the Shakespeare classes and workshops I’ve taken, this was the most useful… I’ve never understood it from an actors’ perspective before. I feel like I’m not just guessing Shakespeare anymore…”
“I feel more confident that I have practical tools I can use when first approaching any text”
(From O’Briain’s workshop series, |An Actor Prepares – Shakespeare|, London & Dublin, annually from 2009 – 2013)
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Who Is this for?
The workshop is aimed at actors working in the profession, though recent drama school graduates will be considered. Numbers are kept low, between 8 and 12 actors. Directors are also invited to apply, for no more than one or two places.
How to Apply?
To apply, please email a CV to naturalshockstheatre@gmail.com
The deadline for applications is Friday 21st of February.
How much does it cost?
€200, to be paid on acceptance.
For more information email naturalshockstheatre@gmail.com
Where and when?
The workshop will take place at the Lab on Foley Street, from the 24th to 28th of February, each day from 10am until 5:30pm.
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Alongside directing plays, Donnacadh has in recent years, worked as a director and acting teacher for amongst others, RADA, LAMDA, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has been privileged to, and much influenced by, working alongside the likes of Cicely Berry, Michael Boyd, Greg Doran, Dominic Cooke, Simon McBurney & Emma Rice as well as actors too numerous to mention individually.
Donnacadh… is based London and Dublin; his productions have been described by the Irish Times as ‘inspired’ and ‘as good as it gets’. He is the creator of unique cross art form pop-up theatre PEEP, which featured at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2012 & 2013, and up coming projects include, a major new musical, and a Shakespeare performance with a full chamber choir at the National Portrait Gallery, London. As well as PEEP, recent projects include Balzac’s Eugenie Grandet (Assembly – Edinburgh Fringe); a revival of his award winning production of Mathematics of the Heart (London’s Theatre 503); Mark O’Rowe’s From Both Hips, Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur (Both RADA); Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Theatro dell’orologio, Rome); and Leo Butler’s The Early Bird (Finborough, London & Project, Dublin), ‘an imaginative tour-de-force’, Sunday Times. Work in Ireland & the UK includes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Civic), Twelfth Night (Crypt), Richard III (Better Bankside Shakespeare Award) and King Lear (Second Age). He spent three years with the Royal Shakespeare Company working on ten productions including the multi award-winning Histories Cycle (The Guardian’s ‘Production of the Decade’). He has directed new plays and adaptations in London, Dublin and Edinburgh including The Comical Mysteries; Kilt; Hush; Blue Velvet, and Between Life and Nowhere Amongst others; he has worked with Kneehigh, Complicité, The Gate Theatre and the National Theatre Studio.
Aidan Gillen to visit IFI for Mister John Preview
IFI Press Release: 12th Aug 2013
Aidan Gillen to visit IFI for a preview screening of Mister John and Q+A with director Joe Lawlor on 17th Sept at 18.30.
The IFI is to host a special preview of Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s film Mister John on Sept 17th at 18.30. The second feature from the Desperate Optimists duo behind Helen and the acclaimed Civic Life film programme, Mister John confirms Lawlor and Molloy as original and distinctive filmmakers. Lawlor will be joined by the film’s star Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones, Love/Hate) to discuss the film in a post-show Q+A.
Mister John follows Gerry Devine (Gillen) as he travels to Singapore where his estranged brother, a bar owner who has possibly been involved in nefarious activities, has died in a drowning accident. It emerges that Gerry is running away from his own problems at home, and, as he becomes more immersed in a foreign culture and environment, taking on his brother’s mantle becomes appealing to him. The trouble is he is not exactly a suitable substitute for the dead man.
A story involving snakebites, Asian superstition and dream sequences, it’s a film that has a hallucinatory and poetic edge. Mister John is an elegant, smart film with a wry and winning sense of humour and Aidan Gillen is mesmerising as a man falling apart at its centre.
Tickets are available now at the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 or book online at www.ifi.ie
Mister John runs at the IFI from September 27th
For more media information please contact Patrick Stewart at the IFI Press Office on 01 679 5744 or email pstewart@irishfilm.ie
The IFI acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council.
Strumpet City Exhibition
In association with James Plunkett’s novel ‘Strumpet City’ being the UNESCO City of Literature 2013 Dublin: One City, One Book, Graphic Studio Gallery will be hosting an exhibition in connection with this epic book. The exhibition, also entitled ‘Strumpet City’, will run from the 11th of July to the 24th of August, and will feature a collection of contemporary fine art prints of various aspects of Dublin city and its history. This year’s choice of ‘Strumpet City’ as Dublin’s One City One Book is especially appropriate as 2013 is the centenary of the Dublin Lockout around which much of the novel is centered. 2013 is also the year that Graphic Studio Gallery celebrates its 25th anniversary. To commemorate this, Graphic Studio Dublin members and gallery artists will create fine art prints that deal with many of the themes explored in Plunkett’s novel: poverty, a generation’s survival and pre-independence Dublin itself.
Using traditional printmaking techniques to explore Plunkett’s novel is highly apt as print would have been the method employed to communicate in the Dublin of Larkin’s time.
Graphic Studio Gallery’s fine art print exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to interact with the novel in the form of visual art.
Throughout the two months we will be hosting a series of talks, printmaking demonstrations and readings based on the exhibition and book. And in September 2013, the exhibition will be hosted by SIPTU in Liberty Hall.
For further information, contact Paula on 01 679 8021 or
gallery@graphicstudiodublin.com
Gallery opening hours: Mon – Fri: 10am – 5.30pm, Sat: 11am – 5pm
TALKS, SONGS AND PRINT DEMONSTRATIONS
SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2013, 1.30PM – 2.30PM Artist Ruth O’Donnell will give a talk and demonstration on unlocking the secrets of the technique Sugar lift. Ruth will print up sections from her Strumpet City print ‘Dublin 2013 (Words on the Street)’ on our small etching press.
SATURDAY 27TH JULY 2013, 1.30PM – 2.30PM Letterpress printing has a long history from Gutenberg’s developments in the 1450s to the mechanisation of the late 19th century. At the turn of the twentieth century and during the time of ‘Strumpet City’, every newspaper, book, poster or notice would have been set in metal and wooden type and printed letterpress.
Mary Plunkett, designer and print-maker will give a short introduction to letterpress printing and demonstrate some of the processes involved: setting type, arranging in a chase and printing a sample on a small table top press.
THURSDAY 8TH AUGUST 2013, 6.30PM Join us for a great evening of songs, stories and imagery of the 1913 Lockout and ‘Strumpet City’, including historical commentary by Francis Devine and Fergus Russell. Artist and writer, Brian Lalor, will also give a talk and visual presentation on ‘Drawing James Plunkett’s Dublin’. Not to be missed!
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE. BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
Email: gallery@graphicstudiodublin.com | Tel: 01 679 8021
Artists: Yoko Akino, Anne Anderson, Paul Bailey, Margaret Becker, Carmel Benson, Gerard Cox, Aisling Dolan, Susan Early, Camilla Fanning,
Paula Fitzpatrick, Niamh Flanagan, Gerard Greene, Mary Grey, Alice Hanratty, Marianne Heemskerk, Clare Henderson, Gavin Hogg,
Siobhan Hyde, Brian Lalor, Jennifer Lane, Sharon Lee, Louise Leonard, Daniel Lipstein, Tom Macken, Brett Mac Entagart, Niamh Mac Gowan, James McCreary, Niamh McGuinne, Bernadette Madden, Susan Mannion, Fieda Meaney, Liam Ó Broin, Suzannah O’Reilly,
Ruth O’Donnell, Ciara O’Hara, Gay O’Neill, Mary Plunkett, Paula Pohli, Sarah Rogers, Dermot Ryan, Joe Ryan, Deirdre Shanley,
Constance Short, Adrienne Symes, Elke Thönnes, Marja Van Kampen & Marta Wakula-Mac
The IFI presents the Wanna Fight? Season
The IFI presents the Wanna Fight? Season from August 3rd-31st, a specially curated series of films to accompany the August 2nd release of the controversial and brutal new film by Nicolas Winding Refn Only God Forgives
‘I’m a pornographer’declared Nicolas Winding Refn in a recent interview ‘I make films about what arouses me. What I want to see. Very rarely to understand why I want to see it and I’ve learned not to become obsessed with that part of it’. Though the director of Pusher and Drive has always been an arch provocateur, his new film, the elegant and brutal Only God Forgives starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Scott Thomas, has brought new levels of controversy with the film’s stylised violence becoming one of the major talking points of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Yet Winding Refn’s films are never entirely cold or alienating and the heart of a true cineaste beats through his work. The IFI’s Wanna Fight? season is a selection of Winding Refn’s key influences and references, some directly acknowledged and some suggested. In particular the season contextualises Only God Forgives which audiences are invited to make their own minds up about when it is released at the IFI on August 2nd.
Winding Refn has been keen to invoke the names of other filmmakers in his work. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s name appears on the credits to both Drive and Only God Forgives, the genius filmmaker is represented here by the bizarre, beautiful and brilliant Santa Sangre. Also explicitly referenced by Winding Refn in relation to Only God Forgives is Gaspar Noé, a fellow provocateur, whose Enter the Void proved one of the most divisive of films released at the IFI in 2009. Winding Refn has namechecked Richard Kern, a key member of the 1980s NYC Cinema of Transgression Movement, and a selection of his short works characterised by extreme eroticism and disturbing violence are included in the season.
Other elements in the Wanna Fight? season are more thematic. Kirsten Scott Thomas’s evil matriarch who encourages her son to do despicable things in Only God Forgives has a strong resonance with Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. With Wong Kar Wai it’s more the richly coloured and textured look of his films such as Ashes of Time Redux that form the link to Winding Refn, while with the Pang Brothers Bangkok Dangerous it’s the terrific low-budget gun-play that warrants its inclusion.
Other highlights of the season include Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart. Oh, and if you’re only catching up with the violent swathe Winding Refn has cut through the world of film, there’s another chance to see 2011’s cool and casually gory Drive back on the big screen! Full details of all the films in the season are available at www.ifi.ie
Wanna Fight? Season – Times and Dates in August
The Manchurian Candidate – John Frankenheimer – Aug 3rd16.05 & Aug 5th 18.20
Santa Sangre – Alejandro Jodorowsky – Aug 7th 20.30 & Aug 10th 13.30
Ashes of Time Redux – Wong Kar Wai – August 13th20.50
Drive – Nicolas Winding Refn – Aug 14th 18.30
Bangkok Dangerous – The Pang Brothers – Aug 21st20.45
Wild at Heart – David Lynch – Aug 25th15.30 & Aug 26th 18.15
Enter the Void – Gaspar Noé – Aug 28th20.15 & Aug 31st 15.15
Tokyo Drifter – Seijun Suzuki – Aug 29th18.30 & Aug 31st 18.30
Richard Kern Programme – Richard Kern – Aug 29th20.30 & Aug 31st 13.15
Tickets go on sale from the IFI Box Office in person, on 01 679 5744 or online at www.ifi.ie from the 25th July 2013
For more media information, images or interview requests with the IFI’s new Head of Programming Michael Hayden please contact Patrick Stewart at the IFI Press Office on 01 679 5744 or email pstewart@irishfilm.ie
The IFI acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council.
