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September / October / November
Saturday
1st November
Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey & Darren
Holden - renowned vocalists and musicians -
have come together to create the most exciting
Irish ballad group to emerge since The Clancy
Brothers and Tommy Makem electrified the worldwide
folk revival of the 1960s – The
High Kings.
Carrying on the tradition of great Irish music, creating exciting modern songs
in the folk idiom and incorporating some of the classic ballad repertoire from
the past The High Kings have already recorded a special for
PBS which will be broadcast in the US in March. Their inaugural US
tour will commence on April 17th.
The highly acclaimed musical Director David Downes, (musical director of Celtic
Woman) brings intricate harmonies and driving rhythms to The High
Kings songbook, giving them a freshness and sparkle that is modern and
exciting, without ever sacrificing the traditional melodies and lyrics, which
made them so attractive in the first instance. The songs themselves reflect
a wide range of moods, the rousing “Rocky Road To Dublin,” the haunting
strains of “The Parting Glass,” the irresistible “The Wild
Rover” and the stunning “Fields of Glory”.
This outstanding four-part vocal harmonies are backed by a band which includes
world-class musicians; Martin O’Connor on accordion, Nollaig Casey on fiddle,
Dave Keery on guitar, Paul Moore on double bass, Ewan Cowley on guitars and master
percussionist Robbie Harris.
Tickets: €28.00
Performance 8.00pm
Venue: Main Auditorium
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Wednesday
5th – Saturday 8th November
Cuchulainn Players present;
This is your chance to see what happens backstage
as well as onstage during a performance.
A musical group is staging a new version of
The Mikado and as the performance develops, the
set revolves to show us what is going on behind
the scenes...the bickering, drinking, horseplay,
petty jealousies, snide remarks, tattered egos,
accidents….etc. etc.
When the sequence of the show is thrown off kilter
by mistake, the ensuing sabotage and revenge
wreaks havoc all round.
Hilarious. Insightful. Unmissable.
Tickets: €15.00
Performance 8.00pm
Venue: Main Auditorium
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Wednesday
12th November
A City Theatre Dublin Productionby Charlotte BronteAdapted & Directed my Michael McCaffery
Charlotte Bronte’s love story with a
difference takes an unconventional heroine
- the plain, unremarkable governess Jane Eyre
- and charts her growth to passionate, independent
womanhood as she pursues her dream of marrying
the man of her choice - the mysterious and
tempestuous Edward Rochester.
JANE EYRE is a story of love and madness, passion, retribution and self-fulfillment.
Set against the tumultuous landscape of the Yorkshire Moors, this Victorian masterpiece
of mystery and suspense is also a highly personal account of one woman’s
victory over the prejudice and discrimination which face her and thousands like
her.
Acclaimed and decried in equal measure when it first appeared, JANE EYRE was
quite literally, a sensation. Its outspoken attitude towards society, religion
and sex was revolutionary, while the rich mix of melodrama, Gothic horror and
tempestuous romance makes for a theatrical tour-de-force.
Mysterious, sensual, secretive, brutal—and often humorous, JANE EYRE
is part psychological study, part fairy tale. Featuring some of Ireland’s
most exciting emerging talent, City Theatre Dublin’s new adaptation draws
on a variety of theatre and performance styles to bring this powerful, vital
drama to life onstage.
Tickets: €18.00 (special group rate €10.00)
Performance 8.00pm
Venue: Main Auditorium |
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Friday
14th and Saturday 15th November
NoMAD in association with Livin’ Dred Theatre Co. present;by
Pat McCabe
This is a newly commissioned adaptation of Pat
Mc Cabe’s novel of the same name. Raphael
Bell is an old style national school teacher
whose life is haunted by images and memories
from his past and who has devoted his life to
upholding his school’s rigorous core curriculum.
At close of day, his charges now silent, with the last blood-red rays slanting
obliquely in slabs through the stained-glass window, amid the smells of ink and
varnish, and the fragile, scarcely-remembered voices of a vanished choir, Raphael
Bell is experiencing a measure of alarm - two things have been irrevocably destroyed: ‘first,
my life’s work and now, regrettably, my mind’ .
The Dead School is an explosion - a titanic clash between two
Irish world-views: it is modernism and traditionalism in a fight to the death,
It is the Ireland of the seventies crashing headlong into that of the thirties,
in the process shining a light onto how we got here - to a world of Big Brother and Jeremy
Kyle, with ‘Peig Sayers’, in her shawl, standing bewildered
on the motorway.
"A mesmerizing tango of psychological
ruin."
Chicago
Tribune.
Tickets: €18.00 and €16.00 conc.
Performance 8.00pm
Venue: Main Auditorium
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Wednesday
19th November
Richard Jordan Productions Ltd. Presents;
Edinburgh Festival Fringe-First winner BOB KINGDOM tours
his greatest work, Dylan Thomas: Return
Journey.
Playing a man who wrestled with the psychological conflict between creative talent
and self-destructive impulse, Kingdom’s remarkable portrait of Dylan Thomas,
in Dylan Thomas: Return Journey, a show originally directed
by Anthony Hopkins has been a sell-out success throughout the world and entranced
the critics – ‘Spellbinding’ being the most common superlative.
It offers a chance to experience the electrifying presence of Dylan Thomas’ last
lecture before his trip to the White Horse pub and the legendary seventeenth
whisky.
Tickets: €18.00 and €15.00 conc.
Performance 8.00pm
Venue: THE SPACE
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Thursday
20th November
The Russian Chamber Orchestra was founded
in December 2001 by worldwide known consummate
trumpet player and conductor Sergey Proskourin.
In 2004 The Orchestra got the new impulse for
putting into practice creative plans and projects
as a chamber orchestra of Kursk State University.
The priorities in the work of the collective are educational activity, renascence
of Russian gentlefolk’s cultural traditions, performing the masterpieces
of world music heritage that are rarely played, propaganda of the modern musical
art, performing the music of different styles and composing schools, taking part
in new creative projects, charity (transferring money fetched from the concerts
to the kids with leukemia), touring.
During the years of performing the orchestra has had several international concert
tours: Tunisia (2002), Sweden (2003), the USA (2004), Germany (2003, 2005). The
Orchestra was honoured with title of a laureate at the 17th International Festival
of Classical Music in El Gem (Tunisia). In May, 2003 the Orchestra took part
in European Week of Culture, organized by European Union in Germany.
PROGRAM FOR THE CONCERT
A. Vivaldi - Four Season “Spring”
I. S. Bach- Four Pieces form the Suite
in D major
E. Grieg- Holberg Suite
E. Elgar- Serenade for Strings E minor
S. Barber - Adagio for Strings
P. I.Tchaikovsky- Andante Cantabile
P. I.Tchaikovsky - Waltz form Serenade
for Strings
I. Albenis- Tango
E. Garner –Misty
Russian Chamber Orchestra include in program
soprano Natalia Avakulenko 1 prize of International
Signer competition in Moscow.
1. W.A.Mozart - Aria Fiordiligi
2. Cesar Franck -Panis Angelicus
3. G. Puccini -La Boheme/ Aria Musette
4. I. Kalman - Song from operetta Grafin
Mariza
Tickets: €20.00, conc. €18.00
Performance 8.00pm
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Friday
21st November
He's back!!! That's right, Multi-platinum
selling comedian Conal Gallen returns, with his
brand new show "Still Full of It". He
is officially the fastest selling act in Northern
Ireland with all his shows selling out weeks
in advance. The show is jam-packed with hilarious
jokes, stories and songs that are guaranteed
to have you in stitches from start to finish.
For over two hours sit back, forget all your
worries and problems and let Conal Gallen enthral
you with real jokes, real belly laughs and most
importantly of all REAL COMEDY! To avoid hearing
from someone else just how brilliant the show
was, we strongly advise early booking!
Tickets: €27.50
Performance 8.00pm
Venue: Main Auditorium
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Sunday 23rd November
Duke Special is an artist aptly named. Dynamic,
musically ambitious and bracingly eccentric,
his inimitable style and lush musicality have
endeared him to music lovers around the world.
The Duke Special world is one filled with
vaudeville-esque sensibility, sing-a-longs
and addictive melodies. “My sound is
a bit vagabondy, but pure and soulful too,” he
explains. “Before this I was desperately
trying to find my voice and the kind of music
that really sat well with who I was. I’d
been in a couple of rock bands, but I always
imagined people of all ages at our concerts,
so started working on demos with a friend,
producer Paul Wilkinson, and Duke Special was
born.”
A tour de force on vinyl, he’s equally
vibrant on stage. Often joined by a small collective
of eccentric musicians - Temperance Society
Chip Bailey (drums /percussion), Councillor
Réa Curran (trumpet/ harmonium), Morris-Dancing
Ben Hales (guitar/backing vocals), and the
Poisoner Ivo Neame (sax and wurly) - the performance
easily matches the music for sheer grandeur
and individuality. In your average show you
can expect the Duke’s balmy vocals and
dreadlocked persona to be accompanied by the
theatrics of a multitude of instruments. An
old gramophone, a velvet-encased piano, Stumpf
fiddles and a collection of makeshift instruments,
join together to bring the soul of Duke Special
to life. The Duke Special 2008 November/December
tour will feature a seven-piece band, comprising
of Duke Special musicians, old and new.
Tickets: €22.50
Performance 8.00pm
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Wednesday
26th November
Newpoint Players in association with
Women’s Aid, Dundalk present;
by Shelagh Stephenson
Five Kinds of Silence tells
the story of a family living under the power
of the vicious Billy, who physically, emotionally,
and sexually abuses his wife, Mary, and children,
Susan and Janet. The stage play is adapted
from the radio production of the same name.
This play is about control and how the family is bonded by abuse. After so many
years the two daughters shoot their father during an epileptic fit.
Throughout the play we start to piece together from interviews with police officials
and psychologists with Mary, Susan and Janet, we come to understand what has
led up to this event.
We learn how Billy himself was abused when he was a child and his wife Mary who
when her mother died was left with her father, who also abused her. The play
is co-ordinated in a way to bring out Billy's passively sinister presence, although
he is not physically there, he is there in their memories. His abuse to these
women have been so horrific that they shoot him twice to make sure.
The play shows how the family have been separated from the outside world.
This production is being promoted and
supported by Women’s Aid, Dundalk as
part of their campaign for ‘International
Day against Violence against Women’
Performance 8.00pm
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Saturday
29th and Sunday 30th November
North County School of Ballet, present;
The regions premier Ballet and Contemporary
Dance school returns with their biennial showcase
Show. This show, starring pupils from age 4
to 18, features jazz, classical and traditional
music from the movies, interpreted through
classical ballet and modern dance.
Tickets: €12 and €10 conc.
Performance 8.00pm
Venue: Main Auditorium
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