Art is not a luxury item, but it is the key to our survival,” writes Willie White in an introduction to the program at the Dublin Theater Festival, which opens on 29 September. And the lineup he chose as the festival’s artistic director is a living proof of that.
When theaters were forced to close during lockdown, artists and audiences (with a few notable and disturbing exceptions) valiantly tried to keep the art stage spirit alive. We can think that we have deceived ourselves in many ways. And what White has to offer this year is real abundance.
In particular, there is a wonderful and exciting international element. This is, perhaps unsurprisingly, particularly welcome as our native production companies (especially the National Theatre) have recently focused on looking inside. We always need an international perspective to avoid becoming an island country.
Among the international products are Romeo Castellucci’s BrothersIt’s been 18 years since the Italian brought his company to Ireland. Giulio Cesare When Trazidia endogonidia.
Brothers From a highly stylized work of actors, it presents a man who is removed from the street shortly before a performance, given a police uniform, and agrees to perform orders from a voice he has never heard. It’s a disturbing sound at the same time. Performed at the O’Reilly Theatre.
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“Bros” is at the O’Reilly Theater at Belvedere College.
lack of lies Jointly Belgium and Brazil, Luanda Casella uses the format of a TED talk to show how orators can manipulate and deceive us, especially through online publishing. in the project.
Crossing national and international boundaries is the collaboration of Gare St Lazare Players with the Laguna Playhouse and Rubicon Theater in the United States. realistic jones, featuring two suburban couples with the same house and shared last names.of new york times called Will Eno’s comedy “wonderful and bizarre”, and the production is staged at Smock Alley.
At home, with Edna O’Brien’s premiere, the Abbey remains firmly in Irish territory. joyce woman100th Anniversary Tribute UlyssesDirected by Conal Morrison.
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Arguably, Sylvia Beach, whose novel had little chance of ever being published, does not appear to have made an appearance. This seems strange. Especially since it’s also debatable that, with the exception of Nora Barnacle, the women who appear are only known for their relationships with supposedly great men.
Of course, it is not uncommon for revisionists to view such women as ‘ignored’, but that can also be viewed as a dubious assessment.
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Sean McGinley to star in Tom Murphy’s ‘Dark Whistle’ at The Abbey
The early (and influential) work of the great Tom Murphy, whistle of darkness The Jason Byrne-directed Peacock stage gets a new production, starring Sean McGinley as the terrifyingly vicious Dada, the matriarch of an Irish immigrant family destined for self-destruction.
Allison McKenna’s b*spoke company returns to the Irish stage with the world premiere of Frank McGuinness in Tallagh’s Civic Dinner with Groucho, will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the festival. TS Eliot and Groucho Marx, an unlikely pairing even in the afterlife, meet for dinner at a facility presided over by an owner who apparently rules the universe.
But with two notorious disruptors, a pair of geniuses, anything is possible.
‘Momentus’ is also a description of Colm Tobin’s 1990s set blackwater lighthouseBut as much as it deals with the death of its main character from HIV/AIDS, it’s been quite a while, and David Horan’s stage adaptation may suffer from a slight sense that its time has passed. Horan will direct in Gaiety for Verdant Productions.
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Andrew Bennett and Janet Moran in Eugene O’Brien’s “Heaven”
Bring fish amble weather, a new play by Eugene O’Brien to Blanchardstown’s Dry Oct, will also be performed in New York. It features a troubled married couple, and in addition to their troubles, they are attending a wedding in Midland.
Dead Center company and Emilie Pine in collaboration good sex At Trinity’s Samuel Beckett Theater, they call it “A Love Story in an Age Without Love,” and each night a different performer tells a story of lust, betrayal, and loneliness.
They don’t even rehearse or read scripts together. But they will participate in that new theatrical phenomenon – an intimate director will teach them how to touch.
I’m tempted to add “I’m not kidding you” to that sentence, but then I’m outdated.
