project arts centre events october - december 2014
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Choose from theatre, music, dance, visual arts and everything in between at Dublin’s busiest arts centre. Project Arts Centre is Ireland’s leading centre for the development and presentation of contemporary art, dedicated to supporting artists and protecting the next generation of artists across all forms of the performing and visual arts. Find out what's on this October, November and December 2014!TRANSCRIPT
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Open Mon–Sat from 11.00am
www.projectartscentre.ie
PROGRAMME
OCT—DEC
2014
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME
As the summer draws to a close and we look
forward to the autumn and winter, we have
a superb programme of work to keep your
mind off the chill outside!
October is a special month for us;
the madness of the festival season always
brings new artists and new audiences to
the Big Blue Building. We have hosted some
extraordinary work from Dublin Theatre
Festival over the years and look forward
to welcoming more Irish and international
companies and sharing their work with you.
Since October 2013, Hilary
O’Shaughnessy has been our Theatre
Artist in Residence (in partnership with
Dublin City Council and supported by The
Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon). The
culmination of that residency is Prototype,
a new festival of play and games. Keep an
eye on our website for the full programme
which will be announced soon.
In our gallery, we have a packed
programme, including The Queen still falls
to you by Canadian artists Hadley+Maxwell
as part of Dublin Theatre Festival and a solo
show by British artist Chris Evans, curated
by Kate Strain, Acting Curator of Visual Arts.
Evans convinces unexpected people to work
with him to create extraordinary works of art
and we can’t wait to share his work with you.
Aerial dance company, Ether
Productions, are bringing their new show
The Locked Room to us in October, after
the sell-out success of their previous work
Landfall. Choreographers Fiona Quilligan and
Liz Roche will bring new works to the stage
in November, a wonderful opportunity to see
the work of two of our most celebrated dance
artists. We will round the year off with our
great friends ponydance, who are bringing
a new panto to Project; it has now become
a regular fixture in our season and I am
delighted to welcome them back!
We have new music with a series of
concerts by the Irish Composers Collective,
featuring performances and works by
OCT—DEC 2014
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David Adams, Kirkos Ensemble, ConTempo,
Rhombus, Elizabeth Hilliard & David Bremner,
Máire Carroll, Ergodos and the Dublin Laptop
Orchestra; it’s not to be missed.
From Ionesco to Stuart Carolan, we
have a fantastic line up of theatre for you.
Romania’s Bulandra Theatre presents their
seminal production of The Chairs by Eugene
Ionesco as part of the Romanian Culture Days
in Dublin. Belfast’s Aisling Ghéar Theatre
Company has been here many times and
Dave Duggan’s brilliant play Makaronik will
be a unique experience for you. Decadent
Theatre have been wowing audiences all over
Ireland with their productions of modern Irish
plays; I am thrilled to welcome them for the
first time and with such a brilliant play, Stuart
Carolan’s Defender of the Faith.
In the Cube, through November and
December, I am excited to be presenting work
by some of the most interesting up-and-
coming artists I have seen over the past year,
including Martin Sharry’s beautifully written
Looking for Work, Dan Bergin’s ultra-fun live
video game FUSED and Devious Theatre’s
sparky and wonderfully funny War of Attrition.
I am delighted to welcome
THISISPOPBABY back with national treasure
Panti. 2014 was an incredible year for Panti
and I am so happy to be bringing her show
High Heels in Low Places back to Dublin for
a limited run in December.
In 2016, Project Arts Centre will reach
its 50th anniversary. In January 2015, we will
be making a major announcement about
the celebrations; it is an extraordinary
opportunity for us to celebrate five decades
of extraordinary art and to look to the future.
I look forward to welcoming you here in
the coming months. Come visit us at Project
Arts Centre.
Cian O’Brien, Artistic Director
Choose from theatre, music, dance,
visual arts and everything in between
at Dublin’s busiest arts centre.
Project Arts Centre is Ireland’s
leading centre for the development
and presentation of contemporary
art, dedicated to supporting artists
and protecting the next generation
of artists across all forms of the
performing and visual arts.
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Why not grab a drink before
of after the show?
Our bar is open from 45 minutes before
the start of our evening performances and
stocks a large range of craft beers, spirits,
wines and soft drinks – and keep an eye
out for our weekly bar offers. It’s a great
opportunity to meet the cast after the
show – we’ll see you there!
WELCOME TO PROJECT ARTS
CENTRE
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Onlinewww.projectartscentre.ie(€0.50 booking fee applies to online bookings)
In person39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2Monday – Saturday, 11.00am – 7.00pm
By phone+353 1 8819 613.Monday – Saturday, 11.00am – 7.00pm
GroupsGroup rates are available for many of our performances for groups of 8 people or more. For more information call and ask for Andrew Adamson or email [email protected]
Looking for a bargain? Then check out our REAL DEALS –
specific nights and performances when all tickets are available at discounted prices.
Book early and saveEarlybird booking rates are now available on all shows.* Save 25% off the price of your tickets just by booking before the earlybird cut-off date, which you’ll find listed on our programme pages.
* excludes some festival performances
and REAL DEAL nights.
HOW TOBOOK
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On Foot – Project Arts Centre is the big blue building situated behind the Olympia Theatre and opposite the Clarence Hotel.
Bus – Take any bus that runs to Dame Street and either enter Temple Bar via Parliament Street and take a right onto East Essex Street or enter Temple Bar via Eustace Street or Sycamore Street and take a left onto East Essex Street.
LUAS – Take the Red Luas Line to Jervis stop. Cross the River Liffey into Temple Bar using the Millennium Bridge. Take a right onto East Essex Street and Project Arts Centre is on the left hand side of the street.
Parking OfferA special €5 parking rate is available from Fleet Street car park, simply present your show ticket when paying.
HOW TOFIND US
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Project Artists
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Project Arts Centre is more than just
this big blue building. It’s a gallery,
two performance spaces and a meeting
place for artists, makers and you,
our audience! But did you know that
Project is also a production house?
It’s the home of our Project Artists
programme. The programme exists
to protect the careers and livelihoods
of independent artists and makers
and to support the development and
presentation of their work. Project
Artists helps to make things possible,
to make their vision a reality.
OCT—DEC 2014
I’m so excited to share a little bit about
what our artists have been up to…
As part of Tiger Dublin Fringe,
The Company presented The Rest
Is Action, a co-production with Project.
They will go into development with
a new piece before the year is out.
Project Artist and Theatre Artist in
Residence Hilary O’Shaughnessy is in
preparation for Prototype, a weekend
festival of playful design. She will be
inviting you to take part in games, exhibits
and playful interventions this October
(more about that later in the brochure).
Brokentalkers are currently creating a new
piece called Frequency 783 which we can’t
wait to see this October in the Cube as part
of Dublin Theatre Festival. They have lots
to celebrate as the winners of the Grand
Prix at Kontakt International Theatrical
Festival in Torun, Poland for their show The
Blue Boy. Brokentalkers continue to tour
extensively; their next destinations are
Melbourne, Australia for Have I No Mouth
and Cherbourg, France with The Blue Boy.
They become Project’s third Theatre Artists
in Residence from next month.
Louise White Performance Maker is in
development with a new site-responsive
piece exploring issues of community.
Commissioned by Project, THEATREclub
have begun the first development phase for
a new ambitious work which will premiere
in 2016 as part of our 50th anniversary
celebrations.
And that’s not all! Project on Tour will
bring Eva Ko’átková and Dominik Lang’s
exhibition Wasteland to five Irish galleries
in 2015, from Wicklow to West Cork.
Last year, Project Artists supported 35
Irish productions, employing 243 actors,
designers, technicians and staff, touring to
16 national and 13 international venues –
and this year looks set to be even busier.
There’s a lot going on … I’ll be keeping
you updated and I’ll see you soon, ticket
in hand!
Sarah Ling
Producer
www.projectartscentre.ie
Project People
You can make a real contribution to
supporting the next generation of
independent Irish artists, have plenty
of great experiences and know that at
the same time your support is directly
helping to make this work happen.
By becoming a Project Person, you will
provide vital support to the work we do,
helping our Project Artists realise their
vision and make things happen.
Now, more than ever, we need your
support. Help us to make our future,
and that of the artists we support,
secure and bright.
Join us today from as little as €12.50
per month, and start enjoying the
benefits of a closer association with
Project Arts Centre.
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OCT—DEC 2014
EVENTS AT A
GLANCE
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OCT—DEC 2014
IF THESE SPASMS COULD SPEAKRobert Softley / The Arches as
part of Dublin Theatre Festival
Theatre
25 – 27 September
p20
THE SEAGULL AND OTHER BIRDSPan Pan Theatre as part of
Dublin Theatre Festival
Theatre
25 September – 5 October
p22
ADISHATZ / ADIEUJonathan Capdevielle as part
of Dublin Theatre Festival
Theatre
1 – 4 October
p24
FREQUENCY 783Brokentalkers as part of
Dublin Theatre Festival
Theatre
1 – 5 October
p26
BOOK BURNINGPieter De Buysser and Hans
Op de Beeck as part of Dublin
Theatre Festival
Theatre
8 – 11 October
p28
FESTIVAL+ Special Events as part of
Dublin Theatre Festival
3 – 11 October
p30
PROTOTYPEHilary O’ Shaughnessy
Games / Theatre / Talks /
Workshops
17 – 18 October
p34
THE VAMPIRE WITH NO TEETH (AND OTHER STORIES)Bram Stoker Festival
Theatre
25 October
p36
www.projectartscentre.ie
14 / 15
NEITHER EITHERLiz Roche Company and
Maiden Voyage Dance
Dance
11 – 15 November
p46
RECORDS NIGHTYoung Hearts Run Free
Music / Special Event
14 November & 19 December
p48
ICC10Irish Composers Collective
Music
19 – 20 November
p50
DEFENDER OF THE FAITHDecadent Theatre Company
Theatre
24 – 29 November
p52
LOOKING FOR WORKMartin Sharry
Theatre
25 – 29 November
p54
THE CHAIRS (SCAUNELE)The Bulandra Theatre in
Bucharest as part of the
Romanian Cultural Days
in Dublin
Theatre
25 October
p38
THE LOCKED ROOMEther Productions
Circus
28 October – 1 November
p40
CASTS AND CONVERSATIONSFiona Quilligan
Dance
5 – 8 November
p42
MAKARONIK Aisling Ghéar Theatre
Company
Theatre
11 – 15 November
p44
OCT—DEC 2014
HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES THISISPOPBABY and Panti
Theatre
1 – 6 December
p56
FUSEDDan Bergin
Theatre
1 – 13 December
p58
WAR OF ATTRITIONDevious Theatre Company
Theatre
15 – 20 December
p60
PONY PANTOponydance
Dance / Comedy
18 – 20 December
p62
THE QUEEN STILL FALLS TO YOU Hadley+Maxwell
Visual Arts
26 September – 11 October
p66
TV MUSEUM: THE MINI- SERIES #4Maeve Connolly
Visual Arts
15 – 25 October
p68
CLERK OF MINDChris Evans
Visual Arts
5 November 2014 –
17 January 2015
p70
www.projectartscentre.ie
PERFORMANCE
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OCT—DEC 2014
DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
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OCT—DEC 2014
They’re back – Dublin Theatre
Festival takes over Project Arts
Centre from 25 September to
12 October. A highlight of the
city’s cultural calendar, the 2014
programme is packed with
outstanding international work
and exciting new productions
from Ireland’s trailblazing theatre-
makers, including new work from
Project Artists Brokentalkers.
Here’s what to expect…
DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
www.projectartscentre.ie
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IF THESE SPASMS COULD SPEAK
Robert Softley / The Arches as
part of Dublin Theatre Festival
OCT—DEC 2014
Cube
25 – 27 September
7.45pm
€15 – €20
Matinee 27 September 2.45pm
All performances will be audio described
and captioned, and there will be a sign
language interpreted performance on
27 September at 2.45pm
Contains strong language
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – THERE WILL BE A POST-SHOW
DISCUSSION WITH ROBERT SOFTLEY FOLLOWING THE
PERFORMANCE ON 27 SEPTEMBER AT 2.45PM
Cast: Robert Softley
Director: Sam Rowe
Musical Director: Scott Twynholm
Music: Scott Twynholm, Stuart David
“…a strong, sexy sense of the sheer
value and beauty of life.”
The Scotsman
We know you want to look, to stare even.
It’s OK. You’re allowed…
If These Spasms Could Speak is an
outstanding solo performance based on
a collection of funny, sad, touching and
surprising stories about disabled people
and their bodies.
Created and performed by Robert Softley,
it exposes a truth behind bodies that differ
from the norm. His own narrative – told
with wry humour, charm and sincerity –
is woven through with video interviews
and monologue in an engaging and highly
charismatic way.
It is both a challenge to society’s
perceptions and desire for classifications,
and a celebration of being alive.
A sell-out hit at festivals and events across
the UK, If These Spasms Could Speak is
a tender and uplifting theatre experience.
Presented with the support of Arts &
Disability Ireland and the British Council.
IF THESE SPASMS COULD SPEAK
www.projectartscentre.ie
Pan Pan Theatre as part of
Dublin Theatre Festival
THE SEAGULL AND OTHER BIRDS
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OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
29 September – 5 October
(No performance 30 September – 1 October)
Various times
€15 – €20
Preview 25 – 28 September
Matinee 4 – 5 October 2.30pm
Contains strong language and material
of an adult nature
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – THERE WILL BE A POST-SHOW
DISCUSSION WITH GAVIN QUINN AND MEMBERS OF THE
COMPANY FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON 4 OCTOBER
AT 2.30PM
Director: Gavin Quinn
Cast: Andrew Bennett, Una McKevitt,
Gina Moxley, Samantha Pearl,
Daniel Reardon, Dick Walsh
Design: Aedín Cosgrove
Costumes: Grace O’Hara
Assistant Director: Zoe Ní Riordáin
“Magnificently stimulating and thought-
provoking theatre in an equally
devastating setting. Not to be missed.”
Sunday Independent on Pan Pan
Theatre’s The Rehearsal, Playing
the Dane
A roller coaster re-imagining of Anton
Chekhov’s much-loved comic masterpiece.
The Seagull and Other Birds is centred
around a concise new version of
The Seagull integrated with a number of
specially commissioned works. Through
the wormhole of the new work, Chekhov’s
characters find themselves in extraordinarily
different contexts: classic plays, TV shows,
YouTube and stuff they’ve just made up.
The result is playful and uncompromising –
expect lots of talk about art, some action,
and tons of love.
Creators of The Rehearsal, Playing the
Dane and Everyone Is King Lear In His
Own Home, Pan Pan Theatre continue
to explore and document wholly original
ways to experience and experiment
with theatre.
Co-production: Dublin Theatre Festival
and Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival
Groningen. Project co-produced by
NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture
Programme of the European Union.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Jonathan Capdevielle as part
of Dublin Theatre Festival
ADISHATZ / ADIEU24 / 25
OCT—DEC 2014
ADISHATZ / ADIEU
Space Upstairs
1 – 4 October
7.30pm 1 October
9.30pm 2 – 4 October
€20 – €25
Performed in English and French,
with English surtitles
Contains strong language and material
which some may find disturbing
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – THERE WILL BE A POST-SHOW
DISCUSSION WITH JONATHAN CAPDEVIELLE FOLLOWING
THE PERFORMANCE ON 1 OCTOBER AT 7.30PM
Creator and Performer:
Jonathan Capdevielle
Lighting Design: Patrick Riou
Choir: ECUME university choral
group of Montpellier
Musical Direction: Sylvie Golgevit
Executive Production: Bureau Cassiopée
“A larger-than-life solo show where
Capdevielle confronts a massive and
empty stage for a medley of disco and
baroque music, brightening the corners
with a collection of hits by Madonna
and Francis Cabrel”
Les Inrockuptibles
Jonathan Capdevielle spent his teenage
years learning to imitate pop icons and
singing the greatest hits from 1980s pop
culture – especially those by Madonna.
Adishatz / Adieu is his self-portrait;
a collection of songs that wanders between
real life and fantasy. As his performance
moves between music and conversation,
he conjures up memories of his childhood
and a past that continues to inform his
shifting identity.
On a journey to capture as closely
as possible the personas of others,
Capdevielle strives to discover the most
truthful version of himself. Sung a cappella
and featuring a male choir, Adishatz / Adieu
is a powerful study of the vulnerability
of adolescence.
Co-production: Centre Chorégraphique
National de Montpellier Languedoc
Roussillon dans le cadre de domaines,
Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-
Comté à Belfort dans le cadre de l’accueil-
studio and BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Brokentalkers as part of
Dublin Theatre Festival
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FREQUENCY 783
OCT—DEC 2014
Cube
2 – 5 October
Various times
€15 – €25
Preview 1 October
Matinee 4 October 3.45pm
Contains strong language
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – THERE WILL BE A POST-
SHOW DISCUSSION WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY
FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON 5 OCTOBER
Writers and Directors:
Feidlim Cannon, Gary Keegan
Music: Seán Millar
Choreography: Jessica Kennedy
Set and Lighting Design:
Ciarán O’Melia
Sound Design: Jack Cawley
Video Design: Kilian Waters
“Impressively honest. Profoundly engaging,
riveting, utterly compelling.”
The Irish Times on Have I No Mouth
A bold new production from Brokentalkers
which examines perspectives on health,
ageing and the future from the point of
view of two very different generations.
On stage a teenage boy foresees his
own death, while a woman in her sixties
predicts that in the future robots will
make better care-givers to the elderly,
as they would never lose patience or
become abusive.
Featuring an original soundtrack by
Seán Millar (aka Doctor Millar) and
choreography by Jessica Kennedy (junk
ensemble), Frequency 783 explores the
hopes and fears of people who imagine a
future that they may never have a chance
to realise.
Frequency 783 is the latest play from
Brokentalkers, the multi award-winning
company whose previous festival
productions Have I No Mouth and The
Blue Boy continue to tour internationally
to widespread acclaim.
Co-production: Noorderzon Performing
Arts Festival Groningen
Brokentalkers are Project Artists
www.projectartscentre.ie
Pieter De Buysser and
Hans Op de Beeck as part
of Dublin Theatre Festival
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BOOK BURNING
OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
8 – 11 October
7.30pm
€20 – €25
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – THERE WILL BE A POST-
SHOW DISCUSSION WITH PIETER DE BUYSSER FOLLOWING
THE PERFORMANCE ON 11 OCTOBER AT 7.30PM
Performer: Pieter De Buysser
Visual Artist: Hans Op de Beeck
Lighting Design: Herman Sorgeloos
Dramaturgy: Marianne Van Kerkhoven
(Kaaitheater)
Production: Margarita Production
“A truly original piece of theatre.
Five stars hardly does it justice.”
The Latest UK
History is clogged.
There are no more revolutions.
What else can we add?
In Book Burning, Pieter De Buysser tells
the story of Sebastian, a man he met at
an Occupy demonstration, whose life has
become embroiled in a WikiLeaks scandal.
He follows the man’s search to discover
the root of a genetic illness that took the
life of his wife and now threatens the life
of his daughter, Tilda. She just wants to
forget it all.
A play about forgetting and forgiving,
knowledge and riddles, secrets and the
lack of stories. A captivating fable, told
by a charming story-teller in the guise of
Schrödinger’s cat, about personal histories,
globalisation and the beginnings of a
new world.
Staged alongside a beautiful, unfolding
landscape created by visual artist Hans
Op de Beeck, Book Burning testifies to
the possibilities of language and the
magical power of a radical imagination.
Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts,
Festival Baltoscandal, Kaaitheater, Belluard
Bollwerk International, Teater Avant
Garden, BIT Teatergarasjen, Brut Wien.
Project co-produced by NXTSTP,
with the support of the Culture
Programme of the European Union.
BOOK BURNING
www.projectartscentre.ie
FESTIVAL+
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OCT—DEC 2014
Get more from Dublin Theatre Festival
with Festival+
Festival+ is a series of talks, critical events,
exhibitions, tours and work-in-progress
showcases, designed to complement the
shows in the programme.
Admission to Festival+ events at
Project Arts Centre is free but ticketed.
Tickets cannot be booked online but
are available to book through the Dublin
Theatre Festival Box Office over the phone
(+353 1 677 8899) or in person (Dublin
Theatre Festival Box Office, 44 East Essex
Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2).
Luck Just Kissed You Hello:
In Development
HotForTheatre
4.15pm, 3 October
Men, manly men, are both demonised
and celebrated. HotForTheatre, supported
by Project Arts Centre, are exploring
masculine displacement – viewing the
transitional period, the interim between
what it was to be a man and what it could
be, with people who have been both.
I’m Your Man: In Development
11.30am, 4 October
From the writer of Alice In Funderland
and the songwriter with Life After Modelling,
I’m Your Man is a love story told through
music, charting a symbolic journey from
death to new life.
Young Critics’ Panel
1.00pm, 5 October
The Young Critics’ Panel returns for an
eleventh year. One of NAYD (National
Association for Youth Drama)’s most
popular programmes, it is open to youth
theatre members who are interested in
watching theatre and discovering how
and why theatre is made. During the
festival sixteen Young Critics will see
a number of national and international
productions. You are invited to hear them
discuss their findings in a public forum
here at Project Arts Centre, chaired by
Dr Karen Fricker.
International Critics’ Forum
4.00pm, 6 October
In partnership with the NXTSTP network,
Irish Theatre Magazine and Dublin
Theatre Festival, this event will advance
our conversations about the making and
reception of Irish and international work
at home and abroad. Bringing together
international critics familiar with the
evolving ways of making theatre,
this forum will consider performance
from several angles.
www.projectartscentre.ie
(A)pollonia Staged Readings
and Q&A
4.00pm, 10 October
2.30pm, 11 October
A two-day theatrical event bringing
together Polish dramaturgy and
Irish theatre makers, (A)pollonia is a
presentation of new dramatic forms
that tackle complex historical and
current issues.
On the first day, join the editors
and authors of new anthology
(A)pollonia – Twenty First Century
Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage
in a discussion about theatre’s political
role and obligations.
The discussion will be concluded
with a stage reading of Sebastian
Majewski’s play Right Left with Heels,
directed by Ronan Phelan, new Resident
Artistic Director at the Abbey Theatre.
The second day of this event
features a medley of topics, scenes and
questions based on (A)pollonia, directed
by last year’s Irish Times Theatre
Awards nominee, Rosemary McKenna.
The Aeneid: In Development
Collapsing Horse
1.00pm, 11 October
They left a burning Troy to found
Rome. In Virgil’s story, Aeneas and
his followers endure an arduous war
on an epic journey for the future glory
of a great city. Collapsing Horse use
this foundational myth of the Roman
people to interrogate storytelling and
its relationship to truth.
4 scenes from the life of jesus
Magician King
6.00pm, 11 October
4 scenes from the life of jesus
investigates the historical and social
links between religion, mental illness
and creativity by reimagining key
scenes from the New Testament
as events in a modern context.
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Hilary O’ Shaughnessy
PROTOTYPE
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OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs and Cube
17 – 18 October
Various times
From €10
Suitable ages 16+
What would it take to make Dublin a more
playful city? Join us as we attempt to find
out by transforming Project Arts Centre into
a massive playground!
Prototype is a brand new festival of play and
interaction. This is your chance to experience
the world from a new perspective with removable
camera eyes, to jostle and joust to a Bach
soundtrack whilst trying to disarm an opponent,
to throw shapes and win glow sticks as you figure
out who got an invite to the silent disco, to duel
with foam pool noodles, and to play chase in the
dark with flashlights.
A unique festival that incites new types of social
interaction, involving people technology and
the city, Prototype is a series of performances,
workshops, talks, and games that spill across
the city, alongside an adult playground in the
Space Upstairs.
Play is for life, not just for Christmas!
Photo credit: Andrus Mets
www.projectartscentre.ie
Bram Stoker Festival
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WITH NO TEETH (AND OTHER STORIES)
OCT—DEC 2014
Cube
25 October
11.00am, 1.00pm, 2.30pm, 4.00pm
€5 per person
€13.50 family ticket for three
€17 family ticket for four
Suitable ages 6 – 10
The Vampire with No Teeth (and Other
Stories) is a handful of tales inspired
by all things spooky, combining
interactive storytelling and live
illustration for children of ages 6 – 10.
The first of three tales is the heart-
warming story of Eric, a vampire
born without the essential tools
every bloodsucker needs: a set of
impressive incisors and a mouthful
of teeth!
Especially commissioned for the
Bram Stoker Festival, these three
short mini-stories will provide a
welcome bolt-hole for any mum or
dad wishing to give the kids a treat.
Pull up a cushion, put your teeth in
a glass and listen closely!
www.projectartscentre.ie
Bulandra Theatre in
association with the
Romanian Cultural Institute,
as part of the Romanian
Cultural Days in Dublin
THE CHAIRS (SCAUNELE)The Bulandra Theatre in
Bucharest as part of the
Romanian Cultural Days in Dublin
THE CHAIRS (SCAUNELE)3
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OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
25 October
8.00pm
€16 / 14
In Romanian with English surtitles
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Writer: Eugène Ionesco
Director: Felix Alexa
Cast: Oana Pellea, Razvan Vasilescu,
Gabriel Spahiu
Set Design: Diana Ruxandra Ion
Music: Ada Milea
An old man and an old woman
wait in their house for the town to
arrive because tonight the old man
is about to reveal everything.
One of the longest-running plays
on Bucharest’s stage, this is a rare
opportunity to see one of Romania’s
best loved theatre companies take on
Ionesco’s classic absurd comedy.
The Bulandra Theatre Company has
been and is still the meeting point
of the most renowned creators of
Romanian theatre. Founded in 1947
by the City of Bucharest, the new
institution, called the City Theatre,
started its activities with a group of
nine actors under the direction of the
great Romanian actress Lucia Sturdza
Bulandra. Seen as a place of political
opposition, the Bulandra faced severe
censorship during the Communist era
but survived and, since Ceausescu’s
fall in 1989, the theatre has enjoyed
success both at home and abroad.
Part of the Romanian Cultural
Days in Dublin.
Presented by the Romanian Cultural
Institute and the Romanian Embassy
in Ireland, in association with the
Bulandra Theatre Bucharest and
the Institut Français de Roumanie.
Photo credit: Mihaela Marin
www.projectartscentre.ie
THE LOCKED ROOM
Ether Productions
40 / 41
OCT—DEC 2014
THE LOCKED ROOM
Space Upstairs
29 October – 1 November
8.00pm
€16 / 14
Preview 28 October €10
Matinee 1 November 3.00pm €14 / 12
Suitable ages 5+
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POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – 30 OCTOBER
Written, Directed, Choreographed
and Performed by Niamh Creely
and Jonathan Walsh
Produced by Lisa Fox
Lighting and Set Design by Pauric Hackett
Costumes by Shir Madness
Music Composed by Jonathan Walsh
Dramaturgy by Dan Colley
“Mirror, Mirror is one to watch…”
The Irish Times on Mirror on Mirror
Can you find out who you are when
you can’t remember who you’ve been?
Two circus performers wake up with
amnesia and find themselves in a locked
room. They haven’t a clue who or where
they are but they want to get out!
The Locked Room is Waiting for Godot
meets an explosion in a paint factory.
A mystery, wrapped in a comedy, with
circus, laughter, screams, acrobatics,
dancing, balancing, eating, climbing,
singing, fighting, a trapeze and the
accidental activation of a nuclear bomb.
Will they escape or will they miss the way
out that’s right under their very noses?
Ether Productions is a Dublin-based
aerial circus theatre company, made up
of writer and performer Niamh Creely
and Jonathan Walsh, an award-winning
burlesque performer and aerialist.
Formed in 2012, the company is driven
by a desire to produce intriguing,
exhilarating and engaging circus theatre.
Their first show Mirror, Mirror (Dublin
Fringe 2012) garnered five star reviews
and they went on to produce LANDFALL
presented at Project Arts Centre in 2013.
www.projectartscentre.ie
CASTS AND CONVERSATIONS
Fiona Quilligan
Photo credit: Kevin McFeely
42 / 43
OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
6 – 8 November
8.00pm
€16 / 12
Preview 5 November
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POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – THERE WILL BE A POST-SHOW
DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON 7 NOVEMBER.
FIONA QUILLIGAN WILL BE IN CONVERSATION WITH DR FINOLA
CRONIN ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF THIS NEW WORK
Director and Choreographer: Fiona Quilligan
Composers and Musicians: Donal MacErlaine
(guitar), Rory Pierce (cello)
Dancers: Katia Pagni, Dagmara Jerzak,
James Hosty
Lighting: Sarah Jane Shiels
“The poetic Pas de Chat illustrates her
strengths as a choreographer … with sharp
musicality, a strong visual sense and a rich
stock pile of literary references.”
The Irish Times on Pas de Chat
A new dance work that invites you inside
the mind of a dancer and examines the
powerful relationship that exists between
music and dance.
Choreographer Fiona Quilligan has spent the
past year talking to dancers about their lives
and making casts of their feet. As the feet
multiplied in number, the richness of their
conversations echoed in her mind, and so
Casts and Conversations was born.
The dancers, in dynamic rhythm and whirl, let
loose their bodies and fly in their imagination,
and perform amidst Quilligan’s unique
collection of foot casts to a live musical score.
Fiona Quilligan MA in Dance Performance,
University of Limerick, trained at the London
School of Contemporary Dance. She performed
with Dublin City Ballet and in 1986 she founded
Rubato Ballet, winning the AIB Better Ireland
Award and the Nijinsky Medal from the Polish
Artists Agency, Warsaw. Most recently, she
presented Paper Pylons at the historical site
of Wood Quay in 2011, inspired by archival
photographs of the hydro-electric project,
the Shannon Scheme, followed by Pas de Chat,
an autobiographical portrait which premiered
at Project Arts Centre in 2013. More recently,
she presented Paper Pylons at the historical
site of Wood Quay in 2011, inspired by archival
photographs of the hydro-electric project the
Shannon Scheme, followed by Pas de Chat,
an auto-biographical portrait which premiered
at Project Arts Centre in 2013.
Fiona Quilligan would like to acknowledge the
support of the Arts Council and Dance Ireland.
www.projectartscentre.ie
MAKARONIK Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company
44 / 45
OCT—DEC 2014
Cube
11 – 15 November
8.15pm
€15 / 13
Matinee 13 November 1.30pm
Suitable ages 16+
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POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – FRIDAY 14 AND
SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER
Writer: Dave Duggan
Director: Bríd Ó Gallchoir
Set Designer: David Craig
Lighting Designer: James McFetridge
Digital Designer: Oisín O’Brien
Makaronik: derived from the Latin macaronic, meaning
the humourous or satirical intent to mix up languages.
Empirish: similar to George Orwell’s Newspeak or the Klingon
language in Star Trek; lie-down-lie-down is Empirish for sex!
The Gist of the Irish language scenes will be displayed on a screen
A multi-lingual science-fiction drama in
Irish, English and Empirish*
It’s 2084 and a world where ‘The Empire’
reigns supreme. Most European languages
are forbidden and we are introduced to the
menacing wilderness that was once Belfast.
Makaronik, the last woman standing, has
been instructed by ‘The Empire’ to wrap
up her archive and send back all remnants
of the Irish language to ‘The Centre’ for
‘storage’. Two high level officials arrive
to ensure that all goes smoothly …
but will it all go as smoothly as planned?
Futuristic yet rooted in an ancient tradition
(think of Beckett’s Endgame, Ridley Scott’s
Bladerunner, with just a hint of The
Matrix), Makaronik is a play that asks
big questions about the relentless drive
of technology and what we are losing
as it makes our world seem smaller.
Makaronik is a story about home, security,
and the basic human need to create a
community, even under the most alien
of circumstances.
Aisling Ghéar is the Irish Language
Theatre Company in the North of Ireland.
The company’s mission is to contribute
to the development of Irish Language
Theatre and the valuable contribution
it can make in expanding and enriching
the vibrant cultural experience of this
country’s unique heritage.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Liz Roche Company and
Maiden Voyage Dance
NEITHER EITHER46 / 47
OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
12 – 15 November
8.00pm
€18 / 14
Preview 11 November
Matinee 15 November 2.00pm €14
Suitable ages 12+
The performance on 13 November will
be audio-described.
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POST-SHOW DISCUSSION – A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH MEDBH
MCGUCKIAN, PAULA MCFETRIDGE, LOUISE LOWE, CHOREOGRAPHER
LIZ ROCHE AND THE CAST, CHAIRED BY DR AOIFE MCGRATH,
WILL BRING TOGETHER ARTISTS FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES
AND BACKGROUNDS, MIRRORING THE CHOREOGRAPHERS’
EXPLORATION OF DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW IN THE PIECE
FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON 13 NOVEMBER
Choreographer: Liz Roche
Music: Neil Martin
Cast: Philip Connaughton, David Ogle,
Katherine O’Malley, Vasiliki Stasinaki
Lighting and Set: Ciaran Bagnall
Costume: Catherine Fay
Dramaturgy: Louise Lowe
Outstanding new dance show inspired
by the writings of poet Seamus Heaney.
Two dance companies, one from Belfast and
one from Dublin, come together to perform a
new dance work that looks at the predicament of
living out two conflicting states of mind at once.
Identities, beliefs, emotions and aspirations are
put to the test in this poignant blend of dance,
poetry and music.
“…the strain of being in two places at once,
of needing to accommodate two opposing
conditions of truthfulness simultaneously…”
— Seamus Heaney
Established in 1999, Liz Roche Company
(formerly known as Rex Levitates) is one
of Ireland’s leading contemporary dance
companies. Based in Dublin and led by
choreographer and artistic director Liz Roche,
the company produces a diverse programme
of dance productions and has toured to the UK,
France, Germany, Cyprus, China and the USA.
Maiden Voyage Dance is Northern Ireland’s
commissioning company for contemporary
dance. Led by Artistic Director Nicola Curry,
this Belfast-based company works with
national and international choreographers
and collaborators to create an innovative
and flexible repertoire for theatres, installation
and public space
Liz Roche Company and Maiden Voyage Dance
would like to acknowledge the support of the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts
Council of Ireland, Belfast City Council, Dublin
City Council, Dance Ireland and Dance Limerick.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Young Hearts Run Free
48 / 49
RECORDS NIGHT
Illustration by Peter Kane
OCT—DEC 2014
Project Bar
14 November & 19 December
9.30pm
Free admission – donations will be accepted
on behalf of Dublin Simon Community
“Lives and breathes intimate warmth”
State
“Sublime”
The Irish Times
“This is how Dublin used to be”
Le Cool
Join us in our bar on 14 November and
19 December as we welcome Young Hearts
Run Free for more in our series
of Record Nights.
Resident DJs Siobhán Kane, Daragh
O’Halloran and Peter Toomey plus special
guests will brighten up the bleak midwinter
and they promise a special treat for their
December night – we heard mention of
a big hooley with cake!
Admission is free but donation buckets
will be around the bar so dig deep and
help us support the great work of Dublin
Simon Community!
Young Hearts Run Free was set up in
2008 in order to help promote the creative
community in Ireland, as well as raise
funds for the Dublin Simon Community.
Young Hearts Run Free create events in
unusual spaces, in order to reappreciate
and reimagine the city, mingling emerging
and established artists. They have put on
events in churches, galleries, private homes,
markets, hillsides in Howth and basements
of office blocks, from Dublin to Reykjavík,
and have been part of festivals such as the
Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin Writers Festival
and Iceland Airwaves.
Contributors to events have included
President Michael D. Higgins, John Grant,
JP Donleavy, Paul Muldoon, Villagers,
Adrian Crowley, Mike Scott, Andy Irvine,
Katie Kim, Moonface, Alasdair Roberts,
David Thomas Broughton, Porcelain Raft,
Roddy Doyle, David O’Doherty, Kevin Barry,
Woodpigeon, John Kelly, Dónal Lunny,
Lisa O’Neill, The Spook of the Thirteenth
Lock, Mossy Nolan, and many more.
www.projectartscentre.ie
2-day festival // 8 concerts //
40+ composers // 10 years of history //
Irish Composers Collective
ICC10
50 / 51
OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
19 – 20 November
Various times
€5 – €10
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“The ICC is a ready-made community of creators,
performers, and listeners, and they are blazing
a trail for 21st-century music in Ireland.”
Tom Service, The Guardian
The Irish Composers Collective celebrates
ten years of concerts with ICC10.
Day 1 | 19 November
1.10pm | David Adams, Tickets €5
The festival will open with a solo piano concert
from David Adams, who gave the ICC’s first
recital almost ten years ago. This concert
is divided equally between performances
of work by the earliest members of the ICC
alongside those who have joined recently.
6.00pm | Kirkos Ensemble, Tickets €10 / 7
Kirkos, a trailblazing ensemble
founded by ICC members, will play
ten new works by ICC composers.
7.30pm | ConTempo, Tickets €10 / 7
The world class RTÉ ConTempo Quartet
will perform seven pieces in their first
ever appearance with the ICC.
9.30pm | Rhombus Quintet, Tickets €10 / 7
The evening will close with jazz and a
collaborative composition from the amazing,
jazzy Rhombus Quintet.
Day 2 | 20 November
1.10pm | Elizabeth Hilliard and
David Bremner, Tickets €5
Day two of the festival will open with a recital
from Elizabeth Hilliard and David Bremner,
performing a mixture of new works and works
by ICC members already in their repertoire.
6.00pm | Máire Carroll, Tickets €10 / 7
Brilliant, young pianist Máire Carroll
makes her ICC debut with a solo recital.
7.30pm | Ergodos, Tickets €10 / 7
Project regulars Ergodos send us to
another planet with their extraordinarily
atmospheric production I Call to You.
9.30pm | Dublin Laptop Orchestra,
Tickets €10 / 7
The festival will close with an electrifying
set from Dublin Laptop Orchestra.
The Irish Composers’ Collective (formerly the
Young Composers’ Collective) was founded
in 2003. They are a non-profit organisation
dedicated to providing Irish composers with
opportunities to create concerts of their
music with professional musicians. The
ICC has launched the careers of many of
the most successful emerging composers
of the last decade, providing them with
countless opportunities to develop both
their artistic talents and their careers.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Decadent Theatre Company
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
52 / 53
OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
24 – 29 November
8.00pm
€22 / 18
Suitable ages 16+
Contains strong language and scenes
of a violent nature
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Writer: Stuart Carolan
Director: Andrew Flynn
Cast: Anthony Brophy, Diarmuid
De Faoite, Michael Ford-FitzGerald,
Peter Gowen, Lalor Roddy
Lighting: Mike O’Halloran
Set Design: Owen MacCarthaigh
Costume: Petra Breathnach
Sound Design: Carl Kennedy
A gripping thriller from the writer of
RTÉ’s Love / Hate.
It’s 1986 and a visitor arrives to a small
farm in Armagh with the job of rooting
out a police informer. Paranoia grips as
the farmer Joe, his son Thomas, and a
long-serving farm hand, Barney, all fall
under suspicion.
An electrifying exploration of a family,
entrenched in paramilitarism under
the constant watch of British forces.
Defender of the Faith is a blackly comic
and chillingly real exploration of a family
tested by loyalty and love.
Decadent Theatre Company has been
producing and touring Irish theatre since
2000 with an emphasis on classic works
from the Irish dramatic tradition as well as
presenting new and contemporary work.
The company has worked in collaboration
with many arts organisations to produce
work most recently embarking on extensive
tours with Port Authority, The Seafarer,
Faith Healer, The Quare Land, Here We Are
Again Still, Country Music and A Skull in
Connemara. In 2012, they were nominated
for three Irish Times Theatre Awards, Best
Actress and Best Sound Design for Doubt,
and Best Director for Port Authority.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Martin Sharry
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LOOKING FOR WORK
OCT—DEC 2014
Cube
26 – 29 November
8.15pm
€14 / 12
Preview 25 November €10
Suitable ages 12+
Contains strong language
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Written and Directed by Martin Sharry
Lighting by Eoin Winning
Cast includes Barry O’Connor
“Not everyone will indulge him,
but outsiders don’t play by the rules.”
Irish Times on Martin Sharry
“…bravely inhabits the spaces
between many worlds including
those of theatre, poetry, prose and
performance arts … its effect lingers
long after you’ve left the theatre.”
Irish Examiner on Martin Sharry
Neil has quit his job and taken to the
drink. His wife Sheila is having an affair
with their lodger Alan. Neil (helped by
Youtube) has a revelation.
Fast forward five years and Neil and
Sheila are back together and have a
five-year-old son. But a familiar face
reappears and questions are raised.
How will this love triangle play out?
What would you do to get by?
And is what you see what you get?
Martin Sharry is a writer, performer
and theatre maker. He comes from
Inisheer, the Aran Islands and
is based in Dublin. He has been
involved in theatre since 2008 when
he attained a Masters in Drama and
Theatre Studies at NUI Galway.
In 2010 he co-founded Side-Show
Productions with Dick Walsh and
Zita Monahan. Martin’s own show
I Am Martin Sharry was presented
in Dublin Fringe in 2012.
www.projectartscentre.ie
THISISPOPBABY and Panti
56 / 57
Photo credit: Fiona Morgan
HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES
OCT—DEC 2014
Space Upstairs
1 – 6 December
8.00pm
€22 / 18
Suitable ages 16+
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Writer and Performer: Panti
Director: Phillip McMahon
Producer: Jennifer Jennings
“Hilarious” Hotpress
“Wickedly funny” The Independent
“Impeccable one-liners” The Herald
Join national f*&^ing treasure,
performance legend and accidental
activist Panti in her hit comedy High
Heels in Low Places, returning to Dublin
this December following a sensational
(and scandalous) national tour.
Charting brushes with infamy, near
misses with fame, and adventures in
the seedy underbelly, the ‘High Queen
of Ireland’ invites you in to her ultra-
padded, hyper-real, stiletto-shaped
world, as she swaps stories from the
gutter and trades secrets of the stars.
Come join Auntie Panti as she embraces
you in her over-inflated bosom and
promises that you can ask her anything…
THISISPOPBABY is a dynamic and
ground-breaking Irish theatre company,
whose events have played to over 70,000
people in the past seven years. In that
time, the company has had fourteen
sold-out theatre shows, won four major
awards and been nominated for sixteen
more; successfully toured to the UK
and Australia; ran performance art club
WERK and an alternative late-night
arena at Electric Picnic Music Festival;
and created Queer Notions, Ireland’s
queer arts festival at Project Arts Centre.
HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES
www.projectartscentre.ie
Dan Bergin
58 / 59
FUSED
OCT—DEC 2014
Cube
1 – 13 December
8.15pm
€15 / 12
Suitable ages 16+
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“… achieves that which seems
almost impossible – a show
that relies almost entirely
on improvisation, audience
participation and interactivity,
but which is also completely
non-intimidating to even the
least initiated theatre goer.”
Irish Theatre Magazine
Have you ever wished that
theatre had the excitement of
a videogame? Would you like
to be in control?
A live performance gaming
adventure in which audience
members share the controls,
working together to guide
our hero through a variety
of mind-bending puzzles.
MARVEL at stunning real-
world graphics.
SHRIEK with delight at new
challenges.
CURSE your fellow players for
completely missing the point.
The clock is ticking … can you
defeat the boss, save the
world, and maybe even get
the girl?
There’s only one way to
find out!
www.projectartscentre.ie
Devious Theatre Company
WAR OF ATTRITION
60 / 61
OCT—DEC 2014
Cube
16 – 20 December
8.15pm
€16 / 12
Preview 15 December
Suitable ages 15+
Contains strong language and sexual references
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Writer: John Morton
Director: Niamh Moroney
Producer: Ken McGuire
Cast: John Doran, John Morton,
Roseanna Purcell
Lighting: Gerry Taylor
Sound Design: Ken McGuire
Set Design: Niamh Moyles
Costume: Lucy McKenna
Composer: David Sheenan
Stage Manager: Aidan Doheny
Graphic Design: Paddy Dunne
“…funny, sharp, relevant and delivered
with panache”
Una Mullally, The Irish Times
“An Easter Rising / Wikileaks mash up …
the bang-on zeitgeistsy script is backed
up by excellent use of live technology,
and a completely believable spiralling
chain of events.”
Susan Conley, Irish Theatre Magazine
Daisy is an unwitting internet celebrity,
the ‘Psycho Chugger’ whose video currently
has 178,234 views on Youtube – it is ruining
her life.
Alan, a blogger by the name of Generalissimo
Malaise who claims to target the ‘everyday
arsehole’, is the one who made it.
And Chris, well he just got caught in the crossfire.
There will be casualties when a nasty game
of one-upmanship descends into a relentless
war. War Of Attrition is a destructively comic
thriller that takes you from parties on the
streets of Dublin to the darkest parts of the
internet where revolution is brewing.
Devious Theatre Company was founded
in Kilkenny in 2006. The company works
across a number of genres but stays rooted
in a style of comedy that it has developed
over the years. In 2011 they became the first
theatre artists in residence in Kilkenny Arts
Office and have also won a PPI Award for
Radio Drama. Their work has featured at Cork
Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival,
Galway Theatre Festival among others and
they previously presented work at Project
Arts Centre as part of TEXT | Messages
and The Theatre Machine Turns you On.
www.projectartscentre.ie
ponydance
PONY PANTO62 / 63
OCT—DEC 2014
PONY PANTO
Space Upstairs
18 – 20 December
8.00pm
€16 / 14
Suitable ages 16+
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Director: Leonie McDonagh
Performers: ponydance and special guests
Lighting: Sean McCormack, Gareth Doran
Music: Donal Scullion, Katie Richardson
“Truly has to be seen to be believed”
Pastiebap
It just wouldn’t be Christmas at
Project Arts Centre without them!
This year, ponydance have toured from
Africa to America with their work but
don’t worry – it hasn’t changed them a
bit. Still good looking, funny, charming
and half-naked, the ponies are back
with a cracker of a Christmas show.
Expect all the usual Pony Panto
treats plus unusual surprises and a
live band featuring some of Belfast’s
finest musicians.
They’ll be waiting for you under
the mistletoe!
On the go since 2005, ponydance
have been honing their craft, playing
to audiences large and small globally,
and are one of Ireland’s quirkiest
exports as well as being one of
the country’s local favourites.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Visual Arts
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OCT—DEC 2014
Hadley+Maxwell
66 / 67
THE QUEEN STILL FALLS TO YOUO
CT—DEC 2014
Gallery
26 September – 11 October
11.00am – 8.00pm
Free admission
Canadian artists Hadley+Maxwell are working
with Project Arts Centre to create an
installation in our gallery, as part of Dublin
Theatre Festival, curated by Tessa Giblin.
Ireland has a complex relationship with
monuments and public sculptures, with
destruction, decommissioning and even
burial continuing to reinforce our belief in the
power they hold. In this installation, the echo
of a tale of imperialism is traced through the
history of a 1908 Dublin monument to Queen
Victoria. Moved from Leinster House to the
Royal Hospital Kilmainham in 1948, it was
later abandoned in an Offaly reformatory
school before finally being gifted to the city
of Sydney, becoming the crowning partner to
the recently restored Queen Victoria Building.
Hadley+Maxwell have used sheets of
Cinefoil — a material used in theatre lighting
design — to make imprints of the monument’s
most communicative attributes. They have
captured Victoria’s gestures, power and
physical appearance and re-organised them
into a symphony of shapes and shadows.
The Queen still falls to you is an exhibition
informed by the dual contexts of theatre
and imperial history.
Developed from a work commissioned by
the 19th Biennale of Sydney, the exhibition
celebrates the relationship between Project
Arts Centre and Dublin Theatre Festival.
Hadley+Maxwell’s installations, performances
and writings employ diverse media to rework
iconic images and traditional forms as they
are expressed in pop-cultural, artistic and
political movements. They cut into reified
narratives via direct touch, transposition and
re-figuration, putting into play the absences
cast in relief. Hadley+Maxwell have been
collaborating since they met in Vancouver,
Canada, in 1997. Public presentations of
their work have included solo exhibitions
at Artspeak (Vancouver), Contemporary Art
Gallery (Vancouver), Künstlerhaus Bethanien
(Berlin), Kunstverein Göttingen (Germany)
and Smart Project Space (Amsterdam),
and group exhibitions at galleries and
festivals including the Vancouver Art Gallery,
Kunstraum München, the Power Plant
(Toronto), the National Gallery of Canada,
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Seattle Art
Museum, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (France)
and Witte de With (Rotterdam). They are
represented by Jessica Bradley Gallery,
Toronto, and live and work in Berlin, Germany.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Maeve Connolly
68 / 69
TV MUSEUM: THE MINI-SERIES #4
OCT—DEC 2014
Gallery
15 – 25 October
11.00am – 8.00pm
Free admission
The final instalment of this four-part series
of lectures and screenings curated by writer,
lecturer and researcher Maeve Connolly.
TV Museum: The Mini-Series #4 consists
of a screening of Shana Moulton’s Feeling
Free with 3D Magic Eye Poster Remix, 2004,
which runs continuously in the gallery.
The screening is accompanied by The Artist
and the Actor, a lecture by Connolly on 22
October, which examines several scenarios
involving artists and TV actors, forming
the basis for a discussion on labour, affect
and agency.
The series explores and extends ideas central
to her ongoing research on contemporary art
and media.
Screening 15 – 25 October,
11.00am – 8.00pm, Free admission
Shana Moulton, Feeling Free with 3D Magic
Eye Poster Remix, 2004
Lecture 22 October, 5.30pm – 7.00pm,
Free admission
The Artist and the Actor, Maeve Connolly
Tickets for lectures are free but limited;
booking opens 8 October.
Please contact Box Office on 01 8819 613
or by email at [email protected]
to book your place.
Maeve Connolly is a writer, lecturer and
researcher whose work centres on concepts
and forms of publicness in contemporary art,
media and culture. Her publications include
TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age
of Television (Intellect / University of Chicago
Press, 2014), The Place of Artists’ Cinema:
Space, Site and Screen (Intellect / University
of Chicago Press, 2009) and The Glass Eye:
Artists and Television (co-edited with Orla Ryan
and published by Project Press, Dublin, 2000).
Project Arts Centre is delighted to collaborate
with IADT, Dun Laoghaire to present this
exceptional body of work throughout 2014.
TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age
of Television has been kindly supported by
an Arts Council of Ireland Project Award.
TV Museum: Contemporary Art and
the Age of Television is on sale from
the Project bookshop.
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Chris Evans
70 / 71
CLERK OF MIND
OCT—DEC 2014
Gallery
5 November 2014 –
17 January 2015
11.00am – 8.00pm
Free admission
A newly commissioned presentation
of works by British artist Chris Evans
reconfigured specially for Project
Arts Centre, curated by Kate Strain.
Evans engages in conversations
with people from a broad range
of professions, who he selects
because of their symbolic or
public roles. Those selected receive
unsolicited projects from him, and
his work is created through their
realisation of these assignments.
Recently, this has included the
directors of a luxury jewellery
company, the editors of Morning
Star newspaper, an anonymous
philanthropist and members of the
international diplomatic community.
Their collaboration becomes entangled
along invisible paths of consultation
and negotiation, encased in the
resulting art objects they produce.
Chris Evans (born 1967, Eastrington)
lives and works in London. Recent
solo exhibitions include Morning
Star Rebranded, Piper Keys, London
(2014); Chris Evans, The Gardens,
Vilnius (2014); CLODS, Diplomatic
Letters, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
(2012); Goofy Audit, Luettgenmeijer,
Berlin (2011); The Cell That Doesn’t
Believe In The Mind That It’s Part Of,
Marres, Maastricht (2010); I Don’t
Know If I’ve Explained Myself, Mala
Galerija, Ljubljana (2010); Take A
Bureaucratic Bow, Objectif Exhibitions,
Antwerp (2009).
You are welcome to join us for the
opening of this exhibition on Tuesday
4 November from 6.00pm – 8.00pm.
Chris Evans, A Needle Walks into a Haystack, 2014.
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial 2014.
Photo credit: Mark McNulty
www.projectartscentre.ie
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