NUI Galway Theatre Week
March 10th - 14th 2014
Time- Table
March10th - 14th 2014
Identity of Expression
with MC Pixie Woo
Venue: The Bailey Allen Hall
8.30pm
Jerome Hynes
One Act Play Series
Venue: The Cube Theatre
1.00pm
Thursday March 13th
India Society
Holi festival commemorates the victory of good over evil . & the end of winter. The main theme is to have a good time, to forgive and forget & to mend broken relationships. Also known as the 'Festival of colours'. It is celebrated by putting coloured powders on friends, families & strangers alike. Music & dance is an essential feature so come in old clothes preferably a white t-shirt with perhaps a change for later!Followed by Party in the College Bar at 6pm.Thursday 13th @ 3pm – 5pm.Venue: Green beside the IT Building
Admission Free
Shakespeare Workshops
The Merchant of Venice
Venue; Bailey Allen Hall
1.00pm
ThereisBear! Theatre Company
Let the bears transport you through the pages of Shakespeare’s text with experienced actors and directors. Using a variety of rehearsal and workshop techniques, we will bring these plays to life in a revision session like no other. ThereisBear!’s actors and directors will work together with exam students to unlock the page and bring it to life on stage.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a fantastic, quick-fire play, where in a race against time, hatred; anti-Semitism, friendship and debt all come to fruition. Come and experience dissecting a performance, rather than a text. You can start and stop the performers when you're lost, write up what you find most important on our boards, and even try reading some Shakespeare yourself, until it's a breeze. The Bears will show the finesse with which Shakespeare tells this modern story of love, gangs, danger and the hunt for vengeance in Elizabethan Venice. We will fish out the most pertinent scenes and themes, so the students can discuss with us every wonderful aspect of this play, in ways that will help them in the future studies.
Full Timetable:
Tuesday 11th, 11am
Thursday 12th, 1pm
Tickets €10
GiG Soc
Variety Show with MC acclaimed Drag Queen Pixiwoo who will perform from her show and feature guest society performances, creating a night of lavish entertainment.
Admission €3
1984
Venue: Bank of ireland Theatre
8.30pm
NUI Galway Dramsoc
Directed and Adapted by Chris Moran
Winston Smith knows he cannot escape the Thought Police forever. In the end he will be faced with the unimaginable horrors of room 101. A new adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece. Big Brother Is Watching You!
Full Timetable:
Tuesday 11th -Friday 14th 8.30pm.
Tickets €5/€8
When Threatened go to Sleep
Dom, Emmet and Niall share a flat. Dom likes to spend his days slouched in front of the PlayStation, getting better and better at dying. Emmet attempts to maintain a modicum of domesticity in the Ground Zero of soda cans, crisp packets and toilet paper. Niall is sleeping most of the time. Lads will be lads. Don’t judge.
Playwright: Robin Oree,
Director: Peter Shine
Cast: Luke Murray and Martin Talbot
Spoiling Sunset
Set in the midst of sunset on a roof in the city, Purgatory never looked more appealing. Spoiling Sunset follows the relationship and past of two young people. Thrown into an unwanted situation, they realise they both have to deal with unresolved problems. An intimate tale of self-reflection we continuously question life and the brevity of it all.
Playwright: Gemma Creagh
Director: Charlotte Moor
Cast: Sean Kearns, Holly Hughes
About the Series: Six playwrights with directors and cast preform their new works, mentored by Charoltte McIvor, Maria Tivanan & Emma O’Grady, Series Manager Hannah O’Reilly, Technical Manager Matt Burke, Series Director Ríona Hughes.The winning play will win the Jerome Hynes Trophy, there is also an award for Best Production, Best Director, Best Ensemble, Best Male Actor, Best Female Actor and Judges Choice.
Full Timetable:
Wed, March 12th
1pm Inn, Spoiling Sunset
7pm The Inn, Spoiling Sunset & The Ward
Thurs, March 13th
1pm When Threatened go to Sleep & Stolen
7pm When Threatened go to Sleep, Stolen & Café
Fri, March 14th
1pm Café & The Ward
6pm Omnibus of all 6 plays and award ceremony
Venue: Cube Theatre, Aras na Mac Leinn
Tickets: 1pm - €3/€5,
7pm -€5/€8,
Omnibus -€8/€10
Holi Festival of Colours
Venue: Green beside the IT & Orbsen
3.00pm
- 5.00pm
When Threatened go to Sleep
Dom, Emmet and Niall share a flat. Dom likes to spend his days slouched in front of the PlayStation, getting better and better at dying. Emmet attempts to maintain a modicum of domesticity in the Ground Zero of soda cans, crisp packets and toilet paper. Niall is sleeping most of the time. Lads will be lads. Don’t judge.
Playwright: Robin Oree,
Director: Peter Shine
Cast: Luke Murray and Martin Talbot
Spoiling Sunset
Set in the midst of sunset on a roof in the city, Purgatory never looked more appealing. Spoiling Sunset follows the relationship and past of two young people. Thrown into an unwanted situation, they realise they both have to deal with unresolved problems. An intimate tale of self-reflection we continuously question life and the brevity of it all.
Playwright: Gemma Creagh
Director: Charlotte Moor
Cast: Sean Kearns, Holly Hughes
Café
‘Why do we keep coming back here?’ A couple’s attempt to understand their complex relationship begins with their return to a Cafe, but transforms into the demise of their twisted reality.
Playwright: Russell Browne,
Director: Julie Breen
Cast: Ryan Hehir & Dee Ní Closcaí
About the Series: Six playwrights with directors and cast preform their new works, mentored by Charoltte McIvor, Maria Tivanan & Emma O’Grady, Series Manager Hannah O’Reilly, Technical Manager Matt Burke, Series Director Ríona Hughes.The winning play will win the Jerome Hynes Trophy, there is also an award for Best Production, Best Director, Best Ensemble, Best Male Actor, Best Female Actor and Judges Choice.
Full Timetable:
Wed, March 12th
1pm The Inn, The Ward
7pm The Inn, The Ward & Stolen
Thurs, March 13th
1pm When Threatened go to Sleep & Spoiling Sunset
7pm When Threatened go to Sleep, Spoiling Sunset & Café
Fri, March 14th
1pm Café & Stolen
6pm Omnibus of all 6 plays and award ceremony
Tickets: 1pm - €3/€5,
7pm -€5/€8,
Omnibus -€8/€10
Film: DevD
Venue: Large Acoustic Room,
Áras na Mac Léinn
7.00pm
India & Film Societies
The film Dev.D is an Indian film released in 2009. Written and directed by Anurag Kashyap, it is a modern-day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas, previously adapted for the screen by P.C. Barua and Bimal Roy and more recently by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Dev.D was embraced by the media, critics and public. The film is set in contemporaryPunjab and Delhi, where familial ties are negotiated by the traditions of patriarchy and marriages are reduced to a game of power and "honour". It is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship & remorse. Devdas, a rich boy falls in love with a middle class girl but the class divide complicate their simple love story. The film powerfully depicts the prevailing customs of Bengal in the early 1900s.
Admission Free
Jerome Hynes
One Act Play Series
Venue: The Cube Theatre
7.00pm
Arts in Action: Anam Theatre
Director: Sarah O'Toole Actor: Andrea Kelly
GRANUAILE
Tomboy. Leader of Men. Pirate Queen. Rebel. National Icon.
We know all this but is there more to discover about Granuaile AKA Grace O’Malley AKA Mrs O’Flaherty-Bourke?Gangster? Double Agent? Matriarch who puts family first?
Follow the adventures of two fearless script-writers, through a melange of theatrical genres, as they try to pin down this national woman of mystery. A work-in-progress devised by Sarah O’Toole (Anam Theatre) and Caroline Lynch (Mephisto).
Thursday March 13th 1pm
Admission Free
Granuaile
Venue: Bank of Ireland
1pm
1.00pm
Art Soc Exhibition
Venue: Áras na Mac Léinn Foyer
11.30am
Art Society
The exhibition is entitled 'Double Yellow Lines' and is based on the theme of Urban Art, which is a style of art that relates to contemporary urban culture. It is a combination of all visual art forms arising from urban life, including graffiti, political paintings, cityscapes and much more! The exhibition will represent a broad range of artists whose works range from traditional pieces to those using more modern techniques.
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