NUI Galway Theatre Week
March 10th - 14th 2014
Time- Table
March10th - 14th 2014
Electra
Venue: The Cube
10.00am
8.00pm
NUI Galway Centre for Drama
Frank McGuinness’s adaptation of Sophocles’ "Electra" has been described by "New York Times" critic Peter Mark as a “sleek and hypnotic text” which showcases “soul-satisfying drama at its most passionately, intensely alive.” This production resurrects the history of the House of Atreus to ask what does Electra mean today and what can we learn by returning to the classics through the lens of the now? Frank McGuinness will be attending the Monday Morning performance with talk back to follow.
Full Timetable:
Sunday 9th-Tuesday 12th @ 8pm
Monday & Tuesday matinées @10am
Tickets €10
Shakespeare Workshops
Merchant of Venice
Venue: Bailey Allen Hall
11.00am
Tuesday March 11th
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.
Merchant of Venice
ThereisBear! will bring the darkness and witchcraft of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to vivid life. Experience a fresh, quick-fire round of Shakespeare on its feet and at its finest! Together with students, the Bears will stage key scenes and work the students through how they most embody the themes, images and symbols the play evokes. Including a sample character study of the eponymous antihero, the workshop will give students skills which will help with their revision. The students will go home with booklets reviewing what they have learnt, new skills in approaching a theatrical text, and some interesting memories that will help that pesky prose stick with them all the better!
Full Timetable:
Tuesday 11th, 11am
Thursday 12th, 1pm
Tickets €10
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
1984
Venue: Bank of ireland Theatre
8.30pm
GUMS' Summer Nights
Venue: Bailey Allen Hall
6.00pm
NUI Galway Musical Society (GUMS)
Can you imagine after a 6 month run up to The Drowsy Chaperone, & standing ovations The Society have decided to push it even further! In 14 days, they will choose, rehearse and perform their next musical for theatre week! Come see how they get their toes tapping!
Let them transport you back to the heady rhythm of summer, loving and tight jeans.
Full Timetable:
Monday 10th, 6pm,
Tuesday 11th, 6pm.
Wednesday 12th, 6pm
Tickets €5/8
Shakespeare Workshops
Othello
Venue; Bailey Allen Hall
1.00pm
2.30pm
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.
Othello
Race, Gender, Duplicity and Jealousy all come in to play in the high tension Othello. ThereisBear! aim to immerse them in the world of the text with and interactive and fun version of this tragedy. The students will walk into the world of Cyprus and leave feeling a part of it, and closer to the text. The workshops will be a mix of rapid and energetic questions, answers, chats and performances. We will open the students' eyes not only to the Shakespeare's play as a text, but to the play as a piece of dramatic art that can change the very air in the room.
Full Timetable:
Monday 10th, 1pm, 2.30pm
Tuesday 11th, 1pm, 2.30pm
Wednesday 12th, 10am, 11.30am
Friday 14th, 10, 11.30am
Tickets €10
Exhibition
Venue: Aras na Mac Leinn Foyer
All Day
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.
