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Shakespeare at An Grianán Theatre

 

Icarus Theatre Collective (UK) presents

Macbeth

Monday 26 March 2012 at 11am and 7.30pm

Tuesday 27 March 2012 at 10am and 1.30pm

Tickets: €10

****“the on-stage chemistry between Brookes and Joel Gorf is electrifying” Three Weeks

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Cyclone Repertory Company (IRELAND)

present The Shakespeare Sessions

Allow your students to explore one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays with stunning performances, historical background, discussion of major themes and audience participation and interaction. The Shakespeare Sessions are an exciting synthesis of analysis and performance that have the primary goal of aiding learners in their Junior and Leaving Cert exams.

 

Romeo and Juliet

Monday 12 March at 10.30am and 1.30pm

Tuesday 13 March at 10.30am and 1.30pm

Tickets: €14

 

The Merchant of Venice

Thursday 15 March at 10.30am and 1.30pm

Tickets: €14

 

Hamlet

Friday 16 March at at 10.30am and 1.30pm

Tickets: €14

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One Donegal Festival

 

Basam

by Idan Meir

Tues 29 Nov 2011 at 11am and 8pm

Free admission but advance booking required.

The play Basam is about one man's journey from violence to non-violence and explores the broader moral themes of forgiveness and hope during the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The play demonstrates parallels with issues of conflict resolution in Ireland. At the core of the story, the play asks of its audience: 'What motivates people to say no to violence and choose the road to peace?'

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Brian Friel at An Grianán

 

Wed 28 September to Sat 1 October 2011 at 8pm

Aristocrats

by Brian Friel

A co-production between An Grianán and Workhouse Theatre Co

Tickets: Wed all tickets €10, Thu to Sat €15/€12

 

Set, like so many of Friel's plays, in the fictional Donegal village of Ballybeg, Aristocrats explores similar themes to his 19th century set drama The Home Place except here the focus in on an upper class Catholic family and the action takes place in the 1970s.

 

Ballybeg Hall is the decaying home of District Justice O'Donnell where those who come back for a wedding stay to attend a funeral. Friel's chronicle of three sisters and their 'peculiar' brother reveals the way 'in which the ache of one family becomes the microcosm for the ache of a society'. Directed by Iarla McGowan.

First produced by the Abbey Theatre in 1979, Aristocrats won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play (1988) and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1989).

 

'a lovely play, funny and harrowing...Mr Friel makes the Irish condition synonymous with the human one.' Frank Rich, The New York Times

 

'an ironic, loving, imaginative, and all but faultless play. Make that a faultless play.'

Edith Oliver, The New Yorker

 

Fri 18 & Sat 19 November 2011 at 8pm

Winners and Afterplay

An Grianán Theatre

Tickets: €12/€10

 

Winners - directed by John McGinley

In Winners, a teenage couple study for their final examines on a sunny day outside. Their future seems to be all set: Mag is pregnant, they are engaged to be married, the lease for their flat is signed. The day, however, ends quite differently than expected. Fragile and poetic in style, it is a firm favourite of drama lovers the world over.

 

Afterplay - directed by Sean McCormack

Afterplay is Friel's homage to the Russian playwright Chekhov. Twenty years after their previous fictional lives ended, two characters from different Chekhov plays meet by chance. In a run-down café, Andrey Prozorov, the brother of Chekhov's Three Sisters (and husband of the ghastly Natasha), wanders in to find Sonia Serebryakova, niece of Uncle Vanya. Friel fleshes out the experiences they might have had and the relationship they might pursue.

"beautifully and tenderly written and significantly adds to the Chekhov canon." British Theatre Guide

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