There's dark secrets, magical imaginations and TWO fantastic theatre festivals at the Project this September and October
HATCH THEATRE COMPANY present
FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING
Time: 15.00 (6th Sept ONLY, €14) / 20.00
Date: 22nd August - 6th September (previews - 20th & 21st Aug, €14th)
Tickets: €20/€15 (Mon - Thurs) / €22/17 (Fri - Sun)
The islanders carry the burden of a terrible secret.
One they can't bring themselves to tell their children. But when a stranger comes calling their world is blown apart forever.
CALYPSO PRODUCTIONS present
FAIRYTALEHEART
Date: 25th August - 6th September
Time: 15.30 (Saturdays) / 20.15
Tickets: €12 / €8
A young boy transforms a dreary room in magical theatre, where people can create their own imaginative universe. When a girl called Kirsty joins in, what begins as a clash of personalities develops into a heart-felt friendship.
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
GÚNA NUA THEATRE COMPANY
LITTLE GEM
Date: 9th - 13th September
Time: 18.30
Tickets: €15 / €12.50
Kay is the 'wrong side of sixty', and is off to Ann Summers in search of some answers. Daughter Lorraine's poppin' pills 'cos it turns out she is a bit of a mentaller after all. And grand-daughter Amber's having strange side effects from that exercise DVD with yer one from Coronation Street.
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
JOHN MORAN
SAORI'S BIRTHDAY!
Date: 8th - 13th September
Time: 16.30 (12th ONLY, €10) / 21.00
Tickets: €15 / €12
Protégé of Philip Glass, evolutionary composer and choreographer John Moran presents his latest blending of dance, music and theatre, described by The New York Times as "one of the most important and artistically innovative works of the year". Returning to Dublin once again with his silly, sweet and utterly luminous neighbour Saori to explore what would happen if she had a party?
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
EMMA FITZGERALD/ JULIE LOCKETT
THE RIDGE, THE RUNNER
Date: 9th - 10th September
Time: 13.00
Tickets: €12 / €10
What if every cell in our bodies had the potential to realise the uniqueness and originality of all that there is? Emma Fitzgerald and Julie Lockett, choreographed by the radical Deborah Hay, manifest spontaneous love songs, delicious curves, fake pliés and a pot of gold while negotiating the answer to this fascinating question.
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
DJINN THEATRE COMPANY
THE MAGIC TREE
Date: 17th - 20th September (preview - 16th Sept €10)
Time: 15.00 (19th only, €10) / 21.15
Tickets: €15 / €12.50
The story of a love born in a very dark place between a man who wants
to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they
shelter in an abandoned summer home on Dublin's coast and tentatively
discover what unites and divides them.
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
THISISPOPBABY
LOVE 2.0 - INVESTMENT POTENTIAL and TWO HOUSES
Date: 16th - 20th September (preview 15th September, €10)
Time: 15.00 (20th only, €10) / 18.15
Tickets: €15 / €12.50
Sex. Money. Power. Reputation. Thisispopbaby present two new short plays by two of Ireland's most exciting emerging writers.
Commissioned by The Abbey Theatre as part of their 20:LOVE season, Two Houses by Belinda McKeon and Investment Potential by Phillip Mc Mahon tackle the thorny theme of love in modern Ireland.
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
VOLCANO
Date: 16th - 20th September
Time: 16.00 (18th only, €12) , 19.00
Tickets: €18/14 (conc)
Outrageously fun poetry brought to life with swirling animation, sonic hi-jinx and stellar performances combining physical and vocal virtuosity. A stylistic collision of theatre, dance, sound and animation in tribute to Toronto's legendary 1970s sound poets, The Four Horsemen. So far out... it's back in.
ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008
1927
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Date: 25th - 27th September
Time: 22.00
Tickets: €22 (25th only) / €25
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea cleverly combines 1920s
cabaret, live music, and performance with impossibly glamorous movies
and wickedly funny animation.
ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008
CHRG
CALIGULA
Date: 1st - 5th October (preview - 30th Sept, €20)
Time: 14.45 (4th only, €20)
Tickets: €22 (1st & 2nd ONLY) / €25
What would you do if you found you had absolute power, and realised at
the same time you could never have what you really wanted? Camus'
Caligula is set in Rome as the empire starts to decay, strangled in the
grip of its most notorious emperor.
ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008
IVANNA MULLER
WHILE WE WERE HOLDING IT TOGETHER
Date: 1st - 4th October
Time: 22.00
Tickets: €22 (1st & 2nd) / €25
Five performers on a bare stage strike a deceptively simple tableau.
While they struggle physically to hold it together for the next 67
minutes, our perception of what the theatre is and what it means to be
an audience is constantly challenged.
ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008
TIM ETCHELLS & VICTORIA
THAT NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY
Date: 2nd - 5th October
Time: 13.00 / 19.30
Tickets: €28 (2nd only)/ €30
That Night Follows Day, a piece for adults featuring 16 children
between 8 and 14 years old, catalogues the many ways the children's
world is determined by that of their carers. With great clarity and
humour it examines the systems of parenthood, upbringing,discipline,
care and welfare that define children's and adolescents' worlds.
ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008
GARE ST. LAZARE PLAYERS IRELAND
FIRST LOVE
Date: 6th-12th October
Time: 13.00 / 19.45
Tickets: €22 (6th - 9th) / €25
One of Samuel Beckett's early novellas, First Love contains much of
his distinctive black humour and a plot that is regarded as a
masterpiece of Beckettian perversity. A young man, expelled from the family home, takes refuge on a bench by a canal. There he meets a woman who takes him home, with comically disastrous consequences.
ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008
THE CORN EXCHANGE
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Date: 7th - 18th October
Time: 13.00 (11th & 18th only, €22) / 18.00 (13th only) / 19.30
Tickets: €28 (Tues - Thurs) / €33 (Fri - Sun)
It's Big Daddy's birthday and he's dying. The heat is rising for
his family as they square off to take-over his enormous estate.
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