Archive for April, 2009

The Abbey Theatre is delighted to present the world premiere of a new play by one of Ireland’s finest playwrights, Tom Murphy.  Opening on Tuesday 3 June THE LAST DAYS OF A RELUCTANT TYRANT is the seventeenth work that Murphy has premiered at Ireland’s national theatre.

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1. Are you a feminist?
I am feminist, neo-feminist, post-feminist and alter-feminist.

2. Do you consider your work to be a feminist project?
My work cannot be resumed to that but, of course, it explores that question. When you work with the body, and with your own body, you combine the intimate and the social; feminist struggles have made it abundantly clear that the body is political, and this awareness has become a major historical issue.
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Confession time: I only went to see October because my Mum (who has an allergic reaction to online booking-charges) sent me down to the box office to buy tickets and in a reward for ‘beating the system’, she said she’d bring me along too. I had never been to the Olympia to see a play, it was definitely more of a live-music sort of venue for me, so I was really intrigued to see what it could offer as a theatre space. The theatre night in question was really bizarre for me. I was used to taking my comfortable seat in the Abbey or the Gate while listening to tinkling piano and discussing the set and ambience knowingly with a fellow drama student. Here I was squashed into (let’s be honest) a terribly painful seat in the Olympia while ushers were selling ice-cream and advertisements were being projected onto the fire safety curtain onstage.
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Dublin is hosting a world premiere!  And it’s not the latest offering from Marina Carr (hooray!) but something a little more Hollywood…  A stage production of The Shawshank Redemption is opening at The Gaiety 19^th May.  In other exciting, showbiz news I got to have a chat with the director, Peter Sheridan.

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ABBEY THEATRE TO BRING BACK SELL-OUT SHOW ‘AGES OF THE MOON’ BY SAM SHEPARD

STARS STEPHEN REA AND SEÁN MCGINLEY TO REPRISE ORIGINAL ROLES

13 – 18 November 2009
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