ARDAL O’HANLON
Comedy
Ireland
the legend who play father dougal mcguire, Father Ted star, Ardal O’Hanlon is delighted to present his latest stand-up show for 2013. The style is observational, the subject matter is life itself, and the default expression is one of utter disbelief!
Lurking beneath Ardal’s mild-mannered demeanour resides a sharp and probing comic brain. Here, he explores the world within and around him demonstrating why the peddling of jokes was not only his fate, but probably the only sensible way to live life.
Anndrew maxwell
Comedy
Ireland
One of Ireland’s best know comics, Andrew Maxwell continues to dominate the live and festival comedy circuits with sold-out shows around the world including the Edinburgh Festival and Montreal’s Just for Laughs. His TV appearances include One Night Stand, Wall of Fame, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You?, Argumental, Celebrity Juice, Mock the Week, Sky Atlantic’s new comedy series Don’t Sit in the Front Row and Morgan Spurlock’s New Britannia.
David O’Doherty
Comedy
Ireland
A truly original and unique voice in Irish comedy, David O’Doherty’s shows are a gentle rollercoaster ride through the general absurdities of life, love and erm…. pandas. Quite simply, one of the best stand-ups in the world, with a slew of awards, sold out tours and TV appearances; David is an unmissable, late night Festival treat.
– See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/comedy/david-o-rsquo-doherty/#sthash.h5PngXbX.dpuf
Five brave performers arrive with no script and not the faintest idea of what will happen. Willed on by a supportive crowd, they improvise whole sketches and comic dramas that are amazingly inventive, blossoming into flights of surreal brilliance. This show features the improvisational talents of Stephen Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen, Ian Coppinger and Greg Proop – See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/comedy/whose-line-is-it-anyway_1/#sthash.mrKjacYr.dpuf
Laughter Loft: a GAf insituation at this stage! 🙂
Venue every day:The Ruby Room, The King’s Head 1pm
Comedy
Ireland
Early afternoon mayhem with a big side helping of mirth and madness as local lad made good Gerry Mallon, hosts and introduces some of the biggest names on the comedy circuit. With a different line up every day, the best and brightest new talent will be joined by stalwarts like Kevin Gildea, Fred Cooke, Eleanor Tiernan, Eric Lalor, Foil Arms and Hog and Jarlath Regan.
Before I kick of the theate and dance highlights I have to acknowledge Enda walsh getting an honorary degree in NUI Galway as well as Tom Murphy, Conor McPherson, Patrick Mason, Sineád Cusack and Bob Crowley at UCD which i have blogged about on July 1st and tody
Enda Walsh will be conferred with a Degree of Doctor of Literature (honoris causa). Enda Walsh is a multi-award winning Irish playwright. His work has been translated into over 20 languages and has been performed internationally since 1998.
His recent plays include Misterman, performed in Ireland, America and Britain, 2010 – 2011; The New Electric Ballroom, which toured Ireland, Australia, Edinburgh, London, New York and LA 2008-2009; and The Walworth Farce, which played Ireland, Edinburgh, London and New York, as well as an American and Australian tour 2007-2010. All of these plays were produced by Druid Theatre. His other plays include Delirium; Chatroom, The Small Thing, Bedbound and Disco Pigs.
He has written the Tony Award-winning book for the musical Once, which is currently playing on Broadway. His film work includes Disco Pigs (Temple Films/Renaissance) and Hunger (Blast/FILM4) and the forthcoming, Weightless (Smuggler Films, New York).
others conferred on that day were :
Dr Rita Colwell will be conferred with a Degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa). She is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Chairperson of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.
Dr Colwell has served as Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998-2004. During her term she oversaw a budget increase and a consolidation of the support levels provided to scientists and engineers with NSF grants. In addition she broadened the NSF range of programmes with special interaction in K-12 science and mathematics education, graduate science and engineering education and the increased participation of women and minorities in science and engineering.
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Dr Colwell holds a B.S. in Bacteriology and an M.S. in Genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and serves on science advisory boards worldwide. She received the National Medal of Science from the US President in 2006.
Mr Leonard Moran will be conferred with a Degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa). Leonard Moran is a biomedical industry entrepreneur based in Ballina, Co. Mayo. He is the founder and CEO of Ovagen, the world’s first economically sustainable producers of germ-free eggs and antibodies.
Prior to establishing Ovagen, Leonard founded Biological Laboratories Europe Limited (Biolabs) which was acquired in 2002 by Charles River Laboratories. Previously he spent 8 years with the British Medical Research Council (MRC) from 1968-76 where he focused on clinical research. In addition he has a wealth of practical operational and construction experience associated with biological facilities.
These three graduands join the ranks of previous honorary alumni which include, among many others, Nelson Mandela, Hilary Clinton, Christy O’Connor Snr and Jnr, Enya, Anjelica Huston, Fionnuala Flanagan and Margaret Atwood.
in terms of theate and dance, GAF has added many backstage events across sphere of the festival but especially theate and dance
MIES JULIE
THEATRE · Irish PREMIERE
SOUTH AFRICA
THE BAXTER THEATRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE THEATRE PRESENT
MIES JULIE
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY YAEL FARBER
BASED ON AUGUST STRINDBERG’S MISS JULIE
MUSIC BY DANIEL AND MATTHEW PENCER
Following sensational reviews in Edinburgh, New York and London the multi-award winning, international hit Mies Julie comes to Galway for just eight performances.
In the smouldering kitchen of a remote South African farmhouse 18 years after the end of apartheid, a single night of tenderness and brutality unfolds between a black farm labourer, his white master’s daughter and the woman who raised them both. The visceral struggles of contemporary South Africa are laid bare as John and Julie battle over power, sexuality, memory, mothers and land.
This explosive new adaptation of Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie from the internationally acclaimed director Yael Farber and Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre gets straight to the drama’s dark and steamy heart.
Contains Strong Adult Themes and Nudity. Suitable for age 16+
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL
Post-show talk with director Yael Farber and the cast, 23 July
jULY 22 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 23 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 24 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 25 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 26 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 27 14.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 27 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 28 20.00 Town Hall Theatre
PRICE : €20-€29
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LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS presents
HOWIE THE ROOKIE
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MARK O’ROWE
STARRING TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR
Three hearts poundin’ loud, three lungs, pairs of lungs, suckin’ louder, suckin’ hard.
Then softer, then calmer, then quieter.
Then quiet.
Howie tells a story. Then Rookie takes it up. Mark O’Rowe’s electrifying epic tale is a wild, urban odyssey through a nightmare landscape – hilarious and grotesque by turns.
Meet the enormous Avalanche, monstrous on the bar stool in her white ski pants. Meet Ladyboy, a dangerous gangland thug with Siamese fighting fish and (it is rumoured) three sets of teeth. Meet Mouse, Howie’s younger brother. Meet the Howie. Meet the Rookie.
Mark O’Rowe’s ‘thrilling new play’ (The New York Times) has been re-imagined for a single actor.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, star of RTÉ’s Love/Hate, will play both Howie and Rookie. Brace yourself for an adrenaline-filled theatrical odyssey.
Containing strong language and sexual references. Suitable for age 16+
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL POST-SHOW TALK WITH TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR AND MARK O’ROWE 23 JULY
After thephenomenal sucessful The Outgoing Tide Northlight Theatre return to Galway with Stella and Lou.
THEATRE · European PREMIERE
U.S.A
NORTHLIGHT THEATRE PRESENT
STELLA AND LOU
BY BRUCE GRAHAM
DIRECTED BY BJ JONES
FEATURING PENNY SLUSHER, FRANCIS GUINAN AND ED FLYNN
On a quiet night at a Philadelphia bar, three kindred spirits find themselves on the cusp of change. Loneliness haunts Lou, a kind bartender set in his ways. He finds company with Stella, a feisty nurse with two grown kids and a failed marriage, and Donnie, a young barfly teetering between excitement and uncertainty about his upcoming wedding.
All three must face up to changing times and relationships past as they struggle to embrace the future in this funny and compassionate new play. From the author of The Outgoing Tide, a huge hit at Galway Arts Festival 2012, Stella & Lou is an intimate exploration of friendship, forgiveness, and the longing for companionship.
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL POST -SHOW TALK WITH PLAYWRIGHT BRUCE GRAHAM, DIRECTOR BJ JONES AND THE CAST 17 JULY
Theatre · NEW WORK FROM GALWA Y
Ireland
BLUE TEAPOT THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT
SANCTUARY
BY CHRISTIAN O’REILLY
DIRECTED BY PETAL PILLEY
An ordinary trip to the cinema and a welcome break from their training centre provides an opportunity for Larry and Sophie to steal away and be together at last. But now that they’re alone, what will they do?
Beautifully bittersweet, this warm comedy keeps you laughing and crying. Sex and disability are explored in this captivating story that shows what happens in those rare moments alone.
Not suitable for Children.
JULY 17 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 18 19.00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 19 19.00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 20 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 24 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 25 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 26 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 27 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre
PRICE : €12 – €15
– See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/theatre-amp-dance/sanctuary/#sthash.5cho2gCv.dpuf
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E EMERGENCY ROOM AND GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENT
RIVERRUN
ADAPTED, PERFORMED AND DIRECTED BY OLWEN FOUÉRÉ
SOUND DESIGN/COMPOSTION BY ALMA KELLEHER
SCENEOGRAPHY BY MONICA FRAWLEY
LIGHTING DESIGN BY STEPHEN DODD
CO DIRECTED BY KELLIE HUGHES
…Soft morning, city! Lsp! I am leafy speafing. Lpf!
Folty and folty all the nights have being falling on to long my hair…
Fouéré’s work in creating this world premiere began by listening for the voice of ALP (Anna Livia Plurabelle) in her guise as the river ‘Life’, whose never-ending course through Finnegans Wake emits a powerful transformative energy as she dissolves into the great ocean of time.
Fouéré, one of Ireland leading theatre makers, in collaboration with an exciting creative team, takes a unique approach to Joyce’s extraordinary ‘sound-dance’. A performance not to be missed.
Riverrun is made possible with the support of the Arts Council. Production support provided by Rough Magic.
Previews 18,19,20
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL POST -SHOW TALK WITH OLWEN FOUÉRÉ AND THE CREATIVE TEAM 24 JULY
JULY 18 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 19 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 20 20.00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 22 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 23 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 24 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 25 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 26 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 27 14:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 27 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre
PRICE : €20-€25
– See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/theatre-amp-dance/riverrun_1/#sthash.BjTFUpSU.dpuf
WITH JOE HANLEY AND CLARE BARRETT
The story of an Irish marriage.
Maisie and Dermot are the perfect picture of incompatibility. Married in 1950, they tell us about their life together from early disillusion to late acceptance.
By turns poignant and hilarious, A Galway Girl shows us the ups and downs of a shared life that was a touching mixture of humour and tragedy, held together by a love that endured.
First produced in 1979, A Galway Girl was a hit in England, Ireland and South Africa and remains a beautifully observed play and a fascinating social document.
Geraldine Aron was born in Galway but spent most of her adult life in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Her other writing credits include My Brilliant Divorce, Same Old Moon, The Donahue Sisters and The Stanley Parkers. She is also the author of numerous plays produced for television and radio, and Toscanini, a screenplay directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
ULY 16 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 17 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 18 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 19 14.00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 19 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 20 14:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 20 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 22 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 23 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 24 18.00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 25 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 26 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 27 14.00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 27 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre
PRICE : €12 – €15
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Tom Murphy’s THE LAST DAYS OF A RELUCTANT TYRANT in Irish
A powerful epic depicting ARINA, a mother consumed by greed who triumphs during the boom, but the bust comes and Arina’s fortunes fail. She is thrown onto the charity of her favourite son, then left destitute by his amoral greed and hypocrisy. This satire is a savage look at boom and bust with keen resonances for our time. – See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/theatre-amp-dance/an-tioranach-drogallach/#sthash.IoPdhXML.dpuf
JULY 16 to 20th 20:00An Taibhdhearc
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Dance shows
The Rite of Spring and Petrushka
Dance Theatre · Irish Premiere
Ireland
A FABULOUS BEAST DANCE THEATRE PRODUCTION IN COLLABORATION WITH SADLER’S WELLS, CO-PRODUCED WITH GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL , MOVIMENTOS FESTWOCHEN DER AUTOSADT IN WOLFSBURG, BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PRESENT
THE RITE OF SPRING & PETRUSHKA
CHOREOGRAPHER & DIRECTOR MICHAEL KEEGAN-DOLAN
With music by Igor Stravinsky.
Michael Keegan-Dolan re-imagines his Olivier-nominated version of The Rite of Spring, which premiered at the London Coliseum in 2009 to great critical acclaim. Described both as ‘inspired’ and ‘exhilarating’ by The Times of London, The Rite of Spring draws on the same ancient, savage forces that inspired the Russian composer 100 years ago.
The evening is completed by Keegan-Dolan’s new interpretation of Petrushka. Performed by the exquisite dancers of Fabulous Beast, both pieces together create an intoxicating double bill of dance theatre that honours the searing modernity of Stravinsky’s music. The celebrated concert pianists Lidija and Sanja Bizjak will accompany both pieces.
Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre is supported by the Arts Council.
Contains Nudity and Scenes of a Sexual Nature, suitable for age 16+
013 PROGRAMME –
Knee Deep
PHYSICAL THEATRE · Circus
Australia
CASUS PRESENTS
KNEE DEEP
CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY CASUS
Australia’s hottest new circus company takes the art form to a whole new level.
Using traditional and contemporary circus techniques, Knee Deep is a spectacular display of choreography, acrobatics, trapeze and aerial stunts, full of incredible physical skill, brute strength and exquisite beauty.
Galway Arts Festival has a tradition of introducing young Australian companies to the European stage including the world-renowned Circa. Casus, with their breathtaking and fragile display of skills and performers who test the very limits of the human body, are the next generation about to take the world by storm.
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL
POST -SHOW TALK WITH THE CAST 23 JULY
JOHN SCOTT/IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE PRESENT
HYPERACTIVE
CHOREOGRAPHY BY JOHN SCOTT
MUSIC BY MEREDITH MONK
DANCERS: MARCUS BELLAMY, ASHLEY CHEN, PHILLIP CONNAUGHTON, KEVIN COQUILLARD, WINSTON DYNAMITE BROWN
Hot on the heels of John Scott’s internationally successful Actions and Body Duet, comes Hyperactive, an explosive and thrilling new work for five virtuoso male dancers. Hyperactive is wonderfully enjoyable, using frenetic falls, athletic jumps and physical extensions.
A development from Scott’s hit Actions – Hyperactive, a live human architecture installation has the finest cast of male dance talent from Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, the Broadway musical Spiderman and the TV musical series, Smash.
Text of the inroductory address delivered by Profesor Tony Roche on 15 June 2013, on the occasion of the presentation of the Ulysses Medal on Sinead Cusack
Deputy-President, Honoured Guests, Ladies and Gentleman.
Sinead Cusack is the eldest daughter of two renowned Irish theatre actors, Cyril and Maureen. After acting at the Abbey Theatre in the 1960s as one of the brightest of a rising generation of Irish actors, she went to England in the 1970s and debuted with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-on-Avon. Sinead Cusack says that initially she was intimidated by the greatness of Shakespeare, thinking she should just stand stock still and deliver the lines. But she persevered and learned to make the lines her own by concentrating on Shakespeare’s profound understanding of human nature rather than on his intimidating greatness. Since then, she has played a great many of the dominant, independent but embattled heroines of those wise Shakespearean comedies, receiving a Tony Award nomination in New York for her performance as Beatrice in Much AdoAbout Nothing. But she has gone further in her characteristically intrepid Shakespearean journey, tackling the most substantial of the female roles in the tragedies, Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, one of her greatest achievements. Most recently, she has played Paulina in that great late Shakespearean romance, The Winter’s Tale, directed by Sam Mendes in the Bridge Project that was shared between the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Old Vic in London.
Sinead Cusack has not neglected the Irish side of her theatrical lineage and instead has kept a consistent and core strand of Irish work running through her career. In the 1970s, she was the best Pegeen Mike I have ever seen, in a TV production of Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World with John Hurt as Christy Mahon. Fiery, spirited, beautiful, independent, she brought a fine contemporary edge to the part. Two years ago, in an important first production between the two National Theatres of these islands, she played one of the most iconic roles in the Irish theatrical canon, Juno in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and thePaycock. Again, she made sure that the play was not just discussed for the male double act of Captain Boyle and Joxer Daley but for the interplay between her character and her husband, played by Ciaran Hinds. We were more aware than usual that this was a woman who was slaving in manual labour to put sausages in the pan for a disabled son, a striking daughter and a shiftless, chronically work-shy and alcoholic husband. Before our eyes, this ordinary woman grew in tragic depth until she commanded the increasingly bare stage with her courage and fortitude.
Sinead Cusack has made a no less major and garlanded contribution to the work of contemporary writers. In 2006, she pulled off an utterly convincing double role of a younger and older woman in Tom Stoppard’s Rock and Roll for which she received a Tony nomination for Featured Actress and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress. But it is her electrifying performances in plays by Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Sebastian Barry and Conor McPherson that we should particularly celebrate today. The most difficult role of her career, she says, was Mai O’Hara in Sebastian Barry’s Our Lady of Sligo in 1998. The play is primarily centred on an old Irish woman, lying in bed, dying of cancer; there are occasionally other characters and flashbacks but in the main it is a series of long, demanding monologues. The degree of her success in bringing this neglected old woman to unforgettable life can be measured not only by the audiences worldwide who flocked to see the play but by the prestigious theatre awards it garnered: an Olivier nomination and the Evening Standard award and the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress. Sinead Cusack has reminded us forcefully that Brian Friel was writing major roles for women before Dancing at Lughnasa in her performances as Alice in Aristocrats and Grace in Faith Healer. I cannot imagine a better Grace: beautiful, bearing the loss of her child by a husband who describes her as ‘barren’, exercising all the forensic skill of her legal training the better to understand but not cure her passionate attachment to the faith healer. Her recent performance in Conor McPherson’s stage version of The Birds at the Gate brought a strong female role to the fore as the playwright moved into new and exciting territory. And there is Frank McGuinness, with whom she has collaborated memorably over the years. He wrote the version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in which she starred with her father and her own two sisters, Sorcha and Niamh, at the Gate in 1990. McGuinness has also written screen roles for her, most recently a savage, tender, searing two-hander for Sky Arts, Crocodile. In it, Sinead Cusack plays a white lawyer approaching an imprisoned black woman she has been hired to defend. The white woman says she has gone to London to study law, from another country (it is implied from Ireland). In the imperial centre she has listened and she has learned, but she has retained her own personality, her own independence and her own imagination.
Frank McGuinness scripted these lines and the part with Sinead Cusack in mind, and they describe what she herself has achieved. She has gone from Ireland to an extraordinary career worldwide on stage and screen – rising in particular to the challenges of the poetic theatre of Shakespeare and Chekhov – but she has brought all of this home not only with frequent appearances on the Irish stage and in Irish film but with her award-winning and definitive work in the very greatest of our native playwrights.
Praehonorabilis Pro-Praeses, totaque Universitas,
Praesento vobis hanc meam filiam, quam scio tam moribus quam doctrina habilem et idoneam esse quae admittatur, honoris causa, ad gradum Doctoratus in Litteris; idque tibi fide mea testor ac spondeo, totique Academiae.
I know a few good talks at the 2nd History Festival of Ireland Duckett’s Grove, County Carlow.were on the American Civl war so i thought i’d stick up this up here
I recently saw Little John Nees sparkplug post irish times theatre awards it was v good. it was apdapted for radio and can been listined to here
I also saw The Real McCoy by Tommy Marren presented by Crokey Hill Player in the latter weeks of June before it hit Cork and Dublin It started Tommy Marren and Ireland West Music TVs Gerry Glennon in main roles . It was a great show very funny. but Crokey Hill Players are money making machines €2 for a sheet they called a programme, €5 for raffle and €15 for a DVD or more if people were buying mupile copies to to relatives in the Irish diaspora abroad. I have to to congratulate the Crokey Hill Players on reaching 100th shows though
Patrick Talbot Productions presents
The Love Hungry Farmer
Adapted and Performed by Des Keogh
From Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer by John B. Keane
Direct from a sell-out run at Gaiety Theatre Dublin! . It is going on an Irish tour to venues across the country
Des Keogh,, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, returns with his hugely successful and award winning show.
It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, a bachelor of ‘indeterminate’ age and according to his own assessment, ‘past his best’ and evidently still a virgin. McLane’s amorous adventures range from the hilarious to the pitiful.
John B. Keane ranks among the great Irish writers. His plays include Sive,The Field and Big Maggie. His ‘Letters’ series of books were a spectacular success, with The Love Hungry Farmer being particularly outstanding.
‘Des Keogh is superb. A consummate actor wedded to a skilled raconteur, the wine he offers is vintage’ Irish Times
Fiercely serious and bruisingly hilarious’ New York Times
‘Keogh is a wonder. A master-storyteller’ Associated Press
Zachary Quinto €50 | Friday 12th July 2013 | 10a.m. – 1p.m. | Radisson Blu Hotel, Galway
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with Hubbard Casting and Screen Training Ireland, are delighted to announce that Zachery Quinto will be the subject of this year’s Actors Masterclass.
“I have an inherent understanding to his (Spock’s) nature, which is one of duality – the head versus the heart. That is certainly something I can relate to. As someone who has been considered pretty intellectual and wordy, I also have a deep well of emotional life. I understand what it means to be in constant relationship to both of those aspects of myself.”
The role of Spock required an actor capable of cultivating a strong emotional life that lies just under the surface, only exploding forth at times of great duress. Feeling emotions but only rarely emoting them is something counter-intuitive to most actors but Quinto absolutely nailed the balance in his big-screen breakthrough, garnering rave reviews for his portrayal and helping the film earn over $250 million internationally, making it the most successful film of the long-running Star Trek franchise.
The prolific actor has gone on to star in such popular TV shows as 24, Heroes and American Horror Story, as well as producing and starring in Margin Call. Now, fresh from reprising his role as Mr. Spock in Star Trek into Darkness, Quinto is preparing to make his long-anticipated return to the West of Ireland for the 25th Galway Film Fleadh.
The Actors Masterclass will be hosted by John Hubbard of Hubbard Casting and will provide an intensive interactive environment in the skills, methodology and aesthetics of film acting aimed at actors working or wanting to work more in film. The masterclass will cover such topics as:
Starting out as an actor Dealing with casting directors Securing an agent Preparing for an audition Working on set Relationship with the director and many more.
Places are limited – please be advised that all applicants MUST be over 18 years of age and MUST submit a CV and headshot in order to be considered for a place.
The masterclass costs €50 and will take place on Friday the 12th of July from 10am – 1pm in the Radisson Hotel, Galway. To apply for a place, log onto http://www.screentrainingireland.ie with your CV and register your details. Please email your headshot and contact details to masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
For further information on all masterclasses and workshops, please contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
**Update** The closing date for applications has been extended to 1pm Thursday the 4th of July 2013
Past Actors have included: Amanda Plummer, Michael Fassbander, Jessica Lange, Jeremy Irons, Kathy Bates, Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson, John Lynch, Stanley Tucci, Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Colm Meaney, Woody Harrelson and Gabriel Byrne
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SCREENWRITING MASTERCLASS
Daniel Waters
€50 | Thursday July 11th 2013 | 3p.m. – 6p.m. | Radisson Blu Hotel
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with the National Film School at I.A.D.T. is delighted to announce that Daniel Waters will be the subject of this year’s Screenwriters Masterclass.
‘People will look at the ashes of Westerburg and say, “Now there’s a school that self-destructed, not because society didn’t care, but because the school was society.” Now that’s deep.’- JD (Christian Slater),Heathers
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in the wilds of Indiana, educated in Montreal, Daniel Waters came to Los Angeles in the 80’s where he did the de rigueur video-store-clerk-to-screenwriter transformation and burst onto the scene with Heathers, the seminal 1989 dark comedy that re-defined the Teen Film genre, for better or worse. From there, poor Daniel got swept up into the world of big-budget action films with varying success: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Hudson Hawk(1991), the Catwoman-scented Batman Returns (1992), and Demolition Man (1993), which chillingly predicted Arnold Schwartzenegger’s political future.
According to Daniel, he got off the studio merry-go-round to write many dazzlingly brilliant and therefore unmade scripts before embarking on a directing career (Happy Campers 2000, Sex and Death 101 2008) that has brought joy to ‘tens and tens of people around the globe’. Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, now shooting in London, marks Daniel’s entree into the supernatural-young-adult-novel-adaptation world (He likes to come to genres as they are dying) and his first collaboration with Mark Waters, his commercially more successful younger brother.
The Screenwriters Masterclass will be facilitated by Mary Kate O Flanagan. Mary Kate works with writers and producers internationally, helping to shape and polish screenplays. She has designed and delivered training for screenwriters across Europe with her colleagues from USC since 2006. She is a lecturer at The National Film School at I.A.D.T. in Ireland and FAMU in Prague as well as a guest expert at The London Screenwriters Festival, MAIA, and lead tutor on the Midpoint and Storyworks script development programmes.
The masterclass costs €50 and will take place on Thursday the 11th of July from 3pm – 6pm in the Radisson Hotel, Galway. For further information or to apply for a place, contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: 1pm Friday – the 5th of July 2013
The MA in Screenwriting at the National Film School, at IADT, has been delivering a prestigious and practical course for more than a decade. We are delighted to support this event with such a master of the craft.
Past Screenwriters have included:
Larry Karaszewski, Scott Alexander, Gill Dennis, Sir Ronald Harwood, Christopher Hampton, Martin Daniel, Terry George, Robert Towne, Paul Schrader and Paul Laverty
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DIRECTOR’S MASTERCLASS
Julien Temple
€50 | Thursday 11th July 2013 | 3.30p.m. – 6.30p.m. | Radisson Blu Hotel
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with Screen Training Ireland, is delighted to announce that Julien Temple will be the subject of this year’s Directors Masterclass.
Born in London, England, in 1953, Julien Temple grew up with little interest in film until, when a student at Cambridge, he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976, led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols. It was this friendship that later resulted in the controversial documentary The Great Rock and Roll Swindle (1980), which tells the rise of the band from the viewpoint of their manager, Malcolm McLaren. Weaving together interviews, live music, animation and other spectacular footage, Swindle proved to be a critical success despite the controversy surrounding it. The documentary became a cult hit and helped launch Temple into a phenomenally successful career making music videos. He quickly became a wanted man among rock’s elite and in the 1980s, helped pioneer the use of the music video, directing projects for The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, David Bowie, Neil Young and Janet Jackson among others. His early work was (and still is) considered groundbreaking.
Temple worked on a variety of projects, Jazzin’ for Blue Jean (1984), The Comic Strip (1981), Absolute Beginners (1986), Earth Girls Are Easy(1988), and many others before returning to his punk roots with a new documentary about the Sex Pistols, The Filth and the Fury (2000), which was told from the band’s perspective. In 2006 he returned to the punk rock scene once again with Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten(2007), a documentary about his longtime friend and Clash frontman. One of his more recent projects came at the request of BBC Arts, which commissioned Temple to produce a documentary about the city of London. The film, This Is London (2012), reflects Temple’s reverence for his home city and shows how the city has changed and adapted since the early 20th century. It concludes with the metropolis preparing to welcome the Olympic Games. The film is a part of a series of city-based music documentaries Temple is directing.
The masterclass will be hosted by director Kieron J. Walsh and will cover such topics as:
The role of the director, what is the directors job, from script to screen, relationship with; producer, writer/story editors, director of photography, subjects, editor and composer. The processes of post-production; editing, juxtaposition and montage, construction of artificial time and space, use of music, analysis of selected scenes from the films and creation of authorship in editing.
The masterclass costs €50 and will take place on Thursday the 11th of July from 3.30pm – 6.30pm in the Radisson Hotel, Galway. To apply for a place, log onto www.screentrainingireland.ie with your CV and register your details. Please email your contact details tomasterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
For further information on all masterclasses and workshops, please contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email:masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
**Update**
The closing date for applications has been extended to Thursday the 4th of July 2013
Past Directors have included:
Ventura Pons, David Mackenzie, Stephen Daldry, Alex Gibney, Volker Schloendorff, Nic Roeg, Luis Mandoki, Agnieszka Holland, Mira Nair, Abbas Kiarostami, Stephen Frears, Michael Winterbottom, Walter Salles and Anthony Minghella.
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CASTING WORKSHOP
€50 | Saturday July 13th, 2013 | 2 – 5p.m. | Radisson Blu Hotel
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with Hubbard Casting, are proud to present a casting workshop with Ros and John Hubbard.
Casting Director Ros Hubbard, who is from Dublin, set up Hubbard Casting with her husband John, who is from Norfolk, in 1976 and now works from their HQ in London and Dublin. Their children, Dan and Amy, have since joined them in the business and are very successful casters in their own right. Amy’s recent work includes The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson, The Selfish Giant, directed by Clio Bernard and currently shooting in Ireland Our Robot Overlords, directed by Jon Wright. Dan has recently completed Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass and is currently casting Downton Abbey and Suite Francaise directed by Saul Dibb.
In a career that has spanned over 30 years, the Hubbard outfit’s notable discoveries have included Orlando Bloom, whom they cast in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Kate Winslet and they currently have Aidan Turner and James Nesbitt starring in The Hobbit. In addition to presiding with Alan Parker over the epic Irish casting process for The Commitments, the many notable recent Hubbard Casting credits include Romeo and Juliet, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, Whole Lotta Sole, and Summer in February and John and Ros are currently casting Draculafor Irish director Gary Shore and NBC Universal. Ros has won many awards for her contribution to film, the last being when she and John were honoured for their work on The Commitments at the Oscar Wilde Awards in LA in 2011. Recently, in an effort to assist films getting made they have started to produce, they are currently producing The Hound Of Erin, directed by Gary Shore and One Square Mile, directed by Michael Caton-Jones but love and will continue to cast.
Places are limited – all successful applicants MUST bring an updated CV and headshot with them on the day, and have a monologue prepared and ready to perform (no longer than 1 minute). The Hubbards may choose to ‘spot pick’ performers as there may not be enough time for everyone to perform. Please note there is an age restriction on this workshop – applicants must be over 17 years of age and as old as they like!
The workshop costs €50 and will take place on Saturday the 13th of July from 2pm – 5pm in the Radisson Hotel, Galway. For further information or to apply for a place, contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or emailmasterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
The closing date for applications is: Friday – the 5th of July 2013
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CASTING WORKSHOP
€50 | Saturday July 13th, 2013 | 2 – 5p.m. | Radisson Blu Hotel
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with Hubbard Casting, are proud to present a casting workshop with Ros and John Hubbard.
Casting Director Ros Hubbard, who is from Dublin, set up Hubbard Casting with her husband John, who is from Norfolk, in 1976 and now works from their HQ in London and Dublin. Their children, Dan and Amy, have since joined them in the business and are very successful casters in their own right. Amy’s recent work includes The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson, The Selfish Giant, directed by Clio Bernard and currently shooting in Ireland Our Robot Overlords, directed by Jon Wright. Dan has recently completed Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass and is currently casting Downton Abbey and Suite Francaise directed by Saul Dibb.
In a career that has spanned over 30 years, the Hubbard outfit’s notable discoveries have included Orlando Bloom, whom they cast in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Kate Winslet and they currently have Aidan Turner and James Nesbitt starring in The Hobbit. In addition to presiding with Alan Parker over the epic Irish casting process for The Commitments, the many notable recent Hubbard Casting credits include Romeo and Juliet, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, Whole Lotta Sole, and Summer in February and John and Ros are currently casting Dracula for Irish director Gary Shore and NBC Universal. Ros has won many awards for her contribution to film, the last being when she and John were honoured for their work on The Commitments at the Oscar Wilde Awards in LA in 2011. Recently, in an effort to assist films getting made they have started to produce, they are currently producing The Hound Of Erin, directed by Gary Shore and One Square Mile, directed by Michael Caton-Jones but love and will continue to cast.
Places are limited – all successful applicants MUST bring an updated CV and headshot with them on the day, and have a monologue prepared and ready to perform (no longer than 1 minute). The Hubbards may choose to ‘spot pick’ performers as there may not be enough time for everyone to perform. Please note there is an age restriction on this workshop – applicants must be over 17 years of age and as old as they like!
The workshop costs €50 and will take place on Saturday the 13th of July from 2pm – 5pm in the Radisson Hotel, Galway. For further information or to apply for a place, contact Brónagh Keys at 091-562200 or email masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com The closing date for applications is: Friday – the 5th of July 2013
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CANON CINEMA EOS SYSTEM SEMINAR
Canon Cinema EOS Systems
€FREE | Saturday July 13th 2013 | 12.30p.m. – 1.30p.m. | Radisson Blu Hotel
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with Canon Ireland, is delighted to announce that Steve O’Reilly will present a seminar on the Canon Cinema EOS System.
Steve is a Director of Photography and has 18 years experience shooting and directing TV series, feature length documentaries and commercials. As an early adaptor to new technology, Steve shot the first Irish TV series to be entirely shot on EOS 5D Mark II. He has shot extensively on Cinema EOS since it’s first arrival in early 2012.
In this seminar, Steve will deliver an in-depth insight into his experience shooting with the cinema EOS System including: EOS C300, EOS C100, EOS 1DC and the EOS 5D Mark III as well as the very latest in Canon CINE-Lenses.
The Masterclass will take place on Saturday the 13th of July from 12.30pm – 1.30pm in the Radisson Hotel, Galway. For further information or to book a place, contact Bronagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com
Places are limited so please book in advance.
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HORT FILM SCRIPT WORKSHOP
OFFline Film Festival Tullamore
€20 | Saturday July 13th 2013 | 11a.m. – 1p.m. | Studio Space, Town Hall Theatre
Panelists include Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steph Green, film festival strategist Kathleen McInnis and award-winning Offaly screenwriter and playwright Eugene O’Brien. Filmmakers will receive expert advice on how to best prepare their scripts before venturing into production. Writers of all backgrounds welcome.
You do not need to bring a script with you, however, OFFline competitors in October are encouraged to submit their short film script to OFFline Filmmaking Competition before 5th July (a little early for October shooting but well worth the opportunity) for a chance to get feedback on their script by our panelists at this workshop.
€FREE (limited spaces, please arrive early) | Thursday July 11th 2013 | 4p.m. – 5.30p.m. | Studio Space, Town Hall Theatre
The 25th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with Film Fund Luxembourg, are proud to present a workshop on Film Criticism presented by Boyd van Hoeij. This workshop will cover several topics related to film writing and will help sharpen the audience’s critical perception. The workshop is open to all but should prove especially interesting for budding arts writers, film enthusiasts interested in analysis and discussion of film technique and those interested in reviews and criticism.
Topics covered include:
How to read reviews
How to “read” films
How to write about film for different audiences (blogs, newspapers, magazines)
A discussion of the use/existence of convincing arguments in arts criticism (is everything “just opinion” or is one opinion better than the other and if so, how and why?)
PLEASE NOTE! As this is a free workshop and is taking place in one of our smaller venues (capacity 60 people), we strongly advise early attendance for this workshop.
Biography:
Boyd van Hoeij is a freelance film writer and a Europe-based critic of U.S. trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter. He previously worked at trade paper Variety as a contributing critic and is currently also the film editor of queer magazine Winq (Netherlands) and its English-language twin, Mate (U.S./U.K.), and a regular contributor to Filmkrant (Netherlands), East (Italy) and indieWIRE (U.S.). His book 10/10, Dix réalisateurs – Dix ans de cinéma belge francophone, les années 2000, about contemporary Francophone Belgian cinema, came out in September 2010 (English title: 10/10, Ten directors, Ten Years of French-Language Belgian Cinema, The 2000s). He’s taught film criticism short courses at festivals in the U.S., Lithuania, Portugal and Luxembourg and has been a lecturer or panelist at festivals including Berlin, Cannes and Sydney.
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ZACHARY QUINTO TO HOST LIVE Q&A’S *UPDATED*
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Update:
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Zachary Quinto will be arriving in Galway later than planned. The good news is that Zachary will be participating in an extended Star Trek Q+A, but separate from the film’s screening on Wednesday 9th July. Everyone who purchases a ticket for Star Trek on Wednesday at 12pm, will be admitted to an intimate and informal Q+A with the actor on Friday 12th July from 4-5pm in the Radisson Ballroom. Only those with a Star Trek ticket will be admitted. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.The screening of Margin Call with Q+A on Saturday 13th July at 2pm remains unaffected.
Margin Call And Q&A With Zachary Quinto
It may have happened something like this… Margin Call depicts the last night of good times on Wall Street, as a deadly certainty travels up the executive ladder in an investment firm. Disastrous speculation in the mortgage markets is leading to the firm’s collapse.
Who can recall those days in the summer of 2008, during the Obama and McCain campaigns, when America seemed awash in prosperity, and the stock market was setting records. Then one firm after another was forced to declare bankruptcy.
A film that never casts stones but instead allows viewers to decide who may be redeemed, with Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons successfully blurring the line between victim and villain, Margin Call is timely and compelling entertainment.
A Q&A session with actor/producer Zachary Quinto will follow the screening.
Running Time: 107 mins | Colour Producers: Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dobson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto Script: J.C. Chandor Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons, Simon Baker, Mary McDowell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci Production: Before The Door Pictures, Benaroya Pictures Print Source: Stealth Media Group
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The Galway Film Fleadh is proud to present an afternoon in the company of one of Ireland’s leading young actors, Saoirse Ronan, star of such films as Atonement, The Lovely Bones, The Host and Hanna. Hosted by Arena’s Sean Rocks, Saoirse will discuss her astounding rise from precociously talented childstar to one of Hollywood’s A-list and share her experiences with the audience.
HANNA
Award-winning director Joe Wright creates a boldly original suspense thriller with Hanna, starring Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan in the title role.
Raised by her father (Eric Bana of Star Trek), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna’s upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett).
As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.
Running Time: 111 mins | Colour
Producers: Marty Adelstein, Leslie Holleran, Scott Nemes
Script: Seth Lochhead, David Farr
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Kreips, Paris Arrowsmith, John Macmillan
Production: Focus Features, Holleran Company
Print Source: Universal Pictures, Ireland
By popular demand, actor Zachary Quinto will host two live Q&A sessions at this year’s event, as well as the Actors Masterclass. Following the screenings of Star Trek and Margin Call, a sobering feature which depicts the last days of Wall Street following the collapse of the markets and starring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Demi Moore, Quinto will take questions from the audience.
The Star Trek screening will take place at the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday 10th July at 12pm, with an extended Q&A with fans to follow on Friday 12th July at the Radisson ballroom. The Margin Call screening will also take place at the IMC in Screen 7 and will be followed by an audience Q&A with Quinto.
Tickets are available at www.tht.ie or on 091 569 777.
n Conversation With James Morris, Hosted By Lelia Doolan
The Galway Film Fleadh is delighted to present an afternoon of chat and Irish cinema as we pay tribute to former Irish Film Board Chair and founding member and CEO of Windmill Lane Pictures, James Morris.
Lelia Doolan will conduct an intimate ‘in-conversation’ session before the screening of In The Name of the Father, one of James’ favourite Irish films.
In the Name of the Father
This is the true story of the Guildford Four adapted from Gerry Conlon’s book Proved Innocent.
5 October 1974. Two young Irish men spent the night wandering the streets of London. On the same night five people were killed in explosions in two Guildford pubs. Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Carole Richardson and Paddy Armstrong were arrested and in the ensuing investigations Scotland Yard arrested Conlon’s aunt, Annie Maguire, her family and his father, Guiseppe Conlon.
In 1989, the Conlons’ legal counsel found evidence stating that the tramp that Gerry and Paul had talked to had in fact attested to their whereabouts, but this had been deliberately withheld from the defence. This was sufficient to re-open the case and have the convictions overturned.
One cannot say that this is a ‘feel good’ film, but neither is it depressing and dark. Rather surprisingly it is at times lightheaded and frankly funny. This mixed with the outstanding performances of the central characters, and the absolutely electric pacing, makes a wonderful hybrid of the political/prison drama.
Dir. Jim Sheridan | Ireland | 1993
Running Time: 133 mins | Colour Producer: Jim Sheridan Scrip: Terry George, Jim Sheridan Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Saffrom Burrows, Corin Redgrave, Gerard McSorley, Philip Davis Production: Hell’s Kitchen Films, Universal Pictures Print Source: Universal Pictures, Ireland
The View from The DJ booth 