Five Glens

Source: Five Glens Arts Festival

Talking about my thesis without talking about my thesis: infectious diseases and posthumanism

A publication! A publication! My kingdom for a publication!

A publication! A publication! My kingdom for a publication!.

The Edinburgh Fringe One-Weeker 2015 – Titus Andronicus

There were four (yes four, count them!) productions of Titus Andronicus at this year’s Fringe, but the one theese folks went to see was produced by Tripped Theatre.

The Real Chrisparkle

Flushed from his success at his own Spoken Word event earlier this evening, we will hopefully have met up with our friends Lord Liverpool and the Countess of Cockfosters for a couple of late night shows. The first is Titus Andronicus, but it isn’t as straightforward as all that. There are four (yes four, count them!) productions of Titus Andronicus at this year’s Fringe, but the one we’re going to is produced by Tripped Theatre. Here’s the promotional blurb: “Tripped Theatre returns once more to the Fringe with a stripped back production of Shakespeare’s bloodiest revenge tragedy in a glamorous and deliciously filthy adaptation that will thrill, revolt and force you to simultaneously love and loathe the flock of flawed characters it portrays. Titus comes back from war as a damaged and reluctant celebrity forced into his nation’s limelight, but his dreadful thirst for revenge sends him and his…

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Next Stop for Accelerate.LGBT: Dublin, Ireland

looks a great wordpress event for diversity and equallity on th 3rd week of september 2015 in Dublin *pumps fist in the air for diversity!*

Malachy McKenna Wins the 2014 PJ O’Connor Award for “The Quiet Land”

Malachy McKenna Wins The PJ O’Connor Award of 2014  for “The Quiet Land”

 

The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna, first prize winner in the 2014  PJ O’ Connor Awards, a deceptively simple but gripping play about two elderly farmers in an isolated part of the west of Ireland, “terrified every single night in our own home” by crime. “We’re exiles in our own godforsaken land,” as one summarised it. With the issue once more at the top of the political agenda, it was a timely reminder of the human cost, with characters whose lives and dilemmas felt heartbreakingly real.” — Article by Eilis O’Hanlon on Independent.ie

Find the article here:

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/radio-no-escape-from-the-samba-beat-30355021.html

 

Congrats Malachy 🙂

Listin to the play in ful here at this link ; lRTE Radio Drama Hub

Nature Boy: “Hamlet” at the Barbican

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Nature Boy: Hamlet at the Barbican

Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet. Photo by Johan Persson for Reuters.

Spoiler alert. Everyone knows the plot of Hamlet, but this post contains plenty of spoilers regarding the set and direction.

We saw Hamlet on only the fourth night of previews (the notorious night of “technical difficulties” and Cumberbatch’s stage-door plea for people to stop filming him), so I wouldn’t call this a review. It is more a document of my experience as a theatergoer, and my thoughts about the production as it stood that evening. There may well be changes to come, since that is the purpose of previews. I only wish I could return after opening night in order to savor it anew.

The “Curtain” is in two parts. One lifts up and the other sinks down.

In the first scene, the “curtain” (actually a solid, metallic looking barrier) opens to reveal…

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Dancing at Lughnasa – Tickets selling fast!

Dancing at Lughnasa – Tickets selling fast!.

Back by Popular Demand! THE GIGLI CONCERT by Tom Murphy @ The Gate October 2015

Back by Popular Demand!
THE GIGLI CONCERT
by Tom Murphy

TICKETS ON SALE SOON!

Preview Wednesday 28th October
Opening Thursday 29th October

Returning for a VERY Limited run!!!

★★★★★

“Masterful achievement”
The Irish Times

Tom Murphy is highly regarded as one of the greatest living Irish playwrights. This production was the very first time a Tom Murphy play was ever been staged at the Gate Theatre.

The Gigli Concert came to the Gate with rapturous acclaim and due to incredible demand it is back for a very limited run. It is a fiercely satirical and beautifully crafted play about the endurance of the human spirit and our ability to achieve the impossible.  JPW King (played by Declan Conlon) is a ‘Dynamatologist’ caught between the demands of Mona his mistress, Helen (played by Dawn Bradfield), the unattainable love of his life, and an insatiable taste for vodka. For King, the recurring question is how to get through each day. Then a mysterious Irishman (Denis Conway) walks into his office wanting to sing like the great Italian tenor, Beniamino Gigli…

Prepare to be swept away. 

Cast Includes:
Dawn Bradfield
Declan Conlon
Denis Conway

Creatives:
Director – David Grindley
Set & Costume Designer – Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Designer – Sinead McKenna
Sound Designer – Gregory Clarke

Disability centres must change ‘radically’, says Hiqa

Disability service providers, including the HSE, must change “radically and quickly” if the “regressive and neglectful” conditions in certain disability homes are to be brought to an end, the State health watchdog has said.
Just 7 per cent of the inspections of disability homes published to date found full compliance with the required national standards.
Analysis by The Irish Times of more than 900 reports published since the Health Information and Quality Authority began inspecting disability homes found that homes failed to comply with any of the standards inspected in one in seven cases.
Inspectors find failings in every HSE disability care home
A Hiqa inspection of Kilkenny disability home St Michael’s found it to be understaffed, inadequately resourced and unclean with two rodent traps found in the dining room in one of two bungalows.
Some centres, including a unit in Cregg House in Sligo, which is run by the HSE and houses more than 100 adults with disabilities, failed to comply with any of the standards inspected by Hiqa during five separate visits between December 2014 and April 2015.
Despite multiple engagements with the centre, Hiqa inspectors highlighted a number of issues in a report on the unit in April. These included residents spending significant periods without engagement and continuing problems with staffing levels.
Hiqa chief executive Phelim Quinn said the inspections of disability homes, which began in late 2013, have “highlighted a culture whereby the human rights and aspirations of a significant number of our citizens have been thwarted or denied over a period of years and in some instances, over decades”.
Some 20 disability homes face possible closure after Hiqa issued proposals to cancel or refuse their applications for registration.
This includes one unit of the HSE-run Áras Attracta care home in Swinford, Co Mayo. The service was the subject of a 2014 RTÉ documentary, which reported instances of slapping, kicking and force-feeding.
Mr Quinn called for better monitoring of care and progress towards community inclusion by providers of services, as well as better monitoring of services by the HSE as the funder of those services.
“Culture does not change overnight,” he said, “but service providers need to accept that regressive, neglectful care such as those highlighted cannot be tolerated.”
Never fit for purpose
Paddy Connolly of Inclusion Ireland said the reality is that some disability units will “never be fit for purpose”. He called on the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to commit resources to providing appropriate care arrangements for those who require them.
“There are certain centres which are passing these inspections with flying colours,” Mr Connolly said, “but that doesn’t necessarily equate to a decent quality of life.”
The HSE said it was “strongly committed” to addressing the issues raised by Hiqa. It funds services for some 8,000 people in residential support settings, at a cost of about €900 million a year.
“The HSE wishes to reassure families and residents of all services in this sector that we will continue to provide services for the residents in our care as the process of inspection and registration is ongoing,” a spokeswoman said.
She said new quality improvement teams would initially focus on 148 HSE residential centres. Given the age of some facilities, she added, “the type of change required to fully meet Hiqa requirements will require a sustained effort over a number of years”.