Omniplex cinemas to provide subtitled movie screenings

The 22 Omniplex cinemas in Ireland will also provide sensory screenings for children with autism.

A statement from the chain says they believe cinema should be accessible for all – and anyone with a disability should be able to see a newly released movie, with as much freedom as possible.

We have received a number of requests from customers for subtitled films and been keen to cater for this demand for some time,” said Operations Director Omniplex Cinemas Mark Anderson.

“We believe very strongly that cinema should be accessible for all and anyone with a disability should be able to see a newly released movie, with as much freedom as possible.

Promoting Children’s Mental Health (American Academy of Pediatrics)

The United States health care system does not meet the needs of children with mental health disorders. Although 1 in 5 children in the United States suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder, only 21% of affected children actually receive needed treatment. Mental illness is like any other disease; the earlier it is identified and treated, the better the health outcomes.

The AAP has been advocating that Congress to promote children’s mental health by adopting policies that will develop a robust workforce of child and adolescent mental health specialists, facilitate the ability of primary care pediatricians to provide early identification and treatment for children with mental health disorders, and improve school-based mental health services and supports.

The AAP approaches mental health as a component of overall health, and has long-standing support for federal mental health parity, the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. In addition, as the Affordable Care Act is implemented, AAP continues to ensure that the law includes a robust mental and behavioral health benefits package as well as protections for cost-sharing and network adequacy for mental health services.

On June 3, 2013, the AAP joined the White House in a National Mental Health Dialogue. AAP Immediate Past President Robert W. Block, MD, FAAP, and AAP President-Elect James Perrin, MD, FAAP, were invited to participate in a White House Conference on Mental Health. At the Conference, Drs Block and Perrin joined President Obama, Vice President Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and other mental health advocates, medical professionals, and community leaders for a day-long conference to discuss ways to destigmatize mental health conditions and address mental health needs of various populations, including children.

Mental Health Legislation: Where AAP Stands

In the wake of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, the Administration and Congress are looking for ways to improve our nation’s mental health system. Exposure to violence causes toxic stress in childhood, which can have long-term negative effects on children. Managing adult mental health disorders begins with ensuring that children have access to quality mental health services.

To date, theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed the following proposals:

• The Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013, introduced in the Senate by Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) and in the House by Representative Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.). The Mental Health in Schools Act advances the work of the Safe Schools-Healthy Students program in order to provide access to more comprehensive school-based mental health services and supports. The bill would require that programs funded under this section assist children in dealing with trauma and violence, an important component to building children’s resiliency against toxic stress.
• The Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act (S. 689), introduced by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). The Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act reauthorizes and improves programs related to awareness, prevention and early identification of mental health conditions. The legislation also promotes linkages to appropriate services for children and youth. In addition to the AAP’s own endorsement letter, the Academy led a group letter urging passage of this legislation.
• The Academy signed onto a letter requesting Congress to appropriate $5 million for the Pediatric Subspecialty Loan Repayment Program. Adequate funding for this program will help address the shortage of mental health providers like developmental pediatricians, pediatric neurologists, and child and adolescent psychiatrists.
• The Academy joined the Mental Health Liaison Group in endorsing H.R. 2734, the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2013. The Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act (GLSMA), signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2004, authorizes grant money to states, Indian tribes, colleges and universities to develop suicide prevention and intervention programs. Reauthorization of the GLSMA would continue commitment to important youth and college suicide prevention programs.
• AAP’s Sept. 2013 response to the Senate Finance Committee outlining recommendations on how to best address the mental health needs of children and adolescents
• AAP’s Sept. 2013 response to the Senate Finance Committee outlining recommendations on how to best address the mental health needs of children and adolescents
• A letter to the Senate Finance Committee outlining recommendations on how to address the mental health needs of children and adolescents signed by AAP and more than 30 other organizations.

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See More Here

• AAP mental health resource website: www.aap.org/mentalhealth
• AAP health and mental health needs of children in U.S. military families clinical report
• AAP school-based mental health services policy statement
• AAP mental health competencies for primary care policy statement

Dancing at Lughnasa,Dublin Theatre Festival

6 October 2015 – 11 October 2015

Lyric Theatre Belfast

Dancing at Lughnasa

by Brian Friel

 

‘Not only Ireland’s greatest living playwright but one of the greatest playwrights in the world.’

• – Professor Anthony Roche on Brian Friel

 

Winner of an Olivier Award and a Tony Award, Dancing at Lughnasa is one of the greatest and most loved Irish plays of recent times.

 

Set in County Donegal in 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasadh, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters and their brother Jack, who has returned home from the missions after 25 years away.

 

The story is told by the sisters’ nephew, Michael, who recalls the summer spent with his aunts when he was seven years old. As August gives way to September, Michael recounts his memory of childhood in Ballybeg, where his aunts raised him in their crumbling, rural home and where once they danced.

 

A wild, raucous dance. The dream-wild dance of their memories. A dance to the exciting, fleeting melody of the past and a dance against the harsh, progressive beat of the present.

 

As part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2015 this eagerly anticipated new production of Brian Friel’s masterpiece, directed by award-winner Annabelle Comyn, will mark the 25^th anniversary of the play’s premiere in Dublin.

 

In association with the Lughnasa International Friel Festival.

 

 

Cast and Creative Team:

 

Directed by Annabelle Comyn

Cast: Catherine McCormack, Cara Kelly, Vanessa Emme, Mary Murray, Declan Conlon, Matt Tait, Charlie Bonner, Catherine Cusack

Set Design: Paul O’Mahony

Costume Design: Joan O’Cleary

Lighting Design: Chahine Yavroyan

Sound Design: Fergus O’Hare

Choreographer: Liz Roche

 

Show Information:

 

Venue: Gaiety Theatre

Dates: Oct 6 – 9, 7.30pm

Oct 10, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Oct 11, 1pm & 6pm

Tickets: €15 – €45

Duration: 2 hrs 30 mins incl. interval.

 

Talking Theatre:

Oct 10, post-show (7.30pm), with members of the company.

 

Audio described performance:

Oct 10, 2.30pm. A touch tour will also be available pre-show.

 

For further information about this audio described performance please contact the Dublin Theatre Festival Box Office on +353 1 677 8899

Barnes & Noble presented all-day bookfair to benefit The Rep

Event featured an  all-day reading of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

ST. LOUIS, MO – On July 13,2015  Barnes & Noble will present an all-day bookfair to support The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep).

The Barnes & Noble Bookfair benefitting The Rep runs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, July 13 at the Barnes & Noble at Ladue Crossing, 8871 Ladue Road.

At the heart of the event is a celebration of one of America’s greatest novelists: Harper Lee. To honor the release of Lee’s new book, Go Set a Watchman, local actors and Rep volunteers will read Lee’s landmark novel To Kill a Mockingbird aloud in its entirety.

In addition to the reading, The Rep will present a children’s area with craft and coloring activities for younger visitors.

Customers need only mention The Rep at the register during the fair, and a portion of every purchase will support the work of St. Louis’ premier venue for live theatre. From July 13-19, online Barnes & Noble shoppers can support The Rep by entering the bookfair code 11656972 at checkout. This code also works in-person at all Barnes & Noble locations.

For additional information about The Rep’s productions, events and more, visit The Rep’s comprehensive public website at repstl.org.

About the rep St Louis, Founded in 1966, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is a fully professional theatrical operation belonging to the League of Resident Theatres, The League of St. Louis Theatres and is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the national service organization for the not-for-profit professional theatre. It operates independently of, but under a mutually beneficial agreement with, Webster University. The Rep operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Rep hires directors and choreographers who are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and stagehands who are members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Financial assistance for this theatre has been provided by the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis; the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The Rep is also grateful for support by more than 1,100 generous individuals, families, corporations and foundations throughout the communities we serve

Alert BY James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge (A Micheal Bennett Novel)

“This is not a test”—every New Yorker’s worst nightmare is about to become a reality.

 

New Yorkers aren’t easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly: why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI’s Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility—but they’re as good at concealing their identities as they are at wreaking havoc.

In the wake of a shocking assassination, Bennett begins to suspect that these mysterious events are just the prelude to the biggest threat of all. Soon he’s racing against the clock, and against the most destructive enemy he’s faced yet, to save his beloved city–before everyone’s worst nightmare becomes a reality.

Galway’s No Ropes presents fast-paced, satirical three-hander in the second last week of August

No Ropes is a new, Galway based theatre company whose aim is to challenge our understanding of societal boundaries through the production of innovative and little known dramatic works.

This fast-paced, satirical three-hander is written by Italian Nobel laureate Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame. Written in 1983, the play has a very contemporary resonance and explores the sexual politics of a doomed ‘modern’ marriage.

Cast: Deirdre Bhreatnach, Daniel Cronin, Chris Campbell and guest starring Diarmuid de Faoite of Corp agus Annam

Director Mairéad Folan
Set Design Dara McGee
Costume Designer: Clarissa Finnerty
Light Design Jim Faulkner
Sound Design Conor McBrierty
Music Composer Peter Mannion
Stage Manager Jane Talbot

Please Note: Not suitable for under 18s.

Venue: THT studio space ,Galway

Dates Friday and Saturday 20th and 21st of august

Ticket Prices €10/€8

 

 

Dublin theatre festival 2015 Programme PDF

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See You all in October in Dublin

Final Conference Programme

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Performing the Archive

The final programme for ‘Performing the Archive’ is now fully completed and available for delegates at the following link:

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some upcoming productions at the National theatre and some upcoming NT live screenings (21 July – Nov 2015)

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE broadcasts  The Beaux’ Stratagem from the NT, Hamlet from the Barbican and an encore of the Donmar Warehouse’s Coriolanus

THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY Lyttelton Theatre
Previews  since Monday night press night 28 July, in repertoire until 21 October

Patrick Marber directs his own new version of THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY, after Turgenev, opening in the Lyttelton Theatre on 28 July. The cast includes Amanda Drew, Gawn Grainger, John Simm and Cherrelle Skeete.

Ivan Turgenev’s passionate, moving comedy, A Month in the Country, has been the source of inspiration for films, a ballet and the plays of Chekhov.

Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will learn lessons in love: first love and forbidden love, maternal love and platonic love, ridiculous love and last love. The love left unsaid and the love which must out.

Patrick Marber’s previous plays for the National are Dealer’s Choice (Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy); Closer (Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, Laurence Olivier and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), for which he also wrote the screenplay; Howard Katz; and The Musicians for Connections. His latest play, The Red Lion, opens in the NT’s Dorfman Theatre in June.

John Simm’s extensive screen credits include Code of a Killer, Prey, The Village, Mad Dogs, Exile, Doctor Who, Life on Mars, Sex Traffic, State of Play and The Lakes. His most recent stage appearance was in The Hothouse at Trafalgar Studios; previous theatre roles include Jerry in Betrayal and the title role of Hamlet at Sheffield Theatres, and Elling at the Bush for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.

The production will be designed by Mark Thompson, with lighting by Neil Austin, music and sound by Adam Cork and movement by Polly Bennett; it is produced in association with Sonia Friedman Productions.

Press night: Tuesday 28 July
Contact: Martin Shippen on 020 7452 3233 / mshippen@nationaltheatre.org.uk
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD Travelex £15 Tickets, Olivier Theatre
Previews from 19 August, press night 26 August, in repertoire until 17 October

Nadia Fall will direct Timberlake Wertenbaker’s OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD, a Travelex £15 Tickets production, opening in the Olivier Theatre on 26 August; with designs by Peter McKintosh, lighting by Neil Austin, choreography by Arthur Pita and sound by Carolyn Downing.

Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany
Bay in 1788, crammed with England’s outcasts. Colony discipline in this vast and alien land is brutal. Three proposed public hangings incite an argument: how best to keep the criminals
in line, the noose or a more civilised form of entertainment?
The ambitious Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark steps forward with a play. But as the mostly
illiterate cast rehearses, and a sense of common purpose begins to take hold, the young officer’s own transformation is as marked and poignant as that of his prisoners.

A profoundly humane piece of theatre, steeped in suffering yet charged with hope, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Olivier Award-winning OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD celebrates the redemptive power of art.

Timberlake Wertenbaker is the writer and translater of over 40 plays, including The Grace of Mary Traverse, The Love of the Nightingale, Three Birds Alighting on a Field, The Break of Day, After Darwin and The Ant and the Cicada.

Nadia Fall’s productions for the NT include Dara, Home, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Chewing Gum Dreams and Hymn; her other work includes Hobson’s Choice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Disgraced (Bush Theatre), and a forthcoming production of Ayckbourn’s Way Upstream at Chichester.

Thanks to its partnership with Travelex, this year the National Theatre is once again offering over 100,000 tickets at just £15 for four productions (Everyman, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, The Beaux’ Stratagem and Our Country’s Good), with the rest at £25 and £35.

Press night: Wednesday 26 August
Contact: Mary Parker on 020 7452 3234 / mparker@nationaltheatre.org.uk

PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS Dorfman Theatre
Previews from 25 August, press night 1 September, booking until 10 October with additional performances to be announced.

PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS, a new play by Duncan Macmillan, opens in the Dorfman Theatre on 1 September. It will be directed by Jeremy Herrin and is the latest collaboration between Headlong and the National, following Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London and Lucy Prebble’s The Effect. Set design will be by Bunny Christie, with costumes by Christina Cunningham, lighting by James Farncombe and sound by Tom Gibbons.

Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing.

When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever
sober up?

Duncan Macmillan’s plays include Every Brilliant Thing (Paines Plough/Pentabus, Edinburgh, UK tour & New York), George Orwell’s 1984 (adapted with Robert Icke, Headlong/Nottingham Playhouse/Almeida/West End), Lungs (Paines Plough & Sheffield Theatres, Washington DC), Don Juan Comes Back From the War (Finborough) and Monster (Royal Exchange, Manchester).

Jeremy Herrin is Artistic Director of Headlong. His recent work includes This House for the NT, The Absence of War (Sheffield/national tour), Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies for the RSC and The Nether (Headlong/Royal Court/West End).

The Dorfman Partner is Neptune Investment Management.

Press night: Tuesday 1 September
Contact: Martin Shippen on 020 7452 3233 / mshippen@nationaltheatre.org.uk or Clióna Roberts on 020 7704 6224 / cliona@crpr.co.uk
POMONA Temporary Theatre
Previews from 10 September, press night 14 September, in repertoire until 10 October

POMONA by Alistair McDowall comes to the National’s Temporary Theatre from 10 September – 10 October, presented by the Orange Tree Theatre (where it had an acclaimed run in 2014) and in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, where it will play from 29 October – 21 November. The production is directed by Ned Bennett and designed by Georgia Lowe, with lighting by Elliott Griggs, sound by Giles Thomas and movement by Polly Bennett. Pomona is suitable for those aged 14+ and contains adult themes.

Ollie’s sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona, an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city. Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born.

Pomona is a sinister and surreal thriller from Alistair McDowall, writer of Talk Show (Royal Court), Brilliant Adventures (Royal Exchange Theatre, Bruntwood Prize-winner) and Captain Amazing (Live Theatre Newcastle).

Ned Bennett has just directed Bruntwood Prize-winner Anna Jordan’s new play Yen at the Royal Exchange Theatre. He directed the first major revival of Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur, which transferred to the West End, and the UK premiere of Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts at Southwark Playhouse; he will direct Tom Basden’s new play The Crocodile, based on Dostoevsky, at the Manchester International Festival in July.

Press night: Monday 14 September
Contact: Martin Shippen on 020 7452 3233 / mshippen@nationaltheatre.org.uk
JANE EYRE Lyttelton Theatre
Previews from 8 September, press night 17 September, now booking to 25 October with additional performances to be announced. Bristol Old Vic from January 2016.
Bristol Old Vic’s highly praised staging of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece JANE EYRE, originally presented in two parts, will come to the National as a single performance, again directed by Sally Cookson and devised by the company. The cast includes Benji Bower, Will Bower, Craig Edwards, Felix Hayes, Phil King, Melanie Marshall, Simone Saunders, Maggie Tagney and Madeleine Worrall. The production has set designs by Michael Vale, costumes by Katie Sykes, lighting by Aideen Malone, music by Benji Bower, sound by Mike Beer, movement by Dan Canham and dramaturgy by Mike Akers. JANE EYRE will return to Bristol Old Vic in January 2016.
Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and dynamic production uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms.
From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre’s spirited heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of bitter betrayal before taking the ultimate decision to follow her heart.
Sally Cookson is an associate artist of Bristol Old Vic, where her productions include Treasure Island and Peter Pan; and elsewhere, Boing! (Sadler’s Wells), Cinderella (St James Theatre), an adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather (West End and UK tour), and Romeo and Juliet at The Rose Theatre, Kingston.
Press night: Thursday 17 September
Contact: Susie Newbery on 020 7452 3061 / snewbery@nationaltheatre.org.uk

wonder.land Olivier Theatre
Currently booking from 27 November, further performances and press night to be announced.
Manchester International Festival 2 – 12 July
wonder.land, a new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini, will be directed by Rufus Norris in a co-production with Manchester International Festival; commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the National Theatre and the Théâtre du Châtelet. It will open at MIF with performances from 2 – 12 July (previews from 29 June), and come to the Olivier Theatre in November; in June 2016, wonder.land will visit the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The production will have set designs by Rae Smith, with projections by 59 Productions, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Paul Arditti and choreography by Javier De Frutos; the music supervisor is David Shrubsole and associate director, James Bonas.
Welcome to wonder.land, where you can be exactly who you want to be. Aly, 12, loves this extraordinary virtual world. Bullied at school and unhappy at home, wonder.land offers an escape.

Online, Aly becomes Alice: brave, beautiful and in control. But some of the people she meets
– the weird Dum and Dee, the creepy Cheshire Cat, the terrifying Red Queen – seem strangely familiar. And as hard as Aly tries to keep them apart, real life and wonder.land begin to collide in ever more curious and dangerous ways.

Damon Albarn is a Grammy and Brit Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and composer. His first full-length opera composition, Monkey: Journey to the West, created in collaboration with Jamie Hewlett and Chen Shi Zheng, premiered at Manchester International Festival in 2007. His second opera Dr Dee, co-created with Rufus Norris, premiered at MIF in 2011. Albarn has written music for film soundtracks to 101 Reykjavik, Ravenous and Broken. Releases outside of Blur and Gorillaz also include: Mali Music, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Rocket Juice & The Moon, Africa Express Presents: Maison Des Jeunes and his Mercury-nominated debut solo album Everyday Robots. Blur will release their new album, The Magic Whip, at the end of April and will headline the British Summer Time Festival in Hyde Park in June.

Moira Buffini’s plays include Welcome to Thebes and Dinner for the National Theatre and A Vampire Story for NT Connections; Handbagged for the Tricycle Theatre/Vaudeville (Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre); Dying For It (adapted from Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide) and Marianne Dreams (adapted from Catherine Storr’s book) for the Almeida Theatre; Loveplay for the RSC; and Silence for Birmingham Rep (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize). Her screenplays include Tamara Drewe, Jane Eyre and Byzantium. She recently directed her first short film, Father.

Rufus Norris became Director of the National Theatre in April; his NT productions include Everyman, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Amen Corner, Table, London Road, Death and the King’s Horseman and Market Boy. His other work includes Feast, Vernon God Little and Tintin for the Young Vic; the Olivier Award-winning Cabaret in the West End and on tour; Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway; Festen at the Almeida, West End and New York; and Doctor Dee at the Manchester Festival in 2011 and ENO in 2012. Screen work includes Broken, which won the British Independent Film Award for Best Film, and the film of London Road which will be released in June.

Jane Austen, Programming Languages, and Being “That Guy” in the Writing Class