The Stratford-upon-Avon Picture House To Screen David Tennant’s Hamlet

The Stratford-upon-Avon Picture House are to screen David Tennant’s Hamlet as part of the Shakespeare Film Festival. The 2009 film will be shown from 7pm on Wednesday 23rd October.

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s award-winning production of Hamlet, directed by RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, stars David Tennant in the title role. Made by Illuminations, this screen version of Shakespeare’s great tragedy retains the quality and tone of the critically acclaimed stage production and was filmed on location. All key original members of the cast, including Patrick Stewart as Claudius, star in this special 180-minute production, which also has the same creative team. The film is directed by Gregory Doran and designed by Robert Jones, who also designed the stage production.

For booking details please visit the Picture House website here.

More about the screen version of Hamlet can be found out at this website here

TWO EVENTS IN THE OLD VIC hear ye hear ye!

List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Theese look good if you are live in London or the UK

KING LEAR – A Rehearsed Reading with Joss Ackland

Sunday 29 September 2013 3pm

I am a man, More sinn’d against than sinning

Now at the age of “fourscore and upward”, veteran actor Joss Ackland takes on the Everest of Shakespearean roles in a unprecedented play reading of King Lear. Directed by Jonathan Miller and supported by an all-star cast, Joss will be returning to his theatrical roots 60 years after joining The Old Vic Company.

Cast cast includes:

Joss Ackland	King Lear
Greta Scaachi	Regan
Honeysuckle Weeks	Cordelia
Tony Robinson	Fool
Michael York	Duke of Albany
John Nettles	Duke of Cornwall
Barry Rutter	Earl of Kent
Tony Britton	Earl of Gloucester
Lee Ingleby	Edgar
Shaun Dooley	Edmund
Jos Vantyler	Oswald
Jack Tarlton	King of France/ Servant/ Captain
Paul Dodds	Duke of Burgundy/ Servant/ Herald
Robert Young	Old Man/ Knight/ Gentleman
Vernon Dobtcheff	Curan/ Gentleman/ Doctor

Directed by Jonathan Miller

In Ancient Britain an aged King Lear weary of the burden of his position decides to divide his realm between his three daughters. When his trust is abused and the rashness of his decision is realised his outraged sense of powerlessness and emasculation sets him on a chaotic course towards madness and death.

In Support of the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Running time approx 2 hours 30 including interval

This event has been kindly supported by JM Finn & Co.

and drum roll please James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave from the stage adaption of Driving Miss  Daisy both in the West End and on Broadway and will reunite on The Old Vic stage.

This picture should speak volumes about whats to come ! but anyways

7 September – 30 November

‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps’

James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave play warring lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Shakespeare’s timeless comedy Much Ado About Nothing, directed byMark Rylance.

While young lovers Claudio and Hero have their forthcoming nuptials threatened by the resentful scheming of a Prince, marriage seems out of the question for reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick in this witty comedy about the never ending search for perfect love.

James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave recently starred in Driving Miss Daisy both in the West End and on Broadway and will reunite on The Old Vic stage to play these iconic roles for the first time.

Mark Rylance was Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe for 10 years, during this time he directed and performed in numerous productions. His recent acting credits include Richard III and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe and West End) and the critically acclaimed Jerusalem.

Take a look at images from Much Ado About Nothing rehearsals here.

The cast in alphabetical order:

Tim Barlow	Verges	Director Mark Rylance Designer Ultz Lighting Mimi Jordan Sherin Music Clare van Kampen Sound Emma Laxton Movement Siân Williams Casting  Siobhan Bracke
Penelope Beaumont	Ursula
Kingsley Ben-Adir	Borachio
Katherine Carlton	Beryl
Beth Cooke	Hero
Alan David	Antonio & Watch
Michael Elwyn	Leonato
Lloyd Everitt	Claudio
James Garnon	Don Pedro
Melody Grove	Margaret
James Earl Jones	Benedick
Trevor Laird	Conrade
Leroy Osei-Bonsu	Messenger
Vanessa Redgrave	Beatrice
Mark Ross	Sexton
Peter Wight	Dogberry & Friar Francis
Danny Lee Wynter	Don John

With:

Tyler Hunter, Henry Markham Hare & Samuel Stembridge-King playing Hugh Oatcake.
Samuel Allum, Charlie Beazley-Clarke & Gene Gurie playing George Seacoal.

Mark Rylance in Conversation – 18 September 2013 5.30pm

Renowned actor and director, Mark Rylance, will be giving an in-depth talk on Wednesday 18 September about directing Much Ado About Nothing at The Old Vic.Tickets £5.

Q&A with members of the company – 3 October 2013

A post-show discussion with members of the company giving audience members the opportunity to ask questions about the production and discover some of the secrets hidden behind the scenes.

The event is free to attend, but priority booking is given to members of The Old Vic Club and Friends before tickets are made generally available. For full details of the membership and our programme of events please visit our Support Us pages.

Please note – you must have a ticket to the performance to attend the Q & A session post show.

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Rest in peace Seamus Heaney :(

Photo Credit: RTE Player

It is with great sadness that I have let it be known that -Seamus Heaney,Nobel laureate,poet, translator,  and playwright has passed away at the age of 74.The Nobel literature laureate recently suffered from ill health, and was reported to have collapsed earlier this week.

Tributes are pouring in for the 74-year-old, who leaves behind his wife Marie and three children. President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to his friend and fellow poet Seamus Heaney. The pair have been friends for decades and Mr Higgins and his wife Sabina attended the Nobel Prize winning ceremony in Oslo in 1995. Mr Higgins said the greeted the news this morning with the “greatest sadness”.Mr Higgins, himself a published poet, described Heaney as warm, humourous, caring and courteous. He praised Heaney’s “extraordinary depth and warmth of personality” and his “grace and generosity”. In a statement Mr Higgins said: “As tributes flow in from around the world, as people recall the extraordinary occasions of the readings and the lectures, we in Ireland will once again get a sense of the depth and range of the contribution of Seamus Heaney to our contemporary world. “The presence of Seamus was a warm one, full of humour, care and courtesy – a courtesy that enabled him to carry with such wry Northern Irish dignity so many well-deserved honours from all over the world. “His careful delving, translation and attention to the work of other poets in different languages and often in conditions of unfreedom, meant that he provided them with an audience of a global kind. And we in Ireland gained from his scholarship and the breath of his reference. “Generations of Irish people will have been familiar with Seamus’s poems. Scholars all over the world will have gained from the depth of the critical essays, and so many rights organisations will want to thank him for all the solidarity he gave to the struggles within the republic of conscience.

He was one of Ireland’s best known and best-loved poets, often compared to W.B. Yeats.Beautiful post Catherine Cronin  lecturer in Information Technology at NUI Galway here 

Heaney had been awarded numerous prizes and received many honours for his work, most notably winning the Nobel prize for literature in 1995 “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”. The writer and lecturer also received the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread prizes (1996 and 1999). He was both the Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry and was made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1996.

Many of his works deal with Ireland, particularly the Troubles in Northern Ireland, where he was born. As an Irish Catholic from Derry he came under pressure to takes sides but expressed a reservation to become a spokesperson for the 25 years of violence.

Born April 13, 1939, the oldest of nine children, Heaney first lived at Mossbawn between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Derry in Northern Ireland. In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away. In 1957, Heaney traveled to Belfast to study English Language and Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. After lecturing for some time at Queen’s University and also at the University of California, Berkeley, he decided to move to Dublin and worked as a teacher at Carysfort College.He lived in Dublin until his death.

Photo Credit: Michael Collins Adventures on Facebook

sadness I am sad today because  Seamus Heaney’ is one of my favorite poets.He had a way with words and a style that could not match any other poet.His great friend Brian Friel will miss him terribly. Heaney’s fellow poet Eavan Boland professor of creative writing at Stanford  said that he was an ”an extraordinarily good poet”  and said that his death is “a tremendous, tremendous loss.” On the day that this blog was established, the tropical nature of my firist post wasHeaney and Longley read in Galway at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.I really wanted to go to that public reading so alas i had blog about it from afar as it was sold out. I regret it today on hearing the shocking news today but in hindsite there was nothing i could have done it was booked out for months. Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013 RIP Seamus Heaney in June at the Kennedy homecoming for JFK50. (Pic: Laura Hutton/ Photocall)

A screenshoot of 1st post

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IRISH CHIEFS’ PRIZE IN HISTORY 2014

IRISH CHIEFS’ PRIZE IN HISTORY 2014

The Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains in association with the History Department of Trinity College, Dublin and History/Ireland magazine is offering a prize of € 500 for the winning entrant in an essay competition on Gaelic Ireland.

Entry is open to all persons over 18 years who are NOT on the academic staff of a history department in any third-level institution.

Essay must be on any selected topic within the following areas: – the history of Gaelic Ireland (date-range 400 to 1690 A.D), Irish kingship, lordship, land-holding, genealogy, family history etc. It should be approximately 2,000 words in length and accompanied by full footnote references to sources used, with a bibliography at the end (footnotes and bibliography will not be counted as part of the word-length). It may be written in English or Irish.

Entries, with candidate’s name, address and contact details should be posted to:
‘Irish Chiefs’ Prize’
c/o History Department,
School of Histories and Humanities,
Trinity College Dublin,
Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland

or e-mailed as an attached MS-Word file to: mksimms@tcd.ie by 1st May 2014

The prize will only be awarded for an entry deemed to be of publishable standard. Subject to editorial approval, a version of the paper should appear in a subsequent issue of History/Ireland. Both the winner and other entrants whose papers are deemed of publishable standard may be invited to contribute their work to a projected volume of essays on Gaelic Ireland, which is a central goal of the Chiefs’ and Chieftains’ competition.

Further Details

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Dr Louis de Paor

Dr Louis de Paor, Director Centre for Irish Studies, NUIG

Having graduated with First Class Honours in Irish and Léann Dúchais (Irish and Cognate Studies) at UCC, Louis de Paor completed his doctoral research on narrative technique in the short fiction of Máirtín Ó Cadhain under the supervision of Seán Ó Tuama and was awarded a PhD by the National University of Ireland in 1986 for his thesis, Teicníocht agus aigneolaíocht san insint liteartha; anailís ar mhúnlaí teicníochta agus ar mhúnlaí tuisceana i dteanga na hinste i ngearrscéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain. He spent time as a lecturer in Irish at UCC and Thomond College, Limerick, before moving to Australia in 1987, where he worked in local and ethnic radio in Melbourne and taught evening classes in Irish language and literature at Melbourne University and the Melbourne Council for Adult Education. He was Visiting Professor of Celtic Studies at Sydney University in 1993 and Visiting Fellow in 1992. He returned to Ireland in 1996 and worked as proof editor of the Irish language newspaper Foinse before being appointed Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway in 2000.

His published works include a monograph on the work of Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Faoin mblaoisc bheag sin: an aigneolaíocht i scéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain (1991) , an anthology of twentieth-century poetry in Irish, Coiscéim na haoise seo (1991) , co-edited with Seán Ó Tuama, a bilingual edition of the selected poems of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, An paróiste míorúilteach/The miraculous parish (2011) and a critical edition of the selected poems of Liam S Gógan, Míorúilt an chleite chaoin (2012).

He was Jefferson Smurfit Distinguished Fellow at the University of St Louis-Missouri in 2002 and received the Charles Fanning medal from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2009.

Do you have a passion for the Arts? Are you a theatre lover? Do you like meeting new people? Would you like to learn the in’s and out’s of Festival Management? Maybe you have some free time and would like to meet like-minded people. If so, we at Scripts would LOVE to have you join our scripts-family! Whether you have some time to offer in the run up to the event or would like to get involved in the event itself, we can find a role that will match your availibility, interest and abilities.
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We also welcome theatre and writing students, or students of marketing & event management to come onboard and get some hands-on experience.
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To get involved, email us as scriptsireland@gmail.com outlining your availibility and telling us a little about yourself. It promises to be a fun-filled week, and we value greatly the contribution of all members of our team. As a token of appreciation, volunteers will recieve tickets to a festival event as well as festival staff discounts on all workshops and events. Look forward to hearing from you and close with some wise words….

” The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in service to others”.

—Mahatma Gandhi

An exciting opportunity for a theatre director to join the team at the Abbey Theatre with their Resident Assistant Director Scheme! http://ow.ly/nqgtt

Barry O’Leary was appointed Chief Executive Designate of IDA Ireland in October 2007. He took over the role of CEO from Sean Dorgan on January 1st 2008. Prior to this appointment he was Divisional Manager of the IDA’s LifeSciences and Information and Communications Technology business units. Mr. O’Leary has worked in IDA for over 30 years in most of its business areas including two periods, 1983-1991 and 1995-2002 in Germany, latterly as Director of Europe.

On his return to Germany in 1995 he was responsible for running IDA’s offices in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf which covered Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. He subsequently became Director of Europe and centralised IDA’s German offices into Frankfurt. During this period he was closely associated with winning major projects from companies such as Bertelsmann, SAP, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, Kostal, Allianz and a number of key Italian financial services Institutions.

On his return to Ireland in late 2002 Mr. O’Leary was initially appointed Divisional Manager Pharmaceuticals and Biopharmaceuticals and a member of the IDA’s Executive Committee. His responsibilities were increased in 2004 to include the LifeSciences and
Information and Communications Technology areas.

He has been deeply involved in changing the profile and raising the value of Ireland’s
inward investments over the past ten years, focusing on building capability in strategic sectors such as lifesciences and information and communications technology.

Mr. O’Leary led IDA teams in winning significant investments from a number of key clients such as Lilly, Pfizer, Centocor, Boston Scientific, Cordis, IBM, Kelloggs, Merck, Citi, Cisco Systems and Facebook among others.

Under his leadership in 2010, IDA launched its strategy blueprint, Horizon 2020. The strategy document articulates how IDA will attract the next wave of sophisticated FDI
over the coming decade. It highlights the importance of global mega-trends, economic geopolitical changes and technology roadmaps which will influence where IDA can capitalise on the opportunities that they present.

Barry O’Leary held a number of different positions in industrial companies prior to joining
IDA Ireland, including Nestle and the Smurfit Group. He is a Board Member of Forfás.

 

Peter Cassells
Peter Cassells is Executive Director of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict intervention at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

He is also a member of the Governing Body of NUI Maynooth and sits on the Board of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA).

Peter is a former General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and was a lead negotiator on five National Partnership Programmes in the 1990s.

He stepped down as General Secretary of Congress in 2001 and for 10 years worked on the promotion of organisational change in the public and private sectors as Executive Chair of the National Centre for Partnership and Performance.

He is chair of the Holocaust Education Trust and of Action Aid Ireland which focuses on projects in Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Uganda) and in South East Asia (Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia)

George Hook

 

George was born in Cork and was educated in Presentation Brothers College, Cork and Rathmines College of Commerce, Dublin. He has had broad experience in his working life including his own catering business, where he specialised in location catering for the film industry for over 20 years. He coached rugby in St. Mary’s RFC in Dublin followed by stints at London Irish, Connacht and The USA Eagles, leading the latter in the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

In 1997, he became a fixture on RTE’s television rugby panel and quickly established himself as a fearless but knowledgeable critic of the game.

In 2002, George joined Newstalk at its start-up as a Dublin radio station. The Right Hook quickly proved to be a hit with George’s unique mix of news, comment, opinion and trademark references to ‘the lovely Ingrid’ providing an alternative type of drivetime show. An avid lover of America, George regularly broadcasts The Right Hook from the United States, most notably throughout the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections and most recently, for the Emigrant Flame Ceremony in Arlington.

In 2005, he published his autobiography, “Time Added On”.