New Writing Week at The New Theatre

The New Theatre's New Writing Week is back this week! Featuring new playreadings from exceptional new Irish writers including JJ Caine, Seamus Lucason, Sorcha Hegarty, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, Nadine Flynn and Emily Gilmore Murphy. This is one of the most exciting weeks in our annual calendar, don't miss the chance to catch promising new scripts and give your feedback to these talented playwrights. Tickets only €4.

New Writing Week

Dates: November 7th - 12th, 7.30pm Tickets: €4

About New Writing Week:
Monday, 7th November Nowhere Man by JJ Caine
Ian is the father. Andy is the son. Today they meet on an empty beach in Dublin for the first time in eight years. They can't help but question the events of that day eight years before - the crime that tore them apart. The murder one of them committed.

Tuesday, 8th November The Rapparees by Seamus Lucason
It is the time of the Protestant Ascendancy in Co. Kerry when priest hunting is a favorite pastime. A young clergyman has escaped the gallows and fled to the Slieve Mish Mountains to be protected by a loyal band of rapparees from the pursuing Dragoon Sergeant Edward Tynan.

Wednesday, 9th November Our Lady of Last Resort by Sorcha Hegarty
In the ghost of the Shelbourne hotel, Mamie Cadden, nurse and backstreet abortionist of the 30's, 40's &50's is facing ghosts of her own past. Hers is the story of the people who fell through the cracks of the Free State's Vision for Catholic Ireland, a vision we are still living under the shadow of.

Thursday, 10th November All Honey by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
Ru & Luke are throwing a house-warming. They intend to. Warm their house.
However, their guests seem more interested in whispering in the box room than joining the festivities.
Infidelities, secrets and an uninvited guest mean that Ru & Luke will have to clean up more than red wine stains and glitter.

All honey. is a exciting new comedy written by Ciara Smyth that will make you think twice about who you confide in.

Friday, 11th November With Wolves by Nadine Flynn
With Wolves is a play with many narratives; it can be a play about a lying best friend, a play about a fumbling detective, a play about a missing child... but ultimately, With Wolves is a play about the crippling mental anguish of man due to the effects of the world around him. The world of the play is not one in which we are familiar, with contradictory characters and distorted gender roles, we are presented with a world that suggest 'all is not what it seems', one which leaves us guessing and uncomfortable.

Saturday, 12th November
ALL TALK by Emily Gilmore Murphy
ALL TALK tells the story of Malachi, a socially inept teenager, and his relationship with Elizabeth, a troubled classmate who has gone mute after the death of her baby sister. Malachi wants to help but he's lost somewhere between reality and his online life. Can he trust the faceless voices on the Internet? Or is he being dragged down a path that will only bring out the worst in him?

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The Best Place For Love
by Paul Kennedy

Dates: November 14th - 26th, 7.30pm Tickets: €16 (€12.50 concession)

About the Show:
Four lives come into contact....

Frank is an overconfident accountant; he buys paintings and invests in the stock market and has an exaggerated sense of the rightness of his own judgements.

Anna is an actress who has a profound identification with the characters she reads, but does not understand the 'business' of theatre.

Mick is an artist who begins to doubt his talent and perceive the futility of art.

Audrey is a woman who seeks answers for a tragedy in her life, and who harbours inside a story of unspeakable acts and indescribable cruelty.

How much should we trust our gut instinct? How can our intuitions betray us? What should we do when our feelings run so deep that they choke us and render us into stone?

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The Feminist Film Festival Dublin 2016
'Othered Voices'

Dates: November 20th - 22nd, times vary Tickets: €10

About the Festival:
The Feminist Film Festival Dublin is an annual festival which helps counteract the mis/under-representation of women in cinema and in the film industry. Now in its third year, this year's festival will focus on the theme of 'Othered Voices', with a programme of films which capture the female voice in its many forms.

Media discourse surrounding women in cinema is increasingly structured around metaphors of the voice and 'silencing'. In the past five years, 'The Bechdel Test' - which measures women's film dialogue using a simple quantitative formula - has become a media sensation. Related commentary stresses the need for women in the industry to 'speak up'. But, historically, little attention has been paid to women's voices on-screen. The continued impact of Laura Mulvey's (1975) analysis of the visual objectification of women in cinema has distracted attention away from their vocal and verbal representation. Feminist Film Festival Dublin 2016 aims to address this by screening films which highlight and celebrate women's literal and figurative voices, including interpretations of 'the voice' as a character's or filmmaker's particular point of view.

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