Director, writer, actor and musician Dylan Tighe, Director of The Irish Times Award Winning Best Production No Worst There is None makes his Abbey Theatre directorial debut. The title of his new and most audacious work to date succinctly encapsulates the concept of the production: In a live redubbing , Pasolini's Salò Redubbed daringly transposes Pasolini's notorious final film to Ireland. The modus-operandi of the work is to transpose the film to an Irish context line by line, scene by scene and for the new version to be performed by 7 actors in sync to the original film in its entirety.
This year's Dublin Theatre Festival programme reflects with many contemporary topics - but also reaches beyond, to a poetic enquiry about the times we live in. Over three weeks performances include 10 World Premieres, reimagined classic texts, inspiring international projects from Australia, Belgium Estonia, Portugal, Sweden, the UK and the USA, and an expanded season of Theatre for Children.
Society loves an expert and with poor mental health affecting 25% of the population during their lifetime it is clear that specialist knowledge, understanding and 'expert' care are needed. But who really has that expertise - health professionals or those who have experienced mental health issues? And can art play a part in bringing new perspective on all of this?
Today Willie White announced details of his first programme as Artistic Director of the Dublin Theatre Festival. The 55th anniversary Dublin Theatre Festival will run for 18 days from today, 27 Sept - 14 Oct at various venues around the city. - This year the Dublin Theatre Festival will celebrate 'Your City, Your Stories', putting Dublin at the very heart of this 18 day theatrical spectacular.
Today Willie White announced details of his first programme as Artistic Director of the Dublin Theatre Festival. The 55th anniversary Dublin Theatre Festival will run for 18 days from 27 Sept - 14 Oct at various venues around the city. - This year the Dublin Theatre Festival will celebrate 'Your City, Your Stories', putting Dublin at the very heart of this 18 day theatrical spectacular.
Following the critically acclaimed, sell-out success of Chris Goode's ...Sisters, winner of the inaugural NEW DIRECTIONS award, Headlong Theatre and the Gate are proud to announce the winner of NEW DIRECTIONS 2009: Dylan Tighe and his remarkable reimagining of Euripides', Medea/Medea.
Following the critically acclaimed, sell-out success of Chris Goode's ...Sisters, winner of the inaugural NEW DIRECTIONS award, Headlong Theatre and the Gate are proud to announce the winner of NEW DIRECTIONS 2009: Dylan Tighe and his remarkable reimagining of Euripides', Medea/Medea.
London's Gate Theater has announced its line-up for the 30th anniversary season in 2009. It will be called Generation Gate and begin with the UK premiere of Juan Mayorga's Nocturnal running 4/16-5/16.
Following Nocturnal will be The Gate at Sadler's Wells Press, which will run May 28-30, and then Medea/Medea from 6/18-7/18.
Performance Space 122 and Dublin's Pan Pan Theatre present the New York premiere of Oedipus Loves You, a wickedly funny and wonderfully theatrical take on the Oedipus plays of Sophocles and Seneca and their legacy, Freudian psychology. These performances are part of a highly acclaimed world tour, following the Dublin premiere in 2006 (including to date: the UK - Glasgow and London; Germany - Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin; Canada - Quebec, Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Banff; Austria; Switzerland; Finland; and arriving in the US fresh from China - Beijing and Shanghai).
