The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival 2010 is one of the most unique events in the irish calendar, as for one week Dublin's idyllic parks, beautiful cultural monuments and schools become the venues for performances of the works of William Shakespeare.

 

With a record 150,000 visitors to last year's Festival, this year's event takes place on the quays both north and south of the Liffey with attractions for all ages. The river will be a buzz of activity and Ireland's tall ship The Jeanie Johnston will form part of the festival and will be open to the public, giving people the chance to experience first hand what life on the ocean waves is like. Along with the stunning tall ships, there will be plenty of entertainment for all the family including a breathtaking array of street theatre, musical entertainment and amusements all creating a fun carnival atmosphere.

 

Presentations of photography, art film, paintings, (on screen) poetry, dance, comedy, song and music. An evening of entertainment for anyone interested in the arts. A lively, eclectic night which celebrates creatvity. open to submissions from artists of all kinds in advance.

 

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” The award-winning ROUGH MAGIC Theatre Company presents a sparkling new production of The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde’s timeless and much loved comedy. Starring Emmy-Award winner Stockard Channing (The West Wing, Grease) as Lady Bracknell, and featuring a stellar cast directed by Lynne Parker. Don't miss this most perfect of Wilde's comedies.

 

Every Monday, good quality stuff.

 

A newly commissioned solo exhibition that explores the complex and historical world of spectatorship. Adopting the early special effects technique of matte painting, Sander uses and quotes the visual intricacies associated with illusion, while critically examining the personal motivation of consumers who participate in spectator industries. Tourism, audiences, the traveller and the curious are all characters who take time out of everyday life and pay to see things. The gallery will be transformed into a single, circular screen, providing a constantly changing and looping landscape. Sander contrasts the simplicity of matte painting with the complexity of the current economic unknowns that form the background to many of our lives.

 

 

Some of the most recognisable speeches in the English language are featured in Shakespeare’s tragedy and in this special event they will be performed consecutively. Tagline: A recitation of some of the best-loved poetry penned by William Shakespeare.

 

 

 

As described by themselves: "Yes, ladies & gentlemen & boys & girls, The Village on Wexford Street will host the weekly musical extravaganza which sees 6 acts go head to head playing three songs each in a cauldron of excitement. Then we roll out our famous Clap-O-Meter; a gigantic, scientifically homemade replica of The Empire State Building which lights up to the ecstatic reaction of an audience going bananas. The winner then goes forward on a journey through a perilous musical jungle until we are left with the King of the Kong, the grand prizewinner! It’s a Monster!!! "

 

Richard interrupts the funeral procession of the late Henry VI, the man he murdered to rise to power. As the scene unfolds a number of unexpected occurrences take place linking him to the murder.

 

 

Soul Purpose is a seven piece soul and funk band, who faithfully reproduces the music of Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder and Dusty Springfield.

 

Tango Ireland will perform four Tango shows a day on the South Quays. Accompanied by a Tango guitarist and singer, a professionally trained couple under the direction of Monina Paz, will demonstrate how this distinctive and sophisticated dance from Argentina, with its African and European influences, should be performed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Torann is a Waterford-based, six piece percussion group who play hard, fast drum beats in an energetic and entertaining way. They have been playing together since 2002 with the aim of making any and every crowd move to their beat.

 

Croi8 is a dynamic new Art Collective of eight visual artists from the border counties of Louth, Cavan and Monaghan who have come together to share ideas, experiment with new concepts and exhibit together in Ireland and internationally. The artists include Kate Beagan, in whose landscapes and beach scenes, the shape pattern and colour play a large part in her choice of subject; Petra Berntsson's landscapes have been described as uniquely Scandanavian - blissfully naive and haunting while Roisin Duffy uses colour, humour and balance as the basis for her art with which she strives to lift the spirits of the viewer. Meanwhile Adrienne M Finnerty's art is energised with conceptual direction, emotionally inspired and attuned to her moods and responses to life . Avril Gould paints in vibrant colours to depict the beauty in nature that surrounds her. Elaine Hoey's work for 2010 explores some of the complexities of human nature and emotional responses through the dynamic fusion of images, text, colour and light. Bernie Mc Adam's paintings reflect her fascination with the subtle life force which emanates from seemingly inanimate objects and its effects. In Carmel O' Callaghan's work, she explores her chosen subjects deeply and displays a quiet sense of expectancy, using a variety of media and supports.

 

Includes light lunch. CIRQUE DE LEGUME wowed audiences at the Dublin Fringe Festival last September and we are delighted to be presenting it at Bewleys to bring it to a wider audience and start the summer season with a smile. (A show for everyone aged 8 to 80!) "The greatest vegetable circus on earth!" The Irish Times

 

Skeletons leap from suburban closets in Bookworms, Bernard Farrell’s hilarious and razor-sharp vision of a household savaged by the Celtic Tiger. ‘….and Larry, let’s try to show everybody that, recession or no recession, we are contented, confident and happy – and that this evening is going to be fun!” This month’s Book Club hostess Ann is struggling to stay calm, desperate to deliver the perfect evening of literary classics and late-night canapés. But when the all-female group invite their husbands to join the club, and a mysterious figure pays a visit from an upstairs room, everyone is forced to contend with a lot more than just Virginia Woolf. Opinions are challenged, suspicions aroused and tempers flare as their daily lives unravel into a saga to rival even the most outrageous fiction. Director Jim Culleton brings to life this hugely entertaining new play by the popular and celebrated playwright Bernard Farrell (I Do Not Like Thee Doctor Fell, Canaries, Lovers At Versailles) in an evening of wine and cheese, mystery and mayhem. An Abbey Theatre commission.