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.

 

Songs of Praise started in 2005 as a way to inject some fun into a club culture that was becoming increasingly dull and uptight, two fingers if you will to those who were taking themselves a little too seriously. It was soon obvious that we had tapped a vein of purest mental in the Dublin scene. Rock + Roll, Punk, alternative Karaoke with DJ Montane wrecking the gaff in-between performances, a simple and somewhat daft plan.

 

“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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Ladlane formed in 2004 in Dublin. The band features Eugene Quinn from Templeogue, Dublin on guitar/banjo/vocals, Ray Dempsey from Ballyduff, Co. Waterford on accordion and Colm Keane from somewhere in north county Dublin on fiddle/vocals.

 

 

Othello’s fears that his love Desdemona is guilty of infidelities are increased by his supposed best friend Iago. Desdemona is then confronted by an enraged Othello in this visceral scene.

 

 

 

 

 

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.