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.

 

In Flagranti (Codek Records - NY) Barry Redsetta (POGO) Louis Scully (Discotekken/12Sundays) Chris O'Donohoe (Discotekken)

 

Out of all the former Beatles, Paul McCartney by far had the most successful solo career, maintaining a constant presence in the British and American charts during the '70s and '80s. In America alone, he had nine number one singles and seven number one albums during the first 12 years of his solo career. Although he sold records, McCartney never attained much critical respect, especially when compared to his former partner John Lennon. Then again, he pursued a different path than Lennon, deciding early on that he wanted to be in a rock band. Little more than a year after the Beatles' breakup, McCartney had formed Wings with his wife, Linda, and the group remained active for the next ten years, racking up a string of hit albums, singles, and tours in the meantime. By the late '70s, many critics were taking potshots at McCartney's effortlessly melodic songcraft, but that didn't stop the public from buying his records. His sales didn't slow considerably until the late '80s, and he retaliated with his first full-scale tour since the '70s, which was a considerable success. During the '90s, McCartney recorded less frequently, concentrating on projects like his first classical recording, a techno album, and the Beatles' Anthology.

 

 

“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.

 

“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.

 

Dave Rooney is a multi instrumentalist, singer/songwriter hailing from Dublin. A passionate musician, he has gigged across Europe for 15 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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.