October Programme

Landmark Productions in association with MCD presents
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Landmark Productions
in association with MCD
presents
the world premiere of
Landmark Productions was established by Anne Clarke
in 2003 to produce work in Ireland and to tour Irish work
abroad.
Since then, the company has managed four international
tours for two theatres on three continents, and produced six
Irish premieres and two world premieres in Dublin. David
Hare’s Skylight won outstanding critical acclaim and broke
box office records at the Project in 2004. It was followed by
Edward Albee’s Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who
is Sylvia?, which attracted similarly outstanding reviews; by
the world premiere of Dandelions, which enjoyed two sellout runs at the Olympia and introduced Fiona Looney as
‘a new voice in the theatre’ (Irish Times); by Glen Berger’s
existential detective story, Underneath the Lintel, which
was nominated for Best Actor and Best Production during
the Dublin Fringe Festival and subsequently undertook a
national tour; by David Harrower’s Olivier Award-winning
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play Blackbird, at the Project; and most recently by Paul
Howard’s stage incarnation of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, The
Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, at the Olympia and by Frank
McGuinness’s version of one of the great classics of world
theatre, Miss Julie, at the Project.
With The Helix, Landmark has co-produced three Christmas
shows for children and young people – Neil Duffield’s
adaptation of The Secret Garden, Rufus Norris’ Sleeping
Beauty and Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy’s version of Alice
in Wonderland.
The Goat, Underneath the Lintel, Blackbird and Alice in
Wonderland all received Once-Off Project grants from the
Arts Council. Plans for 2009 include a production of David
Harrower’s early play Knives in Hens, which has been made
possible by Annual Programming Funding from the Arts
Council.
PHOTO CREDITS : Stephen Brennan as Ray, Catherine Walker as Una in Blackbird (photo: Patrick Redmond):
Philip O’Sullivan as The Librarian in Underneath the Lintel (photo: Patrick Redmond): Deirdre O’Kane and Keith
Duffy in Dandelions (photo: Shane McCarthy): Rory Nolan as Ross in The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger (photo : Patrick
Redmond): Catherine Walker as Julie, Declan Conlon as Jean in Miss Julie (photo : Patrick Redmond)
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Director Michael Barker-Caven
Set Designer Joe Vaněk
Costume Designer Joan O’Clery
Lighting Designer Sinéad McKenna
Olympia Theatre
Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Fiona Looney Writer
Fiona Looney’s first stage play, Dandelions, had its world premiere
in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, in 2005 and enjoyed an extended
run as well as a revival in Dublin and Cork a year later.
Prior to her debut as a playwright, she carved a career as a
journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster, becoming a household
name through her columns in The Sunday Tribune and, for the
past two years, The Daily Irish Mail and The Irish Mail On Sunday.
She has appeared regularly on television – The Late Late Show,
The Panel and Capital D are amongst her most recent credits –
and she has worked extensively on radio, both in Ireland and in
the UK. She presented a weekly programme on BBC London for
two years and has contributed to BBC Radio One, Radio Four and
BBC Glasgow. In Ireland, she presented two series of the travel
series Voyager on RTE and she has been a weekly contributor to
The Gerry Ryan Show for more than a decade.
Her scriptwriting credits are likewise split between Ireland and
the UK. Her television credits include The Fast Show (BBC), No
Limits (Sky One), This Is Ireland (BBC) and You’re A Star, Chain
Reactions, Buried Alive and The Irish Film and Television Awards,
all for RTE. She devised Celebrity Bainisteoir, which was a critical
and commercial hit for RTE earlier this year. A second series is
currently in production.
On radio, she co-wrote two series of the acclaimed Monica Moody
Show (RTE) and, as Amelia Golightly, scripted and presented spoof
‘Thought for the Day’ reflections nightly on 2FM for more than
five years. She was a regular writer on BBC Radio 4’s long running
satirical review, Week Ending and in 2001, had her first radio play,
Golf Widows, produced by RTE. She wrote and presented two
series of Backchat, a satirical panel show, for RTE in 2007.
She is also on intimate terms with Dustin the Turkey – in 2002,
she wrote his first feature length movie, Fowl Play, for Warner
Home Video. A book of her newspaper columns, Misadventures
in Motherhood, was published in 2005.
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Michael Barker-Caven
Director
Joe Vaněk
Set Designer
Together with the world premiere of Dandelions by Fiona
Looney at the Olympia Theatre in 2005, Michael Barker-Caven’s
previous work for Landmark includes the Irish premieres of
Skylight by David Hare; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward
Albee; Blackbird by David Harrower and Strindberg’s Miss Julie
in a version by Frank McGuinness, all at the Project Arts Centre.
For Landmark/The Helix, he directed The Secret Garden by Neil
Duffield and Alice in Wonderland by Mary Elizabeth BurkeKennedy.
October marks the sixth production for Landmark
Productions which Joe has designed since 2004. In
addition to Fiona Looney’s Dandelions at the Olympia,
these have included David Hare’s Skylight, Edward
Albee’s The Goat, Blackbird by David Harrower and Miss
Julie in a new version by Frank McGuinness, all at the
Project.
Recent theatre work in the UK includes the award-winning
production of Shadowlands by Bill Nicholson, starring Charles
Dance, in London’s West End.
Credits at the Gate Theatre, where Michael was previously Head
of Creative Development, include Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola,
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute (nominated Best Director
2002 Irish Times Theatre Awards), Old Times by Harold Pinter,
Play by Samuel Beckett (as part of the centenary celebrations
in 2006) and Anna Karenina by Helen Edmundson.
For The Theatreworks Company, for whom Michael was Artistic
Director between 1995 and 2004, credits include Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer; the adaptation and direction of Tales From
Ovid by Ted Hughes (nominated Special Judges Award 2002
Irish Times Theatre Awards); the Irish premiere of Mutabilitie
by Frank McGuinness; Anna Karenina by Helen Edmundson
(nominated Best Director 1998 Irish Times Theatre Awards); The
Fetishist by Michel Tournier; and Macbeth (in association with
Second Age), Richard III (nominated Best Director 2001 Irish
Theatre Awards), Troilus and Cressida and Venus and Adonis, all
by William Shakespeare.
Other theatre credits include Moll by John B. Keane at the
Gaiety Theatre for E Farrell Productions/The Gaiety.
For Wexford Festival Opera, he has directed Transformations by
Conrad Susa (Winner, Best Opera Production, 2006 Irish Times
Theatre Awards) and The Mines Of Sulphur by Richard Rodney
Bennett, which recently played to great acclaim in the new
opera house.
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As Design Associate for the Wexford Festival Opera from
2005 - 2007, he was responsible for redesigning the
auditorium and public spaces of the Dun Mhuire Theatre
for the 2006 season. He also designed Transformations
by Conrad Susa, based on the poems of Anne Sexton.
With the Opera Festival moving to Johnstown Castle in
2007, Joe created the 700-seat temporary theatre in the
grounds and also designed Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka.
In 2008, with the opening of the new opera house,
he designed The Mines of Sulphur by Richard Rodney
Bennett (nominated for the Best Opera Production Irish Times Awards 2008).
In 2001 he won Best Costume Design for the Opera
Ireland production of The Silver Tassie, directed by Patrick
Mason, and in 2005 he designed Tom MacIntyre’s What
Happened Bridgie Cleary at the Peacock, which received
the Irish Times Award for Best Play and Best Actress
(Catherine Walker). Other nominations have included a
Best Set Design for The Goat (2006) and Best Costume
Design for Transformations (2007).
Joan O’Clery
Costume Designer
Sinéad McKenna
Lighting Designer
Joan recently designed the costumes for The Taming Of The Shrew
for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, which will be
transferring to London early in 2009. She previously designed
the company’s sell-out 2007 production of Macbeth.
Sinéad recentlly designed La Traviata for Malmo
Opera and A Midsummers Night Dream for Opera
Ireland. Previous designs for Landmark Productions
include The Last Days of The Celtic Tiger and Blackbird.
Recent theatre designs include New Electric Ballroom
(Druid), The Burial at Thebes, Howie The Rookie and
Finders Keepers (Abbey Theatre), The Parker Project, Life
is a Dream, Attempts on her life and Dream of Autumn
(Rough Magic), Private Lives (The Gate Theatre),
Honor (B*Spoke), Macbeth, Philadelphia, Here I Come!,
Othello and How Many Miles to Babylon (Second Age)
and Henceforward (Derby Playhouse). She designed
Ladies and Gents (Semper Fi), for which she won Best
Lighting Designer at the Irish Times Irish Theatre
Awards, Skindeep, Scenes from a Watercooler, The Real
Thing and Dinner with Friends (Gúna Nua), Candide
and The Butterfly Ranch (Performance Corporation),
Shooting Gallery (Bedrock), The Snow Queen and Merry
Christmas Betty Ford (Lyric Theatre), The Woman who
Walked into Doors (Upbeat Productions), Diarmaid
and Grainne (Passion Machine), Swept (CoisCeim), As
a Matter of Fact (DTI), La Bohème (Co-Opera), Bovinity
(Tommy Tiernan), Tongues and Fitting In (Des Bishop)
and Neil Delamere at Vicar Street.
In Dublin her work has recently been seen in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
for Corn Exchange and Further Than the Furthest Thing for Hatch
Theatre Company.
Joan has enjoyed a long association with the Abbey Theatre,
both as Head of the Costume Department from 2002 – 2007, and
as Costume Designer for numerous productions there, notably
Hamlet, A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, A Whistle in the Dark, The
Colleen Bawn and The Importance of Being Earnest.
She has twice been awarded Costume Designer of the Year by
the Irish Times Theatre Awards, in 1997 for The Pinter Festival at
The Gate Theatre, and in 2002 the Corn Exchange Commedia
dell’Arte co-production of Lolita at the Peacock Theatre.
Dance work includes The Rite of Spring and Swept for CoisCeim
Dance Theatre, and Opera includes La Traviata for English National
Opera, Turandot and Dead Man Walking for Opera Ireland. Joan
also costumed the short film Brixton Bob for Fastnet Films, and
the dramatised sections of Cathal Black’s documentary, Learning
Gravity, and has just completed work on Conor MacDermottroe’s
film Occi Versus the World.
Amongst a considerable number of productions
designed for both the Abbey and the Gate since 1984,
which have included four Brian Friel premieres, he is
best known for his Tony Award-nominated designs for
Dancing at Lughnasa, which was seen at the Abbey, at
the National Theatre in London, and in New York.
In a major departure from his stage work, he is currently
designing an exhibition, Infectious, which opens at the
new Science Gallery in Trinity College in April.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Michael Barker-Caven, Joe Vaněk, Joan O’Clery, Sinéad McKenna
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Growing Pains
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Our eldest daughter suffers with growing pains.
Sometimes, she wakes up in the morning griping
about these cramps in her legs and on hard days’
nights, she cries in bed about how sore her thighs are.
If it weren’t for The Husband swearing that it used to
happen to him too, I’d suspect she was making the
whole thing up. The funny thing is, neither father
nor daughter troubles The Guinness Book of Records
too much in the height department – but perhaps
they have both still to enjoy their growth spurt. We
live in hope.
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But even if they aspire to Everest, I can’t help thinking
that our children’s growing pains are nothing to the
ones parents experience. Because just as they grow
upwards, we as parents must flex our own muscles
and stretch away from them. When they are little,
we enjoy front row scenes, but as they gradually
move centre stage, it is up to us to start moving back
through the stalls until finally, the best we can hope
for is a seat in the gods. We should give thanks then
if we are still facing the right way.
So this is the stuff they don’t tell you about
parenting. That as your children grow up and move
away from you, you too have to take your own heavy,
reluctant legs and hit the road. That as they strike for
independence and adulthood, you have to become
a helpless spectator to their fascinating lives and
give them the space to make their own mistakes, to
celebrate their small victories, to succeed and to fail.
And that even when you reach out your hand to pick
them up, you have to withdraw it again to let them
stand on the two feet that you once carried inside
you and that now, without you, might just conquer
the world. Growing pains? At least the children’s
ones only make their legs ache.
Fiona Looney
February 2009
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Cast
in order of appearance
Landmark Productions
in association with MCD
presents
the world premiere production of
Noirin Dawson
Frank Dawson
Carole Danaher
Katie Dawson
Padraig Byrne
Pauline McLynn
Lorcan Cranitch
Victoria Smurfit
Ailish Symons
George McMahon
Commentator
Jimmy Magee
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Director
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Michael Barker-Caven
Joe Vaněk
Joan O’Clery
Sinéad McKenna
Production Manager
Stage Director
ASM
Technical Sound Design
Eamonn Fox
Colm O’Callaghan
Deirdre McClean
Ivan Birthistle
Vincent Doherty
Paddy Keating
Claire Mahon
Pauline McCaul
TPS
Liz Barker
Val Sherlock
Lighting Supervisor
Assistant to Costume Designer
Wardrobe Supervisor
Set Construction
Scenic Artist
Hair and Make-up
Producer
Publicity
Administrator
Company Manager
Graphic Design
Anne Clarke
Sabrina Sheehan (MCD)
Nik Quaife (Zoetrope)
Sinéad McGrath
Rachel Murray
Gareth Jones
The action takes place in the kitchen and rear garden of a suburban house in Dublin.
The time is mid-summer, the present.
The performance runs for 2 hours 10 mins including a 15-minute interval.
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Sisters
Pauline McLynn Noirin
Victoria Smurfit Carole
Pauline McLynn was winner of Best Comedy Actress on British
TV for her role as Mrs. Doyle in the BAFTA award-winning
comedy series Father Ted. Her most recent TV work includes
Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4) in which she is part of
the infamous Dinner Party sketches, Jam and Jerusalem (BBC),
and Demons (ITV). She has also been seen in French and
Saunders, TV To Go, Aristocrats and Ballykissangel, all for the
BBC. Pauline has guested on Have I Got News for You, Never
Mind the Buzzcocks, They Think it’s all Over and RTE’s The Panel.
Victoria Smurfit lives in Dublin and has enjoyed a hugely
successful television and movie career.
Her film credits include Gypo, the first Dogme licensed film
made in the U.K., which won a British Independent Film Award.
In 2007 she completed filming The Calling, opposite Brenda
Blethyn, due for release in 2009. She will soon be seen in Hell’s
Pavement, which premieres at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
She has appeared in Iris directed by Richard Eyre, Angela’s Ashes
directed by Alan Parker, Black Day At Black Rock and Guilttrip
directed by Gerard Stembridge, Far and Away directed by Ron
Howard, An Everlasting Piece directed by Barry Levinson and
When Brendan met Trudy directed by Kieron J. Walsh. Other
work includes Quills, Nora, Her Own Rules, and Roddy Doyle’s
TV series Family, directed by Michael Winterbottom.
Her film credits include About a Boy, The Leading Man,
Bulletproof Monk, The Beach, So This is Romance? and The
Last Great Wilderness.
Victoria’s television credits include The Shell Seekers,
directed by Piers Haggard, for ITV; Berkeley Square, The
Alan Clark Diaries and Ivanhoe, all for the BBC; as well as
leading roles in several iconic series, including Jane in
Cold Feet, Orla in Ballykissangel and, most notably, DCI
Roisin Connor in Trial and Retribution, the next series of
which is currently being screened on ITV.
Her theatre performances include Maire in Brian Friel’s
Translations at the Bristol Old Vic, The Jungle Book for
the RSC, and Ten Rounds by Carlo Gebler at the Tricycle
Theatre in London.
October is the first time she has appeared on stage in
Ireland.
Pauline is a well-loved face on the Irish stage and has worked
in all of its major theatres, including the Abbey and Gate,
Rough Magic and Druid. She appeared in both productions of
Fiona Looney’s hit play Dandelions for Landmark Productions
at the Olympia Theatre in 2005 and 2006, and most recently
toured Ireland in The Taming of The Shrew for Rough Magic.
She is also a seasoned radio performer and played all of the
women in the legendary Scrap Saturday.
Pauline has published seven best-selling novels, Something for
the Weekend, Better Than A Rest, Right on Time, The Woman on
the Bus, Summer in the City, Bright Lights and Promises, and the
critically acclaimed Missing You Already, published in January.
She is co-Patron of World Vision Ireland with Victoria Smurfit,
a Patron of the Friends of Innisfree, in London (a housing
association for the disadvantaged) and Patron of Dover Youth
Theatre.
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Thank You
Lorcan Cranitch Frank
Ailish Symons Katie
This production would not have been possible without the goodwill
and practical support of many people and organisations, including the
following :
A native of Dublin, Lorcan trained at RADA in London.
He began working in the early 1980s in theatre in the UK
and then returned to Dublin to begin a career that would
keep him busy on both sides of the Irish Sea ever since.
Cork born actress Ailish began her career at the age of six,
when she played the youngest of the Von Trapp children,
Gretl, in The Sound of Music at the Cork Opera House.
Throughout her childhood years she was a member of The
Montfort College of Performing Arts, and she also studied
ballet with Joan Denise Moriarty’s School of Ballet.
Abbey Bouncing Castles, Abbey Theatre, Colin Baird, Tania Banotti, Gerry
Barnes, Bedrock Productions, Ruaidhri Boland, Emer Breen of An Post,
Eddie Breslin, Una Carmody, Celine Carroll, Maura Carty, Breda Cashe, CBC
Distributors, John Chisholm, John Clarke, Michael Colgan, Declan Collier,
Richard Cook, Margaret Cowan, Karen Crawford and all the staff at Smock,
DanceHouse, Loughlin Deegan, DID Electrical, Deborah Doherty, Moya
Doherty, Damien Dollard, Druid, Dublin City Council, Julian Erskine, Farrow
& Ball, John Finn, Adam Fitzsimons, Paddy Gibbons, Jack Gilligan, Sarah
Greene, Heineken, Padraig Heneghan, Barry Holden, Paul Johnson, Claire
Kavanagh, Sara Kavanagh, Ellen and Aisling Keyes, Lisa Lambe, Máirtín
Lane, Siobhan Lennon, Steve Lindsey, Ciara, Cian and Uainin Lindsey, Denis
Looby, Mary Lynch and Carmel McKenna of Ticketmaster at the Olympia,
John McBratney, Peter and Caitríona McClean, John McColgan, Dónal
McCormack, Cian McDonagh, Maureen McGlynn, Sinéad McGrath, Irma
McLoughlin, Jimmy Magee, Jo Malone, Dara Meaney, Hannah Meaney,
Ian Melady, Eleanor Minihan, John Moriarty, Pat Moylan, Terry Mulcahy,
Number 4, Barry O’Brien, DJ O’Brien, Grainne O’Malley, James O’Neill,
Orchard Home and Garden, David Orr, Charlie O’Sullivan and the Fourth
Year students of Terenure College, David Parnell, Dr Tony Peacock, Trevor
Price, Ringsend CAS, Thomas Rohan, Marie Rooney, Samuel Beckett
Theatre, Oddie Sherwin, Sandra Smith, Jakub Sobczak, Grahame Spencer,
Spud, The Homebrew Company, The Dublin Airport Authority, The Flowing
Tide, The LAB, Theatre Forum, Norman Verso, Westbury Hotel, Ali White,
Jonathan White and Mary White, as well as Brian Whitehead and all the
Front-of-House, box office and technical staff of the Olympia.
Thanks to Peter Dolan of Woodies, who provided much of the props and
set dressing, and to Anne and Tracy of Costume, for their help with Carole’s
wardrobe.
Special thanks to the 1st Year Television Operations and Production Course
at Ballyfermot College of Further Education, and in particular to Conor
Crosbie and Steph Myles.
Landmark Productions would especially like to thank Denis Desmond,
MCD Productions Limited, for his encouragement and support.
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In Dublin, he has worked mainly at the Abbey and the Gate
theatres, where his favourite roles include appearances
in plays by Tom Murphy, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness,
Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Seamus Heaney
and, most recently, Chekhov at the Abbey.
In the UK he has worked with major repertory companies
in Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol as well as the Royal
Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and in the
West End. He recently appeared in the Donmar West End
sell-out production of Ivanov, starring Kenneth Branagh.
His film work includes The Playboys, Titanic Town and
Dancing at Lughnasa. On television he has appeared in
The Bill, Hornblower, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Omagh,
New Tricks, ROME, Ballykissangel, Shackleton, The Street
and, most notably, Cracker.
She performed in many Cork musicals in both the Opera
House and Everyman Palace Theatre including Annie, The
Wizard of Oz, The King and I, Babes in the Wood and Cinderella.
At the age of eleven she played the lead role in Bad Seed in
The Cork Arts Theatre, which won her Best Newcomer at
the Cork Arts Critics’ Awards. She then went on to play in To
Kill A Mockingbird, Eclipsed and Hamlet, all at The Everyman
Palace.
At the age of seventeen, she played the role of schoolgirl
Jenny in RTE’s successful TV series, Bachelors Walk. As soon
as she completed her Leaving Cert, Ailish moved to Dublin,
where she played Juliet in Second Age’s production of Romeo
and Juliet, directed by Alan Stanford. Other theatre credits
include A Christmas Carol, in the Gate, the Ark’s production
of The Day I Swapped my Dad, Barnstorm’s Stuck in the Mud
and, most notably, Enda Walsh’s play Pondlife Angels, for
which she was nominated Best Actress at the Irish Times Irish
Theatre Awards.
Ailish first worked with Michael Barker-Caven when she
played the lead role, Mary, in the Landmark/Helix coproduction of The Secret Garden, and two years later she
played Alice in Alice in Wonderland, again for Landmark
and the Helix. Her other theatre performances include The
Performance Corporation production of Drive By as well as
Gretta in Metamorphosis and Sophia in Platonov for Once-Off
Productions at the Dublin Fringe Festival.
Her TV, film and radio credits include RTE’s The Clinic, the Irish
Film Board feature Starfish and the short films Beauty Queen
and TG4’s The Exile Files, as well as many radio plays for BBC
and RTE.
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George McMahon
Padraig
George McMahon’s career began at 13 when he
joined ITW and The Helen Jordan Stage School.
He first made a name for himself back in 2000
when he took on the title role of Jamie Custer
in the BBC’s BAFTA-winning drama Custer’s Last
Stand-Up.
His theatre credits include Rick in A Slice of
Saturday Night, Joe in This Lime Tree Bower and
Bennett in How Many Miles to Babylon, together
with appearances in various pantomimes
including Jack and the Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty
and Aladdin at the Gaiety.
His film and TV work includes When Brendan Met
Trudy, All Fall Down (Disney), Stardust (Merlin Films)
and 50 Dead Men Walking, which is due for general
release in 2009.
George is probably best known for his role as
Mondo in RTE’s Fair City.
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Ivan Birthistle and Vincent Doherty Sound Designers
Vincent and Ivan decided to pool their talents a few years ago and now work on an ongoing collaborative basis.
Past work includes Miss Julie and Blackbird (Landmark); The Playboy of the Western World, Saved, Alice Trilogy and
True West (Abbey); Rank, Noah and the Tower Flower, The Gist of It, Monged and Tadgh Stray Wandered In (Fishamble);
Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’, Roberto Zucco, This is Not a Life, Beckett’s Ghosts, Shooting Gallery, Far Away and
The Massacre @ Paris (Bedrock); Pentecost (Rough Magic); Trans Euro Express (Gary Duggan/Pageant Wagon);
All in the Timing (Inis Theatre Co.); Fewer Emergencies (Randolf S.D); The Sanctuary Lamp and Honour (b’spoke);
God’s Grace, Adrenalin and Slaughter (Semper Fi); The Home Place, Dancing at Lughnasa, Much Ado About Nothing,
Shadow of a Gunman and True West (Lyric); Chatroom, All About Town and Wunderkind (Calipo); The Dilemma of a
Ghost, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, Once Upon a Time and Not So Long Ago (Arambe); Does She Take Sugar
(Jean Butler and the Project Arts Centre); Luca (Barabbas); Hollow Ground and Liberty West (Coisceim); An Image of
the Rose (Whiplash) and Feint (Pan Pan).
Other sound designs include: for Vincent: Mud, Foley and Lolita (Corn Exchange); Blasted and Night Just Before
the Forest (Bedrock); Three Days of Rain (Rough Magic); Still (Fishamble); What the Dead Want by Alex Johnston
and The Mai by Marina Carr. For Ivan: All in the Timing (Inis Theatre Co.); Ladies and Gents by Paul Walker, Ten by
Eugene O’Brien, Butterflies by Ian McEwan (Semper Fi); Within 24 Hours of Dance with John Scott and The White
Piece (IMDT).
Eamonn Fox Production Manager
Eamonn Fox (The Galway One) is a freelance production manager, event controller and lighting designer. He
is delighted to be working again with Landmark, having previously filled the role of production manager for
the company’s productions of Miss Julie, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, Blackbird, Dandelions and The Goat. He
has been Production Manager on the Galway Arts Festival (1999-2004), the Dublin Theatre Festival (2001/2), St.
Patrick’s Festival (2002 – 2006) and The China/Ireland Cultural Exchange in China and Ireland (2004). He works
extensively with Druid Theatre Company, and he also works as a lighting designer in television and theatre.
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In all our stores nationwide.
We
have a Price
Promise Guarantee
If you buy an item from Woodie’s DIY & find that
you can buy the exact same item cheaper at
another store locally within one week we
will refund you the difference.
We are
Irish Owned
The Woodie’s DIY chain of
superstores is a subsidiary of
the Grafton Group PLC and
is Irish owned.
All of
our stores have a
Fully Qualified
Horticulturist
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday .....9am-9pm
Saturday .................................9am-7pm
Sunday & Bank Holidays........10am-6pm
(Opening hours may vary,
check with your local store
for details)
We have a team of qualified
horticulturists on hand to answer
all your gardening queries.
Now you can simply pick up the phone and dial our callsave number
to order your DIY and gardening needs directly to your doorstep.
* Delivery is guaranteed within 3 working days. Only €15* delivery
charge anywhere in Ireland.
Our telephone sales lines are open the same trading hours as our
stores. Calls charged at 5.24 cent per call.
* Delivery restrictions may apply to certain items.
Also a surcharge may be applicable to certain bulky items.
Colm O’Callaghan Stage Director
Colm has been working as a freelance stage director for several years. He began his career with An Taibhdhearc.
Recent work includes The Cripple of Inishmaan, New Electric Ballroom and A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, all for
Druid Theatre, and Conversations On A Homecoming and Shoot The Crow for Livin’ Dred Theatre Company. Colm
also works as an AD in film & television, where his recent work includes Single-handed 3 for Element Films and Aifric
II for Telegael. He also programmes for the Galway Film Fleadh. October marks Colm’s début with Landmark.
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• Kilmartin N6 Centre, Athlone tel: 0906 471270 • Newbridge, Co. Kildare tel: 045 448535 • Cork Rd, Waterford tel: 051 351040 • Headford Rd, Galway tel: 091 563700
• Poppyfield, Cahir Rd, Clonmel tel: 052 28007 • Manor West Retail Pk, Tralee tel: 066 7195248 • Lakelands Retail Park, Cavan tel: 049 437 2211
• Kilkenny Retail & Business Park, Springhill, Smithsland South, Kilkenny tel: 056 7789755 • Kinsale Rd, Turners Cross, Cork tel: 021 4968288 • Monread Road, Naas Tel: 045 889 622
• Southern Cross Rd, Giltspur Lane, Bray tel: 01 286 9058 • M1 Retail Park, Mell, Drogheda, Co. Louth tel: 041 987 7057 • The Park, Carrickmines, Dublin 18 tel: 01 299 9144
• Castlebar Retail & Business Park, Castlebar tel: 094 9028399 • New Blackwater Retail Park, Navan tel: 046 9060366 • Springfort Retail Park, Stereame Centre, Limerick Road, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary tel: 067 41144
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• New Ennis Road Retail Park, Ennis Road, Limerick tel: 061 582426 • Carrick on Shannon Shopping Centre, Dublin Rd, Carrick on Shannon, Leitrim tel: 071 961 6666
Deirdre McClean ASM
Deirdre has a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College. Previous
stage management credits include The Magic Tree (DJINN Theatre Company), Love’s
Labour’s Lost, Sweeney’s Flight, Black Snow, Vinegar Tom, Baal and Ghost Sonata
(all Samuel Beckett Theatre), Project Brand New (Project Arts Centre), The Heights
(Playgroup), The Coming World (Making Strange Theatre Company), It’s a Podge and
Rodge Show, Get me out of here! and Podge and Rodge, Desperate for Housewives. In
addition to many assistant director credits, her directing credits include How Many
of Me are There?, a twenty minute devised piece based upon Dr. Hugh Everett’s
Many-World’s Interpretation performed as part of Project Brand New in July 2008,
Black Comedy and Aladdin, a Christmas Pantomime (Players Theatre), The Lover and
Mud (Samuel Beckett Theatre) and The Threepenny Opera as part of the Samuel
Beckett Theatre’s 2006 ‘Debut Festival.’ Deirdre held the position of House Manager
of Players Theatre for two years and was the chairperson of the Irish Student Drama
Association in 2006.
Rachel Murray Company Manager
Rachel has worked in a freelance capacity in different areas of theatre production
for the last two years, beginning her career as a production assistant on the opening
and closing ceremonies of the Ryder Cup with Long Road Productions. She toured
Ireland for four months as ASM with the Foyle Company of Riverdance – The Show,
and subsequently toured Asia (as stage manager) and Ireland (as stage director) with
Riverdance in 2008. Rachel has also worked in the Abbey, as ASM on The Playboy
of the Western World and The Recruiting Officer, and was stage manager for Rough
Magic’s production of Life is a Dream at the Project. This is her first time to work with
Landmark and she is delighted to be involved with the production.
Pauline McCaul Wardrobe Supervisor
Pauline graduated from Inchicore College of Further Education as a mature student
in Costume Design and Make-up in 2007.
She was wardrobe supervisor for Alice in Wonderland (Landmark Productions /
The Helix) and The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Calypso Productions), and dresser
for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at the Gaiety. Her film credits
include costume making on Jordan Scott’s film CRACKS.
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