Performing Arts Programme May to August 2012

www.gbshawtheatre.ie
Old Dublin Road, Carlow
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PERFORMING ARTS
September
May
2012 - August
2010 - December
2012
2010
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May 4th
MUSIC
Ruby Works Records Presents
Vladimir’s Classical Twist
Front Image: Alex Brenner
Vladimir Jablokov returns to The GB Shaw
Theatre for one night only. Playing pieces
from his wonderful debut CD ‘Classical Twist:
The Album’, Vladimir will perform his unique,
fresh hybrid of music old and new he calls
‘Classical Twist’. From Bach to Beatles, The
Stones to Strauss - Vladimir’s superb virtuoso
performances have delighted TV, radio and
concert audiences up and down the country.
Not to be missed!
Date: Fri 4th May Time: 8pm Tickets: €18/€15
MAY 10th, JUNE 14th & JULY 12th
THEATRE
Carlow Lunchtime
Storytellers
MAY
Enjoy the flavour of local music, story and song at
lunchtime with Carlow Storytellers Group and friends.
Join the audience of the Carlow community, their
neighbours and friends and bring the theatre into the
community and bring the community into the theatre.
You can join the company to perform your party piece
this summer - so if you've a story to tell or a song to
sing or just would like lunch with a difference - our
lunchtime show is the place for you.
Contact Storytellers Artistic Director Seamus O'Rourke
at orourkeseamus@yahoo.com if you would like
to perform.
Supported by the Arts Office, Carlow Local Authorities
Photo: Linda Nolan
Date: Thursday 10th May, 14th June and 12th July Time: 1.15pm Tickets: €7
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MAY 15th
THEATRE
County Carlow Youth Theatre
MAY
What’s On Your Mind? and
Twisted Moments of Ordinary Lives
This year County Carlow Youth Theatre present two self-devised pieces.
Mini Youth Theatre present - What's On Your mind?
I sit and watch and watch the world go by. People busy, busy rushing
through their lives. So I take a moment to see what's on your mind...your
dreams and desires, your most hidden fears... Want to see? Press PLAY!
Youth Theatre present - Twisted Moments of Ordinary Lives
Let me tell you a story of some ordinary people with ordinary lives
in an ordinary world living ordinary lies. Give me a moment of your time,
add a twist of lime, I'll shake up a cock-tale of ordinary slime.
Date: Tue 15th May Time: 7pm and 8.30pm Tickets: €8/€5
MAY 25th
THEATRE
Riverdream Presents
Gay Byrne - Live on Stage
This is a unique opportunity to see Ireland’s foremost
legendary broadcaster telling some of the greatest
show-biz stories never told! This hilarious evening’s
entertainment, described as “a masterclass in comedy”,
will feature Gay sharing many behind-the-scenes
stories of the stars and the star-makers.
Produced by John McColgan.
“Superb…exhilarating…ingenious…
a thoroughly enjoyable evening”
The Irish Times
Date: Fri 25th `May Time: 8pm Tickets: €20
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MAY 26th
THEATRE
Theatre Ad Infinitum & Bealtaine Festival Presents
Translunar Paradise
Translunar Paradise takes you on a journey of life, death, and
enduring love. After his wife passes away, William escapes to
a paradise of fantasy and past memories, a place far from the
reality of his grief. Returning from beyond the grave, Rose
revisits her widowed companion to perform one last act of
love: to help him let go. Using a live accordion accompaniment
this exquisite piece of mask and movement theatre was an
award winning sellout at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011.
Co-production with The Lowry, Salford Quays, Midlands Arts Centre
(MAC) & BE Festival, Birmingham and The Ustinov, Bath.
Photo: Alex Brenner
‘An admirable, infinitely gentle and wordless story
of loss and remembrance’ **** The Times
Date: Sat 26th May Time: 8pm Tickets: €14/€12
MAY 27th
MUSIC
Carlow Active Retirement Association presents
Sing, Sing a Song!
MAY
Artistic Director: Mary Amond O’Brien Assistant Director: Marian Gaynor Music Director: Ollie Hennessy
To celebrate ‘The European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations 2012’
Carlow Active Retirement Association will present an Inter-generational Choral Music Project,
as part of the Bealtaine Season. 160 adults aged 50+ and teenagers from around the County
will present a unique choral concert with an exciting repertoire of songs of yesterday and
today. The performance will also include ‘Sing-along’ opportunities for the audience. Life is a
Song, Why not Sing it!
Funded by the Arts Council and supported locally by the VEC and Carlow Local Authorities.
Date: Sun 27th May Time: 4pm Tickets: €10/€8 Family €25 (2 adults + 2 children )
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JUN 2nd & 3rd
DANCE
KYDS Dance School
JUNE
Celebration
KYDS dance school, presents their bi-annual
show ‘Celebration’. Come and join our talented
dancers as they showcase a mixture of modern
dance theatre, contemporary, jazz, tap and
hip hop.
Producers Helen Dunne, Karyn Yates and
Natalie O’Shea promise a show that celebrates
the beauty and joy of dance and the versatility
of the children to perform these different
styles. With special guests from Kloyda
Montessori, Portlaoise and Castledermot
Dance Academy this is a show to suit everyone.
Date: Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd June Time: 7pm Tickets: €10/€8
JUNE 4th
FILM
Access Cinema
Romantics Anonymous
(Les Emotifs Anonymes)
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris, France, 2011
Duration: 77 mins Cert: 12A Language: French
Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta,
Lise Lamétrie, Swann Arlaud, Pierre Niney.
Spurred on by her Romantics Anonymous meetings - a 12-step
programme to help people shy away from being shy - Angélique
(Carré) finds work at a local chocalatiers. Her new boss, Jean-René
(Poelvoorde), has a reputation for being mean to cover up his
own horrendous bashfulness around women. We follow their
atypical romance, willing them - and the chocolate firm - to
make it against the odds.
With a taut script and using musical numbers to garner laughs,
this sugar-rush romance never becomes overwhelming thanks
to an undercurrent of absurdity. Like the chocolate at its heart,
this frothy, funny and utterly charming romantic comedy, is
sweet, a little indulgent and over all-too-quickly but leaves a
lingering glow of happiness - Amber Wilkinson, Eye For Film
Date: Mon 4th June Time: 8pm Tickets: €7/€5.50 (both prices include temporary membership fee)
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JUN 8th
MUSIC
Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012 Presents
Camille O’Sullivan: Feel
The Festival’s Opening Night features the incomparable and
brilliant Camille O’Sullivan, ‘mad, magical and magnificent...
A major star’ as The Scotsman described her.
Camille enjoys a formidable international reputation. Captivating
performances feature the work of Brel, Cave, Waits, Bowie and
more. Chameleon-like on stage, the award-winning singer
has stunned audiences around the world with 5-star sell-out
performances, including Sydney Opera House, London’s Royal
Festival Hall and a show-stealing appearance on Later with
Jools Holland. Dark, fierce, amusing and mesmerizing, Camille
transforms each song into an intense theatrical experience.
‘Ravishing... superb performer and great singer…’ The Guardian
Date: Fri 8th June Time: 9pm Price: €20/€18 (Cabaret Seats €25)
JUN 9th
COMEDY
Jim Mulvaney for Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012
JUNE
Presents
Pat Shortt ‘I Am The Band’
Pat Shortt’s new one man show is a tribute night to
Dixie Walsh (Jumbo Breakfast Roll, Where Did My Money Go),
a solo lounge musician. His peers and friends (the audience)
come to celebrate his career as he reminisces about the
struggles he has had to endure to get to the top of his game.
Dixie steps out of his character roles in Pat’s sell-out shows
‘You Won’t Get Away With That Here’ and ‘The Hall’ to take
centre stage and share his unique style of music with the
assembled - as does his mother, his teacher and other locals
who queue up to recall their daft memories of Dixie and
his music.
One of Ireland’s best-loved comedians, Pat Shortt’s quirky interpretation of rural Irish characters
has bought him international acclaim. I Am The Band is a hilarious look at life on the back roads
between Ireland’s dance halls, and a tribute to one of this country’s true music legends - Dixie Walsh.
Date: Sat 9th June Time: 9pm Price: €30
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JUN 12th & 13th
THEATRE
Hotbuckle Productions for Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012 Presents
JUNE
Great Expectations
Adapted for the stage by Adrian Preater.
After triumphing at Listowel Writers Week in 2011, UK theatre company Hotbuckle - troubadours
to the bone - return to these shores for the Dickens bicentenary. With just five actors of astonishing
versatility playing the full array of roles, this troupe explode onto the stage with this innovative
and exhilarating adaptation of one of Dickens’ greatest novels.
With all the comedy, mystery, violent melodrama, suspense and poignancy of the original, it tells of
Pip’s journey from boyhood to manhood as he seeks to discover who he is and find his place in an
inhospitable world. It is a story of love and loss, of guilt and shame, of fear and courage and has
some of the most vivid and memorable characters in all of English literature.
‘...moving (and) humorous ….these creative, versatile and
visionary actors excel, delighting the audience …… this production
is a clever and novel re-birth of a famous classic.’ The Public Reviews
Date: Tues 12th June at The GB Shaw Theatre & Wed 13th June at Borris House, Co. Carlow
Time: 8pm Price: €12.50
JUN 13th
COMEDY
Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012 Presents
The Nualas Older, Wiser, Heftier
3 divorces, 6 children and 200 botox injections later, The Nualas are back with a brand new line-up.
After 10 years off the road Anne Gildea and Sue Collins welcome Maria Tecce to the team with a
show that promises non-stop belly laughs and pure glamour. During their previous seven years
together the ladies achieved 17 theatre runs including 6 sell-outs in the Edinburgh Theatre Festival
and extended seasons in London, Dublin and New York. Expect a few old favourites such as ‘Girl with
a Cabbage for a Head’ alongside fabulous all-new classics, such as 'Yummy Mummy Recession Blues’.
Raucous fun-filled girls’ night out for all the football widows!
www.thenualas.com
Date: Wed 13th June Time: 8pm Price: €16
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JUN 14th
OPERA
Opera Theatre Company
for Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012 Presents
Orfeo
Following on from their sell-out success with The Magic
Flute this winter, Opera Theatre Company return with Claudio
Monteverdi’s Baroque masterpiece Orfeo. Although over 400
years old, the exquisite music and dramatic power of this
earliest operatic gem remains undiminished.
With a powerful cast including Oliver Mercer, Daire Halpin
and Sadhbh Dennedy, Orfeo is directed by Ben Barnes and
will be sung in English, with Joe Vanek on set design and
John Comiskey on lighting.
This performance is sponsored by Mr and Mrs Frank Lanigan.
Date: Thurs 14th June Time: 8pm Price: €20/€18
JUN 16th
MUSIC
Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012 Presents
Pierce Turner & VeRRy Small Orchestra
JUNE
This summer sees the return to the stage of Pierce Turner and the release
of his first studio album in seven years. Born and raised in Wexford town,
Pierce Turner’s musical journey began as a soprano in his school choir,
moved through clarinet, piano, The Beatles, Dylan and Pink Floyd, various
beat groups, folk rock collectives, and then graduated to collaborations with
singer/guitarist Larry Kirwan and then avant garde composer Philip Glass.
Something of a resilient renegade in the entertainment business, Pierce
Turner has achieved the kind of critical acclaim that most musicians would
steal for. This ‘heir apparent to Van Morrisson’ - Joyce with a Voice - was
described by critic Geoff Wallis as ‘one of the most devastatingly innovative,
constructively creative and ridiculously overlooked songwriters and
musicians of the last few decades’. Turner will take to the stage with his
VeRRy Small Orchestra, including Rian Trench on drums, Garvan Gallagher
on bass, and Lynda O’Connor on violin. www.pierceturner.com
Date: Sat 16th June Time: 8pm Price: €18
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JUN 17th
MUSIC
Young-Choon Park
South Korean born pianist and child prodigy Young-Choon began the
study of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital
when she was seven. She played the Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1
with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine. She studied at
the Juilliard School in New York and later gained the highest masters
degree at the Hochschule in Munich. Giving over 50 concerts each
year in Europe, Scandinavia, South Africa and the United States, she is
currently recording the complete Mozart piano concerts for Dechesne
World Records in Belgium. Her technical ability is beyond dispute. This
90-minute performance in an intimate theatre setting will present
Mozart and Beethoven’s sonatas with Young-Choon’s inimitable flair.
‘…individually refreshing, while demonstrating
real passion and style as well as outstanding
technical proficiency…’ Sunday Times
This performance is sponsored by an anonymous philanthropist
Date: Sun 17th June Time: 1.30pm Price: €12/€10
JUN 17th
MUSIC
Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012 Presents
Howard Reddy & Hanan Tarabay
In Concert with Aoife O’Sullivan (Piano)
Howard Reddy and Hanan Tarabay are both dynamic vocalists known for their
primarily classical repertoire throughout Europe and North America. In a
concert arranged specially for a visit to Ireland from their homes in Florida,
they will combine their love of the classical and folk traditions with some
contemporary American classics. Popular arias such as Bizet's Habanera from
Carmen, Gerschwin's Summertime, selections from the Classic Broadway rep,
and some favourites like Morricone's Nella Fantasia, or Neopolitan favourite
O Sole Mio, will sit alongside Someone to Watch Over Me, My Way and perhaps
even a duet of Danny Boy. In what promises to be one of the Festival highlights,
this uplifting musical evening is a great welcome home for Howard Reddy, a
Carlow-born vocalist with a truly international reputation, the mesmerizing
Hanan Tarabay, and the exceptionally talented pianist Aoife O’Sullivan.
This concert is kindly sponsored by Tom & Margaret Crotty
Date: Sun 17th June Time: 7pm Price: €18/€16
JUNE
Carlow Arts Festival Éigse 2012 Presents
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JUN 24th
FILM
Access Cinema
The Artist
Director: Michel Hazanavicius, France 2011 Duration: 100
mins Cert: PG Language: Silent Starring: Jean Dujardin,
Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell,
Penelope Ann Miller and Missi Pyle.
Travel back to a golden age of cinema in this enchanting, comedic
tribute to silent films. It’s 1927, and handsome, witty, and beguiling
George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is Hollywood’s biggest movie star.
Unhappily married, Valentin has unwittingly stolen the heart of a
nobody-turned-extra named Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), who dreams
of becoming a great actress in her own right. When the studio converts
to the “talkies”, Valentin balks at the prospect: who would want to
hear actors speaking? Valentin takes it upon himself to keep the silent
era alive, risking his career and his fortune, and stiff competition from
his former allies. - The Hamptons International Film Festival 2011.
Academy Award Winner 2012 - Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director
Cannes Film Festival 2011 - Jean Dujardin Best Actor
Date: Sun 24th June Time: 8pm Tickets: €7/€5.50 (both prices include temporary membership fee)
JUL 7th
COMEDY
Lisa Richards Agency presents
JUNE / JULY
PJ Gallagher - Raging
PJ has played sold out shows throughout Ireland and at the
biggest and best comedy festivals that the country has to
offer including Kilkenny Cat Laughs and The Carlsberg Comedy
Carnival. He has been an almost permanent fixture on Irish
television since Naked Camera arrived to RTE in 2005 and since
then he has gone on to make his own series, Makin' Jake, in the
USA and documentary, Back in the Saddle, all about his exploits
and adventures in his other passion of motorbike racing. He
is still racing and hopes to one day make it to the Manx GP.
‘For a man who ambushes people as they go about their
everyday business, makes them uncomfortable and mines
their embarrassment for laughs, there is something strangely
appropriate about PJ Gallagher’s route into comedy.’
The Sunday Times Culture Magazine
‘Clearly getting better all the time’. Irish Independent
Date: Sat 7th July Time: 8pm Tickets: €20/€18
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JUL 13th & 14th
JUNE
DANCE
The Marie Cashin School of Dance
Don't Stop Movin'
The Marie Cashin School of Dance returns once again with an upbeat, fun and funky show
titled "Don't Stop Movin’”and as the title suggests, we want you to do just that! The show
will cater to everyone, as the students aged 3-19 years impress with many styles of dance
including jazz, musical, modern and contemporary dance! A fun filled glitzy night
is promised and the show is suitable for all ages!
Date: Fri 13th and Sat 14th July Time: 8pm Tickets: €12/€8
JUL 28th
MUSIC
The Group presents
The ‘Live’ Last Waltz
DIRECT FROM
THE OLYMPIA
“The Last Waltz”, was a live show filmed and directed by
Martin Scorsese which commemorates the history and music
of Bob Dylan and ‘The Band’ and is regarded as the greatest
rock and roll concert movie of all time. Of course it was the
guest list on the night that turned it into the greatest gig of
all time as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison,
Muddy Waters, Dr John, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Ronnie
Hawkins and a host of others joined The Band on stage.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the movie last year, a
collective of some of Dublin’s most renowned musicians
under the name “The Group”, set about the impossible task
of recreating the 2 hour show live in tribute to the original
concert. This brilliant tribute night not only stars The Group
themselves as The Band (naturally!), but also features a
whole host of special musical guest-stars from the Dublin
music scene! The night is a real treat for both fans of these
legendary musicians and anyone else who loves good oldfashioned rock and country music.
Date: Sat 28th July Time: 8pm Tickets: €18/€16
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OCT
COMEDY
COMING NEXT SEASON
Lisa Richards Agency presents
Des Bishop
Des Bishop Likes To Bang
Date: Thurs 25th Oct
Tickets: €25
NOV
COMEDY
Lisa Richards Agency presents
David O’Doherty
Seize the David O'Doherty
Date: Fri 30th Nov Tickets: €18/€16
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Disabled Access & Special Needs
We regret that tickets cannot be refunded
after purchase. To obtain a refund in the
unlikely event of a performance cancellation,
tickets must be returned to the box office.
The arts centre is fully accessible for disabled
patrons. Designated car parking is available in
the public car park at the centre.
Booking Fees
A booking fee of €1 per ticket applies to all
card transactions whether purchased online,
via telephone or in person (to a maximum
of €10)
Latecomer Policy
Latecomers can only be admitted at a suitable
break in the performance. Admission cannot
always be guaranteed.
Partners and Funders
The theatre is also fitted with a hearing aid
induction loop covering the whole of the
auditorium. *Patrons please discuss your needs
with Box Office staff when making your booking
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Car parking is available immediately inside the
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