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PRICE: INFORMATION ONLY TIME: 11:00am
Alicia Christofi-Walshe of expandance is back leading our over 50s dance group, Re Orga, in a series of dance classes and new choreographies. These popular sessions encourage, inspire, and motivate people to get dancing! Classes with Re Orga emphasize maintaining flexibility, strength, balance, and co-ordination all in a social and relaxed environment. Learn new social dances and be part of new contemporary choreography, all abilities welcome.
Come along to meet new people and make new dances!
Price is €5 per session
For more informtion on call our box office on 059 9172400.
Image courtesy of Mary Hutton.
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 spring - 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.
Frankie Gavin is known as the world's greatest Irish fiddle player and holds the 'Guinness World Record' as the 'Fastest Fiddle Player in the World'.
Frankie and his band have performed everywhere from 'Beijing Opera House' to 'The White House' and having performed for no less than 3 US Presidents and with 'The Rolling Stones' amongst other musical luminaries, this band knows how to entertain and has talent in abundance!
1)Rough for Theatre 2: 2 observers who may or may not be officials discuss a man contemplating suicide.
2)That Time: An Irish labourer after years in Britain looks back on his earlier life and his disappointing career, before he dies.
3)Rockabye: An old woman, sick of life, rocks herself into the next life.
This cinematic masterpiece sees Tilda Swinton give a truly breathtaking performance as a mother torn apart by the conflicting emotions she feels for her son and his irredeemable actions.
Based on the best-selling novel by Lionel Shriver about a couple and the psychological torture they endure with the arrival of their dysfunctional son, Kevin.
British director Lynne Ramsay creates an intriguing, complex and slowly devastating masterpiece. Alternating between a present loaded with guilt and a past full of frustration, Ramsay slowly unfolds the truth about what Kevin has done and, with it, spins a cinematic vision of contemporary hell around Swinton's mesmerising performance. - Canberra Film Festival 2011.
Winner - Best Film at 2011 London Film Festival
Company: Access Cinema
Director: Lynne Ramsay, UK, 2011
Duration: 112 mins
Cert: 16
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Ashley Gerasimovich, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Alex Manette, Kenneth Franklin.
Language: English
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
SHOW SOLD OUT Tommy Fleming is now recognised throughout his homeland of Ireland and across the world as one of the finest singers of his generation.
Appealing to all ages, musical tastes and cultures, audiences have now recognised Tommy Fleming as a truly unique talent.
But the fact remains that Tommy Fleming is his own man, delivering song after song - each more haunting than the next. Be it a cover version or his own original material, Tommy Fleming's velvet-toned voice makes each one his own.
After 20 years honing his craft, Tommy is now taking his place at the forefront of popular music across the globe. The mere mention of a Tommy Fleming concert has 'sold out' signs being displayed at venues from Dublin to Sydney within the space of minutes.
Tommy Fleming's star is on the rise and with each concert he plays, he is rewarded with a new group of lifelong fans. It's not difficult to see why that fan-base has now become a global phenomenon.
Enchanting and evocative, Mozart's final operatic masterpiece The Magic Flute, is a lyrical love story, set against an atmospheric backdrop of fantasy and mischief.
Presented by Opera Theatre Company Ireland's National Touring Opera Company.
Eileen MacDonagh discusses her exhibition at VISUAL Eileen MacDonagh discusses LithoSphere, encompassing new and older work; this large scale exhibition surveys the artist's career to date.
This talk specifically focuses on the work exhibited in the Galleries.
Gemma Hayes is performing a set of special acoustic shows this spring in support of her latest LP, Let it Break. This album, her fourth, is an evolution of Gemma's unique style of music, combining
prog rock, folk and electronica.
It is another collaboration with longtime producer David Odlum, and
features Paul Noonan of Bell X1 and Ann Scott.
Over the years, Gemma's songs have appeared in countless TV programmes and films from Grey's Anatomy to One Tree Hill and most recently The Vampire Diaries and the upcoming Abigail Breslin pic, Janie Jones. Gemma's debut album, Night on My Side, was nominated for a UK Mercury Prize and earned Gemma awards as Ireland's best female artist.
Two young Americans, who have been together since their school days and are to be married in the fall, head for a few days to Paris where Gil's fiancée's father has a business meeting.
While Inez and her mother are overjoyed by a chance meeting with another couple, and together they discover the tourist gems of the city and its luxury stores, Gil soaks up the mysterious magic of places where his most admired authors once experienced "a movable feast."
He feels that in Paris he will find the inspiration that will help him exchange his success as a Hollywood screenwriter for the courage to be a novelist. But his road to discovery comes with an unexpected twist, and at the journey's end Gil discovers what he truly wants from life.
Director: Woody Allen USA/Paris, 2011
Duration: 94 mins
Cert: 12A
Starring: Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen
Language: English
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
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 spring - 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.
PRICE: €30 / €25 conc. TIME: 8:00pm
VENUE: Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny.
For many years Katia and Marielle Labeque have formed one of the most widely recognised and popular piano duos on the international scene. They have performed with the leading conductors and orchestras of the age, and are frequently invited to appear at the most prestigious music festivals in Europe and overseas. A record audience of 33,000 enjoyed their concert in 2005 together with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the German capital's famed Waldbuhne.
For the opening gala concert of the 2012 Barrow River Arts Festival, in the magnificent setting of the 13th century Duiske Abbey, they will perform works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Gershwin.
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: €100 / €80 TIME: 12:00am
Katia and Marielle Labeque
Venue: Duiske Abbey / Time: 8.00pm
Saturday 3rd March
Calmus Ensemble
Venue: Borris House / Time: 4:30pm
Tapas Supper
Venue: Borris House / Time: 6:30pm
The AURORA Trio
Venue: Borris House / Time: 8:30pm
Sunday 4th March
Eddie Lenihan - Irish Story Telling
Venue: Borris House / Time: 2:30pm
Women in Joyce and Beckett
Venue: Borris House / Time: 4:30pm
Calmus Ensemble (Camerata Kilkenny)
Venue: Borris House / Time: 7:00pm
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: €15 / €10 conc. TIME: 8:00pm
Four of Ireland's finest traditional musicians combine their individual talents in a refreshing performance of music and song. Bringing together the distinctive musical styles of Cork, Sligo and Armagh, all four are at the forefront of the current wave of musicians featuring on some of the most notable recordings and line-ups in traditional Irish music today.
PRICE: €20 / €15 conc. TIME: 4:30pm
VENUE: Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow.
Sacred and Profane. If you heard the Calmus Ensemble on their extensive Music Network tour of Ireland early in 2011 you will want to hear them again. If you missed them then this is an opportunity to hear the superb a capella singing of these five exceptional singers. They perform music by Schutz, Bach, Franke, Monteverdi, Mateo Fletcha the elder (15th century) in beautiful Borris House.
Anja Lipfert - soprano
Sebastian Krause - countertenor
Tobias Poche - tenor
Ludwig Bohme - baritone
Joe Roesler - bass
Sponsored by the Goethe Institut.
6:30pm Tapas Supper for artists and Weekend/Day ticket holders only.
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: €20 / €15 conc. TIME: 8:30pm
VENUE: Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow.
Compositions and Improvisations. The works performed by the duo of Agusti Fernandez and Barry Guy at last year's festival were described by Michael Dervan in the Irish Times as 'a sequence of numbers that ranged from riotous and manic to the sheerly soulful'. As they are being joined for this year's festival by the sensational percussionist Ramon Lopez you can expect to be blown away!
Agustí Fernández - piano
Barry Guy - bass
Ramon Lopez - percussion
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: €40 / €35 TIME: 12:00am
Saturday 3rd March
Calmus Ensemble
Venue: Borris House / Time: 4:30pm
Tapas Supper
Venue: Borris House / Time: 6:30pm
The AURORA Trio
Venue: Borris House / Time: 8:30pm
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: INFORMATION ONLY TIME: 2:00pm
Venue: Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow.
Opening of Albert Irvin Exhibition
Evan Parker - Saxophone (U.K)
Solo Improvisations. An exhibition celebrating the 90th birthday of the English Abstract Expressionist painter Albert Irvin ('A painter who lets the sun shine into the city') will adorn the walls of the Ballroom at Borris House throughout the festival and at limited opening times until Sunday 11th March.
Evan Parker (among Europe's most innovative and intriguing saxophonists) will play solo improvisations at the opening reception.
Experience Aidan Dooley's award winning one-man play as it tells the heroic tale of Tom Crean, the intrepid, Irish Antarctic explorer.
Crean's thirty-six mile solitary trek to base camp during an expedition to rescue his comrades; has been described by Antarctic historians as "the finest feat of individual heroism from the entire age of exploration".
He was subsequently awarded the Albert Medal for his bravery. The story, a testament of human fortitude against all the elements of Antarctica, is brought to life in this dramatic solo performance.
PRICE: €10 / €5 conc. TIME: 2:30pm
VENUE: Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow.
If you have no magic in your life, you're in a sad place - so says leading Irish story-teller Eddie Lenihan who has been at the forefront of story telling and collecting in Ireland for the last twenty years.
Sitting around the Borris House fireside, one of Ireland's most historic (and maybe even haunted!) houses, Eddie will have adults and children alike on the edge of their seats. Not for the faint-hearted!
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: €20 / €15 conc. TIME: 4:30pm
VENUE: Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow.
Women in Joyce and Beckett Marcella Riordan, well known for her portrayal of Molly Bloom on the award winning Naxos audio book of Joyce's Ulysses, performs passages from Molly's soliloquy, from the Anna Livia chapter of Finnegans Wake, and from Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days.
The programme is introduced by Roger Marsh Professor of Music at York University.
Marcella Riordan
Roger Marsh
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: €20 / €15 conc. TIME: 7:00pm
VENUE: Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow.
Ich Habe Genug (BWV 82a) is among Bach's best loved cantatas. Originally for bass and oboe obligato it will be heard in this performance in Bach's own arrangement for soprano and flute. Cantata 150 is considered to be one of the earliest of Bach's cantatas to survive.
Leading international early music ensemble, Camerata Kilkenny, is joined by soprano Anja Lipfert and her colleagues from the Calmus Ensemble for the grand finale of the second Barrow River Arts Festival.
Maya Homburger - violin/director
Anja Lipfert - soprano
Rachel Beckett - flute
Marja Gaynor - viola/violin
Jonny Byers- cello
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord
Alastair Mitchell - bassoon
Barry Guy - bass
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
PRICE: €40 / €35 TIME: 12:00am
Sunday 4th March
Eddie Lenihan - Irish Story Telling
Venue: Borris House / Time: 2:30pm
Women in Joyce & Beckett
Venue: Borris House / Time: 4:30pm
Calmus Ensemble (Camerata Kilkenny)
Venue: Borris House / Time: 7:00pm
For full programme information visit www.barrowriverartsfestival.com
Filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sense a story unfolding as they begin to film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev.
They have no idea that their project will lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives as they unravel an intriguing Facebook mystery.
A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.
USA 2010 Documentary
Duration: 84 mins
Directors: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Cert: 12
Teachers attending with a class are free. School reservations are essential, please call our box office on 059 9172400 to ensure a place.
The Irish Writers' Centre is delighted to announce a series of prose readings.
The purpose of the series is to develop an audience for prose readings and to cultivate and encourage reading among the public. It is the hope of the Irish Writers' Centre that, by providing a regular platform for writers, they can maintain a continuous rapport with their readers and increase their readership from book to book.
Speakers: Tom McIntyre, Eoin McNamee and Orlaith Foyle.
The Irish Writers' Centre also holds that it is essential to do everything possible within our society to nurture reading, and promoting an interest in individual writers and individual books contributes to this broader aim.
Take Shelter is a riveting blend of domestic drama and supernatural thriller featuring an outstanding central performance by Michael Shannon, rapidly emerging as one of the best American actors of his generation.
In his second collaboration with director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories), Shannon plays Curtis, a Midwestern husband and father who begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard.
His seemingly inexplicable behavior confounds his family and friends, challenging their loyalties and his sanity.
Winner - Critics Week Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2011
Company: Access Cinema
Dir: Jeff Nichols , USA, 2011
Duration: 120 mins
Cert: TBC
Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon, Ray McKinnon, Kathy Baker.
Language: English
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
A brand new musical is created from scratch at each performance of this award-winning production, which has played sell-out seasons in London's West End and at the Edinburgh festival.
A
udience suggestions help to create a show on the spot, as the all-singing, all-dancing cast, improvise with unpredictable and frequently hilarious results.
Packed with drama, dazzling dance routines and catchy melodies, Showstopper! leaves delighted audiences singing all the way home.
"The show is a blast. It makes your jaw drop in impressed amazement and your ribs ache with laughter." ***** Mail On Sunday
Muide Eire is a documentary film on the history of Ireland on Screen. From the horse drawn carriages of Dublin's yesteryear to the latest summer blockbuster, the project takes an intimate look at filmmaking in this country - as a visual expression of Irish culture, celebrating contemporary filmmakers, in both the Irish and English language.
From the glamour of red carpet interviews to behind-the-scenes 5am starts, Muide Eire invites the viewer into this world where art and industry exist in delicate balance.
The heart of this documentary is our investigation into representations of Ireland and the Irish - how the Irish have been viewed abroad, and how we represent ourselves on screen.
The documentary explores Irish film and TV history in a thematic, rather than chronological manner, exploring Landscape, Character, and the Screen as a Mirror to Society. Over 500 clips from over 200 titles illustrate a vibrant visual history; including MY LEFT FOOT, SEACHT, ADAM & PAUL, HIS & HERS, THE PIPE,
CORP & ANAM, ROS NA RUN, THE COMMITMENTS, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, INTO THE WEST, POITIN, SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY and never-before-seen footage from behind the scenes on THE QUIET MAN.
Directed by Cathal Watters, Duration: 83 minutes, Cert: PG
Muide Eire is produced by Underground Films & Odyssey Media with funding from TG4, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaion and with the participation of Bord Scannan na hEireann / the Irish Film Board. The film is produced under the Splanc! Scheme.
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
Paco Thomas and his mother live in Dromoleen, a remote country village, where the local factory has closed, inflicting misery on the town's inhabitants. Young Paco spends his evenings learning Spanish from an ancient Linguaphone tape in anticipation of his long-departed father's arrival home.
However, when a Colombian pilot crash-lands his plane outside the town, Paco is soon called upon as the sole Spanish speaker and he manages to convince the reticent locals to treat the stranger as one of their own.
Based on real-life events, The Runway is a breathtaking account of an unlikely force uniting a fractured community. Corona Cork Film Festival 2010
The Runway
Director:Ian Power, Ireland, 2010
Duration: 95 mins
Cert: PG
Starring: Demian Bichir, Kerry Condon, James Cosmo, Jamie Kierans, John Carpenter, Bruno Bichir, Pat Laffan and Donnacha Crowley
Language: English
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
Barnstorm Theatre Company presents A Murder of Crows by Mike Kenny, in collaboration with Barnstorm Theatre Company.
A Murder of Crows is a dynamic and theatrically exciting work for children aged 8 and over, based on the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel. The play explores themes of famine, family loyalties and personal growth.
Six actors weave a gothic story of two children's journey from abandonment and fear to ultimate survival, seen from the quirky perspective of a chorus of raucous and garrulous crows, whose boisterous antics will delight children!
School & Groups rates available, please call the box office on 059 9172400.
Barnstorm Theatre Company presents A Murder of Crows by Mike Kenny, in collaboration with Barnstorm Theatre Company.
A Murder of Crows is a dynamic and theatrically exciting work for children aged 8 and over, based on the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel. The play explores themes of famine, family loyalties and personal growth.
Six actors weave a gothic story of two children's journey from abandonment and fear to ultimate survival, seen from the quirky perspective of a chorus of raucous and garrulous crows, whose boisterous antics will delight children!
School & Groups rates available, please call the box office on 059 9172400.
Barnstorm Theatre Company presents A Murder of Crows by Mike Kenny, in collaboration with Barnstorm Theatre Company.
A Murder of Crows is a dynamic and theatrically exciting work for children aged 8 and over, based on the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel. The play explores themes of famine, family loyalties and personal growth.
Six actors weave a gothic story of two children's journey from abandonment and fear to ultimate survival, seen from the quirky perspective of a chorus of raucous and garrulous crows, whose boisterous antics will delight children!
School & Groups rates available, please call the box office on 059 9172400.
Barnstorm Theatre Company presents A Murder of Crows by Mike Kenny, in collaboration with Barnstorm Theatre Company.
A Murder of Crows is a dynamic and theatrically exciting work for children aged 8 and over, based on the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel. The play explores themes of famine, family loyalties and personal growth.
Six actors weave a gothic story of two children's journey from abandonment and fear to ultimate survival, seen from the quirky perspective of a chorus of raucous and garrulous crows, whose boisterous antics will delight children!
School & Groups rates available, please call the box office on 059 9172400.
PRICE: €12 / €10 conc. TIME: 8:30pm
Rusty McCarthy - Singer, songwriter, producer, engineer, and one of the finest Blues and Jazz guitarist on the scene today, with a career spanning three decades and having shared the stage with some of the finest performers in the world.
As a free-lance guitarist Rusty has jammed and played with pop's Alanah Myles, Tom Cochrane, Bare Naked Ladies and played Blues with Jeff Healey, Jerome Godboo, The Blues Brothers, and also jazz with Bill Frisell, Holly Cole, Molly Johnson. His musical projects have him travelling the world, most often as band leader and guitarist with Mary
Margaret O'Hara.
Most notable shows were in London, New York and L.A. with Mary, sharing the stage with music icons Sting, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithful, Steve Earle, and Elvis Costello and TV appearances that include N.B.C.'s Night Music', BBC 'Top of the Pops," and Much Music.
Rusty's latest performances have been ATP festival Somerset, Edmonton Folk festival, Wexford Opera Festival, Pop Montreal and coming up, a season of summer concerts. Along the way Rusty has found time to hone his craft as a songwriter - and is devoting more time to finding his niche in the performance world, and it's being appreciated. In fact, Rusty's song "Baking A Cake" has been included in the upcoming film 'Autumn' - starring the late David Carradine, and
written film scores for BRAVO TV's "A Taste Of Shakespeare."
Artist Talk: Eileen MacDonagh - Sculpture in the Landscape - Making Large Scale work.
Artist Eileen MacDonagh has worked in large scale sculpture for over 20 years in wood, stone, metal and most recently in polystyrene and Paper-Pulp.
Choosing to work in monumental scale often rules out Gallery exhibitions and so the work must be situated outside. In this talk MacDonagh discusses the nature of working in the large scale and specifically the considerations of making work which will be situated in exterior environments.
Sculpture in the Landscape refers to site-specific commissions; self initiated constructions; sculpture parks or works moved to exterior locations for exhibition. In addition the term landscape can be interpreted as Rural or Urban environments.
Image: Boora Pyramid , Lough Boora, Offaly, 2002.
As the wife of wealthy judge William Collyer, the beautiful Hester lives a privileged but unfulfilled life. For solace she turns to William's younger friend Freddie, a former pilot.
That begins as a passionate affair soon turns into an undying love. To the disapproval of her clique, Hester decides to leave her golden cage and move in with Freddie. But Hester's obsessive love soon alienates her new lover - and she is left teetering on the verge of an abyss.
Then a new man enters her life, a former doctor and fellow outsider. Terence Davies' new screen adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play sensitively tells of forbidden love, suppressed desires and the fear of being alone. Zurich Film Festival.b,R>
Company: Access Cinema
Director: Terence Davies, UK, 2011
Duration: 98 mins
Cert: 15A
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale.
Language: English
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
Children of the Revolution is the premier show for Carlow's top dance venue Dance Republic Studios.
Having recent successes such as dancing at Poptober with Jedward, appearances on Sky 1's Got To Dance, over 300 trophies for students in the past 6 months, over 40 students on RTÈ's Children's TV programmes, music videos, appearances throughout shows and events in Carlow town and the signing of Kaotix crew to a management agency, Dance Republic students are finally ready to take to the stage to show the unbelievable talent Carlow has to offer, with guest appearances from Carlow fire brigade.
Children of the Revolution is the premier show for Carlow's top dance venue Dance Republic Studios.
Having recent successes such as dancing at Poptober with Jedward, appearances on Sky 1's Got To Dance, over 300 trophies for students in the past 6 months, over 40 students on RTÈ's Children's TV programmes, music videos, appearances throughout shows and events in Carlow town and the signing of Kaotix crew to a management agency, Dance Republic students are finally ready to take to the stage to show the unbelievable talent Carlow has to offer, with guest appearances from Carlow fire brigade.
Children of the Revolution is the premier show for Carlow's top dance venue Dance Republic Studios.
Having recent successes such as dancing at Poptober with Jedward, appearances on Sky 1's Got To Dance, over 300 trophies for students in the past 6 months, over 40 students on RTÈ's Children's TV programmes, music videos, appearances throughout shows and events in Carlow town and the signing of Kaotix crew to a management agency, Dance Republic students are finally ready to take to the stage to show the unbelievable talent Carlow has to offer, with guest appearances from Carlow fire brigade.
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 spring - 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.
Presented by Fishamble: The new Play Company. Written and performed by Sonya Kelly, Directed by Gina Moxley, Produced by Marketa Dowling.
'I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone's eyes. And so it was discovered why I'd thrown bread to the floating crisp packets in our local pond and walked into lamp posts and said, 'excuse me'.
Until that day the world was a swirl of moving coloured blobs. I thought it was the same for everyone. How wrong I was.'
'Part memoir, part theatre and part stand-up comedy' (Irish Independent), this delightful story of a myopic seven year old is brought to you by actor and comedian, Sonya Kelly (The Savage Eye).
'hilarious, poignant... it will please viewers of all lens-prescriptions and none.'Irish Theatre Magazine
'delightfully whacky... hilarious... tight script and engaging performance... terrific... Irish Times
As director and star, Ralph Fiennes brings William Shakespeare's visceral history play to the big screen for the first time.
Coriolanus is a drama for the ages, a commentary on the precarious draw of war and an auspicious directorial debut from one of the world's great classical actors.
Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General, is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens.
Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus' anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome.
The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.
Company: Access Cinema
Dir: Ralph Fiennes, UK, 2010
Duration: 122 mins
Cert: TBC
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, James Nesbitt
Language: English
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
Following the success of the Michael O'Toole concert in the Link Gallery last year, we are delighted to present Redmond O'Toole (no relation) who has been described as one of the most innovative and exciting guitarists in Europe.
His concert will include a wide variety of music from the renaissance master John Dowland to popular classics from Spain. In the past year he has performed in Denmark, Italy, France and Austria. In addition to his solo recitals Redmond also performs regularly as special guest with 'The Chieftains' and plays in duo with Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and Elizabeth Cooney (violin).
He has won numerous competitions and awards including the RDS Music Bursary and the National Concert Hall's Rising Star.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is probably best known as the Oscar winning film, starring Jack Nicholson. It is based on the novel written by Ken Kesey, and adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman.
It is a disturbing, yet comic play set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital in the 1960s. The rebellious RP McMurphy has himself committed, in the belief that he can avoid prison time.
He strongly resists the dictatorial regime he encounters, thus embarking on a collision course with the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, who exercises total control over the patients under her care.
We see his humanity with his fellow patients and his defence of their rights, rousing them to revolt against their mental and physical imprisonment.
By Dale Wasserman
From the novel by Ken Kesey
By kind permission of Samuel French
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is probably best known as the Oscar winning film, starring Jack Nicholson. It is based on the novel written by Ken Kesey, and adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman.
It is a disturbing, yet comic play set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital in the 1960s. The rebellious RP McMurphy has himself committed, in the belief that he can avoid prison time.
He strongly resists the dictatorial regime he encounters, thus embarking on a collision course with the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, who exercises total control over the patients under her care.
We see his humanity with his fellow patients and his defence of their rights, rousing them to revolt against their mental and physical imprisonment.
By Dale Wasserman
From the novel by Ken Kesey
By kind permission of Samuel French
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is probably best known as the Oscar winning film, starring Jack Nicholson. It is based on the novel written by Ken Kesey, and adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman.
It is a disturbing, yet comic play set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital in the 1960s. The rebellious RP McMurphy has himself committed, in the belief that he can avoid prison time.
He strongly resists the dictatorial regime he encounters, thus embarking on a collision course with the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, who exercises total control over the patients under her care.
We see his humanity with his fellow patients and his defence of their rights, rousing them to revolt against their mental and physical imprisonment.
By Dale Wasserman
From the novel by Ken Kesey
By kind permission of Samuel French
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is probably best known as the Oscar winning film, starring Jack Nicholson. It is based on the novel written by Ken Kesey, and adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman.
It is a disturbing, yet comic play set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital in the 1960s. The rebellious RP McMurphy has himself committed, in the belief that he can avoid prison time.
He strongly resists the dictatorial regime he encounters, thus embarking on a collision course with the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, who exercises total control over the patients under her care.
We see his humanity with his fellow patients and his defence of their rights, rousing them to revolt against their mental and physical imprisonment.
By Dale Wasserman
From the novel by Ken Kesey
By kind permission of Samuel French
After a pope dies the conclave meets in order that the cardinals may choose his successor. Several rounds of voting must take place before white smoke over the Sistine Chapel finally announces that the new pope has been elected, and before the traditional announcement from the balcony in front of St. Peter's Basilica: "Habemus papam."
But this time around the faithful assembled in the square below, a crowd hundreds of thousands strong, wait in vain for the balcony doors to open and the new head of the Catholic Church to appear.
The cardinal who has been chosen is suddenly hit with a panic attack over the responsibilities he must take on. Anxiety? Depression? Fear that he is not up to the task?
The Vatican is in shock and everyone is searching for a remedy. They decide to call in an eminent psychotherapist to help solve the situation.
Company: Access Cinema,P>
Director: Nanni Moretti, Italy, 2011
Duration: 102 mins
Cert: TBC
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa, Margherita Buy, Franco Graziosi.
Language: Italian
Our Film Membership for the season is €30 and you call attend all NINE of the selected Film Screening this season!
That is just €3.33 per movie!
Call into out box office or buy over the phone on 059 9172400 (Note: any purchased with a card are subject to a €1 booking fee).
Vladimir Jablokov returns to Carlow for one night only. Playing pieces from his wonderful debut CD Classical Twist: The Album, Vladimir along with his peerless band of exemplary classical musicians 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 delighted national audiences in 2011.
The Classical Twist show wowed audiences the length and breath of the country this past year. Since then Vladimir has released his superb debut CD Classical Twist: The Album and charmed viewers and listeners on The Late Late Show, RTE Radio 1, Lyric FM and many more.
Vladimir is one of the best young musical talents currently playing in Ireland. 'Classical Twist' showcases a dynamic band of Slovak and Irish musicians taking familiar pieces from the world of both the classics and rock-pop; and reworking them in into new, vibrant, exciting shapes!
Surprise a loved one with a Gift Voucher for VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & The George Bernard Shaw Theatre. A Gift Voucher will allow friends & family to choose from a variety of shows, films & performances they'd love to see!
Terms & Conditions:
Gift Vouchers are valid from one year from the date issue/purchase.
Gift Vouchers are only valid to events/performances in the George Bernard Shaw Theatre Carlow.
Gift Voucher are like cash & cannot be reissued if lost or stolen.
The value can only be redeemed by presenting the valid Gift Voucher to the GB Shaw Theatre box office. All Events and Performances must be paid for in advance. Where possible, tickets can be held for a maximum of 3 days to allow the voucher to be presented to the box office or posted to the box office.
Once a ticket(s) are purchased the normal Ticket Policy applies and tickets cannot be refunded after purchase. Any change given will be as a Gift Voucher.
A card booking fee of €1 applies to the purchase of Gift Vouchers.
Gift Vouchers are also available in other values, please call our box office if you require a different value.
Postage:
Gift Vouchers will be posted out to the address & name on the booking.
PLEASE NOTE: That the last postage date before Christmas will be Wednesday the 22nd.
Any Gift Vouchers purchased online after this may not be received in time for Christmas but you can call into the Box Office to purchase until 2pm on Christmas Eve.
Contact Us:
Box Office 059 9172400
boxoffice@gbshawtheatre.ie
VISUAL & GB Shaw Theatre, Box office, Old Dublin Road, Carlow Town.
Surprise a loved one with a Gift Voucher for VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & The George Bernard Shaw Theatre. A Gift Voucher will allow friends & family to choose from a variety of shows, films & performances they'd love to see!
Terms & Conditions:
Gift Vouchers are valid from one year from the date issue/purchase.
Gift Vouchers are only valid to events/performances in the George Bernard Shaw Theatre Carlow.
Gift Voucher are like cash & cannot be reissued if lost or stolen.
The value can only be redeemed by presenting the valid Gift Voucher to the GB Shaw Theatre box office. All Events and Performances must be paid for in advance. Where possible, tickets can be held for a maximum of 3 days to allow the voucher to be presented to the box office or posted to the box office.
Once a ticket(s) are purchased the normal Ticket Policy applies and tickets cannot be refunded after purchase. Any change given will be as a Gift Voucher.
A card booking fee of €1 applies to the purchase of Gift Vouchers.
Gift Vouchers are also available in other values, please call our box office if you require a different value.
Postage:
Gift Vouchers will be posted out to the address & name on the booking.
PLEASE NOTE: That the last postage date before Christmas will be Wednesday the 22nd.
Any Gift Vouchers purchased online after this may not be received in time for Christmas but you can call into the Box Office to purchase until 2pm on Christmas Eve.
Contact Us:
Box Office 059 9172400
boxoffice@gbshawtheatre.ie
VISUAL & GB Shaw Theatre, Box office, Old Dublin Road, Carlow Town.
