The Darkest Corner - No Escape: Interpreted Play, Peacock Theatre

A series of presentations that shine a light into ‘the darkest corner of the history of the State’. 

In May of last year the high court judge Sean Ryan finally revealed the 2,600-page report of Ireland’s Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (commonly known as the Ryan Report). This report followed a nine year investigation into allegations of child sexual, physical and emotional abuse in Catholic Church-run institutions.

In responding to the report, Taoiseach Brian Cowen claimed it shone a powerful light into ‘the darkest corner of the history of the State’. Under the title, The Darkest Corner, we present a series of powerful work which both remembers the findings and reflects on the systemic abuse revealed within state-funded and regulated institutions.

The Darkest Corner series begins with No Escape a piece of documentary theatre based on the findings of the Ryan Report.

No Escape is compiled and edited by celebrated writer and journalist Mary Raftery and directed by Róisín McBrinn. Mary’s 1999 film States of Fear and follow up book Suffer the Little Children exposed the widespread abuse of children in institution run by the Church.

No Escape marks a major departure for us. It is the first time we have commissioned a piece of documentary theatre to investigate current or recent events in Irish society.

Please note: there will be a wheelchair accessible performance of No Escape on Tuesday 20 April at 8pm in the Liberty Hall Centre. Phone bookings only for this performance on 01 87 87 222.

The Darkest Corner continues with a reading of Richard Johnson’s courtroom drama The Evidence I Shall Give, which premiered at the Abbey in 1961 and concludes with Gerard Mannix Flynn’s play, James X, a Farcry productions presentation.

No Escape
Wednesday 14 – Saturday 24 April
Preview Tuesday 13 April
8pm, Saturday matinee 2.30pm
Tickets: €15 – €25

Wheelchair accessible performance: Tuesday 20 April at 8pm, Liberty Hall Centre NB change of venue for this performance

Sign language interpreted performance: Thursday, 22 April. For more information about our assisted performances, click here.

The Wizard Of Falls - Interpreted Drama, Belfast

Monday 6th April 2009

St Mary's College Falls Road Belfast
(Next to Caffreys Bar or facing the Manchester United bar)

Doors open at 7pm - show starts 7.30pm sharp

Tickets are priced at £5 and can be purchased at the Feile Ticket
office Falls Road (At traffic lights adjacent to the Donegall Road
leading down to the Park Centre (Ados take away also at top of the
road))

Cork Deaf Drama Group - Spirit of Signs - Dublin 16th May

Cork Deaf Drama Group - Spirit of Signs will perform their hilarious and excellent show "Down through the yEars"

on Saturday 16th May 2009 at 8 pm

in UCD Student Centre - ASTRA Theatre

Tickets now on sale at € 20 each

(Price includes admission to theatre & finger food party afterwards)

Please be advised tickets are limited to 600 and are selling fast.

Book today to avoid disappointment and to to enjoy this fabulous show not to be missed for 1 night only.

How much do you know about the challenges that deaf people have faced throughout history? From cave dwellers to space-travellers, from medieval monks to the Nazi holocaust, we take you on a deaf journey through time. Hilarious and heartbreaking, you will witness history through different eyes…and different ears.

"The Show colourfully depicits the History of the Deaf throughout the years and how mankind has evolved from apes to humanity. An excellent show that will have you laughing all night and some serious bits too - come along to find out more....."

Spirit of Signs – Cork Deaf Drama Group will perform at the
UCD Student Centre Astra Theatre on Saturday 16th May 2009
8 pm
Seating capacity 600
Tickets now on sale at € 20 each – Available from TDC Committee
Finger-Food Party will be held in the Student Bar beside Theatre afterwards (Ticket includes admission to Theatre & Party)

Tickets can be obtained from any Tallaght Deaf Club Committee or contact us directly at SMS / Voice 087-2944338

Regards,

John Paul Monaghan

Hon. Secretary

Tallaght Deaf Club

SMS / Voice : 087-2944338

Email : tallaghtdeafclub@eircom.net

Web : www.tdc.ie

** This show is being jointly supported by Tallaght Deaf Club & Art & Cultural Society of the Deaf **

DODGEMS - Interpreted Play

VENUE: O’REILLY THEATRE

BELVEDERE COLLEGE

GREAT DENMARK STREET

DUBLIN 1

Dodgems is a seductive theatrical collage of fantasy and reality. The light and dark of the fairground plays upon the motley crew of characters which inhabit this dreamlike realm. If you’re David Blane, you’re insane, if you’ve a club and spade, you’ve got a trade, if you can dodge and feint you can paint and if you are feeling tired you’ll be after an uncle Ned to Bo-Peep in.

DATES: RUNS UNTIL SUN 12 OCTOBER

TIMES: TUES – SAT 7.30

MATINEES SATS 2.30

SUNS 3.00

TICKETS:

TUESDAY – THURSDAY: €28/€26

FRIDAY – SUNDAY: €33

SAT MATINEES: €22

All performances are Sign Lanugage interpreted.

Contains material of an adult nature.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY:
“… the set is exquisite. A real bumper track morphs from pastoral scene to pole dancing club to nunnery and is a brilliant testament to CoisCéim’s characteristic and ingenious skills with staging.” -Stephen Mulkearn, Metro

“Director/Choreographer David Bolger & Charlie O’Neill hit on a marvellous concept, blending the exotic but unconventional ways of outsider circus folk, whose difference we revel in and even enthusiastically accept, with the experiences of our new outsiders … terrific staging and performances” -Seona Mac Réamoinn, Irish Times

“the marrying of several folk dance traditions raised the roof” -Seona Mac Réamoinn, Irish Times

“… the act of colliding versus the act of avoiding – and it underpins much of what O’Neill and choreographer/director David Bolger set out in Dodgems…. serges into a finale of show-piece dancing, a joyous and seemless integration of folk dancing styles” -Michael Seaver, Irish Theatre Magazine

DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER DAVID BOLGER
WRITER CHARLIE O’NEILL
ORIGINAL MUSIC ELLEN CRANITCH
SET DESIGN PAUL O’MAHONY
LIGHTING DESIGN JOHN COMISKEY
COSTUME DESIGN KATHY STRACHEN
SOUND DESIGN ALEXIS NEALON

CAST INCLUDES: PIOTR BAUMANN JASON E. BERNARD SIMONE CHOPLAIN LEE CLAYDENAMANDA COOGAN UNITA GAY GALILUYO GIER HYTTEN MÓNICA MUÑOZ MARÍN VANESSA MANUNGA EMMA O’KANE DIANE O’KEEFFE MARK O’REGAN DAVID TOOLE
LITTLE GIRL: SHAUNA HARRIS KARLA ONG ELIZABETH OZYUIANUINA MUSICIANS: DAVID CARMODY ELLEN CRANITCH SIMONE MENDONCA

Interpreted Performances at the Abbey

Sign language interpreted performances are programmed in both the Abbey and Peacock theatres.

Sign Language Interpreted performance dates:

Monday 22 September 8pm, An Ideal Husband

Saturday 11 October 2.30pm, Delirium

Saturday 18 October 2.00pm, Happy Days

Saturday 22 November 2.30pm, Lay Me Down Softly

Saturday 29 November 2.00pm, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Saturday 10 January 2.00pm, The Playboy of the Western World

Saturday 7 February 2.30pm, La Dispute

Saturday 7 March 2.00pm, Marble

Saturday 21 March 2.30pm, Ages of the Moon

Wednesday 22 April 2.00pm, The Comedy of Errors

Saturday 23 May 2.30pm, Only An Apple

Amanda Coogan - ISL Interpreter on RTE Radio 1's 'Eye Candy'

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/eyecandy/1043103.html

Amanda Coogan is one of the most exciting performance artists working in Ireland at the moment. She studied with the German performance diva, Marina Abramovic.

A special Eye Candy will follow Amanda in the creation of a new work A Deaf Opera based on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Amanda's parents are deaf so since she was a child she has used Irish sign language. For this work she has recruited performers from within the deaf community (both deaf people and Irish sign language translators) to sign Queen's hit Bohemian Rhapsody.


Click here to listen to the show (you'll need RealPlayer to listen)

Click here for a detailed version of the show in pdf format. It is not a full transcript though - it's just a summary :(