The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival is back and looks set to be one of the largest theatre events of the Irish calendar, with approximately 400 performers both professional and amateur featuring in over 50 outdoor performances of Shakespeare’s work.
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We are also delighted to be welcoming back the GB Theatre Company for their eagerly anticipated performances of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night which are headlining the festival in a specially constructed auditorium in the Front Square of Trinity College.
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Dublin Shakespeare Festival 2011
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With eleven days dedicated to the greatest playwright in the history of the English language, there's guaranteed to be something for everyone to enjoy!
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A short Video of the Dublin Shakespeare Festival
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The Festival is over, the stage is down, the books are balanced and we more than 100% sold out. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank absolutely everyone who was involved in the 2011 Shakespeare Festival in any way for their contribution. From the GB Theatre Company to our sponsors and partners, and not for a moment forgetting any of our student volunteers and actors, and of course anyone who came to see any of the shows, the Festival went better than we could have possibly hoped a month ago.
Here are some reviews of the Festival to keep you looking forward to next year, which we can assure you will be even bigger. Over and out!
Read More »Don’t forget that actor and director Alan Stanford will be giving a talk this evening before Romeo and Juliet at 6.30 in the Graduate Memorial Building on Trinity campus.
Tickets for Romeo and Juliet are sold out, but we may be releasing more tickets for exposed seats at 6pm, depending on the weather. So if you don’t have a ticket, come at 6, go to see Alan Stanford, then enjoy the show!
If you’re visting Dublin and are coming to the Festival, make sure you visit Christchurch Cathedral as well. The Cathedral has very kindly been hosting some of our outdoor afternoon scenes and it is well worth a visit!
Click here for their website
Read More »After the great success of the public reading of ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore yesterday, there are still some tickets left for today’s public reading of John Ford’s The Broken Heart, directed by Selina Cartmell. Tickets are €7 or €4 concession, and the reading will be followed by a brief question and answer session. For full details and the full cast list, visit the Info page of the website.
4pm, Samuel Beckett Theatre
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The Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival is delighted to present public readings of John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore and The Broken Heart in a unique opportunity to see two rarely performed Jacobean masterpieces.
The stellar cast is now confirmed and will include some of the best talent in Irish Theatre. For two nights only, these actors will come together under the direction of Irish Times Theatre Award winner Selina Cartmell and some of the leading figures in the cast will include Louis Lovett, Cathy Belton and Mark Lambert.
Selina Cartmell has just been announced Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for the World Premiere of Robin Robertson’s translation of MEDEA, which received five nominations, and she is currently Artist-In- Residence at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Both ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore and The Broken Heart are gripping, powerful, and transformative dramas. They demonstrate the deeply moving humanity of one the finest playwrights of the Jacobean period.
‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore is by turns darkly comic and brilliantly horrific, and remains as powerful and as controversial as it was when first performed in 1629.
The Broken Heart has never been performed in Ireland. This timeless piece explores a society where men and women are tested to their limits, and the consequences of one man’s fatal decision.
The pieces will be presented as a once-off double bill of public readings by a renowned group of actors, followed by open discussion with Selina Cartmell and the cast.
These public readings will only be performed twice, on Thursday 9th June and Friday 10th June at 4pm in the Samuel Beckett Theatre on Trinity College campus. Tickets are €7 full price, €4 concession and €10 for both readings. Tickets can be booked online on the ticket booking page or on the box office line 01 896 2242.
Full Cast: Cathy Belton, Lorcan Cranitch, Aoife Duffin, Nick Dunning, Mark Lambert, Ronan Leahy, Louis Lovett, Marion O’Dwyer, Don Wycherley
Also featuring members of the Samuel Beckett Centre: Roisin Agnew, Rachel Gleeson, Manus Halligan, Nicholas Johnson, Darren Yorke
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Come along to the Graduate’s Memorial Building this afternoon for a free performance from one of Dublin’s finest sketch comedy groups, Foil, Arms and Hog. Check out their website here
On Day Seven, Cain teaches Oddie how to survive in the modern age. If you can’t use a toilet or a mobile phone, HOW CAN YOU BE A TOWN CRIER?
Watch it here
Read More »Anyone looking to attend some of the outdoor scenes over the next few days should check the timetable page for changes to the scheduled that have just been made. We are pleased to welcome a new feature to the timetable – excerpts of Shakespearean Music performed by our very own Cameron Macaulay (of the Press Launch fame) on classical guitar.
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Acclaimed actor and director Alan Stanford will be a giving a talk before the final performance of GB Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet at 6.30pm in the Graduate Memorial Building on Saturday 11th June.
As a director Stanford began his career at the Project Arts Centre where his productions included works by Shaw, Arbuzov, Graham Greene, Brecht, Dürrenmatt and Shakespeare. He is Artistic Director of Second Age Theatre Company for whom he has directed many productions, most recently King Lear, Othello and Philadelphia Here I Come.
His work as an actor includes roles from Shaw to Wilde, from Ibsen to Ayckbourn. He received a Harveys Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance as Salieri in Amadeus and was nominated for three further performances – Astrov in Uncle Vanya, Higgins in Pygmalion and Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
During the Gate Theatre Beckett Festival he performed as Pozzo in Waiting for Godot and as Hamm in Endgame, performances he repeated to considerable critical acclaim at the Lincoln Center in New York and in Toronto, Melbourne at the Barbican Theatre in London and in both Beijing and Shanghai. His most recent stage appearances were at the Abbey Theatre as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest and the Gate Theatre in Salome.
Read More »Day Five of Cain’s town crying lessons, and he is teaching Oddie a few fashion tips.
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