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Welcome Back!
Hope you all had a great holiday, here’s a brief rundown of what’s on this term:
Week One:
1PM – War Games – written and directed by Chris Britton and Danny Greening
7PM – A Drum, A Drum – directed by Patrick Sturgess
Week Two:
1PM – Over The Rainbow – written and directed by Aisling Esmonde and Morgan Macintyre
7PM – Brownbread – by Roddy Doyle, directed by Caoimhe Ni Fhaolain
Week Three:
1PM – Closer – by Patrick Marber, directed by Hugo Lau
7PM – A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams, directed by Therese Prendiville
Week Four (New Writers’ Week):
1PM – At Night – written and directed by Erica Murray
7PM - A Hungry Feeling – written and directed by Liam McCarthy
Week Five:
1PM – The Last Five Years – by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Ali Hayes-Brady
7PM – Inadmissable Evidence – byJohn Osborne, directed by David Armstrong
Week Six:
1PM – The Cripple Of Inishmaan – by Martin McDonagh, directed by Oonagh O’Donovan and Heather Walsh
7PM – Ciaran’s Aisling – written and directed bv Darren Yorke
Enjoy the term, and keep checking our facebook page for more information on weekly events!
Coming up!
Irish Student Theatre Summit 2012
THE INAUGURAL IRISH STUDENT THEATRE SUMMIT
We are very excited to announce that Week 6 will bring the very first Irish Student Theatre Summit from the 23rd to the 26th of February.
The inaugural Irish Student Theatre Summit will be a national event bringing together student actors, directors, writers, designers and technicians for four days of intensive masterclasses, workshops and performances with some of Ireland and the UK’s most well-known theatre practitioners. We are in the process of securing major support and involvement from a number of institutions and have so far confirmed involvement from The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Lir, Fishamble and Annie Ryan at Cornexchange. We are also in talks with practitioners from The Abbey Theatre among others.
The summit will consist of four different ‘tracks’ on which students can enroll:
Directing
Performance
Writing
Design/Technical Theatre
In each of these ‘tracks’, enrolled students will go through intensive workshops and masterclasses over the four days to develop their skills in that field. Each ‘track’ will have a different format based on the ideas and preferences of the practitioners involved and will be sponsored through involvement by one major company.
In the evenings, students will gather together for events featuring Guest Speakers, Performers and local theatre trips. All in all, we hope that this will become an annual gathering that creates connections between the worlds of student and professional theatre.
You can register your interest and ensure your place at the summit here.
Registration is €25 (€20 for DU Players members). You must be available for all four days of the Summit.
The following are confirmed collaborators with the Summit:
Acting:
Alison Bomber (Senior Text and Voice Coach – Royal Shakespeare Company)
The Lir Academy
Annie Ryan (Artistic Director – The Corn Exchange Theatre Company)
Louis Lovett (Artistic Director – Theatre Lovett)
Directing:
Alison Bomber (Senior Text and Voice Coach – Royal Shakespeare Company)
Annie Ryan (Artistic Director – The Corn Exchange Theatre Company)
Sophie Motley (Plaza Suite, The Party, Vincent River)
Edwina Casey (Purple, We Are All In The Gutter, I Dreamt Tom Stoppard’s Email Address)
Playwriting:
Gavin Costick (Literary Officer – Fishamble Theatre Company)
Michael West (Foley, The Seagull, A Play On Two Chairs, Car Show)
Technical Theatre:
Brian Reilly (Specialist Designer – Production Services Ireland)
Press Enquiries – Paul Testar (publicity@duplayers.com/085 765 0945)
