An Inspector Calls
Gaiety Theatre
Monday 13 February
13 Feb 2012 - 18 Feb 2012
Hailed as the theatrical event of our generation, winning more awards than any other play in history, this magnificent production has thrilled audiences across the world with its epic and wildly imaginative staging, raw emotion, evocative score, lashing rain and searing suspense.
Equus
Everyman Palace Theatre
Wednesday 8 February
8 Feb 2012 - 18 Feb 2012
In a Hampshire stable, a youth blinds six horses with a metal spike. Convicted of this appalling crime, seventeen-year-old Alan Strang is sent to a secure psychiatric hospital. Martin Dysart, the child psychiatrist assigned to him, begins to probe Alan’s past in an attempt to understand his motives. Initially the boy is silent and uncooperative, but as Dysart digs deeper, he begins to win Alan’s trust and the truth gradually emerges. Finally, as Alan struggles to be free of his demons, he must relive the events of that terrible night.
Irish Film Institute programme
Irish Film Institute
8 Feb 2012 - 15 Feb 2012
The programme at the IFI
ached grew print jot
Wednesday 8 February, 7-10:30pm
8 Feb 2012
ached grew print jot is a drawing class that takes the form of an event-based framework, a kind of anatomical arrangement, impressed and observed through varying material means that include music, mediation, performance, sculpture, moving image and a short lecture.
Dnote Collecting Art Advice #20
Dnote cultural information service
7 Feb 2012 - 13 Feb 2012
This is a look at some of what is currently out there in commercial spaces in Ireland.
Film Screening: Rouzbeh Rashidi & Maxmillian Le Cain
Thursday 2 February at 8pm
2 Feb 2012
Thursday 2 February at 8pm First in the series of three film screening events this month at The Guesthouse organised by current filmmaker in residence Rouzbeh Rashidi in association with Maxmillian Le Cain. ‘Ten Minutes Isn’t Worth a Dream’ (2010) 25min by Maximilian Le Cain • ‘Bipedality’ (2010) 67min by Rouzbeh Rashidi View a trailer [...]
A Play on Two Chairs
Project Arts Centre - Stage
Wednesday 1 February
1 Feb 2012 - 4 Feb 2012
A fast, humorous journey through the complicated world of lust, love & passion. Taking a look at the everyday interactions of modern day relationships; its physical theatre with flirting, fighting, falling in and out of love and lots of fun.
Big Maggie
Gaiety Theatre
Tuesday 31 January
31 Jan 2012 - 11 Feb 2012
Undoubtedly the hottest ticket in theatres across Ireland in 2011, Big Maggie is now back by popular demand to play the Gaiety for two weeks only after a sold out run last November.
The Goddess of Liberty
Project Arts Centre - Stage
Tuesday 31 January
31 Jan 2012 - 18 Feb 2012
A funny, touching and heart-breaking tale, The Goddess of Liberty is a story of family, friendship and survival among Irish immigrants in gold-rush Alaska. Frankie and May wait anxiously for May’s daughter T-Belle to return from her claim, but the gold seams are drying up, Frankie isn’t well and there are secrets and surprises around every corner.
The Unusual History of Ether
Project Arts Centre - Stage
Monday 30 January
30 Jan 2012
The Unusual History of Ether is the songwriting partnership of Irish singer-songwriter Rebecca Collins and Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug. Joined on stage by bassist Jeppe Skovbakke and drummer Jeppe Gram they present a night of music from their first EP.
I ♥ Alice ♥ I
Abbey Theatre
Monday 30 January
30 Jan 2012 - 18 Feb 2012
Alice and Alice are coming out. Finally.
Two exceptional, opinionated women were spotted winking at each other in Crumlin Shopping Centre.
Now they’re in a show…reluctantly. Defying stereotype, they’re here to share with you something they’ve never dared to before.
Literary weekend at IMMA
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Friday 27 and Sunday 29 January
27 Jan 2012 - 29 Jan 2012
To mark the closing weekend of the exhibition Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA is holding a weekend of literary events on Friday 27 and Sunday 29 January 2012. Distinguished figures from the literary and performing arts will present a range of responses for adults and families. The weekend begins at 6.00pm on Friday 27 January with a dramatic reading of an excerpt from Samuel Beckett’s novella First Love by Irish actor Conor Lovett, who is internationally acclaimed for his interpretation of Beckett’s works. This echoes Neuenschwander’s 2005 participatory work of the same name, in which visitors to the exhibition describe their first love to a police sketch artist, with the resulting drawing forming part of the exhibition.
None Went Mad . . . None Ran Away
Rubicon Gallery
Saturday 21 January, 5 - 7pm
21 Jan 2012 - 18 Feb 2012
Peter Burns, Mark Clare, Jessica Conway, Niall de Buitléar, Gabhann Dunne, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Barbara Knezevic, Clare Langan, Mark McGreevy, Maria McKinney, Fiona Mulholland, Sharon White
Tracey Quinn: Landscape
Peppercanister Gallery
Thursday 19 January at 5:30pm
20 Jan 2012 - 11 Feb 2012
Peppercanister Gallery is delighted to announce it’s first ever exhibition by Tracey Quinn. Originally from Lisburn, Co. Antrim, she now lives and works in Dublin. Quinn studied in Leicester, England and Orleans, France, gaining an Honours Degree in Fine Art.
Chinese Film Festival
Triskel Christchurch
Friday 20 January
20 Jan 2012 - 21 Jan 2012
Triskel Christchurch presents, in association with Dublin Chinese New Year Festival, the Chinese Film Festival. Showcasing the best contemporary films from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the festival comprises of five films from Friday 20th January until Saturday 21st January.
Positions: New Video Works by Brian Duggan and Aoife Desmond
National Sculpture Factory
20 Jan 2012 - 28 Jan 2012
Presented by Gaia Projects in association with the National Sculpture Factory and CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery Brian Duggan:juxtaposes both historical and recent events with newly built elements, to examine and unpick both systems of influence, and embedded expectations. An interest in accidents, and ‘when things go wrong’ underline his projects. Abandoned sites of activity, fairground [...]