A new Australian play about Irish forebears and failure. Continue reading
Filed under Theatre Notice …
Four centuries of O’Neills and an unmarked grave in Perth.
Vanessa O’Neill’s play, In Search of Owen Roe O’Neill (see What’s On for details) on her great grandfather, Owen Roe O’Neill (no, not the c17 hero, but he does get a guernsey) opens at La Mama on 24 June for a two-week season. Continue reading
How did Joyce get entangled with Charlie Chaplin?
What if Chaplin and Joyce, an inveterate consumer of cinema, had met by chance in Paris, and Chaplin had taken it into his head to make a silent film of ‘Ulysses’? Continue reading
‘The Racker’ in Melbourne for Bloomsday
Nature of Event: pReJoyce: Joyce, Dublin and Beyond. The Racker is a Dublin-based entertainer, poet, raconteur, singer. Fresh from the Joyce Tower at Sandycove, where he has often performed his own brand of Dublinesque comic poetry, Racker has been lured to Melbourne to warm us up for Bloomsday. He will perform his sequel to Ulysses, THE TRUTH … Continue reading
Bloomsday, 16 June, and the Joyce who loved films
Bloomsday in Melbourne in 2016 celebrates the Joyce who loved film. Continue reading
The Travelling Man/’Irish Opera’ to feature in a concert.
this extract will most likely be a world premiere of this operatic scene. Continue reading
Beckett Triptych at the Adelaide Festival
Nature of event: Beckett Triptych featuring three of Australia’s greatest actors, Paul Blackwell, Peter Carroll and Pamela Rabe in three perfect theatrical gems: Footfalls, Eh Joe and Krapp’s Last Tape. Where: Adelaide Festival Centre, State Theatre Company, Scenic Workshop and Rehearsal Room, King William Road, Adelaide. When: Fri 20 Feb 2015, 7:00pm to Wed 25 Feb 2015 @ 7:00pm Cost: Preview: … Continue reading
The Parting Glass by Damien Leith
Filled with humour, emotion and great Irish music Continue reading
Convict Women and Orphan Girls
Independent Irish fimmakers Barrie Dowdall & Siobhan Lynam have recently completed a 4-hour documentary series, filmed in Australia, called Convict Women & Orphan Girls which tells the story of the 25,000 convict women, nearly half of them Irish born, who were transported from Ireland to Australia from 1787 to 1853. The series also features the 4,200 … Continue reading
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
the stakes in this card game could not come any higher. Continue reading
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