Jul-Aug-Sept Season Brochure 2012

JUL-AUG-SEPT 2012

NO BOOKING FEES At Mermaid Arts Centre, we do not believe in booking fees, administration charges or processing punishments.

We actually want you to come and have fun. So it’s simple - the price you see is the price you pay. We have concessions on the majority of our shows and if you want to make even more savings have a look at our 3 for e33 offer or become a friend.

GROUP DISCOUNTS We all love nights out with friends. So at Mermaid groups of ten or more get a 10% discount. That’s like one ticket free for every ten purchased.

The group discount applies to any event listed on page 3 of this brochure.

To get your discount call 01 272 4030.

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01 272 4030 In Person Box Office is open from 10am – 6pm Mon – Sat and until 8pm on performance nights

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Underground car-parking is available for mermaid patrons for the duration of shows in the evenings and at weekends. This is located under the Civic Offices complex beside mermaid. Please note that this underground car-park cannot be used during the day on weekdays.

Welcome to another late summer season in Mermaid where we invite you to slow down, take it easy and treat yourself to the finer things in life on offer here at Mermaid right through to September. This is a season of intriguing theatre, brilliant film, engaging workshops, insightful lectures, classic comedy and music which can transport you to another world.

One such world is that of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, produced

by Opera Theatre Company. Sung in English, this baroque masterpiece will captivate first time opera audiences and seasoned buffs alike. From Portugal comes Fado-singer Viviane, bringing this beautiful tradition to life on the Mermaid stage in early July. September sees legendary songstress Mary Coughlan take the stage with her distinctive and evocative sound.

For our younger audiences we have some wonderful workshops including The Circus is Coming to Town workshop, Wonderland summer camp and the Ballet Ireland summer workshops. But here at Mermaid learning new skills is not just for the young!

We have felting, bookmaking, basketry, street photography and pottery workshops for adults dotted throughout the programme too. If you prefer to learn by simply looking and listening why not take part in our film course? Or enjoy the many public lectures which will accompany our From Bray with Love exhibition.

Our tenth anniversary celebrations continue this season with the launch of our Live at Mermaid album in September. A beautiful compilation of some of the most memorable nights of music in Mermaid seemed the ideal way to honour these special artists and this wonderful venue. Audiences also are welcome to show their support for the album by donating via fundit.ie. No donation too small (or too big!).

So a bountiful third quarter awaits those who wish to wander by and enjoy the abundant fruits in this season’s programme whether you seek the tried and tested or those of a stranger nature, they are all ripe and ready for the taking.

Nora and the Mermaid team

Truth and Realities – Real and Imagined

A thread of enquiry spans Mermaid’s 2012 artistic programme, as we explore representations of reality from different perspectives and through a variety of media.

As a follow on to the documentary film course early this year, Mermaid offers a 6-week Cinema and Realism Film Course which looks at the important role film has in reproducing the world around us, with an opportunity to see five films which take varying approaches to the representation of reality.

The exhibition From Bray with Love takes a nostalgic look at representations of the history of town, with amateur as well as professional footage, and postcards sent by holidaymakers visiting the area. Sunniva O’Flynn will present additional footage from the IFI archives in September. With this historical documentation of Bray in mind, co-founder of Dublin Street Photography Collective, Dermot Marrey will encourage people to experience and record the town of Bray in a different way, looking for new ways to define and capture the spirit of the town through a still image.

Arcadia Festival Update And finally! A massive ‘thank you!’ goes out to all those who made the Arcadia Festival so special. We were bowled over by the response from audiences and the support and participation of the local Bray community. We especially salute our Arcadia partners whose creativity and enthusiasm helped to make the festival such a success. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did!

3 Shows for 33. Look through our brochure and anywhere you see the 3 for 33 logo on an event, then it is included in the offer. Book for any three separate events with the 3 for 33 logo at the same time and get them all for the great price of €33.

This offer includes the following shows: Theatre:

Wheelchair On My Face

29 JUN @ 8pm

Music:

Tír na nÓg

30 JUN @ 8pm

Music:

Viviane

12 JUL @ 8pm

Theatre: The Golden Dragon

14 JUL @ 8pm

Music:

Tony Miceli/Gabriel Makamanzi

21 JUL @ 8pm

Music:

Gretchen Peters

25 JUL @ 8pm

Music:

Luan Parle & Riona Sally Hartman

1 SEPT @8pm

Music:

We 3 Banjos

Theatre:

Joyced!

Music:

Mermaid @ Live CD Launch Concert

Music:

ConTempo & De Jongens Driest Brass Trio 29 SEPT @ 8pm

Theatre: Sylvia’s Quest

12 SEPT @ 8pm 14-15 SEPT @ 8pm 22 SEPT @ 8pm 29-30 SEPT @ 8pm

Once you book all 3 events at the same time, you save!

If you just like the idea of getting €11 tickets to any of these events without any restrictions you can join our Friends Scheme!

Pick your events – Call 01 2724030 – Book your tickets!

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opera

TUE 26 JUN @ 8pm

Orfeo

For over 400 years, the dramatic music and raw emotional power of Monteverdi’s baroque masterpiece remain undiminished.

Orfeo has at last found true love and is poised to marry his beloved Euridice. Then mortal disaster. Can our desperate hero rescue his lover or will he throw his life away in an impossible contest with Death itself?

Opera Theatre Company continues its 26th year with this powerful and memorable masterpiece, a new and richly re-imagined staging of Orfeo for a 21st century audience.

Sung in English, Orfeo will delight the first time opera-goer and seasoned fan alike.

Opera Theatre Company €25

theatre

Wheelchair on My Face

Fri 29 JUN @ 8pm

‘I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone’s eyes. Until that day the world was a swirl of moving coloured blobs. I thought it was the same for everyone. How wrong I was.’ Fishamble returns to Mermaid with yet another critically acclaimed production. Written by and starring Sonya Kelly this one-act one-woman show is a part biographical, part comedic, part theatrical retelling of one seven year old’s story of getting her first pair of glasses. Post-performance in-conversation chaired by Patrick Lonergan, Synge Summer School Fishamble - The New Play Company

€16/14 (3 for €33)

In association with Synge Summer School

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music

Tír na nÓg

SAT 30 JUN @ 8pm

This hugely popular alt-folk duo was formed by Leo O’Kelly & Sonny Condell in Dublin in 1970 and is regarded as one of the most influential groups to have come from Ireland. They are cited as an inspiration from musicians and songwriters as diverse as Julie Feeney, Jimmy MacCarthy & David Kitt. They caused a sensation both on the folk and rock scenes almost as soon as they landed off the boat train to Britain and were championed by the likes of legendary radio DJ John Peel. Join them for an evening of exceptional music with support from Cormac Breatnach accompanied by Gavin Ralston and Fiachra Trench.

€16/14 (3 for €33)

kid’s workshop

The Circus is Coming to Town

MON 2 – FRI 6 JUL 10AM - 1PM

The Circus is Coming to Town is a 5 day workshop packed with fun and learning through games, songs, theatre, play, dance, arts and crafts.

Children are introduced to techniques in the various art forms in a relaxed, fun and joyful environment. The teachers Marie-Geneviève Linotte and Angelica Santander of puppet theatre Kidding Ensemble, and Antje O’Toole, dance artist and teacher, encourage the children to express their own ideas and to develop through the various artistic media. Throughout the week the group will create performance acts around the circus theme for a little ‘gathering’ with the children’s parents/guardians, taking place at the end of the workshop. €95

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visual arts

From Bray with Love Lunchtime Lectures

Wednesdays 4, 11, 18 & 25 JUL @ 1PM

WED 4 - That Favourite Resort Marie Davies, Author WED 11 - Bray 40 Years Ago Brian White, Bray Cualann Historical Society WED 18 – Bray’s Urban Heritage - A Work of Art Peter Pearson, Artist WED 25 - Bray in July & August 1939 The last summer before the war broke…

James Scannell, Bray Cualann Historical Society Take a journey through Bray’s past with this series of daytime lectures to accompany the From Bray With Love exhibition. Pop in to Mermaid’s Gallery from 10am – 12pm Wednesday mornings in July and Tuesday mornings in September for a short tour of the exhibition. Tours of the exhibition are also available on request for groups. Call Box Office on 01 2724030 or drop in to request your free tour.

FREE Booking recommended

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film

Albert Nobbs (15A)

MON 2 & SAT 7 JUL @ 8pm

This beguiling tragic-comic tale has been a labour of love for Glenn Close, who first played the title character on stage 30 years ago.

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren’t encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin’s most high-class hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

Close pulls off this demanding role with delicacy and restraint winning her the 2012 IFTA for ‘Best International Actress’.

Director: Rodrigo García, 2011 €8/6.50

Language: English

Duration: 113 min

visual arts

Some Structures

THU 5 JUL @ 7pm

Some Structures, a film project curated by Vaari Claffey, examines architecture by looking at how space is managed.

Along with architects Tom de Paor and Dominic Stevens, Claffey will discuss certain buildings and structures which are of particular interest.

De Paor will look at how the movement of people is managed in the urban environment, both the purposefully designed and also the more makeshift method. Stevens will examine the beginnings of the management of space and the idea of the commons, starting with fields as early managed space. He will also look at the entrances to spaces and their impact therein.

Film screening of 15mins followed by discussion Admission FREE

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film CLUB

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

MON 9 JUL @ 8pm

Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this heart-warming documentary chronicles the life of little-known Elmo mastermind Kevin Clash. Fascinated by puppets from an early age, Clash started making his own muppets and put up backyard shows for the neighbourhood kids.

As a teen, Clash adored The Muppet Show and dreamed of working with master puppeteer Jim Henson. Eventually, Clash found a home on Sesame Street in the mid-80’s and was assigned the role of Elmo. He ended up reinventing the character, deciding that Elmo should stand for pure love.

Director: Constance Marks, 2011

€8/6.50

Language: English

Duration: 80mins

film

Once

WED 11 JUL @ 8pm

Set in and around Dublin, this naturalistic, quasi-musical is about a busker (Glen Hansard) and a young Czech immigrant (Markéta Irglová) as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story. A heart-warming and inspiring work, the film was written and directed by John Carney, former bassist for Irish rock band The Frames. With true insight into the passions of creating music that only a musician knows, the film shares the lives and relationship of its two protagonists personally and truthfully with the audience. Director: John Carney, 2006

€8/6.50

Language: English

Duration: 85mins

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music

THU 12 JUL @ 8pm

Viviane

Mermaid presents Viviane, one of the most stunning voices in contemporary Portuguese music. Her distinctive style has at its core the beautiful Portuguese tradition of Fado, a genre defined by its plaintive, soulful lyrics and melancholic tone. Born in Nice, Viviane also draws on the French chanson she heard in her youth counting Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel amongst her influences. Listening to her music however, it is easy to tell that Viviane’s heart belongs to Fado as she surrounds her lavish voice with a fittingly traditional line-up of flute, Portuguese guitar, viola and double bass. Undoubtedly an evening for lovers of song.

€16/14 (3 for €33)

In association with Clonmel Junction Festival

music

Carollo, Nolan & O’Connor

Fri 13 JuL @ 8pm

Musical trio Martin Nolan, Kevin O’Connor and Dan Carollo bring their virtuoso musical skills to Mermaid for an evening of lively Irish music.

Featuring Irish step dancing by The Claddagh Dancers, this night is a treat for Irish trad fans.

Martin Nolan’s uilleann piping has taken him from the Lincoln Center for the Arts in New York to the national theatres of Ireland and England. Kevin O’ Connor has been a feature of the melting pot that is the Dublin Traditional Music scene for over ten years. Seattle guitarist Dan Carollo also brings his skilled finger-style, which he has performed with the likes of Eliot Grasso, Gavin Whelan, MacDara O’Conaola, Susan Burke, and Randal Bays. €10/8

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theatre

The Golden Dragon

SAT 14 JUL @ 8pm

Part soap opera, part slap-stick black comedy, set in today’s global village.

This thoroughly entertaining and richly layered show is a morality tale for the modern world set in your local takeaway. A magnificent versatile cast of 5 actors play a mesmerising array of characters, including a Chinese migrant with toothache, Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese cooks, the man from the shop next door, two air stewardesses a cricket and an ant. Charting a journey from far-off China to just around the corner, The Golden Dragon reveals what really goes into that bowl of hot and sour soup. ATC Theatre. Directed by Ramin Gray.

‘Deceptively spicy… its intelligence and thoughtfulness is apparent, not least in the actors’ performances’ The Guardian €16/14 (3 for €33)

In association with Clonmel Junction Festival

kid’s workshop

Wonderland Theatre Camp

MON 16 – FRI 20 JUL @ 10AM-3PM

Back by popular demand, Wonderland invites 7-12 year olds into its colourful world of drama and dance, directing and playwriting, stage design and lighting, music and sound art, comedy and clown, for a weeklong camp culminating in a fabulous showcase for friends and family.

Wonderland’s workshops uniquely combine a stage school with the work of a professional theatre company. Wonderland’s aim is to encourage each young performer to grow and develop through the performing arts - and just as importantly for everyone to have the best of fun together!

Early booking is advised. €95

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film

This Must Be The Place (15A)

MON 16 JUL @ 8pm

Cheyenne, a former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal.

Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late.

Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father’s humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller - an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father’s nemesis Director: Paolo Sorrentino,2011

€8/6.50

Language: English

Duration: 118 min

music

Seomra an Cheoil

SAT 28 JUL @ 8pm

Seomra an Cheoil (The Music Room) is all at once a Ceilidh, a concert and a session.

Listen to and be guided through the complex rhythms of the bodhran, the unique sounds of the uilleann pipes and the intricate techniques of flute, tin whistle, and Irish harp.

Performers and audience feel the magic of the tradition and experience each distinct contribution as informative, interesting and entertaining. Learn more about our traditional music and dance heritage in the company of Gerry O’Donnell (Flute/Tin Whistle), Joe Mc Kenna (Uilleann Pipes/Accordion), Claire O’Donnell (Irish Harp/Traditional Dance), Flor Ryan (Bodhran, Fiddle,Banjo) and Annie O’Donnell(Traditional Dancer). €10/8

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film

Dalai Lama Renaissance with Q&A

FRI 20 JUL @ 8PM

The 14th Dalai Lama invited 40 of the West’s leading, most innovative thinkers to his residence in the Himalayan Mountains of India to discuss the world’s problems and how we can solve them. What transpired was unexpected and powerful, and what was captured by a film crew is inspirational.Narrated by Harrison Ford the film features (amongst others) quantum physicists Fred and Alan Wolf and revolutionary social scientist Jean Houston.

During the Q&A, Los Angeles-based producer-director Khashyar Darvich will share his experience of spending time with the Dalai Lama and what led to the transformational experience captured in the ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’. €8/6.50

In association with Amnesty International

music double bill

Tony Miceli Quartet / Gabriel Makmanzi Duo

SAT 21 JUL @ 8pm

The vibraphone is something of a Cinderella of the jazz line-up. Despite being beautiful, exotic and versatile it is all too often overlooked. Enter the talented Tony Miceli, a well-known and much-loved player on the Philly jazz scene, who aims to open our minds to the strange dreaming sounds of the ‘vibes’. Miceli will be ably assisted in this task by local musicians Phil Ware (piano), Dan Bodwell (bass) and John Daly (drums).

Fittingly, the Gabriel Makamanzi Marimba Duo opens the event playing the African instrument from which the vibraphone evolved, the marimba.

Ready yourself for a world of wonderful music and a great way to spend a Saturday night. €16/14 (3 for €33)

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visual arts

Street Photography

SUN 22 JUL @ 2.30PM - 4.30PM

Experience your town in a new way. Join Dermot Marrey, founding -member of Dublin Street Photography, on a jaunt around Bray. Bring your camera and develop your own unique style to observe, explore and search for something new, and to try and capture a little piece of the spirit of Bray Summerfest and Bray’s Air Display.

Dermot will give an introduction to the greats of street photography and share practical tips as to how to get the best results.

Dublin Street Photography is a collective of photographers working long term to define the city of Dublin using street photography.

No experience necessary.

Admission FREE

kid’s workshop

Ballet Ireland Workshop

MOn 23 – Fri 27 JUL @11am

Since 2001, over three thousand boys and girls have taken part in Ballet Ireland’s ever popular annual summer workshops.

As well the joy of learning ballet, having fun and making friends, children will have a chance to get involved with costume design creating masks and headdresses to be used in the grand finale performance. This year’s participants will mount a brand new adaptation of the familiar fable of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, a tale of two very different mice in two very different places. Classes are at 11am-1pm daily.

For boys and girls aged 6 years and up € 80

5 days of workshop

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film

Delicacy (12A)

MON 23 JUL @ 8PM

Novelist-turned-director David Foenkinos, working with his brother Stéphane, makes an intriguing stab at fitting the unique and unclassifiable persona of Audrey Tautou into his story of a grief-stricken widow pondering the possibility of loving once more.

Unsuprisingly, Tautou responds to her tragic loss by burying herself in work, remaining determinedly aloof in the process. Until, that is, one fateful day when pent-up feelings manifest themselves in kissing schlumpy Swedish co-worker Markus (François Damiens).

The film switches back and forth from whimsical cuteness to troublingly genuine emotions which keep audiences alert and intrigued throughout.

Directors: David & Stéphane Foenkinos, 2011 €8/6.50

Language: French

Duration: 108 mins

film

The Guard (15A)

TUE 24 JUL @ 8PM

An unorthodox Garda, Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) joins forces with a straightlaced FBI agent named Everett, (Don Cheadle) to take on an international drug smuggling gang in Connemara’s Gaeltacht.

A web of bribery, blackmail and killings surround this very Irish black-comedy, which is the most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of Irish box-office receipts, overtaking The Wind that Shakes the Barley which previously held this status. Director: John Michael McDonagh, 2011 ‘Scabrous, profane, violent, verbally adroit and very often hilarious, this twisted and exceptionally accomplished variation on the buddy-cop format is capped by a protean performance by Brendan Gleeson’ The Hollywood Reporter €8/€6.50

Language: English

Duration: 92 mins

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music

Gretchen Peters

WED 25 JUL @ 8pm

Following on from her recent sell-out tour of Ireland, Gretchen Peters returns to these shores this July where she will treat us at Mermaid with her Hello Cruel World tour. Described as an album of ‘rare insight’ that ‘tackles tumultuous emotional conflicts head-on’ audiences can expect to be moved, not just by her words, but also by her expressive and warm voice.

The New York born and Nashville raised singer has composed music for some of America’s greats; Neil Diamond, Bryan Adams, Martina McBride, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless and George Strait. To add to her musical achievements, Peters has also released seven studio albums.

€16/14 (3 for €33)

visual arts

Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same & Publication Launch

THU 26 JUL @ 7pm

Directed by Jody Lee Lipes, this documentary film follows the artistic exploits of artist Brock Enright as he travels across the US with his girlfriend to create his first major New York City solo show. Brock disregards the gallery’s budget, schedule, and his girlfriend’s financial concerns for life after the show all in the name of art. Director: Jody Lee Lipes, 2007 Artist and art critic James Merrigan who selected the film for Mermaid’s programme, will give an introduction to the screening.

The screening will be followed by the publication launch of Questioning Authority: Subjective Texts for Art, edited by James Merrigan.

Admission FREE

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theatre/music

The Third Policeman - Narrated by Stephen Rea with music composed by Colin Reid

Fri 27 jul @ 8PM

Flann O’Brien’s darkly comic masterpiece The Third Policeman forms the basis of this very special event selected by Abbey Theatre’s Literary Director and former Artistic Director of Mermaid, Aideen Howard.

Comprising of a reading performance by Stephen Rea and music by composer Colin Reid (piano), Neil Martin (Cello), Becky Joslin (Cello) and Niamh Crowley (Violin), The Third Policeman is the inspiration for this literary and musical treat. Experience a murder thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender brief unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt. In this celebration of Irish literature, the live music is seamlessly blended to the wry and flexible voice of distinguished actor Stephen Rea. Selected Show ‘For an Artistic Director, there is a unique experiment in programming a new arts centre. Nothing is tried and tested! Everything is equally possible and impossible! In its first years Mermaid became a commissioner of new music, theatre, dance and visual art. Audiences in County Wicklow came in a spirit of curiosity and, later, loyalty. A brilliant new composition in response to a classic The Third Policeman is the perfect show for Mermaid.’

Aideen Howard was the Artistic Director of Mermaid from 2002-Dec 2005 €22/ 20

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theatre @Powerscourt

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

sun 29 JUL @ 7pm

Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s best-loved romantic comedy. This enchanting performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream whisks you away on a thrilling voyage to the most magical of forests. Star-crossed lovers, playful fairies and raucous travelling players come together to create one of the most fun and frolicsome evenings of the summer. Picnic in the magical surroundings of Powerscourt Gardens for a perfect evening of theatre under the stars.

In association with Powerscourt House and Gardens

€18/16.50/10

2 Adults & 2 Children €52

film

CLUB Town of Runners

MON 30 JUL @ 8pm

In honor of the Olympic games, Mermaid takes a look at the origins of some of the world’s finest athletes, and the incongruity between their hometown and the 5 star gymnasiums in which other Olympic medallists train.

Bekoji, Ethiopia, is a small, rural town that has been the unlikely home to numerous Olympic champion long-distance runners. Among the current group training are Alemi and Hawii, two teenage girls looking to compete at national level. Jerry Rothwell follows these two young track hopefuls as they face the challenge of growing up and striving for greatness in a developing nation. The result is a portrait of Ethiopia seen through the hopes and ambitions of a generation determined to make a brighter future for themselves. Director: Jerry Rothwell, 2011 €8/6.50

Language: Amharic, Oromo

Duration: 80 mins

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film

Damsels in Distress (15A)

MON 13 AUG @ 8pm

In this whimsical comedy, a trio of girls set out to change the maledominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, mainly by stuffing them with doughnuts or forcing them to tap dance. The beautiful cinematography

by Doug Emmett captures girls—the damsels—in all their pastel glory, unafraid of heightening the nostalgia concerning campus life. Stillman captures the small details in the girls’ behaviour; their irrationalities, oddities and quirks. All the small cracks in the characters’ otherwise spotless appearances reveal not only their own but perhaps the whole world’s insanity. Director: Whit Stillman, 2011

€8/6.50

Language: English

Duration: 99 mins

children’s film

Puss in Boots (G)

TUE 14 AUG @ 3pm

You loved him in Shrek, now find out where the one-and-only swashbuckling feline found his fame – and a very big pair of boots – in the hilariously funny animated epic! Lover, fighter and outlaw Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) is off on the adventure of his nine lives as he teams up with Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) and Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis) for the ultimate showdown with the notorious Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris). Here’s the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend – Puss In Boots! Director: Chris Miller, 2011

€5

Language: English

Duration: 99 mins

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kid’s workshop

Children’s Pottery Classes

14-15 & 16-17 aug @ 11am

Enjoy your creativity in the summer holidays by making your own pottery in a relaxed atmosphere with Wicklow based artist Christien Van Bussel. Inspired by nature, you will learn to make tableware and decorative pieces for the garden.

Print natural materials in the clay and be surprised by the effect. The wheel is part of the fun too! All pieces are decorated with various colourful techniques and fired in a pottery kiln to make them strong and food safe.11am-1pm daily.

Max amount of participants: 15 €55 for 4 day course

children’s film

The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists

MON 20 AUG @ 3pm

Hugh Grant stars as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain - a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (including Martin Freeman and Brendan Gleeson), the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant). Director: Peter Lord, 2012 €5

Language: English

Duration: 87 mins

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film

Café de Flore (15A)

MON 20 AUG @ 8pm

A bittersweet tale that spans across the decades, as discarded wife and mother Carole experiences visions of Jacqueline’s life and feels a connection to the stranger in her dreams.

Carole is abandoned by her husband, successful DJ Antoine who is involved in a passionate affair. Backtrack to 1969 Paris, where cash-strapped single mother Jacqueline is doing her utmost to raise her 7 year-old Down Syndrome son solo, following her husband’s inability to confront the realities of having a disabled child.

Heightened by a compelling soundtrack featuring Pink Floyd, The Cure and Sigur Rós, Café De Flore affords a unique look at the pain inflicted by matters of the heart in all its poignancy. Director: Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011 €8/6.50

Language: French

Duration: 120 mins

local arts

Sheevawn Musical Group – A Chorus Line

WED 22 - SAT 25 AUG @8pm

Get your top hats on and your dancing shoes ready because A Chorus Line is coming to Mermaid!

Sheevawn Musical Group, a collection of some of the best singers, dancers and actors in the Leinster area, mount the popular A Chorus Line, one of the longest running Broadway musicals of all time and the winner of numerous Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

€15 opening night and €18 thereafter

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film

Marley (15A)

MON 27 AUG @ 8pm

Bob Marley loved women, football, marijuana and was a staunch supporter of the Rastafarian movement. However, his first love was music, for this is what enabled him to escape a life of grinding poverty in the townships of Kingston. Together with his band The Wailers this singer, guitarist and songwriter, born to a British officer and a Jamaican woman in 1945, made reggae famous throughout the world.

Bob Marley’s family gave filmmaker Kevin Macdonald access to countless documents as well as interviews and archive material, some of which has never been seen before. Director: Kevin Macdonald, 2012

€8/6.50

Language: English

Duration: 145 min

comedy

Stand Up Against the Bankers

FRI 31 AUG @ 8pm

‘Bankers tell me: ‘Comedians like you don’t understand economics’. OK... well I’m not the one who lost €90 BILLION last year. My biggest financial mistake, last year, was not printing out my Ryanair Boarding Pass.’

Aidan Killian is a former banker with the now disgraced Bear Stearns. Abie Philbin Bowman is a butcher of sacred cows, performing blasphemous comedy from the USA to Pakistan, and interviewing the Ku Klux Klan about President Obama & Jesus (both mixed-race). Now, they’ve joined forces, for a comedy show about how Irish people can break free from the Bankers.

The show is free to the public, so Aidan and Abie have no rooms booked for the night and no marketing budget. The tour can only continue if the audience enjoys it and then supports it by offering a room for the night, helping with publicity, donating petrol money. Contact the Box Office if you want to help!

Suggested Donation: €5

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visual arts

Irish Basketmaking For Beginners

SAT 1 SEP or SUN 7 OCT @ 10AM – 5PM

Experience the art of basket weaving on this one-day course with basket-maker Sabine Wolniczak using locally sourced willow to make your own traditional Irish skib or potato strainer.

An absorbing and incredibly satisfying activity which leaves participants with a sense of achievement as they bring home their own hand-made basket.

€65 includes soup lunch

Limited to 6 places

music

Double Bill: Luan Parle & Riona Sally Hartman Sat 1 SEP @ 8pm Don’t miss this great chance to see Wicklow’s Luán Parle and Dublin’s Riona Sally Hartman, along with her 5 piece band, join forces as part of a very accomplished double-header which promises to be a very special evening of music from two of Ireland’s finest talents. Luán Parle is an established, popular and critically acclaimed artist with a constantly growing International fan base. While currently working on her much anticipated debut album, Ríona Sally Hartman has been garnering a loyal fanbase in her native Dublin. ‘ A cutting silhouette of a voice, Ríona Sally Hartman trips through songs with an ease of grace found in the best of offbeat female artists’, Le Cool, Hugh Torpey ‘Luán Parle combines a glossy blend of contemporary / alt. Country, Folk, Pop & Rock. With her stunning looks, wonderful stage presence and obvious talent Parle could well be the next big star’, Hot Press Magazine €15 (3 for €33)

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film CLUB

Beloved

MON 3 SEP @ 8pm

Enchantingly led by Catherine Deneuve and her real-life daughter Chiara Mastroianni, this sly and exquisitely romantic musical-drama follows a mother and daughter’s twin misadventures in love.

In Paris, 1964, carefree young Madeleine steals a gorgeous pair of high heels, and whilst wearing them is mistaken for an escort— an error that signals the next direction her life will take. Thirty years later Madeleine’s daughter, Vera, a lovely but reckless young woman’s romantic life is no simpler than that of her mother.

Honoré has made a film of many delights, not least of which is the sight of Deneuve’s character strolling through Paris, singing through tears and revisiting her reckless youth. Director: Christophe Honoré, 2011 €8/€6.50

Language: French

Duration: 138 mins

opera

Dido and Aeneas

THU 6 SEP @ 8pm

In Purcell’s opera, Dido and the Sorceress are presented as a distorted mirror image of each other - both in the structure of the music and the shape of the plot.

But what if, rather than being two separate people, they are both played by the same singer? Dido’s dark side is the Sorceress, and her own subconscious becomes her undoing. The passionate lover Aeneas’ alter ego is the Sailor who doesn’t want to be tied down.

Singers Cara O’Sullivan, Majella Cullagh, Mary Hegarty, Simon Morgan.Musicians Marja Gaynor, Carolyn Goodwin, Ilse De Ziah, Piia Pakarinen

€25

NATIONAL TOUR 2012

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film

Shades of Bray

FRI 7 SEP @ 8pm

Sunniva O’Flynn, Curator of the Irish Film Institute, presents a programme of films from the collections of the IFI Irish Film Archive.

The collection includes fiction and non-fiction films - both amateur and professional - which were made in and about Bray from the 1920s to modern times.

Since the turn of the last century Bray has appeared as a backdrop to sunny summer holidays in a host of amateur films. With the establishment of the film studios at Ardmore, Bray began to appear in professional films, most often as an anonymous backdrop to big budget features, but also, occasionally, as itself.

This programme includes a range of such material. €8/6.50

music

Mary Coughlan The Whole Affair

SAT 8 SEP @ 8pm

When ‘The Whole Affair: The Very Best of Mary Coughlan’ comes to Mermaid, audiences will see that the stage is where Mary survives. From a small square foot in front of a handful or a thousand people, she emotes, atones, reminisces and laments, because this is the very best of Mary Coughlan and you can’t hear the best until you’ve heard her story recited in every note.

Throughout the 25 years of her quite extraordinary career Mary Coughlan has drawn heavily from her legendary heroes; Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Van Morrison, and Edith Piaff; yet she has also maintained an honesty about her music which is clearly and uniquely her own.

Mermaid was officially opened with a performance by Mary Coughlan on 31 August 2002, so it is very fitting that she return to help Mermaid celebrate our 10th birthday. €20/18 The Very Best of Mary Coughlan

25

visual arts

Felting with Joanna Kidney

SUN 9 & SUN 16 SEP @ 2pm

Felting is an ancient and accessible craft. In these hands on classes, make a clutch purse and wrist warmers or simply learn about this antique art form.

Using sustainable materials learn about combining a wide variety of fibres to create surface interest and pattern within your pieces. These classes are suitable for beginners but will also have plenty of scope for those with felting experience.

All materials will be provided, but participants should bring a towel.

2-5pm

€50

film

John Ford - Dreaming The Quiet Man (PG)

Mon10 SEP @ 8pm

There are cinematic milestones that have left a marked impression on the landscapes in which they were filmed. John Ford’s take on his idealised vision of Ireland, The Quiet Man, is one such film.

When it was released The Quiet Man became a major hit all across the world and won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography. Its impact went way beyond the Irish diaspora and it has resonated with international audiences for over fifty years now.

This documentary features contributions from well-known commentators and filmmakers including Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Jim Sheridan and, exclusively, Maureen O’Hara. Director: Sé Merry Doyle, 2010 €8/6.50

Language: English

Duration: 90 mins

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visual arts

Exploring Watercolours with Yanny Petters

TUE 11 SEP – TUE 2 OCT @ 2.30PM – 4.30PM

This series of workshops with Yanny Petters gives participants the opportunity to experiment with watercolour techniques. With nature as the theme, each session includes some drawing and an introduction to different watercolour methods, with tips and information to develop further work. Participants will study old master techniques and modern tools. Above all the course will be relaxing and fun. All levels are welcome. Yanny has been working in watercolours for at least 25 years & is a member of The Watercolour Society of Ireland.

€85 includes all materials and coffee after last class

music

We Banjo 3

WED 12 SEP @ 8pm

We Banjo 3, awardees of Young Musicwide 2011, features Enda Scahill, Martin Howley and David Howley playing three tenor banjos, mandolins, tenor guitars, guitars, banjolin and vocals.

Playing with swing and soul, We Banjo 3 effortlessly combines the best of Irish and Bluegrass banjo music while mining the rich vein of the American Old Time tradition. Modern rhythms, traditional melodies, virtuosic technique and innovative arrangements of music and song add up to an incredible feast of banjo and mandolin music.

€16/14 (3 for €33)

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theatre

FRI 14 & SAT 15 SEP @ 8PM

Joyced!

Joyced! takes us on a tour de force of Joycean Dublin, bringing the audience through the year, 1904, which Joyce would later make famous in Ulysses. It is a one-woman show but through multi-character performance (22 at least!) and magical word play, Joyced! depicts the people who were of huge importance to Joyce, such as his father and his cronies, Oliver St. John Gogarty, the tenor John McCormack, Alfred Hunter (the man who would later become Bloom in Ulysses) and of course Nora herself. Joyced! looks back at 1904 through the eyes of JoJo, a stallholder in Dublin’s Rathmines Market, with a dangerous obsession for all things Joycean. It is a chaotic and exciting whirlwind odyssey through the people, events and a year that would later be famously recreated in Ulysses.

Performed by Breda Cashe. €16/14 (3 for €33)

film CLUB

MON 17 SEP @ 8pm

Even The Rain

A gripping film about the making of a film in South America. Film director Sebastian, along with his hard-nosed producer Costa, sets out to make a revisionist drama about the Spanish conquest of the Americas. They decide to shoot in Bolivia, because it is the cheapest place in South America, and Sebastian casts a local man, Daniel, as the Taíno chieftain who led a rebellion against the Spaniards. Unbeknownst to them, Daniel is leading his community’s demonstrations against the government’s decision to privatise water. The two stories - the 1512 rebellion and the twenty-first-century riots - cleverly serve to underline the impact of colonialism on the New World and the continuing exploitation of its resources by outsiders. Director: Iciar Bollain, 2011 €8/6.50

Language: Spanish, Quechua

Duration: 103 mins

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film

Approaching the Real: Cinema and Realism Film Course

SUNDAYS 16 SEP - 21 OCT @ 7PM

Within French film critic Andre Bazin’s essential study What is Cinema? he describes how the cinema’s most important function is its capacity to accurately reproduce the world around us. We have all experienced the power of the movies in this regard, all sat in a crowded cinema and been so immersed in this reality that we, even just for a moment, forget ourselves and connect completely with the struggles, joys and drama of lives lived on-screen.

The cinema creates a powerful illusion of reality and Bazin was correct to highlight this as a defining characteristic. This six week course delivered by film scholar Daniel Fitzpatrick will look at various ways of approaching realism through cinema. It will consider important and essential films by some of the greatest filmmakers the cinema has produced, each with their own distinctively effective approach to reproducing reality. The course will begin with an illustrated lecture, including short extracts drawn from many areas of film history and outlining the major debates and contributions to any discussion of realism and the cinema and each of the films screened as part of this course will be preceded by an introduction and Q&A. Rosetta, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (1999) The Apple, Samira Makhmalbaf (1998) A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson (1956) A Woman Under the Influence, John Cassavetes (1974) The Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky (1975) €50 for course

29

visual arts

Book Arts & Bookmaking Course

mondays 17 SEP-22 OCT @ 7-9PM

Learn how to make at least four different types of handmade books to take home and keep including the Japanese Stab Bound book, the Concertina Book and Pamphlet stitched books.

Facilitator Andrew Kelly has an MA in Book Arts with work in the Yale and Tate collections. This course will suit complete beginners and all materials will be supplied including beautiful handmade papers - although you should bring an apron!

€85

theatre

The 39 Steps

WED 19 & THU 20 SEP @ 8pm

Rubber Duck Productions presents Patrick Barlow’s The 39 Steps, a blend of beautifully comedic dialogue, slapstick and a noire style spy story. Set in the stylish 1940s, Richard Hannay gets thrown into the spy world and has to battle to save his country and keep a national security secret from escaping to the enemy, with a chase on the underside of a train and an airplane dog fight. A comic spy caper based on the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, join us and step into our black and white world and get immersed in this adventure.

Rubberduck Productions €15

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music/theatre

Culture Night - Performance by Slam Poet FRI 21 SEP @ 8pm Colm Keegan & CD Launch by Carmel McCreagh Carmel McCreagh and her band- CD Launch County Wicklow’s Carmel McCreagh launches her new album on Culture Night, .

The stunning new album comprises songs by Johnny Mercer, including Come or Come Shine, The Days of Wine and Roses and Skylark. The album is produced and arranged by Fiachra Trench and recorded by Rían Trench, and includes contributions from Fiachra on piano and keyboards, Keith Donald (clarinet), Brian Dunning (flute), Joe Csibi (bass) and the Degani Ensemble (oboe and string trio).

Performance by Colm Keegan Performance poet, Colm Keegan’s voice is authentic and energetic; his style spare yet lyrical. Stepping into crime scenes in ‘No Go Areas’, diving into the recesses of our secret selves, he pushes against the boundaries we place on our landscapes and on ourselves. This is the Dublin of right now, known to many but explored by few.

Also happening for Culture Night...

Sylvia’s Quest @ 6pm Sylvia’s Quest is an innovative promenade show which uses cutting-edge radio technology, which enables you to listen to the sounds, voices and worlds which only Sylvia can usually see and hear, as you follow her through the streets of her Bray. For more information, . Limited to 18 places. see page 32 for full details!

FREE. Booking essential.

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Album Launch

Mermaid Live CD Launch Concert

SAT 22 SEP 8pm

Over the years, 10 years to precise, Mermaid has seen some of the finest music on offer on both the national and international stage, so when it came to choosing what should go on the Mermaid Live album we found ourselves in something of a tricky situation. As we are the County Wicklow Arts Centre we eventually decided to start with artists who, one way or another, have a local connection. And even at that we still had lots of great gigs to choose from! So we’ve whittled it down to what we believe to be some of the most stunning musical performances to take place in the venue. Join many of those performers who are included in the Mermaid compilation CD for this special CD launch in celebration of 10 Years of Live Music at Mermaid. Performers on the night will include: Francesco Turrisi’s Tarab, Mermaid’s Ensemble in Residence in 2010 Roger Doyle and Niwel Tsumbu, Musicians in Residence in 2011 Cellist Vyvienne Long Classical guitarist Redmond O’Toole Jazz guitarist Mike Nielsen Whistler player Cormac Breathnach Aoife and Joe Doyle of Harmonic Sound Sean Carpio and Dan Bodwell Mermaid Live is a CD of live recordings from Mermaid’s archives recorded by Eoin Murphy of Big Garden Recording. The CD will be for sale from Mermaid’s Box Office. €18/16 (3 for €33)

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theatre

Sylvia’s Quest

Sat 29 – Sun 30 Sep @ 3PM & 6PM

Sylvia’s Quest is an innovative promenade show which uses cutting-edge radio technology, which enables you to listen to the sounds, voices and worlds which only Sylvia can usually see and hear, as you follow her through the streets of her Bray.

Audiences are led on a journey around the town and discover the story of Sylvia Sylvana, a young Bulgarian archaeologist who works as a cleaner in Bray, and who must find her way home tonight. Sylvia shares her multiple worlds with you as she guides you through her labyrinth of secret streets and time portals inviting you to dance with her ghosts, to taste black bread and sherbets, and to time travel back to Ancient Thrace...

€16/14 (3 for €33)

film

CLUB Rosetta

SUN 23 SEP @ 7pm

‘Your name is Rosetta. My name is Rosetta. You found a job. I found a job. You’ve got a friend. I’ve got a friend. You have a normal life. I have a normal life. You won’t fall in a rut. I won’t fall in a rut. Good night. Good night.’

The Dardennes’ deeply moving film deservedly won the Palme d’Or in 1999, along with a prize for its lead actress. The film is a beautifully realised and deeply humanising portrait of a young woman’s struggle to belong within an unaccommodating world. Directors: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 1999 This film will be followed by an open discussion as part of the Film Course (see page 28 for further details)

€10 includes CLUB membership

Language: French

Duration: 95 mins

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film

The Source

MON 24 SEP @ 8pm

Romanian-born filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu offers up another certifiably crowd-pleasing slice of world cinema in The Source, a modern-day fable exploring female empowerment in the Arab world.

Set in the remote village of Maghreb, the long-suffering women toil away whilst the men folk claim their patriarchal right to lounge around drinking tea and playing cards. Young wife Leila, an outsider from the more easygoing south, is concerned by the number of accidents occurring on the steep mountain path the femmes tread each day to fetch water. Supported by her feisty widowed neighbour and free-thinking schoolteacher husband Sami, Leila proposes the women launch a love strike: no more cuddling and no more sex until the men bring running water to the village. Director: Radu Mihaileanu, 2011 €8/6.50

Language: Arabic

Duration: 125 min

comedy

Conal Gallan – Laugh Out Loud!

FRI 28 SEP @ 8pm

Just coming off the back of his record-breaking stand up television show Conal Gallen – Laugh Out Loud!, Ireland’s number one comedian comes to Mermaid for what promises to be one of the funniest shows you are ever likely to see.

After his sell-out tour in spring, this seasoned comic makes his very first visit to Mermaid with plenty hilarious jokes, stories and songs guaranteed to amuse.

A word of advice from Conal himself: ‘Book your tickets early and bring spare underwear!’

€25

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music

ConTempo and the De Jongens Driest Brass Trio

Sat 29 Sep@ 8PM

Two world-renowned ensembles – ConTempo Quartet (Adrian Mantu, Andreen Banciu, Bogdan Sofei and Ingrid Nicola ) and DeJongens Driest Brass Trio (Arno Bakker, Janife van Strien and Joop van de Linden) from the Netherlands – join forces for an evening of trios, quartets and septets.Take the best of wild Gypsy and Klezmer with Eastern Rhythms, mix well with Western Jazz and elegant Chamber. At this strange place where Siberian Wedding Band meets Buena Vista Social Club audiences can expect a kick-ass groovy brass explosion!

This tour marks the 10th anniversary of The Galway Music Residency.

€18/16 (3 for €33)

film

CLUB The Apple

SUN 30 SEP @ 7PM

‘My daughters are like flowers. They mustn’t be exposed to the sun or they would soon fade...’

The Apple was the striking first feature by the 17 year old Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf telling the true story of an isolated family in Tehran and casting many of those involved in the case. This staggeringly naturalistic film is among the greatest achievements of Iranian cinema, a true masterpiece.

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf, 1997 This film will be followed by an open discussion as part of the Film Course (see page 28 for further details) €10 includes CLUB membership Language: Persian

Duration: 84 mins

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visual arts

From Bray with Love

FRI 8 JUNE – THU 13 SEPTEMBER 10am - 6pm (Later on performance nights)

A focal point of the Arcadia Festival which took place in June, From Bray with Love is a curated exhibition which takes a closer look at Bray’s international standing as one of the major holiday destinations in Ireland.

With the extension of the railway to Bray in 1854, Bray took off as a popular holiday resort, particularly with day-trippers from Dublin, and became the largest Irish seaside resort at the time. From Bray with Love features photographs documenting Bray’s success and travel posters designed to entice tourists to Bray and county Wicklow and highlighting the merit that Bray was given as a holiday resort, with the town standing tall alongside Killarney and Connemara as a must-see place to visit when in Ireland.

The exhibition also includes an important collection of postcards sent from Bray by holiday-makers, featuring for example sightseers walking the promenade, the cable car built in the 1950s which brought visitors halfway up Bray Head, and an array of prominent hotels and boarding houses.

With the assistance and expertise of local historians and collectors, and partners such as An Post, the National Library and the IFI, From Bray with Love will give everyone an opportunity to recall the ‘good old days’ and to perhaps rekindle some of that passion for ‘Beautiful Bray’.

This exhibition is accompanied by an extensive programme of events.

FREE

FUNDED BY

We would like to thank all of our Friends of Mermaid, including the following Corporate Friends:

MERMAID PRoJECT SPONSOR

Bray Tourism Bray Wanderers CRH Plc Dargle Valley nursing Home Frank Duff Lounge Bar Key Plastics Liam O’Brien

Mailing List If you would like to join our mailing list, please contact the box office or join online at www.mermaidartscentre.ie

FUNDED BY

Disabled Access Mermaid has full disabled access and patrons should advise the box office of specific requirements when booking.

Gift Vouchers Gift Vouchers are available in any denomination from the box office.

Betelnut Café & Theatre Bar The Betelnut Café at mermaid is open for breakfast, lunch and snacks from 8am - 6pm Monday - Friday, 9am to 9pm on Saturday and from 10am - 5pm on Sunday. The theatre bar is open for pre-show drinks. Interval drinks can be ordered before the performance.

Concessions & Group Bookings Concessions are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed.

Group discounts are available. Please contact the box office for details.

FILM TICKET PRICES & CLUB FILM INFormation: Tickets: 8 / 6.50 Conc.

Club films require evening (1.50) • available to all over 18 years • must be taken out at least 15 minutes prior to screening • entitles you to buy 3 guest tickets per screening • each group of 4 must have at least one member • guests must be over 18 years for Club films Latecomers: For the comfort of patrons and performers, latecomers will not be admitted until the interval.

Tickets: Once purchased, tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.

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JULY mo

2

The Circus is Coming to Town Starts.10am- 1pm

mo

2

Albert Nobbs @ 8pm

tu

3

When the Circus Comes to Town 10am- 1pm

we

4

When the Circus Comes to Town 10am- 1pm

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From Bray with Love- Lunch Time Lectures start. Wednesdays @ 1pm 4, 11, 18 & 25 July

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5

When the Circus Comes to Town 10am- 1pm

th

5

Some Structures @ 7pm

fr

6

When the Circus Comes to Town 10am- 1pm

sa

7

Alber Nobbs @ 8pm

mo

9

Being Elmo @ 8pm

we 11

Once @ 8pm

th 12

Viviane @ 8pm

fr 13

Dan Carollo @ 8pm

sa 14

The Golden Dragon @ 8pm

mo 16

Wonderland Theatre Camp Starts 10am- 3pm

mo 16

This Must Be the Place @ 8pm

tu 17

Wonderland Theatre Camp 10am- 3pm

we 18

Seomra an Cheoil

we 18

Wonderland Theatre Camp 10am- 3pm

th 19

Wonderland Theatre Camp 10am- 3pm

fr 20

Wonderland Theatre Camp 10am- 3pm

fr 20

Dalai Lama Renaissance @8pm

sa 21

Tony Miceli Quartet & Gabriel Makamanzi Marimba Duo

su 22

Street Photography with Dermot Marrey 2:30-4:30pm

mo 23

Ballet Ireland Dance School Starts

mo 23

Delicacy @ 8pm

tu 24

Ballet Ireland Dance School

tu 24

The Guard @ 8pm

we 25

Ballet Ireland Dance School

we 25

Gretchen Peters @ 8pm

th 26

Ballet Ireland Dance School

th 26

Brock Enright & Publication Launch @ 7pm

fr 27

Ballet Ireland Dance School

fr 27

The Third Policeman - Narrated by Stephen Rea @8pm

su 29

A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Powerscourt @ 7pm

mo 30

Town of Runners @ 8pm

children

comedy

dance

film

literature

AUGUST/ mo 13 tu 14

Damsels in Distress @ 8pm Puss in Boots @ 3pm

tu 14

Children’s Pottery Classes start 11am-1pm daily

we 15

Children’s Pottery Classes 11am-1pm

th 16

Children’s Pottery Classes 11am-1pm

fr 17

Children’s Pottery Classes 11am-1pm

mo 20

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists @ 3pm

mo 20

Cafe de Flore @ 8pm

we 22

Sheevawn Musical - A Chorus Line @ 8pm

th 23

Sheevawn Musical - A Chorus Line @ 8pm

fr 24

Sheevawn Musical - A Chorus Line @ 8pm

sa 25

Sheevawn Musical - A Chorus Line @ 8pm

mo 27 fr 31

Marley Stand Up Against the Bankers @ 8pm

local arts

music

opera

theatre

visual arts

SEPTEMBER sa

1

Introduction to Basketry

sa

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Double Bill: Luane Parle and Riona Sally Hartman @ 8pm

mo

3

Beloved @ 8pm

th

6

Dido and Aeneas @ 8pm

fr

7

Shades of Bray presented by Sunniva O’Flynn @ 8pm

sa

8

Mary Coughlan - The Whole Affair @ 8pm

su

9

Felting Workshop @ 2pm

mo 10

John Ford - Dreaming the Quiet Man (Doc) @ 8pm

tu 11

Exploring Watercolours with Yanny Petters starts. 2:30pm

we 12

We Banjo 3 @ 8pm

fr 14

Joyced! @ 8pm

sa 15

Joyced! @ 8pm

su 16

Approaching the Real: Film Course starts. 7pm weekly

mo 17

Even the Rain @ 8pm

mo 17

Book Arts and Bookmaking Course starts. 7-9pm weekly

tu 18

Exploring Watercolours with Yanny Petters @ 2:30pm

we 19

The 39 Steps @ 8pm

th 20

The 39 Steps @ 8pm

fr 21

Culture Night! @ 8pm

sa 22

Live @ Mermaid CD launch concert @ 8pm

su 23

Approaching the Real: Film Course @ 7pm

mo 24

Book Arts and Bookmaking Course @ 7-9pm

mo 24

The Source @ 8pm

fr 28

Conal Gallen @ 8pm

sa 29

ConTempo & De Jongens Driest Brass Trio @ 8pm

sa 29

Sylvia’s Quest @ 3pm & 6pm

su 30

Sylvia’s Quest @ 3pm & 6pm

su 30

Approaching the Real: Film Course @ 7pm

children local arts

comedy music

dance

film

opera

theatre

literature visual arts

GALLERY From Bray with Love

Fri 8 Jun - Thu 13 Sep

DIRECTIONS Mermaid is at the civic offices complex on Bray Main Street, next to Bank of Ireland.

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By Bus 133, 145, 146, 184, 185, 45, 84, 45A.

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BOX OFFICE Opening Hours Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm (until 8pm, on show nights) Main Street, Bray, Wicklow (opposite Bray Town Council) Telephone: 01 - 2724030 Online booking: www.mermaidartscentre.ie (No booking fees)

GALLERY Opening Hours Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm

BETELNUT CAFE Opening Hours Monday – Friday 8am – 6pm, Saturday 9am – 6pm, Sunday 10am – 5pm Also open for pre-show and interval drinks

T: 01 272 4030 www.mermaidartscentre.ie

Stephen Rea narrates The Third Policeman

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