PROGRAMME
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Introduction As the colder evenings start to come in, we’d like to invite you down to the Arts Centre for our Autumn programme. We’ve got the new Nenagh Players production, a series of debates on the economy, health services and even a presidential debate with the candidates, as well as a selection of music, film and drama offerings. We’re also having events for Science Week in November and will of course host Nenagh’s annual Hallowe’en festival, Spleodar. Updates for events are on our website: www.nenagharts.com We look forward to your visit. Brendan Maher Manager
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER 2011 www.nenagharts.com
This image is taken from the film CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, see page 13 for details.
Our cover image is from Sue Bourne’s film JIG, see page 6 for details.
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SCHEDULE SEPTEMber Friday 2 September 8pm Bingo Thursday 8 September 8pm Theatre: LADY WILDE Friday 9 September 8pm Bingo Friday 16 September 8pm Bingo Thursday 22 September 8pm Film Club: JIG Friday 23 September 8pm Bingo Monday 26 September 8pm Debate: THE Presidential Election 2011 Debate Friday 30 September 8pm Bingo OCTOber Monday 1 October 8pm Comedy: Choke Comedy Improv Friday 7 October 8pm Bingo Saturday 8 October 8pm Music: Zurich GRENEDIER BRASS BAND Thursday 13 October 8pm Film Club: BLACK SWAN Friday 14 October 8pm Bingo Wednesday 19 Oct 8pm Debate: Stephen Kinsella: THE IRISH ECONOMY Friday 21 October 8pm Bingo Thur 27 - Fri 28 October 10:30am and 1:30pm Schools: SHAKESPEARE SESSIONS Friday 28 October 8pm Bingo Sat 29 October - Tue 1 November Festival: Spleodar Festival November Friday 4 November 8pm Bingo Tue 8 - Sat 12 Nov 8pm Theatre: Nenagh Players present AUTUMN PRODUCTION Tuesday 15 November 2pm Schools: GREAT EXPECTATIONS Thursday 17 November 8pm Science Week Lecture: Bernal: Nenagh’s Scientist Friday 18 November 10.30am and 11.45am Science Week: FANTASTIC PHYSICS Friday 18 November 8pm Bingo Wednesday 23 Nov 8pm Debate: SARA BURKE: THE IRISH HEALTH SYSTEM Thursday 24 November 8pm Film Club: CAVE of Forgotten Dreams Friday 25 November 8pm Bingo Saturday 26 November 8pm Music: JACK L
Booking Information Tickets for all events are available in advance from the Nenagh Arts Centre Box Office in Banba Square. You can call us on 067 34900 to book. Tickets for events can also be purchased online at www.nenagharts.com Box Office Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm and one hour before each event or performance. Terms & Conditions for booking: Tickets bought online will be subject to a 5% credit card charge and a =C1 booking fee (this charge is set by the ticket provider company). Remember, you can avoid these charges by paying in person. Cheques should be made payable to Nenagh Arts Centre.
Where is the Arts Centre located? Nenagh Arts Centre is in the Old Town Hall in Banba Square beside the Motor Tax Office and across the road from the Courthouse and Gaol (now the Heritage Centre). Parking: Parking is available at the Courthouse Car Park Road: Nenagh is located off the main Dublin-Limerick motorway and is served by Bus Éireann and Kavanagh’s bus routes, which stop close to the Arts Centre. See www.buseireann.ie and www.jjkavanagh.ie for timetables Rail: Nenagh is on the Limerick to Ballybrophy line with connecting trains to Dublin and Cork/Tralee. See www.irishrail.ie for timetables Wheelchair/Disability Access: Access to the Theatre on the upper floor is through the main entrance and by lift. Patrons who have specific requirements should contact the Box Office in advance.
A view from the past Nenagh is the second largest town in the county of Tipperary, and does a thriving trade. The town was at once time a stronghold of the Butlers. It possesses few antiquities, the ‘Nenagh Round,’ the circular keep of the castle of the Butlers, and one of the largest and most notable structures of its kind in the island, being, perhaps, the most interesting feature. It was built in the time of King John. Between it and the courthouse stands the townhall, a modern structure of handsome design. Nenagh was converted into an assize town some years ago, previous to which a summons to court involved a journey of nearly 140 miles. The name is derived from the Irish word N’Aenach, signifying The Fair, and even at the present day it is the seat of one of the largest yearly “fairs” in the south of Ireland. from Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)
Bingo Bingo Nights
Kelly’s Eye, Man Alive, Legs Eleven… Eyes down for some bingo fun that that will support Nenagh Arts Centre and Nenagh Celtic Football Club in their work. Games 1 to 9 1 line =C15 | 2 line =C20 | Full House =C50 Game 10 1 line =C15 | 2 line =C20 | Full House =C80 Jackpot & flyers sold separately Jackpot Games 1 line =C15 | 2 line =C20 | Full House =C200 Flyer Games 1 line =C15 | 2 line =C20 | Full house =C200 Double Books =C9 | Single Book =C5 | Small Book =C4 | Jackpot & flyers =C2 each Fridays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 September 8.30pm Fridays 7, 14, 21, 28 October 8.30pm Fridays 4, 18, 25 November 8.30pm THEATRE Richard Ryan presents
Lady Wilde
“ Patricia Leventon’s one woman show portrays the life of Lady Wilde in an imaginative and informative style. This show provides great insight about Oscar’s life and the influence of his mother.” Belfast Telegraph Courageous and strong minded, Wilde’s mother defied her family’s pro-Union politics and under the name of Speranza, electrified Ireland with her passionate tirades in verse and prose against the English. She married the brilliant surgeon Dr William Wilde, later knighted by Queen Victoria. At one point she bravely defended him in a libel case that was the sensation of Dublin, and foreshadowed her son Oscar’s trial some thirty years later. Witty, often outrageous, with very strong feminist views, she was most memorable in the midst of literary companions. Former Royal Shakespeare Company actor Patricia Leventon captures her in full flight. Thursday 8 September 8pm Admission =C10
FILM Nenagh Film Club
JIG
Dir. Sue Bourne | UK | 2011 | 99 mins | Cert PG
Jig is the remarkable story of the fortieth Irish Dancing World Championships, held in March 2010 in Glasgow. Three thousand dancers, their families and teachers from around the globe descend upon Glasgow for one drama filled week. Clad in wigs, make-up, fake tan, diamantes and dresses costing thousands of pounds they compete for the coveted world titles. A year of incredibly hard work makes for just a few tense minutes on stage. Award-winning filmmaker Sue Bourne discovers a world of dedication, hard work, obsession, passion. Success and failure, and astonishing talents pushed to their limits in the quest for perfection. Thursday 22 September 8pm Admission =C7 (includes club membership fee of =C1) Films may be subject to change, see www.nenagharts.com TEENs
Meltdown Superior lightshow and visual effects in a club environment. A night of phat beats, rockin’ tunes and some slow grooves. Be sure not to miss this extravaganza of music and light for teenagers. Spot Prizes will be given out on the night. Fully supervised (security, cctv) Ages 13 – 17 years
Go to Meltdown Nenagh on facebook for dates Admission =C10
DEBATE Town Hall Meeting
Presidential Election 2011 DebatE
In advance of the ballot in October, Nenagh Arts Centre hosts a debate between the nominated candidates running for the Office of President. Candidates will be initially offered an opportunity to outline their positions on the role of President and then take part in a discussion on the issues. The debate will then be opened to allow the audience to ask questions. Gary Cotter, Editor of the The Nenagh Guardian will chair the debate. Monday 26 September 8pm Admission =C5 – all proceeds go to support the Arts Centre’s programme. COMEDY
Choke Comedy Improv Performing since 2008, Choke Comedy deliver a high energy hilarious improv show where nothing is rehearsed, everything is created in the spur of the moment and where audience suggestions are an integral part of the show, helping to create the numerous locations and characters that feature. Winners of the Spirit of the UnFringed Award in Limerick in 2009 Choke have gone from strength to strength. With superb musical accompaniment to enhance every scene a Choke Comedy performance is guaranteed to be different every time and fantastic entertainment for absolutely everyone. The performers are Tracy Aspel, Ann Blake, Myles Breen, Charlie Cassie, Susan Hollan, John Loftus and Jerry O’Mullane. Saturday 1 October 8pm Admission =C10
MUSIC Cairde an Chaisleáin – Friends of Dromineer Castle presents
The Zurich Grenedier Brass Band
A very special concert featuring well-known Irish and popular melodies presented by this world famous brass band who are happy to offer their musical talents towards the renovation of Dromineer Castle on Lough Derg. Over forty members dressed in their spectacular red and black Napoleonic military bad uniform perform using trombone, cornet and fluegelhorn amongst other brass instruments. This is sure to be a once-off exciting event as part of the Bands short four-day tour of Ireland. Tá fáilte roimh gach einne. Saturday 8 October 8pm Admission =C10 (Family =C20 - two adults/two children) FILM Nenagh Film Club
Black Swan
Dir. Darren Aronoksky | US | 2010 | 108 min | Cert 16
Young ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is beautiful, vulnerable, sexually naive and susceptible to mental illness. To play the role of a lifetime, Nina must delve deep into her own dark side. As her hallucinations and anxiety attacks escalate in tandem with her progress in rehearsal, artistic breakthrough fuses with nervous breakdown. This is a movie about fear of penetration, fear of your body, fear of being supplanted in the affections of a powerful man, love of perfection and love of dance, and perhaps most importantly of all, passionate and overwhelming hatred of your mother. Academy Award Best Actress 2011 – Natalie Portman
Thursday 13 October 8pm Admission =C7 (includes club membership fee of =C1) Films may be subject to change, see www.nenagharts.com
DEBATE Town Hall Meeting
Where We Are: The Economy And Local Enterprise Mayor Virginia O’Dowd invites University of Limerick economist Dr Stephen Kinsella to Nenagh to present local business people with the opportunity to take a different approach to doing business during the present economic crisis. Kinsella returns to the Arts Centre to give a health check to an Irish economy in the midst of an IMF/EU intervention. He also looks at what local communities can do to stimulate enterprise activity on a micro level and how this can feed into a larger success in the long term. Stephen Kinsella is the author of Ireland in 2050: How we will be Living, Understanding Ireland’s Economic Crisis: Prospects for Recovery and QuickWin Economics. Wednesday 19 October 8pm Admission Free SCHOOLS Cyclone Repertory Theatre Company Presents
Shakespeare Sessions: Hamlet and Macbeth
The Hamlet Session grabs the audience from the jugular with an action packed take on the bard’s greatest play! With brilliant pacing, humour and pathos the performance weaves a tapestry that aims to aid the students with analysis, discussion and breaking down of themes of this masterpiece. The mystery and magic of The Scottish Play as you’ve never seen it before! Join the actors analysing the bards’ goriest play. A riddle is put forward to the students which, once answered, will aid them understanding how to dissect bloody Macbeth for their exams. Thursday 27 – Friday 28 October Two Shows Daily: 10:30am and 1:30pm Phone 067 34900 for school rates
FESTIVAL
Spleodar Festival Watch out for this years Spleodar Festival bringing light and noise to the streets of Nenagh as winter approaches. The Festival includes workshops, performances, street theatre and is capped off with the annual Hallowe’en fireworks display. At Nenagh Arts Centre Nick Bryson and Damian Punch present the The Goldilocks Zone about two Irish astronauts who take on a mission surely doomed to failure - to locate another planet where we can all live. Sat 29 October – Tues 1 November see more on www.spleodar.ie Booking for Spleodar Events at Nenagh Arts Centre on 067 34900 THEATRE Nenagh Players presents
AUTUMN PRODUCTION Following a very successful run of Ray Cooney’s comedy Out of Order last year, the Nenagh Players bring another side-splitting comedy to the Nenagh Arts Centre stage this autumn. See local press for details.
Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 November Tickets from DK Travel, Emmett Place, Nenagh on 067 37964
THEATRE Hotbuckle Theatre Company presents
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Adapted by Adrian Preater
Hotbuckle explode onto the stage with this new, innovative adaptation of one of Dickens’ greatest novels. With all the comedy, mystery, violent melodrama, suspense and poignancy of the original, it tells of Pip’s journey from boyhood to manhood as he seeks to find out who he is and his place in an inhospitable world. It is a story of love and loss, of guilt and shame, of fear and courage and has some of the most vivid and memorable characters in all of English literature. With the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth coming next year, this electrifying, exhilarating and moving production is a must-see. Tuesday 15 November 2pm Admission =C12 School bookings please contact the Arts Centre on 067 34900 for rates SCIENCE WEEK Lecture
Bernal: Nenagh’s scientist John Desmond Bernal was born in Nenagh in 1901, his family home being Brookwatson. He was educated at Cambridge and his later research helped developed modern crystallography which looks at the arrangement of atoms in a solid. Interested in many different areas, Bernal was a member of the Communist Party and wrote books on Marxism and science. During World War 2 he was scientific advisor to Lord Mountbatten and worked on selecting the beaches for the D-Day landings. Dr. Vincent Casey, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics and Energy, University of Limerick outlines Bernal’s contribution to science and looks at the broader interests of this fascinating man. Thursday 17 November 8pm Admission Free
SCIENCE WEEK Anyone4science presents
Fantastic Physics As part of Science Week, this show offers children of primary school age the chance to witness the mysterious properties of energy, electricity and magnetism through a range of hands-on investigative experiments. For Age Groups 7 - 12 years Duration: 45mins - 1 hour
Friday 18 November Two Shows: 10.30am and 11.45am Admission =C6 School bookings please contact the Arts Centre on 067 34900 for rates DEBATE Town Hall Meeting
The Irish health system, what lies ahead for national and local services?’ While it is not possible to predict what will actually happen the public health system in Ireland in the years ahead, including hospitals such as Nenagh, the Programme for Government and recent announcements by Minister James Reilly give us a pretty good idea of what direction he wants to go. Whether these plans are possible in the context of the austerity imposed on the country through the EU/IMF/ECB deal remains to be seen. This talk will explore how we got the unequal, inefficient system that we have and make some suggestions for the future which could ensure a quality, universal public health system. Sara Burke is a journalist, broadcaster and health policy analyst. She has a weekly health slot on RTE Radio 1’s Drivetime programme. Her book on the Irish health system Irish Apartheid, Healthcare Inequality in Ireland, was published by New Island in 2009. Wednesday 23 November 8pm Admission FREE
FILM Nenagh Film Club
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Dir. Werner Herzog | France, Canada, USA, UK, Germany 2010 | 90mins | Cert G Having gained unprecedented access and overcome considerable technical challenges, Werner Herzog has captured on film, the interior of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. This is where the world’s oldest cave paintings – hundreds in number – were discovered in 1994. He reveals to us a breathtaking subterranean world and leads us to the 32,000-year-old artworks. We come face to face with pristine and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, cattle and lions, which for the briefest seconds come alive in the torchlight. Herzog’s engaging narration weaves in wider metaphysical contemplations as we learn more about the Paleolithic art and its creators. Thursday 24 November 8pm Admission =C7 (includes club membership fee of =C1) Films may be subject to change, see www.nenagharts.com MUSIC Tommy Swarbrigg presents
CHEZ JACK L
Jack Lukeman established himself as a significant solo artist with his live shows following a breakthrough 1999 album Metropolis Blue. Moulded in the European tradition of Jacques Brel and other singer/ songwriters, and utilising his deep baritone voice, reminiscent of Scott Walker he brings a dynamism to his stage show that electrifies an audience. His last twelve months have been remarkable with a critically acclaimed performance with the Brooklyn Philharmonic in Manhattan, in front of 15,000, a sell-out 4 night run at Dublin’s Vicar St. Venue and the Edinburgh Festival Best Music Award. Saturday 26 November 8pm Admission =C20
CLASSES & MEETINGS AT Nenagh Arts Centre Please contact the individual organisations for more details
ZUMBA/BOXERCISE – fitness classes Email lisahall@vodafone.ie Mondays from 12th Sept
Brownies
Contact Colette Barber Mobile 087 9615796 Every Tuesday 6.30pm – 7.30pm during School year
Nenagh Camera Club Contact Noel Morrissey
Foroige
Contact Brid Bradshaw or Olivia O’Sullivan
Tel 067 34900 Mobile 086 8038429 Mobile 086 6079982
MacLoone O’Meara Academy of Irish Dancing Contact Nikki MacLoone Mobile 087 2486384 Classes are held every Thursday afternoon 4.30pm – 630pm and every Saturday morning 10.30am – 12.30pm.
Mediation First
Contact Tracey McGee Email mcgee.tracey@gmail.com
Mobile 087 2974171 Web www.mediationfirst.ie
Play YT (formerly Nenagh Youth Theatre)
Contact North Tipperary County Council Arts Office Tel 067 44860 Every Saturday morning 11.30am – 1.30pm from 24th September 2011
MUSIC FOR KIDS
Parent AND Toddler Group
Contact Terry Gleeson Tel 067 41259 | 087 8180252 Every Wednesday 10.00am – 11.45pm from 7th September 2011 Group runs during school year and not during school holidays.
Twin Hearts Meditation Contact Marie Smith
Mobile 086 1068722 Email marieardcroney@hotmail.com
Design www.designassociates.ie
Contact Nenagh Arts Centre Tel 067 34900 From Mid-September 2011
Play YT Play YT formerly known as Nenagh Youth Theatre encourages young people to enjoy drama and related activities through participation in theatrical performance, workshops, games and improvisations. Drama workshops will be held weekly at Nenagh Arts Centre for young people aged 13-17 years. Places are limited so please book early. Experience in drama is not necessary. Dates: Every Saturday from 24th September 2011. Contact: North Tipperary County Council Arts Office: 067 – 44860.
Hiring the building Are you interested in renting Nenagh Arts Centre for a meeting, private party or performance? Our 216 seat theatre with state-of-the-art sound and lighting facilities is available for hire. We also have an I.T. Room for computer classes as well as a number of other smaller rooms for classes and workshops. If you are interested, please contact the manager on 067 34900 or by email: manager@nenagharts.com
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Cast and Crew Administration Brendan Maher (Manager), Clare McAleese (C.E. Supervisor), Bridget Gubbins, Emma Wing (Administration), Trevor Cleary, Anne O’Reilly, Mark Ryan (Box Office), Ann O’Meara, Angela Cleary (Reception), Neil O’Donnell, Declan Gohery, Arthur Mitchell, Sean O’Dwyer, John Ryan, Michael Whelan, Anthony Brett, Phyllis Lambe (Technical/General Operations), Monica McKenna, Ann Leonard (After-Schools Club). Board Cllr. Tom Moylan (Chairperson), Nora O’Connor (Vice-Chair), Marney O’Regan (Treasurer), Marcus O’Connor, Donal Purcell, Melanie Scott, Tom Ryan, Bernadette Slattery, Cllr. John Carroll, Cllr. Jonathan Meaney, Cllr. Virginia O’Dowd, Sandra Farrell.
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