The MAC's Autumn/Winter Programme

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What’s On: Autumn Season 2012

Autumn Season 2012 In This Issue I Am My Own Wife Huzzies The Incredible Book Eating Boy Johanna Billing Peter Doig ...and more

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Autumn Season: At a Glance

We’re open 7 days a week, from 10am-7pm - or later on performance nights.

Admission to our three art galleries is free and you can enjoy one of our live shows from as little as £9.50.

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Getting to the MAC We’re just a stone’s throw from the centre of town and easy to reach, whatever mode of transport you use.

Our address is 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast, BT1 2NJ. Location: The MAC is in Saint Anne’s Square (right behind the Cathedral and beside the University of Ulster) in Belfast’s bustling Cathedral Quarter. Our main entrance is off the square, but you can also pop in via Exchange Street West.

By car: You can park securely at Saint Anne’s Square multi-storey car park, which is on Edward Street right beside the MAC. By bus: The nearest bus stop is at the University of Ulster, York Street.

Services to this stop include the Airport Express 300 to Belfast International Airport.

By train: Great Victoria Street or Yorkgate station are the handiest.

Visit translink.co.uk for info.

By bike: Bike parking is also available in the multi-storey.

18 Nov Salim Sabri

December

27 Nov - 1 Jan The Incredible Book Eating Boy

January

8 - 27 Jan The James Young Story

2 Nov - 20 Jan Claire Morgan Sunken Gallery 16 Nov - 20 Jan Mary McIntyre Tall Gallery

27 Nov - 1 Jan The Incredible Book Eating Boy

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16 Nov - 20 Jan Peter Doig Upper Gallery 4 Dec RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet with Nobuko Imai

27 Nov - 4 Jan Oliver Jeffers Substation

This is just a flavour of what’s on at the MAC in our Autumn season.

For full details on all shows and events, visit themaclive.com.

Book early, save more Our ticket prices start low and rise over time. So don’t delay, book early to enjoy the best value ticket prices.

If anything in this programme takes your fancy, you can book tickets anytime online at themaclive.com, call us on 028 9023 5053 or call in 7 days a week, from 10am.

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2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

2004 Tony Award for Best Play

2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

2004 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show

2004 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Play

Fascinating, playful and utterly compelling, I Am My Own Wife tells the story of the choices people make in order to survive.

Based on a true story and inspired by interviews conducted by playwright Doug Wright, over several years, I Am My Own Wife is the real-life tale of German transvestite Charlotte Von Mahsldorf.

Charlotte lived openly as a cross-dresser for almost her entire life under two of the most conformist regimes of the 20th century, Nazism and Communism.

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I Am My Own Wife

Doug Wright heard of Charlotte’s story and was mesmerised from the beginning.

He contacted Charlotte and they first met in Germany 1993. It was here that Doug began to uncover the amazing story of Charlotte’s life as a sexual libertarian, compulsive collector of 19th century antiques, German celebrity and indeed some of the darker revelations of her survival during the occupation. An enigmatic and morally ambiguous heroine, Doug quickly realised that the story had the makings of a winning Broadway play.

18 September – 6 October

by Doug Wright

Downstairs at the MAC

A one woman show performed by a man.

– Starring John Cronin Directed by Emma Jordan Designed by Ciaran Bagnall Sound Design by Phillip Stewart Post-show Talk 27 September Join the Director, Emma Jordan, along with lead actor, John Cronin, for a discussion about the making of the show.

“ MOVING AND INTELLECTUALLY ABSORBING” –The New York Times

The play has garnered much praise and multiple awards, receiving both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2004. Award-winning theatre company Prime Cut Productions, together with the MAC, is bringing the fascinating story to Belfast for the first time.

Captioned: 26 September Audio Described: 3 October

Starring John Cronin (Glengarry Glen Ross, Richard III) I Am My Own Wife is a one woman show, performed by a man – one actor, thirty six characters and one incredible life story.

“ AN EXPERIENCE THAT IS INTELLECTUAL, THEATRICAL, FUNNY AND POIGNANT” –nytheatre.com

A Prime Cut and MAC co-production

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The Man Who Life is tough when your best friend is The-Man-Who-Invented-The-Wheel.

BBC award-winning writer Seamus Collins and Chatterbox Productions join forces to tell this weird and wonderful tale of love, rivalry and making the wheel rounder.

Set shortly after the dawn of time, The Man and The Younger Man have invention on the brain while The Woman has an idea that will change their lives forever.

Hot on the heels of its success at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this is your chance to see this witty and hugely inventive new comedy drama by one of NI’s hottest new comedy writers.

The Unthanks

27 – 29 September Upstairs at the MAC Post-show Talk 27 September Join Gillian Mitchell, MAC Director of Programmes, together with Chatterbox Productions and writer Seamus Collins for a discussion about the show.

Songs from the Shipyards Live 21 October, 7pm Downstairs at the MAC

Songs from the Shipyards is a beautiful and powerful audio visual show, that traces the history of the shipyards through a 60 minute film by award-winning film maker Richard Fenwick, accompanied by a live score by Mercury nominated folk band The Unthanks.

This unique, extraordinary and moving event tells the story of the rise and fall of the shipbuilding industry and its impact on the lives of so many people in the 20th century.

Inspired by amazing archive footage of the North East between 1900 to the present day and using the shipyard songbook of songs written over the past 100 years, this amazing event, touring for the first time, sold out instantly when it was launched in Tyneside last year. Not to be missed.

The Man Who was piloted at the MAC’s Pick ‘n’ Mix Festival in 2012 - a platform festival for new writing and talent where it sold out. The MAC is delighted to welcome the company back and give audiences another opportunity to catch this fantastic show.

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Huzzies

By Stacey Gregg Tinderbox Theatre Company in association with the MAC 19 October – 3 November Upstairs at the MAC — Starring Kerri Quinn, Cat Barter, Doireann McKenna and John Shayegh Written by Stacey Gregg Directed by Michael Duke Music by Katie Richardson

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“ Gregg is a playwright with a fiercely distinctive voice... moments of great beauty and humour.”

–The Telegraph “ Katie and the Carnival combine a whimsical spirit with a deep bluesy sound that is immediately intriguing… a unique quality that is charming, charismatic and downright infectious.”

–Bandwith Films

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Tinderbox Theatre Company has teamed up with award-winning playwright Stacey Gregg and rising music star Katie Richardson (Katie and the Carnival) to create Huzzies for the 50th Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s.

In this compelling piece of new writing, Huzzies tells the story of the making of a band who crave distraction from the humdrum of everyday life and yearn for something better. Meet Dee, fighting to escape from the shadow of her dysfunctional family and Pete, who thinks being in a band is a great way to meet girls.

Or Shona, messing around until a better offer comes along while Claire, ever the good girl, just wants to fit in.

Fast-paced, direct and full of Stacey Gregg’s trademark wit, Huzzies follows the highs and lows of a band desperate for fame as they hurl themselves at Belfast’s music scene.

Each other’s best friends and their own worst enemies, the band stumbles from dodgy cover versions to true inspiration, with lots of laugh out loud moments. But just as the success Dee craves seems within their grasp, she is forced to make a terrible choice that threatens all their futures.

Katie Richardson has composed a set of specially created songs and music for the show, which will be performed live by a stellar cast of actor-musicians.

Post-show Talk 24 October Post-show talk with members of the Belfast Music Scene, chaired by Ciaran McQuillan.

30 October Post-show talk with playwright, composer, director and cast.

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Tinderbox sold out during 2011’s Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s with Paul Kennedy’s cult hit Guidelines for a Long and Happy Life. The MAC has been working with Tinderbox as one of its supported artists and is delighted to bring this brand new stage show to audiences at the MAC.

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Moving on Music in association with the MAC

Joshua Redman Trio

The Necks

Salim Sabri

RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet with Nobuko Imai

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18 November, 8pm

4 December, 8pm

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One of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to emerge in the 1990s, award-winning saxophonist Joshua Redman has toured and recorded with musicians as distinguished as his father, the late Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau.

Together for 25 years, the Australian cult trio The Necks enthral audiences worldwide with their compelling style of improvisation.

Defying orthodox description, not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, their music is regularly described as simply, unique.

ArtsEkta, Northern Ireland’s leading ethnic arts organisation, and Moving on Music are pleased to bring you an exciting Qawwali evening performed

by Salim Sabri and his group. Qawwali is a type of Sufi devotional music popular on the Indian subcontinent, a musical tradition that dates back over 700 years.

The RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet brings some of the world’s most beautiful chamber music for strings to the MAC with guest artist Nobuko Imai on viola.

Winner of the Thelonius Monk International Saxophone Competition, he has since recorded over ten albums for Warner Brothers and more recently Nonesuch. He has garnered top honours in critic and reader polls of Downbeat, Jazz Times, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. “ Mr Redman is a supremely affable and flowing improvisor, at times a borderline brilliant one, working in a glow of clarity.”

–The New York Times

Featuring lengthy pieces of long-form development which build in a mesmerising, epic fashion frequently underpinned by an insistent deep groove, their performances are never less than phenomenal. “ One of the most extraordinary groups on the planet...sonic experience that has few parallels or rivals.”

-The Guardian “ One of the greatest bands in the world” -New York Times

Salim Sabri, student of the world famous Haji Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (Sabri Brothers) Pakistan, started his singing career at the age of 12. Salim was drawn to this spiritual music and decided to take this passion further and established a UK-based group in 1988.

In addition to performing at major venues across the UK, Salim and his group have toured worldwide.

This is one of Europe’s most successful ensembles internationally recognised for its beauty of sound, clarity of texture and integrity of interpretation with a varied repertoire. As resident quartet to RTÉ, the Quartet makes regular appearances at all the main UK festivals, broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and performs regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank.

With her exceptional talent and charisma, Nobuko Imai is considered one of the most outstanding viola players of our time.

Through a distinguished international solo career she has appeared with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw and the London Symphony.

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Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s

junk ensemble

Altan

James Joyce’s Michael Clark Dance Company Ulysses

23 - 24 October, 7.45pm

27 October, 7pm

30 October – 1 November, 7.45pm

3 – 4 November, 7.45pm

Downstairs at the MAC Tickets: £12

Downstairs at the MAC Tickets: £17

Downstairs at the MAC Tickets: £15, concession £12.50

Downstairs at the MAC Tickets: £15

Male physicality is pushed to the extreme in this dance theatre show which explores self-destruction, invincibility and failure.

Performed by an international all-male cast and a live children’s choir, The Falling Song premiered at Dublin Dance Festival 2012 and looks at the nature of flying and falling and the dangerous relationship between the two.

With their exquisitely produced award-winning recordings, ranging from the most sensitive and touching traditional Irish songs all the way to hard-hitting reels and jigs, Altan have moved audiences from Donegal to Tokyo. Through energetic and heart-warming live performances, the band brings the best of traditional music, particularly that of the Donegal fiddlers and singers, to contemporary audiences.

By Dermot Bolger Directed by Andy Arnold

Michael Clark is an iconic British dancer, choreographer and artist who first came to prominence in the early 1980s. His work combines the classical ballet of his training with a more complex, contemporary sensibility. He is renowned for his legendary collaborations with bands, fashion designers and visual artists including Wire, Leigh Bowery, Trojan, Peter Doig and Sarah Lucas.

junk ensemble was established by Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy with a commitment to creating works of brave and imaginative dance theatre.

Winners of Best Production Award 2011, Culture Ireland Touring Award in 2008, Excellence and Innovation Award in 2007 and listed as a Sunday Times Highlight in 2011, junk ensemble’s work has toured nationally and internationally. ‘ An elegant simplicity permeates their work…excellent cast of four male dancers… hilarious’ –The Irish Times

“ The hottest group in the Celtic realm!”

-The Boston Globe

“I am a fool perhaps. Boylan gets the plums and I the plum stones. My youth. Never again.

Gibraltar. Evenings like this looking out over the sea, she told me, but clear, no clouds.

Said she always thought she’d marry a lord or a gentleman with a private yacht. Why me?”

While his wife Molly waits in bed for the infamous Blazes Boylan, Leopold Bloom is in Dublin conversing in pubs, graveyards, press rooms, brothels...and then home.

Adapted for stage by author and Dublin chronicler Dermot Bolger, Ulysses is bawdy, hilarious and affecting and celebrates Joyce’s genius for depicting life in all its profundity. ‘…a brilliant re-imagining of Joyce’s world in theatrical terms, at once faithful to the original and yet in itself a fresh and vigorous work of art…”

- Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times

Michael Clark Dance Company’s new work for the Festival is a double bill of choreography to specially commissioned music and will continue Clark’s history of close collaboration with contemporary artists, designers and musicians.

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Lady Windermere’s Fan

By Oscar Wilde A new adaptation by Patrick J. O’Reilly Directed by Lisa May

Based on the classic novel by Oscar Wilde, Bruiser Theatre Company in association with the MAC present this entertaining new stage adaptation.

7–17 November Downstairs at the MAC Post-show Talk 15 November Post-show talk with Director and cast.

Captioned: 15 November, 7.45pm

Martin Lynch and GBL Productions have teamed up with one of Northern Ireland’s leading home-grown playwrights, Gary Mitchell. Gary’s plays, such as A Little World of Our Own and Forced Upon Us, have been warmly received at the Royal Court and Abbey Theatres, while GBL Productions has been enjoying great success in recent years with productions like Dancing Shoes – The George Best Story, The Titanic Boys, A Night in November and Women on the Verge of HRT.

This is a classic Oscar Wilde comedy from parlours and parties, eavesdropping and misunderstandings to the cheeky wooing of pretty young daughters.

Wilde’s razor-sharp wit and satire of high society is as keenly observed and relevant today as any contemporary writer’s work.

From the team that brought you the critically acclaimed feel-good show of the year, Sweet Charity, Bruiser return to the MAC with this hilarious and irreverent treat.

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Remembered with great affection in Northern Ireland, actor/comedian James Young achieved legendary status in a career that spanned over 40 years.

His CDs and videos still sell in large numbers and even many of today’s generation are familiar with James Young characters, such as Orange Lil, Derek the window cleaner, The Lady from Cherryvalley and many more.

Lady Margaret Windermere is a woman of high morals and absolute conviction.

In her mind, people are either good or bad, with nothing in between. She discovers, to her horror, that her husband may be having an affair with another woman, of dubious moral standing.

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This new show by Mitchell will not only look at the successful career of James Young, but will also explore the other sides of his character – the homosexual, the alcoholic and the man behind the persona.

From his humble roots in Ballymoney to starring in his own BBC TV show, The James Young Story will chart his rocky route to stardom and the demons he had to wrestle along the way.

8 –27 January Downstairs at the MAC

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The world premiere of

The Incredible Book Eating Boy

By Oliver Jeffers A Cahoots and MAC co-production

27 November – 1 January Downstairs at the MAC — Adapted by Conor Mitchell Directed by Paul Bosco McEneaney & Conor Mitchell Choreographed by Muirne Bloomer

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Say hello to Henry. He loves books. Books for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yes, Henry loves books so much that he EATS them. Henry gobbles and gorges on all sorts – hardbacks, paperbacks, storybooks, dictionaries, joke books, atlases and even maths manuals – and the more he eats, the cleverer he gets.

But, just as Henry is turning into a real smarty-pants, things start to go awry…

This fantastical family show is based on the book by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers. It’s an exclusive and extraordinary MAC co-production with Cahoots NI that all ages and bookworms will devour. Featuring live music by Conor Mitchell, this amazing Christmas show brings the story from page to stage for the first time, showing only at the MAC.

Workshops Alongside the show, there’ll be a series of incredible family workshops to get involved in.

Check themaclive.com for full details.

Book some seasonal tickets to the family show of the year and join the MAC this Christmas. © Oliver Jeffers published and licensed

by HarperCollins Children’s Books.

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Johanna Billing I’m gonna live anyhow until I die 2012 (video still) / Courtesy the artist.

Roxy Walsh Rage Against the Dying 2007-08 / Courtesy the artist.

I’m gonna live anyhow until I die

The Lady Watercolourist

Johanna Billing 10 August – 4 November

15 September – 21 October

Tall & Upper Gallery Free admission Swedish artist Johanna Billing makes atmospheric video installations that draw the viewer in.

Walking through the transformed spaces of both the Tall and Upper galleries at the MAC, this exhibition invites audiences to experience Billing’s subtle and emotive videos that focus on human interaction.

Johanna Billing’s videos deftly weave together music, movement and rhythm and place subtle emphasis on individual performance and representations of changing societies. Born in Jönköping, Sweden in 1973, Johanna has been making video works since 1999.

Roxy Walsh Sunken Gallery Free admission

Her films often involve music as a tool for communication, memory and reconstruction. This exhibition will present a series of her recent work alongside a new film I’m gonna live anyhow until I die, 2012 - a MAC co-commission with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy which will receive its first screening at the MAC.

Curator’s Talk 18 October, 6pm MAC Curator Hugh Mulholland will discuss the themes explored in Johanna Billing’s work.

Roxy Walsh is a Northern Irish artist living in London and this will be her first solo show in Ireland since 1995. The exhibition will consist of a series of paintings made during 2007 -2008 called ‘Lady Watercolourist At Home’, as well as a wall painting made specifically for the MAC’s Sunken Gallery.

‘Lady Watercolourist At Home’ was so called because the paintings were made during the artist’s year of adoption leave, when Walsh sublet her studio to work from home to care for her twin baby boys.

The paintings are watercolour on paper.

Small-scale, brightly coloured and full of pattern and incident that can be funny, sad, baffling, and tender. The images move seamlessly between abstraction and cartooning – the round eyes of the assorted characters look out from the paintings, a red tongue licks a brilliant yellow sky and a green owl with round black eyes clings to the end of a branch.

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Claire Morgan Gone to Seed 2011 / Courtesy the artist.

Claire Morgan Gone to Seed

2 November – 20 January

Claire Morgan’s sculptural work is about our relationship with the rest of nature, explored through notions of change, the passing of time, and the transience of everything around us. She creates seemingly solid structures from thousands of individually suspended elements, which have a direct relation to nature.

Animals, birds and insects have been present in Morgan’s recent installations.

In some sculptural works, animals might appear to rest, fall or even fly.

Peter Doig Young Bean Farmer 1991 / Courtesy the Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Peter Doig Imaginary Places

16 November – 20 January Upper Gallery Free admission

Sunken Gallery Free admission The titles of the works are important and often make reference to historical or popular culture. Words are taken from the titles of films and books, or from phrases of colloquial slang. These connections often add a comedic element, a sense of irony or bluntness that keeps the work firmly rooted in the experience of the world that we humans inhabit.

Claire Morgan was born in Belfast in 1980.

She graduated in 2003 with a first class degree in sculpture and has exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions in the UK and Europe and museum shows in the US and Australia.

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Peter Doig’s highly distinctive paintings have been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide to international acclaim.

Doig’s subjects are often sourced from film stills and photographs, emanating a quiet nostalgia. He records places at the fringes of normality, anonymous locations where the urban and natural worlds meet.

Doig is known for his innovative exploration of landscape. His work plunges the viewer into an unreliable world of reflections.

Talk 29 November, 6pm Catherine Lampert, Curator & Art Historian will discuss the significance of Peter Doig’s early works.

He invites us to consider the status of the people, places and events that populate his pictures, whether they exist in private or public realms, in personal or shared experiences. His rigorous approach to surface, texture and colour puts him among the most inventive painters of his generation, leaving a profound influence on young artists and contemporaries alike.

Doig has had major solo exhibitions around the world including Tate Britain (2008), Dallas Museum of Art (2005), Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich (2004) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1998). This is the first significant exhibition of his work in Northern Ireland.

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Mary McIntyre The Lough I (2006) colour lightjet photographic print 80 cm x 100 cm.

Mary McIntyre A Contemporary Sublime 16 November – 20 January Tall Gallery Free admission Mary McIntyre’s images explore the subject of landscape – the picturesque and romantic movements in European landscape painting are a significant influence to her practice. Her work examines how painting and photography not only portray, but also construct the landscapes we see. She adopts the traditional, formal qualities of landscape painting and re-interprets them within a contemporary context.

Artist’s Talk 6 December, 6pm Mary McIntyre will discuss her work and how her practice has been influenced by historical painting.

McIntyre’s series of images explore elements of natural phenomena and our perceptions of them. By photographing in very specific weathers, such as mist and fog, she produces documents of that which is intangible. In these images, the landscape itself, the supposed ‘site’ of the work, is rendered unknowable; it becomes an absent subject.

This exhibition of McIntyre’s landscape work from 1999 – 2011 is shown for the first time alongside historical paintings which have influenced her practice. The exhibition includes works by Paul Nash, Jacob Van Ruisdael, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and L.S. Lowry.

Talk 10 January, 6pm Christopher Riopelle, Curator, National Gallery London will explore ideas of the sublime with examples from the National Gallery London.

© Oliver Jeffers published and licensed by HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Oliver Jeffers

The Incredible Book Eating Boy Illustrations 27 November – 4 January The Substation Free admission

Award-winning author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers grew up in Belfast and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

From figurative painting, collage and installation to illustration and picture-book making, Oliver Jeffers’ practice takes many forms. His award-winning picture books, published by HarperCollins, have been translated into over twenty languages.

This amazing exhibition of his illustrations from The Incredible Book Eating Boy will coincide with the MAC and Cahoots NI’s theatre adaptation of the book for an amazing new family show at the MAC from 27 November.

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Conor Mitchell

Artists in Residence

Jimmy McAleavey Writer Jimmy McAleavey will become the MAC’s next artist in residence, as part of the MAC’s rolling programme of support to local artists that includes space and resources to create new work.

Jimmy has written numerous radio plays and short stories for BBC Radio 3, 4 and RTE Lyric FM. His play Moonmen (Radio 3, 2008) was described by The Daily Mail as ‘the perfect radio play’.

His stage plays include The Sign of the Whale (Tinderbox, 2010), which won the Stewart Parker Award and was nominated for the Meyer-Whitworth Award and The Virgin Father (Tinderbox, 2009).

Site-specific work includes Titans for the opening of the Titanic Belfast and The Joy (And Roy) of Irish.

Jimmy has written and directed two short films and written a little for television.

He has also been nominated for the King’s Cross Award and the Tony Doyle Award.

He is currently under commission with Kabosh, Tinderbox and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

This Autumn, Jimmy will take up residence in the Study on the fourth floor of the MAC and we look forward to supporting him with his writing during his time here.

Conor Mitchell is a writer and composer from County Armagh. In addition to composing the music for the upcoming show, The Incredible Book Eating Boy at the MAC, Conor has recently composed scores for NI Opera Shorts, Requiem for the Disappeared which premiered at Belfast Cathedral, and Ten Plagues, a song he wrote with playwright Mark Ravenhill that won a Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival 2011.

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As well as symphonic work, Conor’s music-theatre work has been presented across the world and he has received commissions from the National Theatre and The University of Gotenberg amongst many others. He is also music adviser to YMT:UK and a member of the Ransom Collective.

The MAC is delighted to welcome Conor as artist in residence from November 2012 – January 2013.

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By Phone: 028 9023 5053 In Person: The MAC, 10 Exchange Street West, Saint Anne’s Square, Belfast, BT1 2NJ

Take a Chance Grab yourself a bargain with a Take a Chance ticket at just £9.50.

You’ll find out which seat you have on the day of the performance.

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There is 1 ticket type for shows in Upstairs at the MAC:

We have 3 different ticket types in our larger theatre Downstairs at the MAC: Premium To guarantee the best seat in the house choose one of our Premium Tickets at £22.

Current Price Prices start from £12 and rise over time to a maximum of £19, so if you fancy something don’t delay. The earlier you book, the better the deal.

Canteen at the MAC Open 7 days a week, from 10am until late – serving breakfast, lunch, pre-show meals, tapas and drinks.

To check out our menus or to book a table, visit themaclive.com or call on 028 9023 5053.

Canteen at the MAC, 10 Exchange Street West, Saint Anne’s Square, Belfast.

Current Price Prices start from £9.50 and rise over time to a maximum of £17. Again, the earlier you book, the better the deal.

Box Office opening times Our box office is open 7 days a week, 10am – 7pm. You can book any time online at themaclive.com.

This is just a flavour of what’s on at the MAC in our Autumn season.

For full details on all shows and events, visit themaclive.com.

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