Skibbereen Arts Festival 2010 » theatre http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com July 18th - July 31st Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:13:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A Night in November http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/a-night-in-november/ http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/a-night-in-november/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:58:19 +0000 admin http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/?p=885 SHOESTRING THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS: A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER. BY MARIE JONES

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Written by Belfast playwright Marie Jones, ‘A Night In November’ stars award-winning actor William Lyons as Kenneth McAlister, a working-class Protestant, during a fateful night in November, 1993 in Belfast when the Republic of Ireland soccer team plays against Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifier. As the game progresses, Kenneth finds himself watching the crowd more than the football — and exposing his Anti-Catholic bigotry.

Thought provoking and hilarious, this play has wowed audiences all around the world and is one of the best pieces of theatre written in Ireland in the past 30 years.

In 2009 William Lyons won the best actor award at the All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone and prior to the final had won 7 best actor awards on the festival circuit

]]> http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/a-night-in-november/feed/ 0 The Science of Flann O’Brien – Theatre http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/the-science-of-flann-obrien-theatre/ http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/the-science-of-flann-obrien-theatre/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:11 +0000 admin http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/?p=903 flann_obrienIn his writings, and particularly, in ‘The Third Policeman’, Flann O’Brien took scientific principles, extrapolated them to fantastic proportions, and set the outcomes in a bizarre context that is at once both logical and illogical. Written in 1940, but not published until after the author’s death in 1967, the story follows the trail of a murderer on the run through an Irish countryside that is not as we know it. In this setting, the narrator is continually challenged by scientific processes that we normally take for granted such as the relationship between light and time, the Conservation of Energy, and perhaps most famously, the Molecule Theory. His most infamous description relates to how molecular theory contributes to the production of a being that is part-Garda, part-bicycle (and vice-versa).

In this exciting two-man show, where travel is an illusion and a pint of plain is your only man, the comic world of Flann O’Brien is prised open by DCU Chemistry Professor Dermot Diamond and actor Fergus Cronin.

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