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Inspired by the revolutionary ideals of our founders and our rich canon of Irish dramatic writing, our mission is to imaginatively engage with all of Irish society through the production of ambitious, courageous and new theatre in all its forms. We commit to lead in the telling of the whole Irish story, in English and in Irish, and we affirm that the Abbey is a theatre for the entire island of Ireland and for all its people. In every endeavour, we promote inclusiveness, diversity and equality.
One of the most uniquely recognisable, and critically and popularly lauded, voices in Irish music, Radie Peat – of multi-award winning Lankum and ØXN – collaborates with the Abbey Theatre on its production of Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow, lending her vocals to the lyrics of 'The Old Triangle', which ring out hauntingly throughout the performance.Read more here: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/the-old-triangle/
Audio Description notes for Somewhere Out There You by Nancy Harris, directed by Wayne Jordan at the Abbey Theatre.
As part of the run of our new production of Moliere's Tartuffe, we initiated a series of post-show discussions on themes emerging from the new version of the play by Frank McGuinness. The discussions focussed on the origins of these themes in the play and broadened out to encompass reflections on their relevance for Ireland in the past and the present.Our second talk covered Me Too: confronting patriarchy and sexual oppression. This conversation was explored by curator Catriona Crowe along with journalist and novelist Gene Kerrigan and journalist and writer Caelainn Hogan. In their talk they examined hypocrisy, trying to answer the question if it’s part of the Irish system of elision of difficult things.Facebook - @AbbeyTheatreDublinInstagram - @AbbeyTheatreDublinTwitter - @AbbeyTheatre
As part of the run of our new production of Moliere's Tartuffe, we initiated a series of post-show discussions on themes emerging from the new version of the play by Frank McGuinness. The discussions focussed on the origins of these themes in the play and broadened out to encompass reflections on their relevance for Ireland in the past and the present.Our first talk covered Me Too: confronting patriarchy and sexual oppression. For this talk, curator Catriona Crowe was joined on stage by Irish Times writer and columnist Roisin Ingle and Consent Project Manager with Dublin Rape Crisis Centre Sarah Monaghan. They discussed the recent Waking the Feminists campaign - how have we done since the campaign was first launched back in 2015 and is there more to be done? The panel also explored if toxic masculinity is a response to women’s attempts to defeat sexual oppression.Facebook - @AbbeyTheatreDublinInstagram - @AbbeyTheatreDublinTwitter - @AbbeyTheatre
Audio-described programme notes for the audio described performance of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a radical reboot of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon.
The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow a single figure speaks with five separate male voices. The voices do not talk directly to one another and appear to be different people, but each is a strand of the whole man. Each voice tries to explain, justify and in the end, understand. The voices can be identified by their order of appearance: Father, Murderer, Storyteller, Fetishist and Messiah/Anti-Christ.
The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow by Sebastian Barry, created in collaboration with Olwen Fouéré, Roger Doyle and David Heap.
Creators: Sebastian Barry and Operating Theatre Writer: Sebastian Barry Composer: Roger Doyle Performer: Olwen Fouéré Director: David Heap Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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Programme notes for the audio described on-demand performance of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder.
Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? is a painful love story divided by sectarianism, and punctuated by the tasteless racist jokes of an anti-Irish comedian. Allison’s family don’t want her to marry Brian, a Catholic whose brother is serving a life sentence for terrorist offences. Brian’s family don’t want him to marry Allison, as she is a Protestant, and the niece of a Unionist politician.
The play parallels scenes of their two families, doubling characters to bring together two groups so impossibly divided. Allison and Brian’s brilliant optimistic hope that they will rise above the feud becomes heart-breaking as the play shows that the perpetuation of conflict is more powerful than either of them.
Cast: Ruby Campbell Desmond Eastwood Andrea Irvine Aonghus Óg McAnally Eleanor Methven Conor O'Donnell Barry Simpson Dan Gordon Jolene O'Hara Director: Emma Jordan Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios Facebook - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Instagram - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Twitter - @ AbbeyTheatre More info: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/unseen-plays/
An Triail is set in Ireland during the 1960s and deals with the pregnancy, and subsequent single motherhood, of a young woman, Máire Ní Chathasaigh. She is shunned by her family after becoming impregnated by Pádraig, a married man and a teacher in the local school, and must leave her parish and move to Dublin to find work to support herself and her child.
Here she is once again marginalised, first for being a single pregnant woman and then for being a single mother. After her accommodation collapses around her child, she moves into a brothel with a prostitute named Mailí who took pity on her. An encounter with the child's father, where he further rejects her and his child, only serves to make matters worse and the girl takes her own life, as well as that of her child, by natural gas inhalation from her oven.
Cast: Orlaith Ní Chearra Eoin O Dubhghaill Mícheál Ó Dubhgháill Garrett Keogh Caitríona Ní Chonaola Caitríona Ní Dhomnaill Michelle Beamish Eoin Geoghegan Hilary Bowen Peadar Cox Edward Murphy Hannah O'Reilly Neasa Ní Chuanaigh Director: Darach Ó Tuairisg Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios Facebook - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Instagram - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Twitter - @ AbbeyTheatre More info: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/unseen-plays/
Set in the district court of Barrabeg, Co. Kerry, a judge presides over the case of a 13-year-old girl about to be sent to an Industrial School. A humane solicitor argues that young children need “kissing and caressing”, while the Mother Superior of the orphanage, where the girl grew up, says they need harsh discipline in order to learn “humility”. The play ends with the girl taking off her scarf to show her shaved head, a punishment for absconding from the orphanage.
Cast Deirdre Donnelly Philip O'Sullivan Kate Gilmore Luke Griffin David Herlihy Jane Brennan Jonathan White Amilia Stewart-Keating Peter Coonan Katie McCann Mark Lambert Director: Conall Morrison Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios Facebook - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Instagram - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Twitter - @ AbbeyTheatre More info: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/unseen-plays/
The loss of traditional rural values in the West of Ireland is central to this play. The results of emigration from the region are no weddings and no children. Those left there are left to totter in to old age. But Sanbatch Daly, a descendant of the derelict Big House is determined to reverse the problem of rural decline. When Con arrives to cut down the wood at the D'Arcy demesne, he encounters Sanbatch living by the abandoned castle gates and soon meets “some comical Irishmen” in the wood of the whispering; a nether–world, where colourful characters live in “fear of losing themselves” pondering life’s path in love and living, against their practical needs. Sanbatch, sensing their way of life stolen away as the fairies stole Sadie, schemes to save the day; in the end of all, the young people with “enough good sense got“ settle in the “Wood of the Whispering”.
Cast Steve Blount Venetia Bowe Brendan Conroy Eavan Gaffney Raymond Keane Megan McDonnell Matthew Malone Michael Glenn Murphy Arthur Riordan Darragh Shannon Director: Maisie Lee Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios Facebook - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Instagram - @ AbbeyTheatreDublin Twitter - @ AbbeyTheatre
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Set in the midst of the poverty, dirt and smells of the Liffey Lane tenements. Food and decent clothing are scarce, and illness common particularly among the children. But there is also kindness and decency, neighbours looking out for each other, a community very different from that of the small Irish town, but still bound together. But this community is being scattered as the tenements are torn down, forcing the residents to find other homes. Chrissie moves through this world, and the more privileged one on the "right" side of the street, centred in her love for Kevin, whom she helped raise from a baby, and in her simple faith. She also has a true friend in Sister Martha, who makes time to listen and to help when she can.
Cast Neili Conroy Charleigh Bailey Ruth McCabe Phelim Drew Jordanne Jones Mary Murray Tony Doyle Robbie O'Connor Ciara Ivie Ben Waddell Director: Lelia Doolan Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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A one-act play set on a sunny afternoon on the north-west coast of Ireland. Pat Scully, a man of 60, stands at the open door of his house and looks out at this garden and the hill-side beyond. Over the course of the action his son John, his daughter-in-law Mary and a visiting English painter and his wife - Kenneth and Ismay Leslie - come and go.
John seems quite taken with Ismay. He pays her a good deal of attention. Pat does not like this and becomes angry with his son on Mary’s behalf. Mary pays no heed to John’s behaviour and encourages the visitors to stay and experience a cèilidh to celebrate the end of the harvest. Kenneth announces they must leave that afternoon and Mary insists they dance a four-hand reel before they go. The couples swap partners and dance. John enjoys the opportunity to dance with Ismay and makes no effort to dance the proper steps. Mary tries to steer Kenneth around the floor and the couples end up colliding. The Leslies then say their goodbyes.
Pat is furious with John for flirting with Ismay and attempts to strike him with his stick but falls. John and Mary come to his rescue and settle him. As Pat dozes in the chair, John and Mary talk. John acknowledges his bad behaviour and realizes his father was acting on Mary’s behalf. They reconnect and reaffirm their love and commitment to each other. Pat, over-hearing the conversation, understands he has witnessed a rare and intimate moment in their relationship and is happy.
A play about marriage, the nature of relationships and how what is observed from a distance can often have little bearing on the truth between two people.
Cast Peter Campion Zara Devlin Maria Guiver Philip Judge Claire O'Donovan Cillian Ó Gairbhí Director: Caroline Byrne Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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Programme notes for the audio described performance of What I (Don't) Know About Autism by Jody O'Neill
A comic tale of Irish village life centring on Thomas Coppinger, a stonecutter, and his wife Mary who states from the outset how much happier she would be in America. When two whales are beached during the night, and the villagers consider that their oil is worth hatfuls of gold, it seems like all of their wishes may finally have come true...
Cast: Bryan Burroughs Declan Conlon Fionnuala Gygax Marcus Lamb Fiona Lucia McGarry Máire Ní Ghráinne Ian O'Reilly Don Wycherley Director: Sarah Jane Scaife Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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A dramatic exploration of the occult, the play features a seance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected though a medium, along with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa. The Dublin Spiritualists' Association is about to hold a seance in rooms once visited by Stella, the name Jonathan Swift gave to his beloved Esther Johnson. One of the windows has part of a poem by Stella scratched in the glass. After some debate between the various attendees at the seance, amongst whom are a clergyman, a gambler, and a Cambridge student writing a thesis on Swift, the medium Mrs Henderson begins. A spirit Lulu is driven away by an ugly old man, who turns out to be Swift, to whom Vanessa (Hester Vanhomrigh) makes a declaration of love. Swift refuses to be responsible for a child coming into the world, wishing to leave only his intellect to posterity. Quoting Stella's poem, Swift then tells of his love for her. The Cambridge student John Corbet is suitably impressed by Mrs Henderson's performance, but she denies all knowledge of Swift. Left on her own, Swift speaks through her once more: ‘Perish the day on which I was born!’
Cast: Bryan Burroughs Declan Conlon Fionnuala Gygax Fiona Lucia McGarry Máire Ní Ghráinne Helen Norton Ian O'Reilly Don Wycherley Director: Sarah Jane Scaife Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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Jessica Traynor in conversation with Marina Carr, Olwen Fouéré and Caitríona McLaughlin.
Recorded in the Abbey Theatre rehearsal room, September 27th 2021. Interviewer: Jessica Traynor Sound operator: Aidah Sama Image Credit: Barry McCall
The audio play of Last Orders at the Dockside by Dermot Bolger
Last Orders at the Dockside follows the death of an elderly docker, as his friends gather in the local pub, The Dockside, to celebrate his life. Over the course of an evening awash with songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks, hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships.
Last Orders at the Dockside premiered at the Abbey Theatre in September 2019, directed by Graham McLaren. This audio version of Dermot Bolger's original text was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and features the original Abbey Theatre cast.
Cast: Éabha Brady, Anthony Brophy, Juliette Crosbie, George Murphy, Stephen Jones, Aidan Kelly, Lisa Lambe, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Terry O'Neill and Jimmy Smallhorne Musicians: Bill Bergin, Mike Brookfield, Aindrias de Staic and Wayne Sheehy
The audio play of Last Orders at the Dockside by Dermot Bolger
Last Orders at the Dockside follows the death of an elderly docker, as his friends gather in the local pub, The Dockside, to celebrate his life. Over the course of an evening awash with songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks, hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships.
Last Orders at the Dockside premiered at the Abbey Theatre in September 2019, directed by Graham McLaren. This audio version of Dermot Bolger's original text was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and features the original Abbey Theatre cast.
Cast: Éabha Brady, Anthony Brophy, Juliette Crosbie, George Murphy, Stephen Jones, Aidan Kelly, Lisa Lambe, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Terry O'Neill and Jimmy Smallhorne Musicians: Bill Bergin, Mike Brookfield, Aindrias de Staic and Wayne Sheehy
Programme notes for audio described on-demand performance of Walls and Windows by Rosaleen McDonagh.
The ridiculously talented Lisa O'Neill talks with Lisa Farrelly about finding her way into the drama of Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger playing outside at IMMA on the grounds of The Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The two Lisa's discuss artistry, the loneliness of a sharp memory and lit candles that flicker with hope.
Recorded on Monday 28 September 2020 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy Image Credit: 04/2020 Broadcast 06/10/2020
Actor Caitríona Ennis talks with Lisa Farrelly about finding the heart of Emer in Corn Exchange & the Abbey Theatre's The Fall of the Second Republic, making the grade and going to war for all her characters.
Recorded on Wednesday 4 March 2020 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 03/2020 Broadcast 12/03/2020
Photograph Credit Ros Kavanagh
A grand coalition of Corn Exchange memories, techniques and anecdotes make this podcast a rare recording gem. Mark O'Halloran leads artistic director & founder of The Corn Exchange, Annie Ryan, alongside collaborator, Andrew Bennett, in a conversation that captures twenty five years of their work, so far.
Recorded on Tuesday 3 March 2020 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer: Mark O'Halloran Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Conall Coleman 02/2020 Broadcast 06/03/2020
Hansel and Gretel – Directors’ Note
Written by directors Muireann Ahern and Louis Lovett
Read by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin.
An Irish National Opera, Theatre Lovett and Abbey Theatre Co-Production.
Out of the Abbey:
Navan, Solstice Arts Centre: Tues 18 Feb Kilkenny, Watergate Theatre: Thurs 20 Feb Wexford, National Opera House: Sat 22 Feb Cork, The Everyman: Tues 25 Feb Tralee, Siamsa Tíre: Thurs 27 Feb Limerick, Lime Tree Theatre: Sat 29 Feb Galway, Town Hall Theatre: Tues 3 Mar Longford, Backstage Theatre: Thurs 5 Mar Letterkenny, An Grianán: Sat 7 Mar
For updates about audio described and captioned performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information.
Audio Described Programme notes for Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck at the Abbey Theatre.
Welcome to the introductory notes for Hansel and Gretel, by Engelbert Humperdinck. This opera is presented by the Abbey Theatre, Irish National Opera and Theatre Lovett.
It is directed by Muireann Ahern and Louis Lovett.
The score was arranged by Richard Peirson who plays piano and conducts the opera.
The Set and Costume Designer is Jamie Vartan.
Lighting Design is by Sarah Jane Shiels.
The Video Designer is Jack Phelan.
The introductory notes for Hansel and Gretel were prepared by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin.
Introductory Notes and Audio Description for this and many other productions is provided by Arts & Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council.
For updates about audio described and captioned performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information.
For this podcast theatre makerJody O'Neill talks with Lisa Farrelly about creating her show What I (Don't) Know About Autism which is enjoying a sold out run on the Peacock stage. Jody talks about the perception, assumptions, and treatments that are associated with Autism and challenges, educates and celebrates Autistic identity.
What I (Don't) Know About Autism Dublin, Peacock Theatre Sat 1 - Sat 8 Feb Cork, The Everyman: Tue 11 – Thu 13 Feb Bray, Mermaid Arts Centre: Sat 15 Feb
Cast: Shay Croke Cast: Paula McGlinchey Cast: Jayson Murray Cast: Jody O'Neill Cast: Matthew Ralli Cast: Eleanor Walsh Writer: Jody O’Neill Producer: Melissa Nolan Director: Dónal Gallagher Choreographer: Cindy Cummings Set and Costume Design: Medb Lambert Lighting Design: Eoin Winning Composer and Sound Design: Carl Kennedy Stage Manager: Cian Mulhall Assistant Stage Manager: Shannon Cowan PR: Dairne O’Sullivan
Funded by the Arts Council and Wicklow County Council with the support of The Everyman, the Abbey Theatre, Mermaid Arts Centre, AsIAm, Fishamble New Play Company, Rough Magic Theatre Company, KCAT and Triple A Wicklow.
Recorded on Tuesday 4 February 2020 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 01/2020 Broadcast 07/02/2020
Irish Independent Article Health & Well Being Courtesy Irish Independent 03/02/20
Photo Emily Quinn (C)
Welcome to the programme notes for What I (Don't) Know About Autism by Jody O'Neill. The play is directed by Dónal Gallagher and the choreographer is Cindy Cummings. The Set and Costume Designer is Medb Lambert. Lighting Design is by Eoin Winning and the Composer and Sound Design is by Carl Kennedy.
This production will be in The Peacock Theatre from 1 – 8 February 2020, Monday to Saturday at 8pm with a matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm. The performance lasts for one hour and ten minutes, without an interval. All performances will be relaxed performances. This means there will be a relaxed approach to noise during the show and audience members are free to move about or leave the auditorium as they need.
The programme notes for this production of What I (Don't) Know About Autism were prepared by Máirín Harte.
Audio description at the Abbey Theatre is provided by Arts and Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council.
For updates about audio described and captioned performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information. Thank you. Go raibh maith agaibh.
Director Dan Colley talks with Phil Kingston about Collapsing Horse's devising process, artistic choices and challenging the imagination.
Cast: Genevieve Hulme-Beaman & Manus Halligan Based on the short story by: Gabriel García Márquez Adapted for the stage by: Dan Colley, Manus Halligan and Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Directed by: Dan Colley Set and Props Design by: Andrew Clancy Lighting Design by: Sarah Jane Shiels Composition and Sound Design by: Alma Kelliher Photographs: Ste Murray
Recorded on 12 December 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer: Phil Kingston Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 19/2019 Broadcast 20/12/2019
Actor Marion O'Dwyer talks with Lisa Farrelly about all the roads that have lead her back to Inish; from shy beginnings to determined debutante, from Diceman days to the tenements of O'Casey, from Ballybeg to Broadway. Marion talks about working hard at being funny and the tricky balancing act of keeping a life on and off the stage.
Recorded on Tuesday 10 December 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 18/2019 Broadcast 13/12/2019
[Edited for sneezes and Chekcoughs]
Photo Malcolm McGettigan(C)
Drama at Inish director Cal McCrystal talks with Lisa Farrelly about the freedom of directing, the limits of comedy and the pride & delight he takes in making people laugh.
Recorded on Wednesday 13 November 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 17/2019 Broadcast 19/11/2019 Photo Malcolm McGettigan(C)
For the last order in the series of mini-podcasts, Docker Paddy Daly talks with writer Niamh Gleeson about the working conditions, sharp wit and everyday education of a lifetime on the dockside.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Friday 4 October.
The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019.
Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy
16/2019 Broadcast 25/10/2019
Edited for broadcast.
Former Docker Paddy Nevins talks with writer Niamh Gleeson about his forty eight years working on the docks, the dangers of working and the even more dangerous work of navigating a dating life. Paddy talks about being one of the last men on the job, the bond with the men and chasing the last ferry home,
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Thursday 3 October.
The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019.
Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy
15/2019 Broadcast 23/10/2019
Writer Niamh Gleeson talks with Declan Byrne of the Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society about his life working on the docks, the dangerous altruisim of smuggling and the luckiness of unstickable nicknames.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Thursday 3 October.
The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019.
Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy
14/2019 Broadcast 16/10/2019
Programme notes for the audio described performance of Last Orders at the Dockside at the Abbey Theatre, Saturday matinee, 19th October, 2019.
The Programme Notes for Last Orders at the Dockside were prepared by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin who, along with Máirín Harte, will audio describe the performance live on the day.
Audio description at the Abbey Theatre is provided by Arts and Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council.
For further details about other accessible performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information.
In the latest installment of the dockside series, haulier Michael Foran talks with writer Niamh Gleeson about being born on the docks, scutting trucks, mitching school and meeting the scholars on the way home. Michael talks about his love of storytelling, recites his own poetry and delights us with his favourite ballad song.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Thursday 3 October.
The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019.
Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Rob Flynn.
13/2019 Broadcast 14/10/2019
The second in a series of mini podcasts to accompany Dermot Bolger's Last Orders at the Dockside, writer Niamh Gleeson talks with Margaret Cullen, daughter of docker Glimmer Byrne, about the hardship and happy childhood days being reared in Sheriff street & the way of life that stays with you all your life no matter where you roam.
The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Recorded on Wednesday 03 October 2019 at the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Thursday 3 October. Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Rob Flynn.
12/2019 Broadcast 11/10/2019
In the first in a series of mini podcasts to accompany Dermot Bolger's Last Orders at the Dockside, writer Niamh Gleeson talks the ebb and flow of forty six years working on the docks with docker John 'Miley' Walsh.
The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019.
Recorded on Wednesday 03 October 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Rob Flynn. 11/2019 Broadcast 09/10/2019
Theatre maker Dylan Tighe talks with Lisa Farrelly about his production of Pasolini's Saló Redubbed as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2019 on the Peacock stage.
Pasonlini's Saló Redubbed Cast: Thomas Collins Cast: Peter Gaynor Cast: Lauren Larkin Cast: Niamh McCann Cast: Gina Moxley Cast: Will O'Connell Cast: Daniel Reardon
Directed and Adapted by: Dylan Tighe
Lighting Design: Aedín Cosgrove Video Design: José Miguel Jiménez Assistant Video Design: Eavan Aiken Set Design: Aedín Cosgrove and Dylan Tighe Post-Production Sound Design: Kevin Gleeson Sound Engineer and Additional Design: Alexis Nealon Costume Supervisor and Stylist: Ellen Kirk Assistant Director: Grace Morgan Production Manager: Anthony Hanley Stage Manager: Baz O'Donovan Assistant Stage Manager: Roxzan Bowes Producer: Gwen Van Spijk
Recorded on Wednesday 03 October 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 10/2019 Broadcast 04/10/2019
Image: Kathrin Baumbach (c)
Programme notes for the audio described performance of This Beautiful Village at the Abbey Theatre, Saturday matinee, 7th September, 2019.
The Programme Notes for This Beautiful Village were prepared by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin who, along with Máirín Harte, will audio describe the performance live on the day.
This Beautiful Village is written by Lisa Tierney Keogh and directed by David Horan .
The cast and creatives are: Maggie: Pom Boyd Liz: Ruth Bradley Dara: Michael Ford-FitzGerald Philip: Damian Kearney Grace: Bethan Mary-James Paul: Aidan McArdle
Set Designer: Ciaran Bagnall Costume Designer: Katie Davenport Lighting Designer: Sarah Jane Shiels Composer & Sound Designer: Carl Kennedy
Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth Dramaturg: Louise Stephens
Casting: Amy Rowan Rehearsal Photography: Ste Murray
Accessible performances are provided by Arts & Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council.
For further details about other accessible performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information.
In the final weeks of rehearsal This Beautiful Village's writer Lisa Tierney-Keogh talks the truth of her debut play on the Abbey stage, the knockbacks, kickbacks & comebacks involved in power plays and how laughter is the best medicine when blowing up the canon.
This Beautiful Village 2-14 September 2019 Abbey Theatre Writer: Lisa Tierney-Keogh Director: David Horan Cast: Pom Boyd, Ruth Bradley, Michael Ford-FitzGerald, Damian Kearney, Bethan Mary-James & Aidan McArdle.
Recorded on Thursday 22 August 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 09/2019 Broadcast 26/08/2019
The business of theatre quote - Paco Tolson (c)
Programme notes for the audio described performance of Two Pints at the Abbey Theatre, Wednesday 31 July 2019 at 730pm.
The Programme Notes for Two Pints were prepared by Mairín Harte who will also audio describe the performance live on the day.
Accessible performances are provided by Arts & Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council.
For further details about other accessible performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information.
Programme notes for the audio described performance of The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey Theatre, Wednesday 31 July 2019 at 2pm.
The Programme Notes for The Unmanageable Sisters were prepared by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin who will also audio describe the performance live on the day.
Accessible performances are provided by Arts & Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council.
For further details about other accessible performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information.
The Unmanageable cast members Clare Monnelly, Caoimhe O'Malley and Sarah Madigan talk life in rep, making work after college, freelance realities and future fringe productions.
Recorded on Wednesday 24 July 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 08/2019 Broadcast 25/07/2019
Child of the theatre Karen Ardiff talks with Lisa Farrelly about the sense of urgency about being an Unmanageable Sister, the poignancy of post-referenda Ireland and the perplexing conundrum of how to remind your body that you are indeed acting.
Recorded on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 07/2019 Broadcast 12/07/2019
Photo image credit: Ros Kavanagh (c)
Citysong by Dylan Coburn Gray Programme notes for the audio described performance at the Abbey Theatre, 8th June 2019 at 2pm.
The Programme Notes for this world premiere of Citysong were prepared by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin who, along with Máirín Harte, will audio describe the performance.
Accessible performances are provided by Arts & Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council.
For further details about other accessible performances, text ACCESSARTS to 51444 or head to www.adiarts.ie for more information.
Cast: Amy Conroy, Jade Jordan, Bláithín Mac Gabhann, Daryl McCormack, Clare McKenna and Dan Monaghan.
Writer: Dylan Coburn Gray Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Set and Costume Design: Sarah Bacon Lighting Design: Paul Keogan
Composer and Sound Design: Adrienne Quartly
Movement Director: Sue Mythen
Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth
Associate Sound Designer: Jennifer O’Malley
Casting: Maureen Hughes and Sarah Jones
Set and costume designer Sarah Bacon talks with Lisa Farrelly about her initial responses to the Citysong script, light bulb moments and her journey into theatre. Sarah talks about serving the play, reducing and reducing down to an essence and allowing the audience to fill in the edges.
Citysong is an Abbey Theatre and Soho Theatre co-production travelling to Soho Theatre, London and the Galway International Arts Festival. Supported by Culture Ireland.
Recorded on Tuesday 28 May 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 06/2019 Broadcast 05/06/2019
Photo image: Shane Connaughton
Part Two: Writer Dylan Coburn Gray talks home thoughts from abroad, the love of the particular and the joy of the blank page.
Dylan is the recipient of the Verity Bargate Award and is a collaborating writer with MALAPROP Theatre.
Citysong is an Abbey Theatre and Soho Theatre co-production travelling to Soho Theatre, London and the Galway International Arts Festival. Supported by Culture Ireland.
Recorded on Thursday 23 May 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 05/2019 Broadcast 27/05/2019
*Doozer ©: An industry term of affection for top of their game theatre professionals.
Part One: Writer Dylan Coburn Gray talks with Lisa Farrelly about alchemy, trust and the transformation of reflection in the symphony of us that is Citysong.
Dylan is the recipient of the Verity Bargate Award and is a collaborating writer with MALAPROP Theatre.
Citysong is an Abbey Theatre and Soho Theatre co-production travelling to Soho Theatre, London and the Galway International Arts Festival. Supported by Culture Ireland.
Recorded on Thursday 23 May 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 05/2019 Broadcast 27/05/2019
*Doozer ©: An industry term of affection for top of their game theatre professionals.
Audio described introductory notes for The Country Girls are prepared and read by Bríd Ni Ghraugáin.
The audio described performance for The Country Girls is on Saturday Matinee 6 April 2019 2pm and will be audio described by Bríd Ni Ghraugáin and Máirín Harte.
Audio Described performances at the Abbey Theatre are provided by Arts & Disability Ireland with funding from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion.
Actors Grace Collender and Lola Petticrew talk with Lisa Farrelly about stepping into the shoes of The Country Girls, giving heart and colour to their art and the terms & conditions of friendship.
The Country Girls: Written & adapted by Edna O'Brien plays on the Abbey Stage until 6 April and gallivants on to Cork Opera House,Town Hall Theatre, Galway and Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick until 4 May 2019.
The Country Girls is the Dublin: One City, One Book 2019 Choice.
Recorded on Thursday 14 March 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Conall Coleman 04/2019 Broadcast 22/03/2019
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.
Award winning designer Francis O'Connor talks with Lisa Farrelly about the vivid neutrality and clarity of vision that textures his work on The Country Girls.
The Country Girls: Written & adapted by Edna O'Brien plays on the Abbey Stage until 6 April touring to Cork Opera House, Town Hall Theatre, Galway and Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick until 4 May 2019.
The Country Girls is the Dublin: One City, One Book 2019 Choice.
Recorded on Wednesday 27 February 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 03/2019 Broadcast 01/03/2019
Head of Stage Management John Stapleton bids farewell to Abbey Street after thirty eight years of stage wrangling, storytelling and possibly the best way to handle fireworks. Lisa Farrelly talks with John about his time at the theatre and records for posterity some of his classic tales.
Recorded on Tuesday 15 January 2019 at the Abbey Theatre Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 02/2019 Broadcast 170119 Image (c) Eimer Murphy
After a lifetimes service of forty one years, props master Stephen Molloy leaves the Abbey Theatre. He talks with Lisa Farrelly about his first impressions of the theatre, making sense of a whole world of props and the present day reality of our property market.
Short cut who's who: Former Abbey Theatre Alumni: Tony Wakefield: Technical Director/Lighting designer/Head of Dept. Mick Doyle: lighting technician/designer & Head of Dept. Joe Ellis: General stage manger/Prop buyer Brian Collins: Set designer/Production manager Martin Fahy: Accountant/General Manager/Secretary NTS Ltd. Jim Colgan: Sound Dept. Paul Moore: Director.
Present day: Eimer Murphy: Props maker Andrea Ainswoth: Voice Director Mairead Delaney: Archivist Vicky Miller: Costume Dept. Con Doyle: Visitors services manger/Part of the Doyle Abbey Theatre Dynasty
Of Mice and Men:1980/Tom Hickey/Liam Neeson/ Costume & Set Designer Juliet Watkinson
When am I getting me Clothes?: 1978/Pat Ingoldsby/Mick Lally
Recorded on Monday 14 January 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 01/2019 Broadcast 170119 Image (c) Ros Kavanagh
Abbey Talks Live Public Event: Author of Asking For It Louise O’Neill, director and co-adaptor Annabelle Comyn join writers Emilie Pine and John Boyne in a conversation on staging challenging material, sharing creative personal work for the public gaze and counting the cost of their brutal honesty.
[Plot and story lines revealed throughout this discussion]
Asking For It by Louise O'Neill, Adapted by Meadhbh McHugh in colloboration with Annabelle Comyn, Directed by Annabelle Comyn.
LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS and THE EVERYMAN in association with the ABBEY THEATRE and CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL
Recorded on Thursday 15 November 2018 on the Peacock stage.
Sound operator: Derek Conaghy Moderator & Editor: Lisa Farrelly
[Plot and story lines revealed throughout this discussion]
Rathmines Road: Post-show discussion on consent and reporting of sexual assault with Senator Ivana Bacik (Barrister & Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin)and Deirdre Kinahan (Playwright & writer of Rathmines Road) Chaired by Gavin Kostick (Literary Manager of Fishamble)
Recorded on Thursday 26 October at the Peacock Theatre
[Plot and story lines revealed throughout this discussion]
Sound operators: Conall Coleman & Derek Conaghy Editor: Lisa Farrelly
DRUIDSHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III Druid in association with the Abbey Theatre Directed by Garry Hynes
Aaron Monaghan talks with Lisa Farrelly about living with Richard, finding his way into this determined villain and the expectation of excellence in the creative arts.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre on Tuesday 16 October 2018 Broadcast Friday 19 October 2018 Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
The Patient Gloria is a new work by Gina Moxley inspired by the 1965 films Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, also known as The Gloria Films.
In this podcast Gina Moxley talks with Lisa Farrelly about finding the style of The Patient Gloria, the substance of therapy and the medieval misogyny alive and kicking in our own backyards.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre on Wednesday 3 October 2018 Broadcast Friday 5 October 2018 Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy Image: Luca Truffarelli
Cast members from Jimmy's Hall sing Whitney Houston's I Want to Dance with Somebody: Sarah Madigan with Muiris Crowley, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aindrias de Staic, Brian Gilligan, Bosco Hogan, Catherine Bell, Andrew Linnie & Ruth McGill performed for Jimmy’s Hall Today an assembly that addresses the realities of the deportation system as it operates in Ireland today.
Curated & facilitated by Donal O'Kelly and hosted by the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded live at the Abbey Theatre 27 August 2018
Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly/Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Catherine Young Dance initiated The Welcoming Project in 2016 as a way to foster cultural integration and social inclusion with Ireland's new communities. Through a common bond (the arts), the playing field is equal and a space is offered where people can come together, share their culture, their music, songs, dances, food and stories. A place where Irish people can be inspired to learn the cultures of others and where new communities have the opportunity to meet local Irish people.
Currently the group includes migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and local Irish spanning many countries including: Syria, Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Africa, Uganda, Ireland, UK, Switzerland, Germany among others.
The project, through dance, challenges prejudice and misconceptions, develops empathy, and promotes intercultural understanding between migrants and the host communities in Kerry, Dublin and Longford where they take place. The project also develops personal and transferable skills in migrants, making positive improvements – building self confidence and self-esteem, presentation skills, language and communication, new friendships and awareness of Ireland’s cultures. It promotes the positive contribution of migrants. A core decision when creating the group was to have a mix of local people with migrants in order for each to get to know the other so the group strives for a 50:50 ratio of migrants to locals.
To date the collective have created two full length works of excellence: ‘Welcoming the Stranger’ (2016) and ‘It takes a Village’ (2017).
It takes a Village, music & dance was recorded live at the Abbey Theatre 27 August 2018
Podcast Editor:Lisa Farrelly/Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Song for the Faithful Departed sung by Ruth McGill with Brian Gilligan, Andrew Linnie, Aindrias de Staic & Catherine Bell for Jimmy’s Hall Today assembly that addresses the realities of the deportation system as it operates in Ireland today.
Curated & facilitated by Donal O'Kelly and hosted by the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded live at the Abbey Theatre 27 August 2018
Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly/Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
The Jimmy’s Hall Today assembly addresses the realities of the deportation system as it operates in Ireland today. For every person who comes to Ireland seeking refuge, the fear of deportation is deep.
The assembly includes testimonies from international protection applicants and their supporters on how Department of Justice policy and procedures deeply affect their lives. It will also address the changes to detention and deportation procedures introduced by the International Protection Act 2016.
The assembly is introduced by Director of the Abbey Theatre, Graham McLaren and facilitated & curated by actor Donal O'Kelly
Contributions from:
Vukasin Nedeljkovic: Photographer
Lucky Khambule: Director of Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland
Jimmy’s Hall actress Bríd Ní Neachtain as Alice Gralton.
Dr. Anne Mulhall: ARN & UCD English Department
Jimmy’s hall cast members Song for the Faithful Departed: Ruth McGill, Brian Gilligan, Andrew Linnie, Aindrias de Staic & Catherine Bell.
Catherine Young: Dancer & Choreographer introduces It Takes a Village dance piece with 20 dancers, musicians and vocalist.
Mrs. Sabina Higgins reads from Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
Jimmy’s hall cast members: Whitney Houston’s I Want to dance with Somebody: Sarah Madigan, Muiris Crowley, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aindrias de Staic, Brian Gilligan, Bosco Hogan, Catherine Bell, Andrew Linnie & Ruth McGill.
From the Hall: Vekash Khokhar: Nurse, volunteer, community member & dancer.
Mona Considine : General Manager, Backstage Theatre, Longford
Paul Gralton: Descendant of James Gralton.
Jimmy’s Hall Today is hosted by the Abbey Theatre, convened by MASI (Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland) and Afri.
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In this latest podcast Lisa Farrelly talks with Movement Director Vicki Manderson about her process of collaboration, finding phrases that fit the shape of the feeling & keeping the plates spinning whilst dancing in the kitchen.
Jimmy's Hall runs at the Abbey Theatre until 8 September charging on to Town Hall Theatre Galway for the 11 September and arriving at the Cork Opera House on the 18 September 2018.
Recorded on Thursday 16 August 2018 at the Abbey Theatre Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy Photo Credit: Bronwen Sharp Music Excerpt(c)NinjaTune
The Reverend Bernárd J. Lynch talks with Lisa Farrelly about Phillip McMahon's Come on Home on the Peacock Stage, coming out as a gay cleric and how the history that produces us can never be given away.
Come on Home is directed by Rachel O'Riordan and runs on the Peacock Stage until 4 August 2018.
Recorded: Sunday 22 July 2018 in the the Abbey rehearsal room. Broadcast: Wednesday 25 July 2018.
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy EP 012/2018
The Jimmy's Hall company, led by Michael John McCarthy, recorded three of the tracks from this production; A Stor Mo Chroi, Bean Phaídín and Faithful Departed.
Jimmy's Hall is adapted from Paul Laverty's film script, directed by Graham McLaren.
Recorded in Open Door Studios, Limerick by Joe Mulcahy.
A Stor Mo Chroí Vocals: Lisa Lambe Piano: Richard Clements Fiddle: Aindrais de Staic Bass: Brian Gilligan Soprano Sax: Andrew Linnie Flute: Catherine Bell Choral Vocals: Rest of Company
The Jimmy's Hall company, led by Michael John McCarthy, recorded three of the tracks from this production; A Stor Mo Chroi, Bean Phaídín and Faithful Departed.
Jimmy's Hall is adapted from Paul Laverty's film script, directed by Graham McLaren.
Song for the Faithful Departed Vocals & Electric Guitar: Ruth McGill Shaker & Cajon: Brian Gilligan Piano: Andrew Linnie Bass: Alan Devally Tin Whistle: Catherine Bell Harmonica: Aindrias de Staic
Recorded in Open Door Studios, Limerick by Joe Mulcahy.
The Jimmy's Hall company, led by Michael John McCarthy, recorded three of the tracks from this production; A Stor Mo Chroi, Bean Phaídín and Faithful Departed.
Jimmy's Hall is adapted from Paul Laverty's film script, directed by Graham McLaren.
Recorded in Open Door Studios, Limerick by Joe Mulcahy.
Bean Pháidín / Out On The Ocean Vocals: Bríd Ní Neachtain, Lisa Lambe & Company Bodhrán: Muiris Crowley Fiddle: Aindrias de Staic Guitar: Alan Devally Cajon: Brian Gilligan Bones: Bosco Hogan Flute: Catherine Bell Piano: Andrew Linnie
The Abbey Theatre's James Hickson invites Dermot Bolger and Ferdia MacAnna to discuss that unbreakable book by James Joyce, the challenges of condensing that expansive odyssey for the stage and the humanity, forgiveness and humour present in the novel that matures with you on every visit.
Recorded on the Abbey Stage on Bloomsday 16 June 2018. Talks Facilitator: James Hickson. Editor: Lisa Farrelly Edited for time duration and sound quality. EP11/2018
Artistic Director of The Royal Court Vicky Featherstone talks with Lisa Farrelly about revisiting Cyprus Avenue in 2018, counter balancing issues across a diverse programme and sharing that responsibility across an array of commissions. Vicky discusses her fierce and rapid response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the act of having that conversation within the theatre industry which became The No Grey Area day of action held at The Court last October; its trigger, impact and aftermath.
Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly. Ep10/2018 This recording was edited for plot spoilers.
Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre, Vicky Featherstone talks to Lisa Farrelly about directing Cyprus Avenue, the alchemy of writers and the brilliance of David Ireland. (Part 1 / Part 2 pending)
Sound Operator Ben Delaney 04.02.2016 Edited for noise & lisa farrelly's (Ex)Plosive booming laugh(c)160518
The Mis-Identification of David Ireland: Writer of Cyprus Avenue David Ireland talks Irishness, audiences and authority; alongside Gods, Devils and David Mamet.
Taken from the Abbey Talks Archive 2016, Edited for noise & interuptions 160518
Associate Director Caitríona McLaughlin talks with Lisa Farrelly about the scope of humanity in Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill, the terms of survival and the active hope of written truths.
Recorded: Monday 30 April 2018 at the Abbey Theatre. Broadcast: Thursday 3 May 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Ben Delaney EP 09/2018
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After twelve years working in the powerful darkness of the Abbey Stage, Technical Director Aisling Mooney talks with Lisa Farrelly about landing in the national theatre for the first time, flying Irishmen and the satisfying accounting of a life in theatre.
Recorded: Friday 23 March 2018 at the Abbey Theatre. Broadcast: Wednesday 28 March 2018.
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly. Sound Guru: Ben Delaney & Derek Conaghy(It takes a village) EP 08/2018.
Clare Barrett talks to Lisa Farrelly about her beginnings in theatre, fear of going full time and the thrill of working all the livelong day.
Recorded: Tuesday 20 March 2018 at the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Wednesday 21 March 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy EP 07/2018
Catherine Byrne talks to Lisa Farrelly about her beginnings in the Abbey Theatre, the highs & lows of working in the industry and her timely return for the The Unmanageable Sisters.
Recorded: Tuesday 13 March 2018 at the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Friday 16 March 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy EP 06/2018
Playwright Margaret Perry talks about sacred days of writing, parallel lives and the initial spark for her new work Porcelain debuting on the Peacock Stage.
Porcelain is an Abbey Theatre Production running on the Peacock Stage until 10 March 2018.
Recorded: Monday 19 February 2018 at the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Thursday 22 February 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy EP 05/2018
Theatre maker David Horan discusses his experience of the CLASS system, creative collaborations and the shocking truth when the world is unfair.
Iseult Golden & David Horan are independent theatre artists who have worked together on new adaptations and original work for over a decade.
CLASS is their seventh collaboration and was first produced in association with the Civic Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival with the support of Dublin City Council.
Recorded: Monday 29 January 2018 at the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Thursday 1 February 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy EP 03/2018
Theatre maker Iseult Golden discusses school days, creative consensus and the transformative pay-off of a great story.
Iseult Golden & David Horan are independent theatre artists who have worked together on new adaptations and original work for over a decade.
CLASS is their seventh collaboration and was first produced in association with the Civic Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival with the support of Dublin City Council.
Recorded: Tuesday 30 January 2018 on the CLASS set of the Peacock Stage Broadcast: Thursday 1 February 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy EP 04/2018
In the final Abbey Talks podcast short for Let The Right One In, Craig Connolly talks innocence, connections and the bricks & mortar of being an actor.
Let the Right One In is presented by the National Theatre of Scotland by arrangement with Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright in association with the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded: Thursday 11 January 2018 at the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Tuesday 16 January 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Artist credit: Fleetwood Mac - Landslide © Reprise Records
In the latest Abbey Talks podcast short, Katie Honan talks love stories, illumination and how not to be human.
Let the Right One In is presented by the National Theatre of Scotland by arrangement with Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright in association with the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded: Wednesday 10 January 2018 at the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Friday 12 January 2018
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Artist credit: The Cinematic Orchestra - To build a home © Ninjatune
In the latest Abbey Talks podcast short, actor Bob Kelly talks mind-fields, terror dreams and how to be a better human.
Let The Right One In is presented by the National Theatre of Scotland by arrangement with Marla Rubins Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright in association with the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded: Friday 8 December 2017 at the Abbey Theatre. Broadcast: Monday 18 December 2017 Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Last September performance artist & Irish Sign Language interpreter Amanda Coogan spoke about what National recognition of ISL means to the Deaf Community.
[Text for excerpt below] Amanda Coogan: As I was saying ISL is not legally recognised here in Ireland, it is in many European countries, in America and in western developed world and even in the under developed world some countries in under developed world as well. And more than and more than legal rights, access- information- in your preferred language as we might think the Irish Language act being debated in the North at the moment, how we use our first language Irish, here, it is much more fundamental in the Deaf community, it is much more fundamental, this ISL bill will allow them to go to the doctors and understand what the doctor is saying, to go to the bank and negotiate a mortgage to go to college and get access to tutors and lecturers and all these everyday things that if- because of your disability because of your lack of hearing it makes a big barrier to access these things without sign language interpreters. So this bill is super, super important for bridging these gaps that this community needs bridging and also the kind of amazing recognition that they are here and that they are enriching members of society, this gorgeous, multiplicity, ways of being, that this is a community that you couldn’t kill by banning sign language in the 50’s, by not allowing deaf people to marry all these kind of eugenic ideas that they’ve had- they couldn’t kill the community-it’s still here- and in some ways, this bill, will be a becoming for that, it will radically shift Deaf people’s perception of themselves but bringing some kind of national legal recognition as a language that has refused to die because actually human beings need to communicate and for these people trying to speak, trying to lip read just failed-to a natural language that is completely accessible for them which is ISL it is a unique-it is indigenous to Ireland, Britain has a different sign language-France has a different sign language- America has a different sign language because languages grow in the communities that use them. This is a beautifully pure language, it’s also linguistically gorgeous, it’s deliciously, it’s OTT ,over dramatic, reportage on the body, you have to be totally unashamed of anybody looking at you or your body, it really enriches Irish society, I would of course-advocate that-because it is my birth language-my first language but I don’t think I’m talking off the Richter scale there.
In the latest Abbey Talks podcast shorts, hometown boy Jamie Hallahan talks Saturday night living, getting lost in silence and how everything is haunted in Ballyvourney.
Let The Right One In is presented by the National Theatre of Scotland by arrangement with Marla Rubins Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright in association with the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded: Friday 8 December 2017 at the Abbey Theatre. Broadcast: Monday 11 December 2017 Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Fresh from playing Jimmy Gralton in Jimmy's Hall, actor Richard Clements talks stage frights in Let the Right One In, sleeping with the light on and the genuine terror of being a parent.
Tracks included in this recording are 'I Don't Want to Lose You Now' and 'Hurricane', both written and performed by Richard Clements.
Let The Right One In is presented by the National Theatre of Scotland by arrangement with Marla Rubins Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright in association with the Abbey Theatre.
Recorded: Friday 1 December in the rehearsal room of the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Monday 4 December. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Playwright Dermot Bolger discusses the virtual impossible task of adapting Ulysses for the stage with fellow writer Peter Sheridan.
Recorded at The James Joyce Centre and broadcast with their kind permission on 10 October 2017. Sound operator and editor Lisa Farrelly. With thanks to Marty Gilroy & Mark Traynor at The Joyce Centre
Hamnet post-show discussion with actor Ollie West, director (& actor) Bush Moukarzel and dramaturg (& dad) Michael West with Dublin Theatre Festival Talking Theatre host Thomas Conway.
[Includes plot spoilers] Recorded on 5 October 2017 Peacock Theatre.
This post show discussion is part of Talking Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival.
Hamnet is a Dead Centre and Abbey Theatre co-production
Performance based visual artist Amanda Coogan talks with Lisa Farrelly about Teresa Deevy's Katie Roche and appropriating The King of Spain's Daughter for the Dublin Fringe as Talk Real Fine Just Like a Lady with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf playing at the Peacock theatre during ISL awareness week, 19 - 23 September 2017.
Recorded on Thursday 7 September at the Abbey Theatre Broadcast: Tuesday 19 September Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly. Transcribers: Mary Sheehan & Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy.
Katie Roche's Caoilfhionn Dunne talks with Lisa Farrelly about playing the line of the eponymous role, the vision of director Caroline Byrne and free-falling for five years. oh and yes; How the fall of communism(may have)ruined state sponsored art.
Recorded on Friday September 8 at the Abbey Theatre. Broadcast: Tuesday September 12 Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly. Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy.
Podcast Short: Actor Craig Connolly talks about his approach to research, the process of acting and the selective histories of hidden Ireland.
Podcast short Triple Play/Part Three Recorded on Wednesday August 9 at the Abbey Theatre Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Podcast Short: Jimmy's Hall actor Sarah Madigan talks about characters grounded in reality, the freedom of performance and one particular production that shook the ground beneath her feet.
Podcast short Triple Play/Part Two Recorded on Thursday August 10 at the Abbey Theatre Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Podcast Short: Musician & actor Catherine Bell talks about the experience of working on Jimmy's Hall in Dublin and in Leitrim, the strength of the ensemble and the reinvention of Charles Bukowski.
Podcast short Triple Play/Part One Recorded on Thursday August 10 at the Abbey Theatre Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy
Writer Emma Donoghue talks with Lisa Farrelly about Room at the Abbey Theatre about collaboration, imagination and the inheritance of multiple library cards.
Room: An Abbey Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East co-production in association with National Theatre of Scotland and Covent Garden Productions
Recorded Friday 7 July 2017 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound: Ben Delaney (Edited for lisa's wheeziness)
From Pozzo to Falstaff to Ross O'Carroll Kelly, actor Rory Nolan chats with Talks Coordinator Lisa Farrelly about his approach to Beckett, to character and the serious business of comedy. He talks of his beginnings in theatre, graduating straight to the stage and the RO'CKy road to #WaitingForGodot.
The Druid Production of Waiting for Godot, directed by Garry Hynes, plays at the Abbey Theatre until 20 May 2017.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre on 3 May 2017 Sound Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy
Rough Magic presents Feminism, Artists & Activism: Nell McCafferty: Part Three.
A look at the journey Irish feminism has taken since the contraceptive Train with Nell McCafferty one of the founders of The Irish Women’s Liberation Movement and original member of the 1971 Contraceptive Train.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre, Friday 14 April 2017 as part of Rough Magic events. The Train, directed by Lynne Parker runs at the Abbey Theatre until 15 April 2017.
Sound Editor: Lisa Farrelly/Sound Operator: Ben Delaney [Edited for applause,deviation & changeover of guest speaker]
Rough Magic presents Feminism, Artists & Activism from 1971 to the present day. Part Two.
A look at the journey Irish feminism has taken since the contraceptive Train with Máirin Johnston one of the original members of the 1971 Contraceptive Train.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Friday 14 April 2017 as part of Rough Magic events.
Sound Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Operator: Ben Delaney [Edited for applause and changeover of guest speaker]
Rough Magic presents Feminism, Artists & Activism from 1971 to the present day.
A look at the journey Irish feminism has taken since the Contraceptive Train. Speakers include Paula Meehan(Poet and Artists’ Repeal the 8th), Lian Bell(Designer and Waking the Feminists),Tara Flynn(writer & actor), Sen. Alice Mary Higgins, actor Clare Barrett on behalf of writer Noelle Brown and Anna Cosgrave (Repeal the 8th Activist).
Running Order & time check: Introduced by Caroline Williams, producer, Rough Magic. 2:00 Paula Meehan 7:40 Lian Bell 13:25 Tara Flynn 20:48 Alice Mary Higgins 32:25 Clare Barrett on behalf of Noelle Brown. 41:35 Anna Cosgrave
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Friday 14 April 2017 as part of Rough Magic events. The Train, directed by Lynne Parker runs at the Abbey Theatre until 15 April 2017
Sound Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Operator: Ben Delaney [Edited for applause and changeover of guest speaker]
In this recording from 2012 theatre maker Pat Kinevane talks to friend and fellow actor Olwen Fouéré about the process of writing and developing Silent with Fishamble, the new play company.
Pat Kinevane's Trilogy plays on the Peacock stage until 15 April 2017.
Recorded on the 7 June 2012 at the Peacock Theatre. Sound Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Operator: Ben Delaney
Actor Louis Lovett talks with playwright Michael West about Corn Exchange's Dublin by Lamplight, his work with Theatre Lovett, learning technique, hiding technique and how to narrate your own story.
Abbey Theatre presents Corn Exchange Dublin by Lamplight directed by Annie Ryan, written by Michael West in collaboration with the company.
Louis Lovett image © Ros Kavanagh
Recorded on 09 March 2017 at the Abbey Theatre. Edited by Lisa Farrelly. Sound Operator: Ben Delaney.
Ballyturk writer and director Enda Walsh talks about the split second spin and disposable energy that fuels creativity with theatre maker and Ballyturk actor Mikel Murfi.
Ballyturk is a Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival co-production in association with the Abbey Theatre. The world-class creative team includes set and costume design by Jamie Vartan, lighting design by Adam Silverman, sound design by Helen Atkinson with original music composed by Teho Teardo.
Podcast recorded at the Abbey Theatre on 27 February 2017 Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy
Podcast interview with actor Hugh O’Conor from Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival's Arlington. Written & directed by Enda Walsh, choreographed by Emma Martin and playing on the Abbey Stage until 25 February 2017.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre on 18 February 2017. Interviewer & Sound Editor: Lisa Farrelly. Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy.
Podcast interview with award winning dance artist Oona Doherty from Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival's Arlington. Written & directed by Enda Walsh, choreographed by Emma Martin and playing on the Abbey Stage until 25 February 2017.
Recorded at the Abbey Theatre on 15 February 2017. Interviewer & Sound Editor: Lisa Farrelly. Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy.
Abbey Talks Series: In this second part of the latest podcast short interviews,Team Gregory talk with Lisa Farrelly about the oh so quiet first day at the Abbey Theatre, late night curtain calls and the one more minute early mornings.
Abbey Talks Series: Podcast Shorts(Part 1 of 2) Cast members from Anna Karenina discuss a life in theatre, the consequences of correspondence and the secret history of the Abbey Theatre.
FYI: Spoiler Alert. Plot revelation from five minute mark. Sound Op: Derek Conaghy/ Ed: Lisa Farrelly
Actor Killian Donnelly talks to Artistic Director of Project Arts Centre Cian O'Brien about musical theatre in Ireland, England and #Donegal
On his last day as Director of the Abbey Theatre Fiach Mac Conghail talks to Lisa Farrelly about his tenure of almost 12 years at Ireland's national theatre.
Sound Op: Ben Delaney/Editor: Lisa Farrelly 121016
Award winning writer Carmel Winters talks with Lisa Farrelly about her latest play The Remains of Maisie Duggan, of new ways of seeing the familiar and staying put in the locked house of creativity.
Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly / Sound Operator: Ben Delaney
Podcast Shorts: Listen to actor Donal Gallery talk about younger Pyper, rejecting nature, embracing landscape and of nerve shredding life in the trenches. Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme is a co-production with Headlong, Citizens Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. Extract from Birdsong By Sebastian Faulks. All rights reserved. Publisher: Random House.
Podcast Shorts: Actor Jonny Holden talks about the fearless football crazy Crawford, unlikely friendships and reading between the lines of letters home. Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is a co-production with Headlong, Citizens Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
Podcast Shorts: Actor Marcus Lamb talks about his approach to character, magical thinking and the tortured soul of Christopher Roulston. Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is a co-production with Headlong, Citizens Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
Podcast Shorts: Listen to actor Iarla McGowan talk about the colour of character, clipped history and the everyday carnage of the trenches. Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is a co-production with Headlong, Citizens Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
Actor Paul Kennedy talks about the glorification of memory, drinking for the dead and the waking of Nat McIlwaine #ObserveTheSons
Sound Op: Derek Conaghy
Podcast Shorts: Listen to actor Andy Kellegher talk about his approach to character, research and performing on the site of the battle of the Somme. Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is a co-production with Headlong, Citizens Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
Frank McGuinness and Sean McGinley give a profound interview on Today with Sean O’Rourke on RTE 1 ahead of the opening of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.
The Wake's Aisling O'Sullivan talks with writer Carmel Winters about interpreting the work of Tom Murphy, keeping it connected and how some actions are beyond forgiveness.
From the Talks Archive: Murphy's Melodies: Playwright Tom Murphy talks with writer & actor Mark O'Halloran about the 2012 production of The House directed by Annabelle Comyn, about Druid Murphy and the place of music in his work.
Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy/Sound Editor: Ben Delaney
Jeremy Herrin talks to BBC Radio 4 about directing Frank McGuinness' iconic war play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme.
Theatre maker Raymond Scannell talks with Lisa Farrelly about his latest collaboration with Phillip McMahon Town is Dead and the cross pollination of his work.
Sound Operator: Alan D'arcy
Actor Marty Rea talks with the Abbey's Phil Kingston about the loneliness of Iago, the soundscapes of Shakespeare and the killing of God in Richard II.
Sound Operator: Alan D'arcy
The Internationale: Closing song for the rally for Marriage Equality recorded at the Abbey Theatre on 13 May 2015 with The Risen People cast members Kate Stanley Brennan, Hilda Fay, Phelim Drew with Ranae von Meding, Eric O’Brien, Fra Fee, Peter Coonan, Manus Halligan,Terry O’Neill, Janice Byrne and the Students from The Lir Academy and The Gaiety School of Acting. Along with the great and the good that contributed to the wonderful day's event. The Internationale taken from The Risen People directed by Jimmy Fay from a version by Jim Sheridan. Composer and Musical Director Conor Linehan.
Silver Stars: Seán Millar with Brokentalkers. Members of the cast of Silver Stars perform with Seán Millar a selection from the song cycle that is Silver Stars, a performance based on real stories from older gay Irish men. Recorded at the Abbey Theatre 13 May 2015.
Listen to Pride a specially written song by Maria Doyle Kennedy & Kieran Kennedy in support of Marriage Equality and an equally proud song about staying in love; Yes We Will. (And We Did!) Recorded at the Abbey Theatre 13 May 2015
To mark that historic day in May and our first year of Marriage Equality listen to actors Paul Reid and Sarah Greene perform We're all on the Edge from Phillip McMahon & Ray Scannell's Alice in Funderland, Directed by Wayne Jordan. Recorded on 13 May 2015 at the Abbey Theatre.
To mark the first year of Marriage Equality listen to this beautiful arrangement of Romeo and Juliet performed by Ruth McGill, Úna Kavanagh, Natalie Radmall-Quirke. Composed by Mark Knopfler. Arranged by Tom Lane for Romeo and Juliet directed by Wayne Jordan at the Gate Theatre. Recorded at the Abbey Theatre 13 May 2015
Actor Hilda Fay talks with writer Elaine Murphy about the joyous energy behind Tina’s Idea of Fun, the temptation to temper heightened characters and the two degrees of My Fair Lady.
Abbey Theatre on Tour The Plough and the Stars Programme Notes prepared and read by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin.
Audio description is a live verbal commentary providing information on the visual elements of a production as it unfolds from sets, props and costumes to actors’ facial expressions and movements across the stage. The description is delivered via an ear piece during the quieter moments of a performance and therefore only gives essential information that a blind or visually impaired person might miss.
Facilitated by Arts & Disability Ireland with funding from the Arts Council.
As The Plough and The Stars prepares to tour Ireland and America Lisa Farrelly talks to actor Eileen Walsh about strength in character, playing by heart and learning how to fly each and every night.
Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy
Through an interplay of storytelling, animations, music and poetry, Twinsome Minds mines what is often lost behind official historical accounts and acts of commemoration, and proposes a transformative work of interpreting the Rising for a new generation.
Saturday 23 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
Award winning screen writer and playwright Mark O’Rowe will discuss his work with theatre director Annabelle Comyn.
Friday 22 January 2016
Every person in Ireland – man, woman and child – has been conditioned since birth to listen when men speak. In the feminist movement, how can we acknowledge and account for the man problem as we struggle to Repeal the Eighth amendment. When the subject is women, how do we make Ireland listen? Moderated by Dearbhail McDonald
Friday 22 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
Author of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland reflects on changing themes in Irish practice.
Friday 22 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
The Israeli journalist and author will talk about the current situation in Gaza and his own view of what the future holds for both Israel and Palestine.
Friday 22 January at the Abbey Theatre
Zoe explains her experiences of working as a director in Afghanistan, Yemen, Palestine, Syria, Haiti and Lebanon. She will look at the relationship between art and responsibility, using culture as a form of resistance, and how storytelling can challenge the status quo, expose human rights violations and tell the human perspective often misrepresented in the media.
Friday 22 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
A map of territorial use presented at The Theatre of War Symposium is revisited to expore a landscape of change.
Friday 22 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
STEALING LIVES: DOES YOUR STORY BELONG TO YOU? How preoccupied are we with the manifestations of ourselves? Where do the ethics of storytelling apply?
Friday 22 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
BIG DATA: OWNING YOUR OWN STORY What changes do we bring with every keystroke? Who benefits most?
Friday 22 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
All but forgotten in official versions of Irish history, Days of Surrender focuses on the women who risked everything for a better future. In this talk, Jaki Irvine will speak about her novel and the impetus to write an alternate account of Irish history. Moderated by Fiach Mac Conghail.
Friday 22 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre.
A meditation on what it means to be human in 2016, Penny’s talk will improvisationally address the nature of change, of revolution and of altruism. Moderated by Phillip McMahon.
Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
Gabriel Gbadamosi, Mark O'Halloran and Stacey Gregg (read by Kathy Rose O'Brien)
GABRIEL GBADAMOSI – THE TRADITIONS OF THE DEAD Observations on Unlearning the Future.
MARK O'HALLORAN – LIFE The award winning scriptwriter and actor reflects on developing documentary theatre from interviews with woman who have travelled for abortion.
STACEY GREGG – GENETHICS, GENOMICS AND GEENA DAVIS A performance piece written by Stacey Gregg that explores biotechnology, genethics and the future.
Thursday 21 January at the Abbey Theatre
During the 1916 Easter Rising, women of the Irish Citizen Army (Cumann na mBan), the Clan na nGaedhal Girl Scouts and individual women fought side by side with their male counterparts. Dr. Mary McAuliffe takes a close look at their unsung contributions during the first decades of the Irish Free State.
Thursday 21 January at the Abbey Theatre
Lian Bell, Loughlin Deegan and Eleanor Methven will present on what is happening in the WakingTheFeminists campaign and discuss it from their own perspectives.
Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
Jesse Jones, Sarah Browne, Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Sarah Jane Scaife.
JESSE JONES AND SARAH BROWNE – IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE Taking place in the context of the Irish State centenary, artists Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne discuss their exploration of statehood from the perspective of the female body.
FEARGHUS Ó CONCHÚIR – THE CASEMENT PROJECT The Casement Project is a choreography of bodies and ideas that takes place across multiple platforms and national boundaries. It dances with the queer body of British peer, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement to ask: Who gets to be in the national body? How could the national body move? Might Casement’s legacy be a flourishing diversity of citizen-bodies?
SARAH JANE SCAIFE – BECKETT IN THE CITY How is it possible for Beckett’s abstract, modernist works to speak to the trauma of ‘unruly’ female bodies long hidden and controlled?
Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
Storyteller and performer Nuala Hayes offers a prelude to our gathering at The Theatre of Change Symposium.
Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre
In this podcast Sean Holmes Director of The Plough and the Stars talks about arguing with Ireland, the outsiders eye and hearing meaning for the first time. He talks about the prevalence of homelessness, the anger of O'Casey and asks who is Irish and where does that leave us?
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Éist le aisteoir Mary Louise McCarthy agus ceoltóir Rónán Ó Snodaigh ar an téama: cad a chiallaionn se a bheith Eireannach? #SnaG2016
Éist le Manchán Magan, amhránaí Enda Reilly agus file Séamas Barra Ó Suilleabháin ar an téama Mo Cheol Thú
The Mis-Identification of David Ireland: Writer of Cyprus Avenue David Ireland talks Irishness, audiences and authority; alongside Gods, Devils and David Mamet.
Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre, Vicky Featherstone talks to Lisa Farrelly about directing Cyprus Avenue, the alchemy of writers and the brilliance of David Ireland.
Sound Operator Ben Delaney 04.02.2016
Actor Niall Buggy talks about his beginnings with the Abbey Theatre, suspensions of disbelief and the challenges of Shaw & O'Casey.
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Actor, director, and playwright Eamon Morrissey recalls his extraordinary career in Irish theatre.
'Tis the season to be singing: Take a little time & enjoy actors Aileen Mythen, Damian Kearney & musician Kieran McEvoy as they serenade us through a lively recording of CHRISTMAS MORNING by Frank O'Connor.
[Taken from a Christmas Noble Call 2013] [With kind permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop.All text copyright of Frank O'Connor] Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy
Brush up on your Bernard Shaw with a triple play of talks with Pygmalion director Annabelle Comyn (Pt 1) Theatre critic Emer O'Kelly (Pt 2)and director of Heartbreak House Roisin McBrinn (Pt 3)
The collaborative process behind the creation of 'The Great Hunger' by Tom MacIntyre is recounted by the playwright, director Patrick Mason, actors Tom Hickey and Bríd Ní Neachtain.
Oedipus director Wayne Jordan talks to Mark O'Halloran about revisions & collisions ,reading his life backwards and how there will always be outsiders(Part Two)
Sound Operator:Derek Conaghy
Director Wayne Jordan talks to writer & actor Mark O'Halloran about adapting a new version of Oedipus, intellectual rigour and seeing colour in black & white.
Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy
Actor Susan Lynch talks to Lisa Farrelly about her character Hester Swane in Marina Carr's By The Bog of Cats, creative fulfillment and the collective experience of theatre.
Sound Operator: Ben Delaney
It's been seventeen years since Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats played on the Abbey stage, how will audiences respond to it now?In this podcast Marina talks about the early years, the intervening years, privacy and the cautionary tale that is Medea.
Sound Operator: Ben Delaney
Actor Amy McAllister talks about her role as Minnie Powell in Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman on the Abbey stage and being the very best of the worst as a UK Anti Slam Champion.
Sound Operator: Ben Delaney
Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts playwright Jimmy McAleavey talks opportunities, otherness and making his debut on the Peacock Stage.
Sound Opeator: Derek Conaghy
Choreographer Liz Roche talks to coordinator Lisa Farrelly about Bastard Amber, inspired by W.B Yeats and the paintings of Patrick Scott. On the Abbey stage May 25–27 2015
Sound Operator: Ben Delaney
Actor Catherine Walker talks to Talks Series Coordinator Lisa Farrelly about her beginnings in Dublin, London and the process of finding Hedda Gabler.
Listen to fashion, film & Hedda Gabler costume designer Peter O'Brien talk about designing for character, killer instincts and being surrounded with flatpack beauty.
Sound Operator: Ben Delaney
Theatre-maker Mikel Murfi & Film Director Dearbhla Walsh trade Sligo stories, honour small town characters & celebrate The Man in the Woman's Shoes now playing on the Peacock Stage.
Sound Operator: Derek Conaghy
To celebrate Owen McCafferty's Death of a Comedian opening in Soho Theatre, London, spend a half hour with King Lear himself Owen Roe talking Kings of Comedy, connecting with audiences and Ivan the doner kebab.
A rare live recording with music and verse looking back on Seachtain na Gaeilge 2015 with actor Mary-Lou McCarthy and musician Rónán Ó Snodaigh (Kíla)
Writer Owen McCafferty talks about Death of a Comedian, honesty and different types of love stories in an informal conversation during Tech Rehearsals with Talks Coordinator Lisa Farrelly. 100315
Tickets for Death of a Comedian available here: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/death-of-a-comedian/
Writer Owen McCafferty talks about Death of a Comedian, honesty & different types of love stories in an informal chat during tech rehearsals. 100315
Post show Talk on the Abbey Stage with the cast of Midsummers Night’s Dream & Seán Rocks Presenter of Arena RTÉ Radio 1 260215
A Midsummer Night's Dream Director Gavin Quinn in conversation with Dr. Desmond O'Neill.
CODA Artists Shane O'Reilly, Declan Buckley & Amanda Coogan discuss the CODA community in relation to their artistic practice with Orla Moloney.
Recollections of Managing Director Ernest Blythe and Directors Ria Mooney and Frank Dermody are shared.
Playwrights, directors and members of the former Abbey Theatre acting company reminisce on their beginnings in theatre.
From Abbey Street to the Queen’s Theatre on Pearse Street and back again to Abbey Street, the various homes of the Abbey are recollected by those who experienced the moves.
Generations of the Abbey Theatre acting company are recalled including May Craig, Eileen Crowe and F.J. McCormick.
Director Patrick Mason and actors Des Cave and Kathleen Barrington share their memories of Hugh Hunt.
Tomás MacAnna’s long career at the Abbey Theatre is recalled by former General Manager Martin Fahy, playwright Thomas Kilroy and actors Kathleen Barrington and Tom Hickey.
Playwright Bernard Farrell and actor Tom Hickey recount working with actor Godfrey Quigley.
Well known Dublin actor Harry Brogan is recalled by actors Niall Buggy, Stephen Rea, Des Cave and Kathleen Barrington.
Actors Niall Buggy, Kathleen Barrington and Máire Ní Ghráinne share memories of The Cherry Orchard directed by Madame Maria Knebel.
Audio described programme notes (provided by Arts & Disability Ireland ) for the Abbey Theatre's production of Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House. Assisted Perf. Sat 13 September 2pm Matinee Programme notes prepared by Bríd Ní Ghruagàin & Maureen Portsmouth
Audio described programme notes (provided by Arts & Disability Ireland ) for Abbey Theatre's production of Brian Friel's Aristocrats. Assisted Perf. Saturday Matinee 26 July. Programme notes prepared by Maureen Portsmouth & Brid Ni Ghruagain.
18th June 2014. Aristocrats by Brian Friel. Directed by Patrick Mason. On the Abbey stage 18 June - 2 August. Composer and sound designer Denis Clohessy. Piano recordings by Conor Linehan
18th June 2014. Aristocrats by Brian Friel. Directed by Patrick Mason. On the Abbey stage 18 June - 2 August. Composer and sound designer Denis Clohessy. Piano recordings by Conor Linehan
18th June 2014. Aristocrats by Brian Friel. Directed by Patrick Mason. On the Abbey stage 18 June - 2 August. Composer and sound designer Denis Clohessy. Piano recordings by Conor Linehan
18th June 2014. Aristocrats by Brian Friel. Directed by Patrick Mason. On the Abbey stage 18 June - 2 August. Composer and sound designer Denis Clohessy. Piano recordings by Conor Linehan
Composed by Tom Lane Performed by Alex Petcu From Act 1 scene 1 of Twelfth Night directed by Wayne Jordan
Composed by Tom Lane Performed by Alex Petcu (Marimba) From Act 1 scene 5 of Twelfth Night directed by Wayne Jordan
Arranged by Tom Lane Performed by Tom Lane (stage version performed by Ger Kelly, Mark Lambert and Nick Dunning) From Act 2 scene 3 of Twelfth Night directed by Wayne Jordan
Composed by Tom Lane Performed by Tom Lane (stage version performed by Ger Kelly, Elaine Fox and Alex Petcu) From Act 2 scene 4 of Twelfth Night directed by Wayne Jordan
Post-show talk on the last preview night of Conservatory writer Michael West and director Michael Barker-Caven
Abbey Talks: Mo Cheol Thú
Céard é an rud a spreagann tú? Cén paisean atá agat? Bí linn le haghaidh plé i nGaeilge ag painéal ar a mbeidh aoichainteoirí agus iad ag caint faoina gcuid uaillmhianta agus faoi na nithe a bhíogann an spiorad iontu! What drives you, what is your passion? Join us for a panel discussion with Manchán Magan, Enda Reilly & Séamus Barra ó Súilleabháin as they talk about their ambitions and what sets their pulses racing!
Abbey Talks: Playwright John B. Keane captured the human condition in laughter and loneliness; and made the Kingdom of Kerry the centre of the world. His daughter Joanna Keane O’Flynn remembers stories her father taught her. With Journalist Sara Keating.
[20 Feb.2014 ]
Prof. Declan Kiberd on 'Disappearing Ireland?' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[18 January 2014]
Dr. Tom Clonan debates 'Oh, What a Lovely War' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[18 January 2014]
Prof. Frank McGuinness and Dr. Rebecca Pelan discuss 'Strange Meetings In The Theatre Of Memory' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[18 January 2014]
Mark Curran discusses 'The Normalisation of Deviance: constructing The Market' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Prof. Patrick Lonergan debates 'Archiving the next Play' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Grace Dyas debates 'Making History: Artists and the past' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Carl O'Brien discusses 'What does Direct Provision mean?' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Mairead Delaney and Catriona Crowe discuss 'Archive the next Play' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Declan Smyth discusses 'The Figures tell a story too' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Eleanor Methven debates 'Making History: Artists and the Past' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Dr. Fearghal McGarry debates 'Archive the next Play' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Prof. Richard Kearney speaks on 'Writing Trauma; From Memory to Fiction' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Stephen Rea and Tom Kilroy discuss 'A Family of Memories' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Bairbre Ni Chaoimh debates 'Making History: Artists and the Past' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[17 January 2014]
Gerard Mannix Flynn speaks on 'New Memory' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[16 January 2014]
Wayne Jordan speaks on 'Theatre as a treasure trove: plays new and old' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[16 January 2014]
Stacey Gregg speaks on 'Theatre as a treasure trove: plays new and old' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[16 January 2014]
Louise Lowe speaks on 'New Memory' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[16 January 2014]
Roddy Doyle discusses on 'A Star Called Henry' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[16 January 2014]
Dr. Emilie Pine speaks on 'New Memory' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[16 January 2014]
Patrick Mason speaks on 'Theatre as a treasure trove: plays new and old' at The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre.
[16 January 2014]
President Michael D. Higgins opens The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre with an address entitled 'Of Myth-Making and Ethical Remembering'.
[16 January 2014]
This January the Abbey Theatre embarks on a new initiative as it takes The Risen People on an Unplugged tour throughout Dublin, bringing the experience of live theatre into the heart of local communities. Developed by our Community and Education Department, the tour is designed to make the work of the national theatre accessible to a wider audience.
The first stop was at Wheatfield Place of Detention (Prison) in Clondalkin, and RTÉ Morning Ireland's Cian McCormack was their for the historic occasion.
Throughout the month of January, performances of The Risen People continue nightly on the Abbey stage from Tuesday to Saturday (as well as Saturday matinees) until the end of the run on 1 February.
Buy tickets here: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/the-risen-people/
Originally published here https://soundcloud.com/morning-ireland/risen-people-at-wheatfield
Rick O'Shea performs his Noble Call at the end of The Risen People.
Each performance of the show will feature a Noble Call from a guest performer. Invited artists, journalists, historians and actors will offer their personal response to The Risen People through spoken word, song or poetry.
Book tickets here: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/…e-risen-people/
Lisa O'Neill performs her Noble Call at the end of The Risen People.
Each performance of the show will feature a Noble Call from a guest performer. Invited artists, journalists, historians and actors will offer their personal response to The Risen People through spoken word, song or poetry.
Book tickets here: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/the-risen-people/
Fiach Moriarty performs his Noble Call at the end of The Risen People.
Each performance of the show will feature a Noble Call from a guest performer. Invited artists, journalists, historians and actors will offer their personal response to The Risen People through spoken word, song or poetry.
Book tickets here: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/the-risen-people/
Bell X1's Paul Noonan performs his Noble Call at the end of The Risen People.
Each performance of the show will feature a Noble Call from a guest performer. Invited artists, journalists, historians and actors will offer their personal response to The Risen People through spoken word, song or poetry.
Book tickets here: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/the-risen-people/
Listen to acclaimed singer / songwriter Mundy perform the old traditional Dublin ballad 'Easy and Slow', his Noble Call for The Risen People.
Each performance of the show will feature a Noble Call from a guest performer. Invited artists, journalists, historians and actors will offer their personal response to The Risen People through spoken word, song or poetry.
Book tickets here: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/the-risen-people/
Sean Rocks and Evelyn O'Rourke preview The Risen People on RTÉ Radio 1's Arena
[25 November 2013]
Irish Times columnist, novelist, and playwright Michael Harding reads from his book ‘Staring at Lakes’, remembers John Moriarty and reflects on what it is to be human.
[October 2013]
Listen to friends Olwen Fouere and Pat Kinevane discuss the writing process, the vulnerability of homelessness and the celebration of fantasy.
[June 2012]
Theatrical dynasties are challenged in this insightful, amusing and touching talk with Jane Brennan, Aonghus McAnally Snr & Óg.
[October 2013]
Aonghus Óg McAnally (Rise Productions) interviews his fellow Major Barbara cast members.
[August 2013]
Join playwrights and real-life friends Elaine Murphy and Amy Conroy of HotForTheatre, as they discuss the writing process behind Shush; beginnings, endings and every draft in between.
[June 2013]
Director Annabelle Comyn discusses her approach to directing Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion with Brian Singleton, Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
[May 2011]
Quietly actor Patrick O’ Kane discusses his book Actors’ Voices. In this talk he is joined by Festival Director of Live Collision International Festival Lynnette Moran to consider the role of actors as theatre artists within the broader spectrum of the arts.
[November 2012]
Award-winning playwright and poet Frank McGuinness discusses his career with Dr. Noreen Doody, Head of Department of English, St Patrick’s College.
[November 2010]
Actor Paul McGann took time out of his busy rehearsal schedule to talk to broadcaster Pat Kenny. Hear how he has prepared for the play.
Major Barbara, written by Bernard Shaw and directed by Annabelle Comyn, is live on the Abbey stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 21 July 2013.
Information is available at www.abbeytheatre.ie
Actors Morgan Crowley, Muiris Crowley and Aileen Mythen star in our festive production of James Joyce's The Dead. They took some time out after opening night to chat about the play.
Hear about how they brought the Joycean characters to life, what it's like to make an Abbey Theatre debut and the musical side of this dramatisation.
The Dead, by James Joyce, in a dramatisation by Frank McGuinness, runs on the Abbey stage from 5 December to 19 January.
Tickets are available at www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/the-dead
In this clip Marie Louise Muir interviews Owen McCafferty and Patrick O'Kane, where they discuss their working relationship and in particular their collaboration on Quietly. The original interview aired on BBC Radio Ulster Arts Extra, Tuesday 13 November 2012.
Quietly, written by Owen McCafferty and directed by Jimmy Fay, made its World Premiere on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 14 November -15 December 2012.
In 2013 it goes on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, running at the Traverse Theatre from the 1 - 25 August.
Information is available at www.abbeytheatre.ie
Actor Declan Conlon, who is currently playing the character of Ian in Quietly, takes time out to discuss his acting career to date, his long and established career with the the Abbey Theatre, and the different experiences he has had playing characters on it's two stages.
Quietly, written by Owen McCafferty and directed by Jimmy Fay, made its World Premiere on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 14 November -15 December 2012.
In 2013 it goes on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, running at the Traverse Theatre from the 1 - 25 August.
Information is available at www.abbeytheatre.ie
Actor Patrick O'Kane, previews his Meet the Makers Abbey Talk 'Actor's Voices: the people behind the performances', as part of the run of Quietly. In this talk he is joined by producer Lynnette Moran to consider the role of actors as theatre artists within the broader spectrum of the arts.
Quietly, written by Owen McCafferty and directed by Jimmy Fay, made its World Premiere on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 14 November -15 December 2012.
In 2013 it goes on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, running at the Traverse Theatre from the 1 - 25 August.
Information is available at www.abbeytheatre.ie
The director of the Abbey Theatre, Fiach MacConghail, takes some time out to discuss the upcoming 2013 spring/summer artistic programme at the theatre.
This season will feature Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, New Writing and Contemporary Dance.
He explains the thinking behind why he has chosen to programme particular shows, as well as giving some insights into the creative teams involved.
To find out more about the season and to book tickets, visit www.abbeytheatre.ie
President Michael D. Higgins launches 'A Digital Journey Through Irish Theatre History'; a partnership between the Abbey Theatre and the National University of Ireland, Galway.
This digitisation project will unlock a new era of theatre scholarship and will shed new light on the history of Irish theatre and Irish life.
The Abbey archive, which contains over 1.8 million items, is one of the world’s most significant archival collections. It has a wealth of extraordinary and unique material providing a fascinating insight into Irish theatre, history, culture and society. The archival material ranges from show posters, programmes, photographs, minute books to lighting plans, set and costume designs, sound cues, prompt scripts and audio files.
This digitisation project began in September and will take place over a three to four -year period. The digitisation process, which is currently taking place on the NUI Galway campus, will bring together multidisciplinary teams of the University’s researchers, students and archivists to realise this exciting project.
To view a video on the project visit http://youtu.be/79Z9VNBsWs0
To learn more about the project visit the Abbey Theatre's website http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/a-digital-journey-through-irish-theatre-history/
Tom Canton, currently playing Dorian in The Picture of Dorian Gray, discusses his thoughts on his professional debut, working at Ireland's national theatre and taking on such an intriguing character.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett, runs on the Abbey stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 27 September - 17 November 2012.
More information is available at www.abbeytheatre.ie
Gary Duggan, writer of Shibari, talks about getting commissioned to write for the Abbey Theatre.
Shibari runs on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 4 October 2012, as part of the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival.
Information is available at http://www.abbeytheatre.ie
Gary Duggan, writer of Shibari, talks about his previous experiences writing for TV and Film.
Shibari runs on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 4 October 2012, as part of the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival.
Information is available at http://www.abbeytheatre.ie
Gary Duggan, writer of Shibari, previews his upcoming Meet The Makers talk on Oct 11th. He also discusses his experiences to date and his thoughts on the crossover between stage and screen.
Shibari runs on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 4 October 2012, as part of the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival.
Information is available at http://www.abbeytheatre.ie
Gary Duggan, writer of Shibari, talks about his upcoming play.
Shibari runs on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 4 October 2012, as part of the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival.
Information is available at http://www.abbeytheatre.ie
Gary Duggan, writer of Shibari, talks about his upcoming play Shibari. He also discusses his experiences to date and his thoughts on the crossover between stage and screen.
Shibari runs on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre from the 4 October 2012, as part of the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival.
Information is available at http://www.abbeytheatre.ie