ARTIST OF THE WEEK by Galway Theatre Festival GTF https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists Each week GTF will feature an artist who was due to take part in GTF 2020 or who is a friend of the festival. They will also be featured in the Galway Advertiser's 'Getting to Know You' Section. en-us 2020-06-05 16:01:05 UTC 2025-11-05 14:24:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Week 1 ARTIST OF THE WEEK - Charlotte Gallagher galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/613275902
https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/115013/getting-to-know-charlotte-gallagher-questionnaire
 
Searlit Ní Gallochoir ~ Fantasy Ireland participated as part of Galway Theatre Festival 2019:
 
Created for the Galway Theatre Festival and twirling stand up, storytelling and spiritual memoir, Searlit Ní Gallachoir ~ Fantasy Ireland explores humour, heritage and belonging.
 
Charlotte - ahem - Searlit, is a seeker. She’s on a quest to discover her IRISHNESS. She’s English, but she has Irish blood, and she’s decided to find the mysticism and magic that Hollywood, romance novels and the Irish tourist board have promised her. She’s packed her bags and moved to Galway. She lives in a little house by the sea. She’s waiting for magic...
 
But she’s waded into the bog of a very dangerous question: Is she really Irish at all?

Searlit Ni Gallachoir Fantasy Ireland (GTF 2019) 
https://vimeo.com/426202594
 
Charlotte Gallagher & TOCHMARC productions.


Carlotta de Galleon – A Fool for Love! is a comic romp through one woman’s love of trashy novels. Negotiating feminism, literary criticism and an improvised romance novel, Carlotta might just reach her happily ever after.

Shake-Scene Shakespeare:
Shake-Scene Shakespeare, the cue-scripting theatre company who have recently claimed zoom as a live online performance space: https://www.shake-sceneshakespeare.co.uk 

You can see recorded shows on their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDDaJfvFHM_gWpm3aufWtw  and watch scenes performed live on Sundays. 

Watch links for Sunday June 7th 
3PM
https://youtu.be/bOw6g1DajIo

5PM
https://youtu.be/bGxOGsmgfiM
 
 
 
Yoga Links:

These are guided relaxations where you are invited to remain aware while you sleep. It’s a brilliant resource for everyone especially in this uncertain time and also aids creativity.
https://soundcloud.com/charlotte-gallagher-3
For more information and more yoga nidras please visit www.yoganidranetwork.org


One of NUI Galway playwriting teacher's Dr Justine Nakase, now Lecturer at Portland State University (she also teaches critical theory in film and theatre) has created an indispensable twitter thread on racism in Ireland https://twitter.com/justinenakase/status/1266807743970545666?s=20 and you can hear her discussion on with Sean Moncrieff on Newstalk here: https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-moncrieff/racism-in-ireland-3?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web

  
Website:
www.charlotte-gallagher.com
 
You can donate to Charlotte directly here:
https://www.paypal.me/charlottiegallagher

]]> 2020-06-05 16:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/613275902 Week 2 Connla’s Wave galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628741090 Directed by Bryan Burroughs, our new show is the reworking of one of the lesser-known tragedies of the Ulster Cycle. The story of how Cuchulainn’s only son came to be and how he met his tragic end.

‘Connla’s Wave’ uses physicality, dance and movement to explore the other world as music and soundscape design enliven the experience.

Our storyteller, Fintan Mac Bóchra, is the oldest and wisest man in Ireland. Unable to die, he dreams himself into a new existence every time he thinks he is coming to his end. Now he dreams himself into a new story. But is it to prove a point? To teach the wisdom of old? Or to find his way to some wounded peace?

Two people go for a walk on a sacred hill of Ireland; they did not know they could evoke one of the God like folk. They did not know this story had to be told.
Candlelit Tales have been working with Irish Myths for over 5 years, evoking responses such as this:

“Oh, how they tell their tales, how they spin their yarn! The first time I ever heard them, they had me catching my breath in suspense, laughing and crying.”

Now we turn our expertise in storytelling into theatre, and present Candlelit Theatre’s brand new show.]]> 2020-06-16 10:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628741090 Imperceptible Cast galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628745090 Conor Gormley - Cast

Conor is the most recent addition to the cast of collaborators with Cuisle Productions. Originally, from Co. Kildare, Conor recently finished a BA in Arts at NUI Galway, and is set to train at the intensive programme of the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, in London in September. Selected credits include: The
Boy, Zugzwang (DramSoc); Denis the Menace, You Can Be A Menace Too (Scene + Heard Festival); The Singer, The Dreaming of the Bones (Dance Players); Melchior, Transitions: A Spring Awakening Play (NUI Galway); Twelfth Night (Chekhov Ireland).

Jérémie Cyr-Cooke - Cast

Jérémie is a physical theatremaker and performer, choreographer and movement
director based in Galway. Following his training at the 3-year intensive conservatory programme of the Ottawa Theatre School, Canada, Jérémie completed an MA in Theatre Practice & Production, researching physical theatre in text-based solo performance. As an actor & performer, selected credits include: The Stranger, “The Dreaming of the Bones” (Dance Players); Schmuck, “House Party” (Fíbín Teo); Fisherwife, “The Fisherwives” (Brú Theatre); Cuchúlainn, “The Only Jealousy of Emer” (Dance Players); Azdak, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” (Chekhov Ireland); Jean- Paul Marat, “Marat/Sade” (Unicorn's Theatre); Thomas, “Maid For A Musket” | Ensemble, “Hamlet” (St-Lawrence Shakespeare Festival). 

His most recent movement direction and choreography work includes: “The Dreaming of the Bones” (Dance Players); “The Kinds of Sex You Might Have at College” (Active Consent); “Transitions: A Spring Awakening Play” (NUIG); “Wake” (No Ropes Theatre); “The Only Jealousy of Emer” (Dance Players); “Dún na mBan Trí Thine” (An Taibhdhearc).

Jack Scullion - Set & Costume Designer

Jack Scullion is a costume, set and lighting designer. He is an alumnus of the BA in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at NUIG, studied Theatre Design in the University of California, Santa Barbara and completed his MFA in Stage Design at The Lir Academy. After immersing himself in the design and technical side of things at NUIG Dramsoc, Jack went on to work with theatre companies such as Anú Productions, The Abbey Theatre, Gaeity School of Acting, Thereisbear!, Anam Theatre, Sonar Theatre, Waking the Feminists West and Fregoli Theatre.

Sarah Timmins - Lighting Designer

Sarah Timmins is no stranger to Cuisle Productions, nor the Galway Theatre
community. As a freelance lighting designer and technician based in Galway City, she received a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and has gone on to work with many Galwegian theatres and theatre companies including Druid, Decadent Theatre, Baboró, Galway Theatre Festival, Fíbín and the Galway International Arts Festival. Her most recent design work includes Arbitration (Cuisle Producitons), The Dreaming of the Bones (DancePlayers), Two Truths (Sarah Hoover), Twelfth Night (Chekhov Ireland).

https://cuisleproductions.com]]> 2020-06-16 10:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628745090 Week 3: Imperceptible by Cuisle Productions galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628751287 https://cuisleproductions.com]]> 2020-06-16 10:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628751287 galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628768226 2020-06-16 11:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628768226 galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628768948 2020-06-16 11:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/628768948 Week 4 Carol Moore galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/649066058
“Carol Moore is an actor/director/theatre-maker/filmmaker, based in Bangor, who has worked in the creative industries for forty years. Carol wrote The Experience of Being as an antidote to ageism on reaching her 60th birthday.”

The Experience of Being image below by Neil Harrison.
 
Written and performed by Carol Moore
Directed by Patrick J. O’Reilly
Music Score by Conor Mitchell
Musician - Kevin Lawless
Produced by An Grianan Theatre
 
"How many times does it take for people not to see you before you start feeling invisible? How many times before you believe it too? On her 60 th birthday Cathy should be celebrating but it rapidly goes downhill. “In the shop they didn’t see me. They saw a warm cardigan and sensible shoes woman. An insignificant woman.”

An uplifting, funny and moving story of empowerment whatever age you are.

Link to advertiser interview: https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/115248/getting-to-know
 
https://vimeo.com/414030129

https://youtu.be/x_mvhoyB5FU - Interview with Galway Theatre Festival Director Sorcha Keane & Carol Moore



]]> 2020-07-07 10:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/649066058 Week 5 galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/649115179 Manuela Corbairi

Manuela is a film and theatre maker and lectures in GMIT in the Film and Documentary course. She has directed and edited documentaries and short films. As director of A Little Door she is creating theatre for children.

"It was night time and everybody was fast asleep, apart from one boy who was reading a book.. But what are stories for?”

Meet the man who felt full of rain, the little girl who found a bird, the watering can who didn’t know what love was…. Let yourself be guided on a poetic journey through a landscape of stories, following their dreams and inner thoughts. This show is about love, connection and
belonging, to each other and the world around us.

Based on the book, Nine Stories about Love by Giovanna Zoboli and Ana Ventura, it incorporates puppetry, shadow play and performance.
Suitable for children aged 5-9 years and grownups.

 https://youtu.be/HL_fLuTXzYE - Interview with Manuela Corbairi and Galway Theatre Festival Director Sorcha Keane

https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/115388/getting-to-know
 
Here are 3 animations based on some of the stories from the book Nine Stories about Love.
 
https://youtu.be/op9LG5FxHIE It was nighttime, and everybody was fast asleep..
 
https://youtu.be/PwqTfdi0ovg A woman said goodbye to her land.. 
 
https://youtu.be/YAk2_-VRPzE A girl dreamt she was sprouting..
 
And also a short video with the trailer for the play and some post show feedback and visuals
 
https://youtu.be/9AGWinbFcVw Trailer & Post Show
]]> 2020-07-07 12:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/649115179 Week 6 DRAGON galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/649118040 Presented by Fizz & Chips Theatre
 
"Can monsters ever change? And how?"
 
Dragon is a new musical, telling the tale of a young man (but not that young). He is a serial-first-dater, Tinder Wizard, and a fantasy aficionado. As the cafés and girls change, the story he tells remains the same: the mythical tale of an all-powerful dragon. This world becomes illuminated before our very eyes as the focus shifts to the dragon, terrorizing a village of defenseless civilians. But perhaps this story tells us more about the present than any fantasy world...

Exploring the mythology of masculinity, Fizz & Chips will take you on this journey through music, movement, laughter and tears.

https://open.spotify.com/album/08kuaNRxMUagR9iFxOMHv3


]]> 2020-07-07 12:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/649118040 Week 9 GIRLPLAY galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/664908506 GTF ONLINE - GIRLPLAY

Meet Lucy.

She’s average, awkward and when it comes to sex, what she lacks in experience she makes up for in curiosity. But that’s all set to change. On a night of firsts she opens the door to a world of relationships and sex that she had only ever dreamt about. But is the reality all she that had hoped it would be? And can love really sustain the test of time?
An exploration of love and sex spun out in slam.
 
Here's our full cast and crew:
 
Written by Sarah Richardson
Directed by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
Starring Martha Dunlea, Rachel O'Connell and Sarah Richardson
Designed by Áine O'Hara
Produced by Marisa Conroy

Sarah Richardson

Sarah is a writer and actor based in Dublin. Last year her first play, GirlPlay,
premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival and, before Corona, was due to appear at
Galway Theatre Festival and in London. Currently, she is working on the digital version of GirlPlay for Stockholm Fringe

#GTFOnline #GalwayTheatreFest

https://youtu.be/mN-vk3GEBGg

]]> 2020-07-29 11:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/664908506 Week 7 - THE BEACH HOUSE galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/664910130 My Cabinet is my home!
Frozen footprints in the sand. Bright lights in the night sky. A Christmas tree in July.
There is something pretty fishy going on by the beach. A certain somebody has brought his cabinet
down to the shore and turned it into a quirky little home.
Everyone is asking the same question; why?
Across the water a little girl with a big heart is determined to find the answer.
There are fish to be caught, messages to be bottled, wars to be won and friends to be found.
This fantastical story, inspired by real events, is told with shadow puppetry and object theatre.

Family show for ages 6+

Link to Marty Moncrieff Audience reactions at GTF 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9hAIgcf9w
 
Link to BORDERS trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSvFWvyLIOw&t=7s

If Beluga Was a Person:  https://youtu.be/6iWp1EbbdZw 

Interview with Ush Robbins & Sorcha Keane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr87Gpf_0cc&t=1s

https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/115644/getting-to-know Advertiser Questionnaire

]]> 2020-07-29 11:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/664910130 Week 8 - OXBO galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/664910794 This is a play about a horse on drugs.
 
In 2004, show-jumper Cian O’Connor won gold at the Athens Olympics. His horse Waterford Crystal tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. All hell broke loose. Especially for one young showjumper, who begins to investigate what exactly happened.
 
OXBO Theatre seeks to bring fresh, female-led new theatre to Irish and international stages, interrogating issues and themes pertinent to audiences in a hope to provoke conversation. They have most recently performed in Prague Fringe Festival and Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
 
Waterford Crystal was developed at Scene + Heard Festival and Fringe Lab. 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/32fOAxDRnPH94jkLn6IVpS?si=IeOcJdloRy6pNkmwVJ44bQ&fbclid=IwAR2rqTVsI43KrRMf3xmvhL4wuKKxKK8jE8Y7Zkit9Tp0bDUT10DmOWrxvg4  Spotify Link to 2004 throwback playlist 

Sorcha Keane chats with OXBO: https://youtu.be/MmGQIlU1XkU

https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/115779/getting-to-know Advertiser Questionnaire
]]> 2020-07-29 11:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/664910794 Week 10 Navigate galwaytheatrefestival https://padlet.com/galwaytheatrefestival/artists/wish/672317439 A ship is the only kind of woman that doesn’t bring bad luck at sea. So what happens if a ship decides to sail herself?

Cartwheeling into the fabric of space-time, Navigate reshapes the universal feeling of being an outsider. Shadow puppets, movement and soundscape construct the fantastic journey of a mysterious pirate captain off the edge of the world and into the strangeness of being foreign in unknown waters.
Launched through a 2018 artistic residency in Barcelona, this physical theater piece uses music and magic to explore what it is to move through the world as a woman alone.

https://m.facebook.com/Navigate.SarahStearns/
www.sarahstearns.com
Video promo of the show: https://youtu.be/bFCUuUpgq9A
#GalwayTheatreFest

Navigate Read/Watch List

Navigate pulls from the depths of the ocean- my fear of deep water, my fascination with 18th century pirates and my time working on cruise ships- and pushes against the fabric of space- time. I have always found following instructions and formulas to be boring and difficult, but am fascinated by theoretical physics. Here is a list of things to read and watch if you want to do
some navigating of your own from the comfort of your home.

Books:
‘The Sad Tale of the Sconce’ from A Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Articles:
‘A homesick astronaut on Mars’ by Kelly Oakes for Scientific American
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/a-homesick-astronaut-on-mars/
‘The Mystique of the Cursed Figurehead’ by Heather Rockwood for the Boston Society
http://bostoniansociety.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-mystique-of-cursed-figurehead.html
‘Crazy Far’ by Tim Folger for National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/01/space-exploration/

Videos:
‘Earthshine’ by Manu Gopinath
https://vimeo.com/67023022
‘Time Travel: This Physicist Wants to Build a Time Machine’ by NBC Left Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiIkong4w5s
Chris Hadfield Brushes his Teeth in Space by the Canadian Space Agency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bCoGC532p8
The Fight Scene on the Sunken Death Star from Star Wars : The Rise Of Skywalker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8RVsE0_6jI&t=16s
Up is Down scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osp_9sUa4Ag
Disney´s Moana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrYv1McKk7U
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