Archive for May, 2008
Gordon just emailed me his take on some of the shows he’s seen. It looks like a great crop of shows this year!
Gordon writes:
SILKWORM/Rubin: Excellently produced and performed two hander. The content is interesting and entertaining. The piece is a collection of recollections but, as these seem to be arranged in some sort of progression, and because it is played by the same two characters, it comes over more as a disjointed postmodern narrative, which for me was confusing rather than focusing. None-the-less well worth the visit.
H+A SCREENPLAY/rubin Naiviety is the virtue which saves this updated examination of `Heloise and Abelard` from becoming a vampish `Vicar and Tart` melodrama. The truths and significances of the original love story are often written-off nowadays as the product of the constrictions of medieval monastic life. This show manages to show that perhaps all that has changed in life and love is the setting. And it does so entertainingly, with good phyicallity, lighting,projection and set. I`m glad I saw it.
THE SACRED SOW/Rubin: Very `Irish`, very claustrophobic, very `narrative`; “Ah none o`yer postmodern rubbish here!”. Very talented cast who are still exploring. Well worth seeing - and keeping yer eye on!
KARAGIOZIS EXPOSED/na Pradle: This is one of the best pieces of theatre I`ve seen in years. “A Cypriot Puppet Show?! Don`t make me laugh!” Oh it does that all right; and heaps more. This takes theatre to places I`ve only dreamed of - and only pretty vaguely at that too. A MUST!
40 FEATHERED WINKS/na Pradle: The choreographic slickness of this piece of excellent physical theatre (set and lighting to match!) is so good that it almost (but doesn`t !) mask the equally excellent funny, or thought provoking, content. I`m just grateful it was one of the `granted` on my Wish-List.
May 28th, 2008
For those of you that weren’t able to come to JJ Murphy’s last night (I know, I sent the invite out late!), here’s a sample of what you missed. The Traditional Session was really amazing and several times listening to the music I got the distinct impression that I had to jump on the next plane to Dublin. Absolutely wonderful! You can still get a taste of this by coming to the Sacred Sow, which is playing as part of the Prague Fringe every day from NOW until June 1 at A Studio Rubin at 19:30. Tickets are available at the door and it only costs 150 Kc!
Listen to one of the tunes played by Mickey Dunne
May 27th, 2008
Come one and all to the Sacred Sow which is playing EVERY DAY until June 1st at A Studio Rubin (Malostranske namesti 9) at 19:30!!
The show will probably start selling out towards the end of the run, so come and see it early. It’s a very dark look at family, outsiders and the idea of Home, all set in rural Ireland. Eileen Pollock stars as the overbearing mother, Mrs. Malloy, who will do anything to keep her family together and safe. For more information you can read the special Sacred Sow page.
May 26th, 2008
The Prague Playhouse and Noel’s bar will be hosting a fundraising event for our upcoming production of “The Sacred Sow”!
Sunday, May 18 at 20:00 at Noel’s Bar, Anny Letenske 18, just near the tram stop Italska. Entry is free but we’ll be passing the hat and selling raffle tickets (some fabulous prizes on offer!), so bring pocket money!
Come join the fun as uilean piper Matej Tomes plays jigs and reels, along with Pullin’ Strings, Colm Dunne and Michael McNulty and friends! And if you have an instrument, bring it along as we’ll be inviting everyone to participate!
The Sacred Sow’s leading lady, Eileen Pollock, famous as Lilo Lil in BBC’s BREAD and as the money lender in Angela Ashes will perform a short Becket piece, joined by Michele Hanks…
There will be songs by Brendan Payne and some short Irish language poems read by Michael O’Shea.
Hope to see you there!
May 12th, 2008
We’re very excited to announce our production for the Prague Fringe 2008: Ellie Cummin’s dark exploration of the challenges facing rural Ireland The Sacred Sow.
The Sacred Sow, starring Eileen Pollock of the BBC series BREAD, is a piece originally written for the 2007 Prague Post Playwriting Contest. After receiving a workshop in the fall of 2007, we decided to mount a full production for the Fringe Festival.
We will perform the show every night of the Fringe at 19:30 at A Studio Rubin (Malostranske namesti 9, Prague 1). Tickets are available through the Fringe Website.
More information is coming up!
May 2nd, 2008
“Hounds for da craic”
iRiSh SEiSiUn …songs tunes .. all nationalities welcome of course,,,
NOELS BAR — Sunday May 4th 7pm
18 ANNY LETENSKE
VINOHRADY
11 tram to Italska
FUND RAISER for THE FRINGE FESTIVAL show The Sacred Sow .. may 25th to june 1st at 7.30 pm, studio rubin, malastranka namesti.
Leading lady Eileen Pollack famous as Lilo Lil in BBC’s “BREAD” and as the money lender in “Angela Ashes”
and Irish piper Mickey Dunne (check him out on you tube)
door fee for Noels Bar is 150 krowns
we will sell raffle tickets for fabulous prizes,
1st prize an original landscape by Steve Meyers — on view in Noels (file attached here)
There will be a host of prizes including —- Dinner for 2 in The Imperial Cafe –
plus other great prizes…
May 2nd, 2008
Agenda Events is proud to present Ellie Cummins and Colin Broderick in a Writing Workshop
Colin Broderick is a writer from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He lived in New York for twenty years where he had his first play ‘Father Who, produced in 2003. Broderick has most recently been published in The New York Times. He is here in Prague with his wife Renata and their dog and cat for the past six months finishing his drinking memoir ‘Orangutan’ which will be published in the US, in the spring of 2009 by Three Rivers Press.
Writer Ellie Cummins’s play The Sacred Sow plays The Rubin Theatre Malastranka May 25th to June 1st. The play has attracted Eileen Pollack, stage and screen actress, in the lead. Ellie has a background as long as your arm in the arts, theatre, touring, short films, music and dance, often radical and challenging. Ellie Cummins has studied theatre, dance, and music and has a BA in English.
How do you access that primal beat? How do you write and get a flow? Where does the spark of inspiration come from? There are very practical ways to get your voice heard.
Check out Colin and Ellie’s workshop and get some answers!
Saturday May 17th 10 am – 4 pm @ Shakespeare & Sons, Krymska 12 – Vrsovice
700 Czech Crowns, students and concessions 300 Czech Crowns
May 2nd, 2008