Written by Sam Shepard
Directed by Nicolas O'Riordan
January 24th-28th
Time: 8pm
True West tells the tale of two brothers. Austin, a "successful" young man with a family and a budding screenwriting career, house-sits for his mother who is away on vacation, as he tries to finish his new script. He has come here for privacy to work on a screenplay, but is quickly interrupted by his brother Lee, and alcoholic thief who has also decided to return home.
Cast:
Austin - Charlie Kelly
Lee- Karol Mann O'Connor
Saul Kimmer - Ethan Dillon
Mom- Mary Bronks
Original Music composed by Philip Christie
By Anne Seagrave
January 27th-29th
‘Jamais Vu’ a performance/installation by the artist Anne Seagrave was premiered in January 2005 as part of the Granary’s ‘Bodily Functions’ programme of live art. This is a call out in search of spectators who were present at the original performance in 2005. You are invited to participate in a performance research project investigating sensations of memory and the relationship between live event and document. Participants will be individually guided through a series of memory exercises and asked to recall their experience of ‘Jamais Vu’. This process will be documented and the memories you deposit will be integrated into an installation/presentation.
30min slots for one participant at a time
Please contact Elaine O’Sullivan to book your slot
Email: returningtojamaisvu@gmail.com
Written by Martin Sherman
Directed by Danny Hale
January 8th-11th
Time: 8pm
Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. "It educated the world," Sherman explains. "People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and, to some extent, gypsies and political prisoners. But very little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals." Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior to the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and handicapped, and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. The play Bent highlights the reason why - a largely ignored German law, Paragraph 175, making homosexuality a criminal offense, which Hitler reactivated and strengthened during his rise to power.
