DRAMAT

presents:

YGLU:
Written and directed by Mark Noonan, Wednesday January 20th-Saturday 23rd

Yglu is the story of a family of four adults who take in a young orphan, and explores the changes this means for all of them. All the action is set inside the head of a single character, allowing line between dreams and reality to be crossed often and exuberantly. The play moves through light and shadow, harmony and discord, good family times and the occasional attempted murder with the energy and humour needed to make any journey worth taking. The imaginary setting demands creative solutions to set, make-up, music and everything else, and promises one or two surprises.

Tickets: €8/€6
Box Office: 021 4904275

DOLLY WEST'S KITCHEN
Written by Frank McGuinness, directed by John Gleeson, Tuesday 26th Januray-Saturday 30th.

As the second world war rages in Europe, in Donegal there is another war closer to home. In Dolly West's kitchen, the family has its own conflicts to face as their lives are transformed with the arrival of Allied troops across the border in Derry. War changes everything - it's tragedies and it's survivals will alter the history of the West family forever. This story deals with relationships, war, patriotism, homosexuality and prejudice in a way that can be riproaringly funny and then movingly tender.

Tickets: €8/€6
Box Office: 021 4904275

ON RAFFERTY'S HILL:
Written by Marina Carr, directed by Aisling McDonnell

Feb 2nd-Feb 6th
Set on the remote hill of Raftery's farm, this play tells the tale of Red Raftery and his children, Dinah, Sorrel and Ded.
Removed from the civilized world of the valley, Red lives by his own rules, where all natural order is inverted, and humanity is brutalized. Raftery ritually tortures his livestock, leaving the corpses maggoting in the river, passing infection into the valley beyond.
Existing in this purgatory is Dinah Raftery, the eldest child, who has sacrificed a future for herself to take care of her siblings, father and grandmother. Her brother, Ded, lives like an animal in the cowshed, trying to erase the all-too-accessible memories of the family's past. Then there is young Sorrel, "the wan perfect thing in this house," soon to be wed to Dara Mood from the valley.
Red Raftery has other ideas.

GHETTO:
Written by Joshua Sobel and directed by Janek Flakus

Feb 9th-Feb 13th
Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna from 1942 to 1943, Mr.Sobol has taken the diary of Herman Kruk, the librarian, and written about the theatre group that was formed in the ghetto.
As the Jews struggle for a simple physical existence, the theatre that they create allows them to battle to remain human, retaining the culture that separates them from animals.

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The Spiral Season

The Spiral Season challenges the directors to embrace the Studio space and produce productions focusing on the acting and the text.

"Falling Slowly"
written & directed by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin
(from the story by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin & David O'Byrne)
Wednesday February 10th-Sunday 14th.

"Two"
written by Jim Cartwright, directed by Rachel Yoder
Wednesday February 24th-Saturday 27th

"Tissue"
written by Louise Page, directed by Kath Geraghty
Wednesday March 10th-Saturday 13th

"The Alice Trilogy"
written by Tom Murphy, directed by Maria Moynihan
Wednesday March 24th-Saturday 27th

"The Ugly One"
written by Marius von Mayenburg, directed by Tony McCleane-Fay
Wednesday April 28th-Saturday May 1st.