February 21st-25th
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €8/€5 students
Foregrounds 2012 is a public performance of Drama and Theatre Studies students’ Final Year Projects. Consisting of three twenty minute adaptations of short stories, students have been granted the opportunity to emerge not only as forthcoming graduates, but as artists. Each piece demonstrates influence and originality as we present to you the theatre of tomorrow: Foregrounds 2012.
The Star Worshipper is an adaptation of George Egerton’s short story of the same name, from the 1898 collection Fantasias. The story deals with how society constricts the artistic individual. In this dramatised version a poet seeks to find fulfillment within the constraints of the social order.
Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s classic The Nightingale and The Rose, A Withered Rose examines timeless themes in a modern day context. The question of whether or not love is a choice resounds throughout the piece as we embark on a journey of exploration on the air of a nightingale’s song.
Hunger Confidential is an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s short story A Hunger Artist, following the rise and fall of a man who becomes famous for his acts of public fasting. This contemporized version of Kafka’s story explores the phenomena of present-day celebrity culture, reality TV and the commercialisation of art.
Saturday March 3rd
Free event, pre-booking is advisable
Time: 8pm
‘Returning to Jamais Vu’ gathers traces of a past event to compile a score to generate
new actions and ideas. The event to which we return is Jamais Vu a performance/
installation by the artist Anne Seagrave, which was premiered in the Granary in
January 2005. Seven years on, audience memories of Jamais Vu are re-activated in
the theatre through sound, movement and text.
The live performance installation will be followed by a presentation on my research
into sensations of memory and strategies of re-enactment in contemporary art.
March 12th-14th
In Beckett’s classic exploration of the nature of memory, identity
and language, we witness Krapp, a brooding old soul, searching
for his lost identity in tapes he has recorded each year on his
birthday. What he nds froms the past illuminates the basic
struggle, absurdity and beauty of the human condition. Krapp’s
disintegration mixes the haunting beauty of a ghost story with
the darkest humor that is the hallmark of Beckett’s work.
March 13th-16th
Produced and Devised by KolectivTheatre and UCC MA DTS
Multidisciplinary Performance Inspired by masterpieces Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Dante’s Devine Comedy created by internationally award winning theatre company Kolectiv and MA theatre practice students. In the journey through underworld we meet Beckettian and Dantean Characters as they roam through the eight circles of hell encountering various situations struggling to find meaning in their lives and deaths. On the day when their lives are about to get better, they wait with anticipation as they explore their resentments, their frustration and their life’s little joys. With all that has happened to them can things really get any better? More importantly: Is there an escape? Is there a happy ending?
MANTLE by Ronan FitzGibbon
Presented by BrokenCrow
Directed by Julie Kelleher
April 18th-21st
BrokenCrow would like to invite actors to audition for their forthcoming debut production, Mantle. Auditions by appointment only on Thursday February 23rd in the Studio at Granary Theatre, Cork. To make an appointment, please email Julie Kelleher at seoid.jk@gmail.com with a current CV and headshot before Saturday Feb 18th. Please note this is a profit-share production.
We are casting for the following roles:
- Barra O’Riada, Male, age range 25 – 30ish,
- Sean Turner, Male, age range 20 – 25ish
- Cecelia Creedon, female, age 25+,
- James Creedon, male, 30+
- Dermot, male, late twenties/ early thirties
- Aine, female, late twenties/ early thirties
- Jean Kirby, female, 29-34ish
- Michael Kirby, male, 50+
About the Company
BrokenCrow Theatre Company is a production company and creative think tank established in July 2011. The company is made up of an annually renewing ensemble, assembled by Creative Producer Ronan FitzGibbon, who are engaged in a constant creative conversation through online collaboration and fortnightly creative sessions. BrokenCrow are Associate Artists of Granary Theatre and gratefully acknowledge the support of Corcadorca & the Theatre Development Centre at Triskel.
About the Play
Mantle is new play examines moments of significance, both historical and personal, in the lives of its characters, all of whom have inhabited the house which is the location of the piece. Histories resonate and collide as the stories weave around each other on the stage, individual dramas come together with choir-like effect, allowing us a sweeping view of the lives lived within these walls over the course of a century.
