Public Performances
The full time devising, end of year and London showcases as well as Performance, Advanced Performance, Performance Theatre Company and Youth Theatre Company showcases each have one performance of invited agents and casting directors.
Productions
2011 Advanced Performance Showcase
A showcase from The Gaiety School of Acting Advanced Performance students.
June 29th: John Delaney's Class (Civic Theatre)
June 30th: Kristian Marken's Class (Smithfield Complex)
July 1st: Antoinette Duffy's Class (Smithfield Complex)
Venue: The Civic Theatre / The Complex, Smithfield
Dates: June 29th / 30th & 1st July
Time: 8pm
To book call 01 6799277.
2011 Guilt Therapy (Performance Theatre Company)
'Guilt Thearapy'
After a massively successful year so far with 2 sell out shows, the Gaiety School Performance Company are back with their end of year showcase piece “Guilt Therapy”
The 13 actors have once again devised a brand new piece of theatre. Set in St. Judes psychiatric hospital, the story unfolds through weekly group therapy sessions lead by newly appointed consultant theripist Henry. With major staff shortages to the State's mental health services it quickly becomes obvious that he has a lot more to deal with than he first anticipated. We also see Henry in his own sessions with his personal psychiatrist.
Flash backs of the group therapy reveal an incredible twist which will leave audiences shocked and wondering - what did actually happen and who did it???
Time: 28th June to 2nd July at @ 8pm nightly
Venue: The Teachers Club, Parnell Square
Price: €10
For More Information, call 01 6799277
Guilt Therapy (Performance Theatre Company) Flyer
2011 Toxic (Second Year Graduation Play)
TOXIC
In 2004 Britney sang Toxic and we blagged our way into clubs with fake ID’s and sculled pints and Bacardi Breezers. The future was rosy, so we danced our arses off and sucked the faces off each other and worried about the kind of things that kids worry about. And then, while our backs were turned, it all went wrong.
The Gaiety School of Acting – The National Theatre School of Ireland’s graduating class debut in this specially commissioned original play written by Michelle Read and directed by Liam Halligan. Celebrating 25 years of training the stars that currently grace our stages and screens and with an alumni that include Colin O’Donoghue, Eva Birthistle, Colin Farrell, Aidan Turner, Olivia Wilde and PJ Gallagher, we are delighted to present the stars of the future from our 2011 graduating class. This is the culmination of their training on our Two Year Full Time Professional Actor Training course.
This is a fast-paced, wild-eyed play, with a karaoke-style pop vibe, set in contemporary post-boom Dublin. You’ll meet, amongst others, a drug dealer, an IT professional, a morgue worker, a civil servant and a terrorist cell, in this new play, which examines betrayal, and the interaction between public ethics and personal morality.
Project Arts Centre
28th June – 2nd July 2011 – 8pm nightly
Preview Mon 27th June @ 8pm / Matinee Saturday 2nd July @ 2pm
Tickets: €15 / €12 concession
Suitable ages 16+ contains some strong language and adult themes.
Booking Info: www.projectartscentre.ie – (01) 881 9613
For further information & photographs please contact Clíona Dukes on (01) 6799277 or e-mail cliona.dukes@gaietyschool.com
2011 Measure for Measure (Adult Theatre Company, Cork)
Love……
Our our Adult Theatre Company will perform Measure for Measure. One of Shakespeare’s lesser performed plays, it approaches love with little innocence: a rigorous leader of a country falls for a nun, whose brother he sentenced to death. Is this love, passion, power? Whatever it is, it binds the lives of people in a spiral of destruction and resurrection.
Firkin Crane, Shandon, Co Cork
24th June – 26th June 2001 – 8pm nightly – Measure for Measure
Booking Info: www.firkincrane.ie – (021) 450 7487
For further information please contact Stella Majewsky on 087 277 2029 or e-mail stella@gaietyschool.com
2011 Performance Theatre Company Term 1 Production
CELL WALKERS
Set in a prison that could be in any country that continues to practice capital punishment, “Cell Walkers” examines the conscience of a prisoner whose execution day is upon him. After a sleepless night, Number 5 sits contemplating his fate. As 7 and 9 in the cells beside him wake and the Guard enters, 5 begins to sense that all is not as it seems.
One by one he is visited by apparitions, all with unique stories of their own, knocking on his conscience, penetrating his defiance. Number 5 continues to deny his crimes, determined to go to his death with his head held high, a victim of the system. But the visitors continue to invade his mind as 7 torments him and 9 tries to turn him to repentance and deliverance. Is 5 innocent or guilty? And what does that mean in this prison and within the void of his own mind.
With religious and social reflections, “Cell Walkers” does not take a position on the question of capital punishment. Rather, the play poses the questions of true guilt and true innocence, the frailty of memory and power of conscience.
“Cell Walkers” is the first production of the 2011/2012 Performance Theatre Company of the Gaiety School of Acting. A self-devised piece developed equally by all of the members of the Company and directed by David Scott, this incisive piece of theatre begins the Performance Theatre Company journey anew and sets the Company on the road to two more major shows within this academic year.
“Cell Walkers” plays for three performances only, December 1st, 2nd and 3rd at 8pm in the Blackbox Theatre, Smock Alley. All tickets 10 Euro.
