Productions
Drinking Dust
junk ensemble presents:
DRINKING DUST
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
9TH-20TH SEPTEMBER |8.30PM | PREVIEW SEPTEMBER 8TH
TICKETS €14/€12 (CONC/PREVIEW)
http://www.fringefest.com/ | 1850 FRINGE (374643)
MEETING POINT: OUTSIDE SMOCK ALLEY | LOWER EXCHANGE ST | TEMPLE BAR
Come with us to a lost place, junk ensemble (winner Jayne Snow Award 2007) presents Drinking Dust, a new site-specific dance theatre piece in collaboration with Brokentalkers (winner Sexiest Show 2006) that looks at abandonment in our life and city. This is a broken story in a burnt-out building. This is the gritty place you left behind.
Artistic Directors and twin sisters Jessica and Megan Kennedy co-founded junk ensemble in 2004. junk ensemble have produced the works Watch Her Disappear, Circus Freak, Drowning Memory in a Bowl and The Rain Party (in association with Project Arts Centre).
"They have guts and ingenuity" The Irish Times
"Witty yet powerful, expertly handled by the performers." The Scotsman
"An unconventional performance that's definitely worth getting wet for." The Metro
Chatroom
Calipo Theatre Company presentsCHATROOM by Enda Walsh
A play for teenagers.......
Smock Alley Theatre 8 - 13 September 2008 at 6.30pm
Matinees Thurs 11 and Friday 12 September at 2.30pm
Dublin Fringe Festival 2008
A group of teenagers meet in a Chatroom; they're bored and looking for a way in which they can make a statement. When troubled Jim arrives, they find their cause..can they convince Jim to take his own life?
The Director of the RTE 2 hit series ‘Love is the Drug' and Drogheda's Calipo theatre company are proud to present the Irish premiere of Enda Walsh's acclaimed 'Chatroom', a funny and hard-hitting play about bullying in cyberspace.
Featuring a spectacular cast of Irelands finest young actors including Chris Newman (Love is the drug/Hollywood Trials), Sophie Jo Wasson (32A/The Clinic), Mark Butler (Song for a Raggy boy) Conor MacNeill, Jill Harding and Roisin Murphy.
'A computer-age Lord of the Flies. The writing is taut, vivid, cool, scary and often funny.' The Times
Listings Information
Venue: Smock Alley, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Dates: 8th September - 13 September (preview 8th September)
Time: 6.30pm (matinees on 11 and 12 September @ 2.30pm)
Tickets: €15/€12.50/€10
Booking:1850 FRINGE (1850 374 643)
BOX OFFICE: Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.