Sophocles' classic 'Antigone'

Directed by Jack Holland.

Greek Mythology adapted with a twist brought to you by Jack & his cast & crew.

Antigone is our first show of first term. Antigone is a daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between King Oedipus of Thebes and his mother Jocasta. She is the subject of a popular story in which she attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices, even though he was a traitor to Thebes and the law forbids even mourning for him, on pain of death.

WHERE: The Granary Theatre.
WHEN: 8th - 12th of November.

Show: 8pm
Tickets: €9/€7
Bookings: 021-4904275
More info: www.granary.ie / www.uccdramat.com

Cast   Martha O’Brien Danny Hale Maggie Creed George Cummins Cait Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh Will Robinson-Smith Marissa Duricko Daithi O’Donnell Paula Weldon Zach Buggy Vera Stojanovic Isadora Killeen

Crew Director-

 

'Such a Local Row' is a 'coming of age' story of four boys growing up in a rural parish in Ireland. Their cocooned world revolves around the small local GAA club and their intense rivalry with the bigger club from the neighbouring 'town'. The second act takes place a decade later with the boys in their early twenties. Their fortunes have changed as well as their perspectives. Life is suddenly far more complicated and their childhood bonds of friendship and loyalty is sorely tested.

 

Cast     David Naughton Mark Griffin David Lynch Pudding- Stephen Acton Eoghan Griffin Eamonn Doyle Kelly-Ann Murphy Lena Mary Houlihan

Crew Director- Jody Quirke Producer- Pearl Kennedy Sound Designer- Mikey Shinnick Lighting Designer- Rob Moloney Lighting Operator- Set Designer- Jody Quirke Set Construction-David Naughton Costume Designer- Hair/Make-up- Poster- Sinead Donnachine Stage Manager- Avril Helen Stage Hands- Jack Holland

A quartet of strangers in a sexual square dance in which partners are constantly swapped, caught between desire and betrayal.

 

Cast Alice- Clodagh Duggan Larry- Charlie Kelly Anna- Niamh O'Connor Dan- Sean Huddelstan

Crew Director- Nicholas O'Riordan Producer- Stephen Acton Sound Designer- Catherine Gillespie, Phil Christie Sound Operator- Emma Kearney Lighting Designer- Rob Moloney Lighting Operator- Hilary Bowen-Walsh Set Designer- Stephen Acton Set Construction- Stephen Acton, David Naughton Costume Designer- Karen Dunbar Costume Dressers- Lauren Ronan, Laura O'Neil, Cait Ni Mhaoldomlaigh Hair/Make-up- Hannah McCarthy Projector Operator- Aoife O'Leary McNeice Poster- Sinead Donnachine Stage Manager- Avril Helen Stage Hands- Lauren Ronan, Miriam O'Dwyer

The Weir depicts an evening at a small bar located on a farm in rural Ireland where the proprietor, three other local men, and a woman new to the area meet, drink, and tell stories. The banter consists of friendly local talk and gossip that is uneventful in itself, but overall reveals the characters' isolation and the figurative ghosts that haunt them.

 

Cast Jack - Niall Morrissey Brendan - Chris Collins Jim - Paul McNamara Finbar - Anthony Bailly Valerie - Emer Liston

Crew Director- Barry Whelan Producer- Dervela Kinsella and Margaret Perry Sound Designer- David Teixeira-Lynch Sound Operator- Jack Holland Lighting Designer- Rob Moloney Lighting Operator- Sean Affonso Set Designer- Natalie Fitzmaurice Set Construction- David Naughton Costume Designer- Kelly-Ann Murphy Costumes- Kelly-Ann Murphy, Derbhail Kinsella, and Margaret Perry Make-up- Sinead Devot and Josephine Dennehy Poster- Natalie Fitzmaurice Programme- Margaret Perry Stage Manager- Ellen Buckley Stage Hands- Lauren Ronan, Miriam O'Dwyer

Title of Show is a musical with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and a book by Hunter Bell. The musical documents its own creation by two Broadway fans, who want to enter the New York Musical Theatre Festival. It follows the team's struggle to complete the show in three and a half weeks with the help of their two actress friends. The actors are also the writers and characters of the musical.

CAST Hunter- Mark O'Sullivan Jeff- Brett Mc'Coy D'Arcy Heidi- Pearl Kennedy Susan- Julianne Ní Laoire

CREW Director- Sherelle Kelleher Producer- Catherine Gillespie Musical Director- Thomas Doyle Set Designer- Sherelle Kelleher Lighting Design- Rob Moloney Sound Design- David Teixeira-Lynch Sound Assistant- Jack Holland Costume Designers- Catherine Gillespie Stage Manager- Avril Helen Poster Design- Sinead Donnachie Construction- David Naughton

The iconic 1948 pulitizer prize winning play from American playwright Tennesse Williams. Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

CAST Blanche- Anna McGarry Stella- Angelina Ryle Stanley- Karol Mann O'Connor Mitch-Eamonn Doyle Eunice- Lena Mary Houlihan Steve- Mark Griffin Pablo- Stephen Kealy Prostitute- Derbhail Kinsella Doctor- Stephen Acton Nurse- Sherelle Kelleher Young Man- Daniel Nugent Gypsy Woman- Catherine Gillespie

CREW Director- Niall Morrissy Producer- Jody Quirke Set Designer- Eamonn Doyle Lighting Design- Niall Morrissy Lighting Assistant- Jack Holland Sound Design- Nicholas O'Riordan Sound Assistant- Mikey Shinnick Costume Designers- Catherine Gillespie & Mairead O'Brien Costume Assistant- Sorcha Nagle Stage Manager- Pearl Kennedy Stage Hands- Charlie Kelly, Brett McCody D'Arcy, Suzy Lee, Natalie Fitzmaurice, Ciara Holmes Poster Design- Sinead Donnachie Construction- David Naughton, Dominic MacHale, Peter Horgan

It begins with a middle-aged woman named Susan lying comatose in her garden, having stepped on a rake - yet what follows bids an ironic farewell to the props and plot mechanics of old-fashioned farce. Susan comes round to find her GP gabbling in a strange syntax of garbled puns and word-like noises, as if he has swapped the medical directory for a copy of Finnegan's Wake. The other characters wear odd clothes: Susan's doting family skip about in Merchant Ivory flannels, and play tennis using wooden rackets.

It is only when Susan's real family appears - appalling husband Gerald, and his miserable widowed sister Muriel - that you realise this is not a sun-dappled social comedy after all, but a horrifically intimate picture of Susan's mental disintegration. The hilarity - though there is plenty of it - is acutely painful.

CAST Susan- Karen Dunbar Gerald- Danny Hale

CREW Director- Irene Yeriskin and Anthony Bailly Producer- Lena Mary Houlihan Lighting Design- Rob Moloney Sound Design- Nicholas O'Riordan Poster Design- Emmet Curtin Crew-

Bob, Barbara and their daughter Julie. The Jacksons live opposite the Krogers, believing them to be a convivial Canadian couple and their closest friends. Then a mysterious stranger arrives, announcing he is from M.I.5 and quietly coerces the Jacksons into allowing their house to be used as a surveillance post. In the nightmare months that follow, the Jacksons' decent, happy life is shattered as the truth about their much-loved friends is gradually revealed to them and, helpless in an alien, sordid world of deception and treachery, Barbara reaches breaking point with the agonizing realization that the Krogers have betrayed her and she, in turn, has betrayed the Krogers.

CAST Bob Jackson- Alan Martin Barbara Jackson- Jennifer Hastings Julie Jackson- Map Perry (Understudy: Clodagh Duggan) Mr. Stewart- Paul Mc Namara Helen Kroger- Allison Blackburn Peter Kroger- Nicholas O'Riordan Thelma- Heather Mahony Sally- Nina Fitzpatrick

CREW Director- Siobhan Gleeson Producer- Mags Keohane Lighting Design- Mags Keohane Lighting Opperator- Derwin Myers Sound Design- David Teixeira-Lynch & Natalie Fitzmaurice Costume Design- Catherine Gillespie Assistant Costume- Mairead O'Brien, Ciara Grant Set Construction- David Naughton, Avril Helen, Colum Keohane Makeup- Hannah McCarthy Dresser- Jane Lynch Stage Manager- David Naughton Assistan Stage Manager- Avril Helen Stage Hand- Siobhan Rafferty Poster Design- Natalie Fitzmaurice Crew- David Naughton, David Teixeira-Lynch, Niall Morrissy, Aoife Cahill, Eoin Winning, Stephen Sharpe, Avril Helen, Cian Clancy, Colum Kephane

 

 

Fortinbras Gets Drunk is the story of an absurd and grotesque tragicomedy by Polish playwright Janusz Glowacki which retells the story of Hamlet from a Norwegian point of view.

The play focuses on Fortinbras, Prince of Norway who discovers the plot of a Norwegian minister Sternborg and his assistant Eight Eyes to wipe out the entire Norwegian dynasty, and thus to seize power in Norway. Fortinbras manages to survive by lapsing into a state of drunken buffoonery.After coming to power, Sternborg and Eight Eyes spread disinformation,chaos and terror not only in Norway but also in Denmark where their main enemy is a young prince Hamlet. Fortinbras decides to ally himself with Hamlet in his struggle to outwit and depose Sternborg and Eight Eyes...

CAST Fortinbras- Naoise Mc Sweeney Sternborg- Seán Mc Keown Eight Eyes/Eight Tits- Andrea Bolger -Róisín O Neill Ghost- Aaron O'Sullivan King- Janusz Flakus Hamlet- Sam Marks Guard #1- Eoghan Griffin Guard #2- George Cummins

CREW Director- Janusz Flakus Producer- Eoghan Griffin Lighting Design- Niall Morrissy Lighting Opperator- Sound Design- Nicholas O'Riordan Sound Opperator- Poster Design- Emmet Curtin Crew- David Naughton, David Teixeira-Lynch, Niall Morrissy, Aoife Cahill

 

 

Featuring the talents of some of Dramats members, audiences were treated to a collection of various pieces including 'Dick Piston: Hotel Detective', a few scenes from 'Philedelphia Here I come', a modern take on 'Julius Caesar' and musical pieces from musicals such as 'Spring Awakening', 'The Little Mermaid', and among others'Les Miserables'.

 

Dick Piston Hotel Detective directed by Jody Quirke

Julius Caesar directed by Eamonn Doyle

Philedelphia Here I Come directed by David Naughton

Musical pieces directed by Stephen Acton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frost/Nixon ran from the 27th-31st of July 2010 in the Granary Theatre

Written by Peter Morgan

Directed by Peter Horgan

The play focuses on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost and former U.S President Richard Nixon. At the time Nixon sat down with Frost to discuss the sordid details that ultimately derailed his presidency, it had been three years since the former commander in chief had been forced from office. The Watergate scandal was still fresh in everyone's minds, and Nixon had remained notoriously tight-lipped until he agreed to sit down with Frost. Nixon was certain that he could hold his own opposite the up-and-coming British broadcaster, and even Frost's own people weren't quite sure their boss was ready for such a high-profile interview.

When the interview ultimately got under way and each man eschewed the typical posturing in favor of the simple truth, fans and critics on both sides were stunned by what they witnessed. Instead of Nixon stonewalling the interviewer as expected, or Frost lobbing softballs as the truth-seekers feared, what emerged was an unguardedly honest exchange between a man who had lost everything and another with everything to gain.

CAST Richard Nixon -Eamonn Doyle Jim Reston -Niall Morrissey David Frost -Jody Quirke Jack Brennan -Aron Hegarty John Birt -Killian Collins Swify Lazar -Mary Bronks Caroline Cushing -Rosanna Purcell Bob Zelnick -Sam Marks Mike Wallace -Nicky McHale Studio Manager -Claire Quinlan

CREW Director- Peter Horgan Producer -Laura O Neill Stage Manager -Claire Quinlan Lighting Design -Niall Morrissey and Seán Marrett Lighting Operator -Stephen Kealy Sound Operator -Julia Healy Sound Design -Peter Horgan Poster/Programme Design -Sinéad Donnachie Costume and Make Up -Ciara Holmes Costume Assistant -James Donnolly Tech Crew -Eoin Winning Stage Hands -Irene Yeriskin, Cathal O'Donovan, Fiona "Julie" Healy