UCC Dramat presents… ‘Antigone’
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 List:
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
Such A Local Row
by Jody Quirke
February 8th-12th 8pm.
Directed by Jody Quirke
‘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 are sorely tested.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €9/€7
Booking/Info: 021 4904275, www.granary.ie (More Info: www.uccdramat.com)
Venue: Granary Theatre
The Weir
by Conor McPherson
January 25-29th 8pm.
Directed by Barry Whelan
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.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €9/€7
Booking/Info: 021 4904275, www.granary.ie (More Info: www.uccdramat.com)
Venue: Granary Theatre
Title of Show
by Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell
January 18th-22nd 8pm.
Directed by Sherelle Kelleher
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.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €9/€7
Booking/Info: 021 4904275, www.granary.ie (More Info: www.uccdramat.com)
Venue: Granary Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
December 14th-18th 8pm.
Directed by Niall Morrissey
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.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €9/€7
Booking/Info: 021 4904275, www.granary.ie (More Info: www.uccdramat.com)
Venue: Granary Theatre
Woman in Mind
By Alan Ayckbourn
7th-11th December 8pm
Directed by Irene Yeriskin and Anthony Bailly
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.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €9/€7
Booking/Info: 021 4904275, www.granary.ie (More Info: www.uccdramat.com)
Venue: Granary Theatre
Udates
Fortinbras Gets Drunk and Pack of Lies have both successfully wrapped and the Granary is Dramat free for another two weeks. A huge well done to everyone who was involved both on stage and backstage in both productions! Also thanks to anyone who came to see the shows and for helping to make them the succes they were. We must now wait patiently for our next two plays, Woman in Mind (7th-11th of December) and A Streetcar Named Desire (14th-18th of December).
Meanwhile our second term plays have been cast after two very busy days of auditions. Our short plays for our short play festival are in full rehearsal mode and all look very promising! Those losing their dignity to the world of Panto are also in heavy rehearsals before unleashing the joy of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on unsuspecting schools, all in aid of the Cork Childrens Hospital Club Charity.
There may be a Chirstmas Party with all the Creative Arts Societies so keep an eye out on emails and facebook for imformation!
Not much else to report at the moment so as always keep tuned in!
Pack of Lies
By Hugh Whitemore
16th – 20th November 8pm
Directed by Siobhán Gleeson
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.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €9/€7
Booking/Info: 021 4904275, www.granary.ie (More Info: www.uccdramat.com)
Venue: Granary Theatre
Fortinbras Gets Drunk
The first show of this term is taking place next week from the 9th-13th of November at 8pm in the Granary Theatre! Tickets are €9/€7(Students) and can be booked online by visiting HERE and choosing the show of your choice, on the box office phone number 0214904275, in person at the Granary Theatre, or purchased on the night but please arrive early to avoid disappointment!
'Fortinbras Gets Drunk' is directed by Janusz Flakus and is the story of an absurd and grotesque tragicomedy by a 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...
