Theatre Dates
National Concert Hall - Saturday 12th May
Edinburgh Youth Orchestral Summer Concert
The EYO, on its first visit to Dublin, presents an exciting programme under Conductor Garry Walker of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The soloists are Sophie Cashell from Dublin, winner of the BBC Classical Star programme and Karen Geoghegan from Scotland, the runner up. Since being founded in 1963, Edinburgh Youth Orchestra has established itself as one of Europe’s leading youth orchestras and has toured in the USA as well as all over Europe, including Scandinavia.
Gaeity Theatre - 24th June 2008 – 30th August
Riverdance
Riverdance, now in its 13th phenomenal year of touring, returns to the Gaiety Theatre from 24th June until 30th August. This internationally-acclaimed celebration of Irish music, song and dance that has thrilled millions around the world returns to the Gaiety for its fifth Summer season.
Of all the performances to emerge from Ireland in the past decade - in rock, music, theatre and film - nothing has carried the energy, the sensuality and the spectacle of Riverdance.
Abbey Theatre - Wed 9 July – Sat 2 August
Big Love by Charles Mee
Fifty brides flee fifty grooms and seek refuge in an idyllic Italian villa. When the grooms catch up with their brides, mayhem ensues. Finally, unable to escape their forced marriages, 49 of the brides murder 49 of the grooms - and one bride falls in love!
Big Love by OBIE award-winning American playwright Charles Mee is a modern re-making of one of the western world's oldest plays, The Danaids or The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus.
Renowned for his radical reconstructions of existing texts and collage-like style of playwriting, Mee has taken the ancient tale and created a theatrical extravaganza. With sizzling dialogue, philosophical insights, soaring poetry, pop songs and dance - he paints a startling picture of the relationship between men and women, and the nature of love, in our time.
Selina Cartmell brings her trademark visceral and visual style to direct this exhilarating and darkly funny work.