Main Auditorium

TENDERFOOT

In September 2011, 42 transition year students from 7 schools in South County Dublin signed on for their first day of TENDERFOOT, the Civic Theatre's apprentice theatre programme. Transition year is all about experience – new experiences and new ways of learning. Apprenticeship is all about learning by doing. TENDERFOOT offers transition year students interested in theatre an opportunity to learn about all aspects of the art of theatre in a hands-on way. The plays in the TENDERFOOT programme are written, performed, produced and designed by the students under the guidance of their tutors. TENDERFOOT tutors are all working theatre professionals. The work in this programme is the work of young theatre artists - our TENDERFEET. We hope you enjoy their first tentative steps.

TENDERFOOT is funded by The Civic Theatre, South Dublin County Arts Office and The Arts Council’s Young Ensemble Scheme.

Thursday 26th & Friday 27th January 2012 @ 12pm

Saturday 28th January @ 3pm & 8pm

Admission: €10 & €5 concession

Loose End

Fishamble: The New Play Company presents

The Wheelchair on My Face

A look back at a myopic childhood

Written and performed by Sonya Kelly

‘I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone’s eyes. And so it was discovered why I’d thrown bread to the floating crisp packets in our local pond and walked into lamp posts and said, ’excuse me’. Until that day the world was a swirl of moving coloured blobs. I thought it was the same for everyone. How wrong I was.’

 “Part memoir, part theatre and part stand-up comedy” Irish Independent, this delightful story of a myopic seven year old is brought to you by actor and comedian, Sonya Kelly (The Savage Eye).

 Developed as part of Show in a Bag, an artist development initiative of Dublin Fringe Festival with Fishamble: The New Play Company and Irish Theatre Institute to resource theatre makers and actors.

“delightfully whacky.. hilarious.. tight script and engaging performance.. terrific.” Irish Times

Running time: 55 mins

For trailer click here

Thursday 9th – Saturday 11th February 2012 @ 8.15pm

Admission: €15 & €10 concession

Music

Main Auditorium

Nights on Broadway - the Bee Gees Story

The Bee Gees catalogue of hits from the 60s to the 90s is presented by a full live band featuring some of Ireland's finest musicians. Whether you favour the golden era of the 60s, the dance floor hits of the 70s, the comeback hits of the 80s & 90s or the string of hits they wrote for various artists along the way, this show has something to entertain everyone from the novice to the most discerning fan. This show will entertain all Bee Gee’s and music fans alike and ‘You Should Be Dancin’ all the way from ‘Massachusetts’ to ‘Immortality’.

Friday 10th February 2012 @ 8pm

Admission: €22.50 & €19 concession

Opera Theatre Company

Ireland’s National Touring Opera Company presents

Mozart’s The Magic Flute

Sung in English and directed by Annilese Miskimmon,

Enchanting and evocative, Mozart’s final operatic masterpiece The Magic Flute, is a lyrical love story, set against an atmospheric backdrop of fantasy and mischief. The Queen of the Night is determined to use her only daughter Pamina as a pawn in the continuing war with her estranged husband, Sarastro. She recruits Tamino, a prince and Papageno, a bird-catcher to steal her daughter away from her father. Will Tamino survive his dangerous quest? Will Papageno find the woman of his dreams? and will love prevail over hate? Mozart’s most popular opera is for all ages and opera aficionados and newcomers alike.

Celebrating 25 years of touring opera throughout Ireland, Opera Theatre Company is delighted to return to the Civic theatre with this magical and uplifting opera.

The sublime score ripples with irresistible charm; from the stratospheric arias of the Queen of the Night, to the glorious melodies of Papageno, both reflecting Mozart’s dramatic genius and love for life.

‘A terrific night’s entertainment… this company is driven by ideas, takes risks, and always a fresh and interesting approach’ Sunday Business Post

Tuesday 14th February 2012 @ 8pm

Admission: €28 & €25 concession

Main Auditorium

Cois Ceim presents

Touch Me

Directed and Choreographed by David Bolger

Live Music – Composer/Saxophonist Kenneth Edge

Set among the remains of a boarded-up room, a group of strangers look in from outside. A set of keys unlocks the door to hidden gems left behind. What was that promise that you made? In 1997, CoisCéim produced the critically acclaimed Reel Luck which looked at Ireland on the cusp of the Celtic Tiger. Through a series of vignettes, Touch Me comments on society today and the transformation from tiger visions to the exodus of the once majestic cranes. From this lonely landscape David Bolger rakes through the spoils of an unprecedented era to discover a new beauty, in the promise of the future, in a richer humanity. What are the new symbols of fortune? What makes us happy now?

To view a a trailer click here

Saturday 18th February 2012 @ 8pm

Admission: €20 & €16 concession

Main Auditorium

Theatre

Gúna Nua Theatre Company and Civic Theatre presents

Goddess of Liberty

By Karen Ardiff

With dramaturgical support from Fishamble’s The New Play Clinic.

A Gúna Nua commission by award-winning actor and novelist Karen Ardiff, this beautiful new play tells the story of two Irish immigrants in gold-rush Alaska.  The gripping storyline is set in an archetypal boom-bust town. Frankie and May are waiting anxiously for May’s daughter T-Belle to return from her claim in the Chilkoot pass.  But the gold seams are drying up, Frankie isn’t well and there are secrets and surprises everywhere; under the floorboards, down on the docks and in their heads.  The Goddess of Liberty tells the story of three women on the edge of the world and is by turns hilarious, moving and heart-breaking. This is Karen Ardiff’s first play since her critically acclaimed debut novel – The Secret of My Face. 

Tuesday 21st – Saturday 25th February 2012  @ 8pm

Admission: €20 & €16 concession

Super Saver €10 Tuesday 21st February

A Murder of Crows is a dynamic and theatrically exciting work for children based on the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel. Six actors/ musicians weave a gothic story of two children's journey from abandonment and fear to ultimate survival, seen from the quirky perspective of a chorus of raucous and garrulous crows, whose boisterous antics will delight children.

To view a a trailer click here

A play for children aged 8 and older.

Running time: 65 minutes approximately

Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd March 2012 @ 10am & 12.30pm

Admission: €7.50 Group Rate

Please note, the performance on Saturday 3rd March advertised in the Calendar of Events has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Loose End Studio

Bull Alley Training College presents

Sir John Oldcastle

Wednesday 22nd  February - Saturday 3rd March 2012 @ 8.15pm

Admission: €10 & €7 concession

Loose End Studio

Bull Alley Training College presents

The Rehearsal

by George Villiers

Directed by Katherine Murphy

A playwright invites some critics to a viewing of his latest play. This 17th century satire, pokes fun at the absurdity and pretension of Restoration tragedy.

Tuesday 6th - Saturday 10th March 2012@ 8.15pm

Admission: €10 & €7 concession

Main Auditorium

Jasango Theatre presents

My Brilliant Divorce

by Geraldine Aron

This is Jasango Theatre’s first visit to the Civic with Geraldine Aron’s achingly funny My Brilliant Divorce. The comedy explores what life is like for Angela Kennedy-Lipsky, recently dumped by her accountant husband for a younger model. Rebuilding her life, she finds herself adrift in a sea of weird sexual encounters, sneaky solicitors, phone-in counsellors, a bad case of hypochondria and impending poverty. Should she fight to keep her husband? Or should she sign the final papers and move on? Fast-paced modern comedy, not to be missed!
 

Thursday 8th – Saturday 10th March 2012 @ 8pm

Admission €20 & €16 concession

International Women’s Day 8th March, all tickets €10

Main Auditorium

The Millennium Forum Derry presents

Carthaginians

By Frank McGuiness

Directed by Adrian Dunbar

Frank McGuinness’ Carthaginians has often been acknowledged as one of the enduring plays to have emerged from ‘The Troubles’.   An elegy for Bloody Sunday in Derry, it is a tragedy of intense grief which becomes the unspoken subject through the personal journeys of three women and three men who camp out in a graveyard awaiting the resurrection of the dead. Dido is the outsider who brings daily pram loads of supplies including a script of his own attempt at a Troubles play, The Burning Balaclava, the comic centrepiece which is surrounded by jokes, quizzes and encounters which pass the time of waiting.  Individual resurrections signal a community, like Carthage, rising from its ashes.

This production commemorates the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and this production of Carthaginians celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Forum.

Monday 12th – Saturday 17th March @ 8pm

Admission: €20 & €16 concession

Super Saver: €10 Monday 12th March

Loose End Studio

Bull Alley Training College presents

The Recruiting Officer

by George Farquhar

Directed by Gerry Lee

One of this Irish writer’s great comedies, it is set in Shrewsbury in 1706 and follows the social and sexual exploits of two soldiers during a recruitment.

Tuesday 13th - Saturday 17th March 2012@ 8.15pm

Admission: €10 & €7 concession

Loose End Studio

Bull Alley Training College presents

No End of Blame

by Howard Barker

Directed by Simon Manahan

Barker is one of the greatest contemporary writers, and here he explores freedom of expression vs political censorship through the lives of two friends, both artists, over fifty years of the turbulent 20th century.

Tuesday 20th - Saturday 24th March 2012@ 8.15pm

Admission: €10 & €7 concession

Loose End Studio

Thursday 29th - Saturday 31st March  2012 @ 8.15pm

Admission: €10 concession

Second Age Theatre Company presents

Macbeth

By William Shakespeare

Directed by David Horan

Enter the mind of a dictator…

Ireland’s award-winning classics company Second Age, arrives at the Civic Theatre with a production of one of Shakespeare’s greatest and bloodiest plays, Macbeth.
Macbeth promises to be an arresting and heady take on one of the greatest tragedies of all time. Fair is foul and foul is fair in the mind of this Macbeth from the fateful moment when he encounters the weird Sisters in this Second Age production which marries muscular physicality with deep psychological exploration.

Thursday 29th March @ 3pm & 8pm

Friday 30th March @ 11am

Admission: €22 & €20 concession. €18 for groups of 10 or more