DIT Drama Festival
Dublin 26 February , 2007: The 2007 DIT Drama Festival starts this week and will run for two weeks, organised by the extremely active and talented members of the Drama Society. The drama society on each campus site will perform for three nights and the programme includes a selection of well-known and original works. Students, staff and members of the public are invited to attend all performances which will take place in the Teachers' Club, Parnell Square. The curtain goes up at 8pm each evening.
According to the President of the Drama Society, Karen Clancy, the programme is one of the most ambitious the Society has undertaken. "From the start of the academic year the DIT Drama Society organises drama workshops, sound and lighting workshops and encourages members in the art of set and costume design. Members also get a chance to use their own original writing and watch it come to life when the curtain is raised. Each production will be judged by an experienced judging panel and awards will be presented at the DIT Drama festival awards on the 11th March."
And the drama doesn't end there. The winner of the Best Production title goes forward to the Irish Student Drama Awards at Queens University in Belfast the 13th to 17th March. The overall DIT Drama Society, with members from each campus site drama society, will also bring their production of Harold Pinter's "The Hothouse" to Belfast, representing DIT at the ISDA 2007 Festival.
So, if you want to see the emerging acting stars in DIT, as Karen Clancy says: "Come along and enjoy the art of drama @ the DIT Drama Festival 2007".
The programme (click on the play title to see details):
- 26th to 28th February: Aungier St Drama Society - 2 short plays:
(1) "All Good Things Come To An End"
(2) "F Buddies" - 1st to 3rd March - Kevin St Drama Society
"Dracula" - 5th - 7th of March - Mountjoy Sq Drama Society
"Breaking the Wish bone" - 8th - 10th March - Bolton St & Cathal Brugha St Drama Society - 2
short Plays:
(1) "Operation Closet Escape" - (2) "The Workhouse Ward"
All performances take place at Theatre @ 36 Parnell Square, The Teachers
Club, and curtain up is @ 8pm sharp
(1) "All Good Things Come To An End".
The Kelleher's seem like any normal family from Dublin suburbia, but the lies and secrets they conceal, threaten to tear apart the fragile seams that hold them together.
Cast
Angela Kelleher - Faith Joyce
Derek Kelleher - Peter Grogan
Sinead Kelleher - Lorraine Harton
Mark Kelleher - Bryan Leonard
Grainne Morrison - Susan McDaid
Phillip Tierney - Karl Walsh
Darren Burton - Keith Falvey
Claire Byrne - Rachel Ryan
Aoife Garry - Maria Ohle
Frank Kelleher - Jason Lynam
Sarah Kelleher - Grace Morgan
Crew
Lighting/Sound - Conor Keating
Stage Manager - Ruth Power
Costume/Makeup - Brid O' Donnell
Writer/Director - Jason Lynam
(2) "F Buddies"
F**k Buddies: As a house party looms on the horizon, a group of almost strangers, lovers and friends discuss the illusion of love, the soul destroying aspects of work, the harsh realities of relationships and life in general.
Cast
Clare - Siomha Ni Aonghusa
Steve - Eric FitzgeraldEd - Edwin Sammon
Gemma - Aisling O'Sullivan
Vinnie - Kevin CampionSiobhan - Laura Reade
Crew
Writers/Directors - Edwin Sammon and Jonathan Sammon
Producer - Kate McEvoy
Lighting - Dean Keating
"Dracula" - re written by Neil Kavanagh
Cast
Dracula - Neil 'Covey' Kavanagh
Jonathon Harker - Shane O'Toole
Mr Hawkins - Gordon Sands
Landlady - Lina Hacker
Lost Girl - Gráinne Byrne
Mina Harker - Lisa Corrigan
Lucy Westernra - Niamh O'Brien
Dr. John Seward - Gordon Sands
Quincey Morris - Daniel King
Arthur Holmwood - Dave O' Grady
The Vampire Brides - Lina Hacker, Emily Keaveney, Gráinne Byrne
Mr Swales - Paul Martin
Reporter - Emily Keaveney
Coastguard - Neil 'Covey' Kavanagh
Renfield - Dave O' Grady
Bennett - Shane O'Toole
Withers - Neil 'Covey' Kavanagh
Mrs Westenra - Elaine Murphy
Professor Van Helsing - Paul Martin
Mrs Outhwaite - Elaine Murphy
Crew:
Adapted by: David Calcutt
Lighting Director: Marcus Fitzsimons
Set Design by: Neil 'Covey' Kavanagh
Costume Design By: Emily Keaveney Lisa Corrigan
Directed by: Neil 'Covey' Kavanagh
Produced by: Neil 'Covey' Kavanagh
"Breaking the Wish bone" written by Siobhan Parkinson. Directed by Maebh Horan-Murphy
Picture this. A group of youngsters with nowhere to go, nothing much to do, making the best shift they can in the circumstances. See it as a documentary, if you like, heads to camera, as they piece together their stories, how they got here, why they left, where they were before, what's happening for them now, where they hope they're going. You don't have to see it our way, of course. You can see it anyway you like - viewers' prerogative.
Cast
Caroline - Fiona Cowman
Samantha - Fiona
Curly - Conor Boyle
Johner - Dawn O'Higgins
Beano - Rory-The Jesus-Deadly
Lorraine - Karen Murphy
Johner's Sisters - Ciara O'Malley, Neasa O'Shea Brady
Johner's Mam - Heather Joyce
Caroline's Mam - Rebbecca O'Neill
Caroline's Dad -Battered wives - Margo, Emma, Emma, Laura , Naomi
Crew:
Director - Maebh Horan-Murphy
Assistant Director - Rebbeca O'Neill
Make-up - Julie Grogan
(1) "Operation Closet Escape" Written by Brian Dennison
Trapped in an attic and discarded by the world, the toys are coming out to play. "Operation Closet Escape", by Brian Dennison, is an offbeat fairy tale that takes you on a journey through the looking glass and into the toy box. Our narrator brings you to the world of forgotten toys in a quirky tale of tortured love, tortured toys and a tortured soul.
Cast:
Narrator - Courtney McDonnell
Nutcracker Prince - Ultan Hogan
Ballerina - Susie McAdam
G.I.Joe - Ian FoxCandy - Julie-Anne Mullane
Ted E. Bear - Noel Griffin
Baby-wets-herself - Aoife McAteer
Cowboy Dan - John May
Gollywog - Joe Devaney
Optimus Prime - John Peter Casey
Home owner - Lucy - Jennifer Kane (voice)
Home owner - Father - Gavin Mooney (voice)
Toy soldier - Donna Shiels
Crew:
Director - Brian Dennison
Assistant Director - John May
Technical crew - Gavin Mooney
Sound & recording - David Cummins
Graphics - Robbie Tighe robbie@priorymarketing.com
(2)"The Workhouse Ward" written by Lady Gregory
"The Workhouse Ward" finds two witty, cantankerous old men sharing a ward in Cloon workhouse. Living on their hatred for one another, they show off their rhetorical skill and interpret their lives together when a benevolent sister arrives to take one of them home. Lady Gregory based her play on the old Irish saying "It is better to be quarreling than to be lonesome."
Cast:
Mike MacInerney - John Peter Casey
Honor Donoghue - Courtney McDonnell
Michael Miskell - Ian Fox
Crew:
Director - Noel Griffin
Assistant Director - Brian Dennison
Technical crew - Gavin Mooney
Sound & recording - David Cummins
Crew - Kate Cullen
