Blackwater Valley - presents: Blood in the Alley Theatre Company - 20th Jan - 16th Feb 2019 - Cork County Council
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Blood in the Alley Theatre Company
in association with Cork County Council and The Arts Council
presents:
Blackwater Valley
20th Jan - 16th Feb 2019
www.fit-uptheatrefestival.com
★★★★ ★★★★
Week one: 20 – 26 January #FishambleSilent
Winner Winner Winner
Olivier Award Argus Angel Award Fringe First
2016 Brighton Festival 2012 & Herald Angel Hopeless, helpless, in-the-way person
Edinburgh Fringe
2011 Homeless McGoldrig has lost it all - including his
Fishamble: The New Play Company mind. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in
presents:
this brave, bleak, beautiful production for which Fishamble
and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award last year.
‘passionate one-man show...Mr. Kinevane
interprets Valentino’s highly theatrical screen pres-
ence to stunning effect...carefully wrought production
...[he] doesn’t just demand [the audience’s] attention,
he commands it. And that difference is what makes
Mr. Kinevane an artist of the theater.’ – Ben Brantley,
The New York Times
‘writing and a performance of unflagging
and effortless panache that grabs your heart and
squeezes tightly.’ – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
‘unflinching, intensely physical performance
...bristling with black humour’ – The Scotsman
‘bawdily humorous and at times moving
production…Kinevane moves around the stage with
extraordinary grace’ – Irish Mail on Sunday
Written and
Performed by:
Pat Kinevane Age Suitability: 15+
Running Time: 90min
Directed by: No Interval
Jim Culleton Fishamble is an internationally acclaimed Irish
theatre company, dedicated to the discovery, development
Produced by: and production of new work.
Eva Scanlan www.fishamble.com
Week one: 20 – 26 January #FishambleForgotten
Fishamble: The New Play Company Has no one a skitter o’ dignity left?
presents:
A unique collage of Kabuki dance and Irish
storytelling, ‘Forgotten’ has been a huge international
success for Fishamble during the past decade. It is a
captivating portrayal of four elderly characters living
in retirement homes around Ireland. Pat Kinevane’s
haunting performance brings to life these sometimes
forgotten voices of society.‘
‘incredibly moving and unequivocally bea-
utiful…immediate and compelling’ – The Scotsman
‘exceptional solo show…a bravura display
by Kinevane, full of robust vitality and a roguish, twink-
ling wit’ – The Herald
‘Drop everything. Book now...captivating,
moving and - yes - even unforgettable’ – Irish Times
‘a piece of theatre not easily forgotten…its
best moments linger in the mind and haunt you on the
way home, and after, maybe…a performance of rare
authority and completeness…a seductive, compelling
quality, performed with grace and rigour.’
– The Sunday Tribune
Written and
Performed by:
Pat Kinevane Age Suitability: 14+
Running Time: 95min
Directed by: No Interval
Jim Culleton Fishamble is an internationally acclaimed Irish
theatre company, dedicated to the discovery, development
Produced by: and production of new work.
Eva Scanlan www.fishamble.com
Week two: 29 January – 3 February
Seamus O’Rourke
Seamus O’Rourke is a writer, director and actor...and an indep-
endent producer with his own company ‘Big Guerilla Productions’. As
a writer, his plays include ‘Ride On’ (Liven’ Dread 2011) ‘dig’, ‘Down’ and
‘The Trappe Family’ (Corn Mill Theatre) ‘dig’, ‘For Club and County’ (Moth
Productions) ‘Victor’s Dung’ and ‘My Aunt Bee’ (Big Guerilla Productions)
and his three One-Man-Shows, ‘The Sand Park’, ‘Padraig Potts’ Guide to
Walking’ and ‘Indigestion’ (Big Guerilla Productions).
Big Guerilla Productions Arthur Riordan
presents:
Recent stage appearances include ‘Krapp’s last tape’ at the
Theatre Royal, Waterford, ‘The Kings of the Kilburn High Road’ (Livin’
Dred/Verdant productions), and ‘Swing’ (Fishamble, the New Play Com-
pany). He has also worked extensively with Rough Magic (he is a founding
member), as well as many other leading Irish theatre companies, including
the Abbey and Peacock.
Seamus O’Rourke once again brings us a
story full of heartache and humour, as a pair of aging,
rural, bachelor brothers arrive at a point in their lives,
where decisions have to be made about certain things...
well the buying of a television for one...and one subject
leads to another and the next thing, they’re bringing
up all kinds of ‘auld shite’ that could have been left
under the bed along with everything else.
Eugene McPartland is woken by his brother
Written by: Pat in the middle of the night in 1979. Not only does
Seamus O’Rourke Pat wake him, but he has his good suit on him too...
and a light on in the bedroom and another on the
Directed by: landing...and as well as burning up the electric, he
Bairbre Ni Chaoimh now wants to talk...
Performed by: Age Suitability: 15+
Seamus O’Rourke Running time: 100min
Arthur Riordan 10min Interval
Week three: 5– 10 February
Little John Nee is widely regarded as one
of Irelands leading solo theatre performers, his songs
have been praised by John Prine and his theatre shows
have received critical acclaim in the UK and in the US.
“Small Halls and Potholes” is an evening of
eccentric songs and strange stories; “There are parts
of Ireland that are less explored than the moon that’s
where I go to get my songs”
Little John’s shows combine lyrical comic
storytelling with original music and songs played on
a variety of intriguing instruments creating magical
soundscapes.
He received an Irish Times Theatre Award
for Best Sound Designer for “Sparkplug” and the sub-
sequent RTE Radio Drama adaption won a prize at the
prestigious Prix Italia 2013. He was elected to Aosdana
in 2016. A book of his haiku “The Apocalypse Came
On A Friday” was published the same year. “Small Halls
and Potholes” has travelled to Hungary, Croatia, Czech
Written, Directed Republic, Slovenia and Vienna as part of a “Five Cities
and Performed by: Tour”
Little John Nee
‘We rode a wave of emotion with him, the
peaks and the troughs. And afterwards, we felt good,
better than we had a couple of hours earlier. Everyone
was smiling. Reflective smiles that come with having
been privy to something special.’
– The Budapest Times
Age Suitability: 14+
Running time: 90min
No Interval
Week four: 12 – 16 February
Noni Stapleton
Winner Winner
Bewley’s Little Stewart Parker Noni is an Irish actress, voice over artist and playwright. She
Gem Award Prize graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting beginning her theatrical
Dublin Fringe 2014 2015 career in What The Dead Want (directed by Jimmy Fay). She has cont-
inued to work in theatre, tv and film over the years and has also performed
in many Irish language productions. Theatre highlights include Perform-
ance Corporation’s Lizzy Lavelle and The Vanishing of Emlyclough, The
Laramie Project, Massacre @ Paris, Little Victories, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and The Good Father. Screen credits include Penny Dreadful,
Inspector Jury, Vikings and Fair City.
A surreal, black comedy, Charolais takes
the age old story of female jealousy and gives it a new
twist: the other woman is a cow, a literal one, a pure-
bred Charolais heifer. Rarely in Irish theatre are the
challenges of farming life and the joy of sex expressed
so frankly.
‘This hilarious take on rural life and love is
a paradox: superficially crude, it’s full of wisdom and
Written & tenderness.’ – Sunday Independent
Performed by:
Noni Stapleton ‘The last thing you would expect in an Irish
rural drama is a parody of Edith Piaf. But Stapleton, is
Directed & all Gallic sexiness...and conveying what an unsophisti-
Developed by: cated Irish girl might not otherwise be able to’
Bairbre Ní – Irish Examiner
Chaoimh
‘A fast-paced, witty, and intensely emotional
tale filled with laughter, loss and despair’
– Irish Times
Age Suitability: 15+
Running Time: 70min
No Interval
Production Venues & Dates
Week one: Week two: Week three: Week four:
Sun. January 20th - 8pm Tue. January 29th - 8pm Tue. February 5th - 8pm Tue. February 12th - 8pm
The Palace Theatre, Fermoy Muintir na Tire, Buttevant Muintir na Tire, Buttevant Muintir na Tire, Buttevant
Forgotten
Wed. January 30th - 8pm Wed. February 6th - 8pm Wed. February 13th - 8pm
Tue. January 22nd - 8pm Ballynoe Community Hall Ballynoe Community Hall Ballynoe Community Hall
Muintir na Tire, Buttevant
Forgotten Thurs. January 31st - 8pm Thurs. February 7th - 8pm Thurs. February 14th - 8pm
Meelin Community Hall Meelin Community Hall Meelin Community Hall
Wed. January 23rd - 8pm
Ballynoe Community Hall Fri. February 1st - 8pm Fri. February 8th - 8pm Fri. February 15th - 8pm
Silent First Fruits, Watergrasshill First Fruits, Watergrasshill Kades Kounty, Glenville
Thur. January 24th - 8pm Sat. February 2nd - 8pm Sat. February 9th - 8pm Sat. February 16th - 8pm
Meelin Community Hall The Town Hall, Mitchelstown The Town Hall, Mitchelstown The Town Hall, Mitchelstown
Forgotten
Sun. February 3rd - 8pm Sun. February 10th - 8pm
Fri. January 25th - 8pm The Palace Theatre, Fermoy The Palace Theatre, Fermoy
Kades Kounty, Glenville
Silent
Sat. January 26th - 8pm
The Town Hall, Mitchelstown
Silent
“An excellent offering of Plays”
Sunday Business Post
Tickets at the door
€15 per ticket, €12.50 Concession
€40 Family ticket (2 adults & 2 teens)
Doors open 30 min. before show start time
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