The world’s a dump in play at the Fusion Café
A NEW PLAY by local playwright Eamonn Colfer will be staged at Fusion Café from October 19 to 23 at 8 p.m. each night.
Dumpton is a one-act play in which the world is a dump and the central character, Andrei Strove, lives in a fridge.
Andrei’s burgeoning relationship with his self-righteous neighbour Cassie Haibone is interrupted by the arrival of Hoboken Jones, a scavenger known to find things deep within the dump.
Eamonn who is also directing the play has been writing for the stage for almost two years, producting four one-act plays, most recently an abridged version of Dumpton which premiered at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin in February.
Lee Kelly plays the lead character, Andrei Strove. Lee began acting in the early Paul O’ Brien days of Velvet Sky and Janet’s Table .
Stephanie Hayes who plays his neighbour Cassie was a founder member of Yellow Umbrella Theatre and is know for staging politically themed plays such as Can’t Pay Won’t Pay, Road and Rockin’ the Bronx.Stephanie played Cassie in the abridged version of Dumpton in Smock Alley Theatre.
John Crosbie, who plays Hoboken, has been acting for 30 years and has played lead roles in such plays as Innocence, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and States of Shock. He recently won several Best Actor awards on the drama circuit for his performance in Bryony Lavery’s Frozen. He is reprising the role of Hoboken, having played him in Smock Alley.
Bravura 2016 is the title of a group exhibition of work in glass and clay by ten artists which will be hosted by the Blue Egg Gallery in John’s Gate Street from Saturday, October 22, running until November 6.
The exhibition curated by Mary Gallagher will feature work by Scott Benefield, Alison Lowray, Rowena Brown, James Hake, Andrew Luddick, Michael McCrory, James and Tilly Waters and Inga and Les Reed.
The guest speaker at the official opening on Saturday, October 22 at midday will be Dr Audrey Whitty, Keeper of the Art and Industrial Division (Decorative Arts and History) of the National Museum of Ireland.
Audrey, who is from Wexford, has instigated and managed a number of initiatives to promote craft in the National Museum, most recently the creation of a new online presence for the Contemporary Collection of Design and Craft by the National Museum of Ireland and the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland which as launched in September.
This provides an opportunity to view more than 100 works of skill and artistry acquired since 2004. A WILD NIGHT Murphy’s Barn, New Line Road, Wexford, October 29
Food, art and music are on the menu as ‘A Wild Night’ returns to the beautiful surrounds of Murphy’s Barn on the New Line Road in Wexford on Saturday, October 29.
The night will consist of sit-down three-course meal using ingredients from local producers and an arts programme featuring film and installation work from the visual artist Els Dietvorst, a literary-musical performance by Peter Murphy, Paula Cox and Paul Creane, traditional percussion group ‘Cuisle’ led by Frank Torpey, storyteller Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde and talks on contemporary art and food sustainability by the art activists Laura Hyland and Alice Planel.
Tickets cost €50 for the whole shebang and €15 for the post-prandial shenanigans only. The dinner starts at 7 pm and the entertainment will take place from 9pm to 11 pm. Tickets are available from www.eventbrite.com/e/a-wild-nighttickets. Last year’s inaugural event was a sell-out success. Photo and images to come. ‘LIFE OF PI’ FILM SCREENING Wexford Arts Centre, Friday, November 18, at 8 p.m.
The film ‘Life of Pi’ based on the fantasy advernture novel by Yann Martel which is on the Leaving Cert English syllabus will be screened in Wexford Arts Centre on Friday, November 18, at 8 p.m.
The hero, Piscine Molitor ‘Pi’ Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. JOHN NOEL SMITH EXHIBITION Wexford County Council, Saturday, October 15, at 2 p.m.
An exhibition of selected work from 1993 to 2016 by artist John Noel Smith will be officially opened at Wexford County Council headquarters in Carricklawn on Saturday, October 15, at 2 pm. The official opening will be performed by the writer and curator Catherine Marshall and the county arts officer Liz Burns.
Following 22 years spent in Berlin, the artist has lived since 2002 in North Wexford where his great grandfather farmed at Smith’s Cross in Ballycanew and his grandfather was the County Station Master from 1908 to 1915.
His own father moved to Dublin where John Noel grew up in Malahide. He completed his secondary eduation at St Peter’s College, graduating in 1970 before attending Dún Laoghaire School of Art and winning a scholarship to study at the Berlin University of the Arts. SHOWING OF ‘EUGENE ONEGIN’ Movies @ Gorey, Wednesday, October 19, 8.30 p.m. The Vakhtangov Theatre’s production of Pushkin classic Eugene Onegin is coming to Movies @ Gorey. Conceived with cinematic beauty and poetic poignancy by one of Russia’s most prestigious theater companies, this is the first ever theatrical adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse.