October 2017 - Festivals around the World
XperTeatro's TOP FIVE Theatre Festivals throughout October 2017
RomaEuropa Festival - Rome (Italy) / Actoral Marseille (France) / FAB Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux Métropole - Bordeaux (France) / Georgian International Festival of Arts GIFT -Tbilisi (Georgia) / Dublin Theatre Festival - Dublin (Ireland
RomaEuropa Festival - Rome (Italy)
20 September - 20 November 2017
Actoral - Marseille (France)
26 September-14 October 2017
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FAB Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux Métropole -(France)
5-25 October 2017
Georgian International Festival of Arts GIFT - Tbilisi ( Georgia )
15 Oct- 12 Nov 2017
Dublin Theatre Festival - Dublin (Ireland)
28 Sept-15 Oct 2017
Iseult Golden and David Horan, Ireland
‘Donna always sh*ts a brick – I mean, she gets all nervous – comin’ in here. It’s like she reverts.’
Brian and Donna’s son is nine years old, and he’s struggling. That’s what his teacher says. Says he should see a psychologist. But Brian and Donna – recently separated – never liked school, never liked teachers.
Venus and Adonis By William Shakespeare
King of the Castle (Druid Theatre Company)
Woyzeck in Winter
Landmark Productions and the Galway International Arts Festival bring Woyzeck in Winter to the Gaiety Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Taking Georg Büchner’s unfinished play Woyzeck (1837) and Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise as source material is certainly no mean feat, but director Conall Morrison rises to the challenge of adaptation.
With lyrics by Stephen Clark – after the poetry of Wilhelm Müller – Woyzeck in Winter succeeds as both an astonishing fleet of theatricality, and as a complex plunge into the darkest capabilities of the human psyche.
The Suppliant Women
The Suppliant Women’ opens this years Dublin Theatre Festival in a sensational and emotional triumph.
It tells the story of a large group of women seeking asylum in Greece, where they will be protected under the powerful ruling of the Gods.
Tribes
Fiercely intelligent, caustically funny and emotionally wrenching piece about communication, belonging, and identity.
The Independent
A smart lively play that asks us to hear how we hear, in silence as well as in
speech.
New York Times
I’m Not Here
‘I’m Not Here‘ is not an easy performance to watch.
Then again, its subject matter is not one that is easy to tackle.
Over 70 minutes, Doireann Coady’s theatrical writing debut tells the story of one family’s experience of their son’s suicide.
This Is A Room
This Is A Room… written by Dylan Coburn Gray and directed by Veronica Coburn in a look about what a home is and means to young people as they come of age with the backdrop of Ireland’s housing crisis.
Rapids by Shaun Dunne
Exploring instances of disclosure and the presence of stigma in the lives of men and women who are HIV+ in Ireland today, Rapids is a new work from Talking Shop Ensemble that looks to playfully and respectfully make the private public.
In making this piece, the company have collaborated with several groups from the HIV+ community.
Hamnet
“Grief fills the room up of my absent child” -
King John, Act III, Scene IV
William Shakespeare had one son. He named him Hamnet.
He then left home to pursue his career in the theatre, effectively abandoning his family.
In 1596, he was told that the boy - who was then eleven years old - was seriously ill.
By the time Shakespeare reached Stratford, Hamnet had died.
Hamnet demonstrates the tragic experience par excellence: he asks the question, why thinking leads so rarely to action…. a highlight of the festival.
Berliner Zeitung
