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Wednesday 14 –Saturday 24 AprilPreview: Tuesday 13 April8pm, Saturday matinee 2.30pmTickets: €15 – €25Sign languageinterpreted performanceThursday 22 April, 8pmDirector: Róisín McBrinnSet design: Alyson CumminsLighting design: Paul KeoganCostume design:Donna GeraghtySound design: Ivan Birthistle& Vincent DohertyCast: Jane Brennan, LorcanCranitch, Michele Forbes,Eamonn Hunt, Eleanor Methven,Donal O’Kelly, Jonathan WhiteMonday 26 April only6pmTickets: €4 – €6Director: Sophie MotleyTHE DARKESTCORNERticketpackagesSee two or moreevents and saveup to €5.Call Box Office on(01) 87 87 222for details.the darkest corner on the peacock stageNO ESCAPECompiled and edited by Mary RafteryIn her 1999 film States of Fear and follow up book Suffer the LittleChildren, celebrated writer and journalist Mary Raftery exposedthe widespread abuse of children in institutions run by the Church.She continues to interrogate this issue with No Escape, a piece ofdocumentary theatre based on the findings of the Ryan Report.No Escape is an Abbey Theatre commissionPlease note that the content of No Escape is disturbing.Over 16s only. Parental guidance necessary.THE EVIDENCEI SHALL GIVERICHARD JOHNSONA reading of the controversial play which premiered at the Abbeyin 1961. A courtroom drama, this striking play centres on the caseof a 13-year old girl, transferred from an orphanage to an industrialschool due to her alleged indiscipline.Richard Johnson was a District Court judge in County Kerry and the work,which is said to be based on actual events, was highlighted in the Ryan Report.Thursday 29 April –Saturday 1 May8pmTickets: €15 – €25JAMES XWritten AND directedby Gerard Mannix FlynnA Farcry Productions presentation‘…an account of life literally from the womb, and of the tribulationsthat beset a child’s passage through a country that is portrayed asgrim, authoritarian and deeply prejudiced against him and his kind’.Bruce ArnoldSuitable for over 12s.10
and also...THE DARKEST CORNERMEET THE MAKERS/ TALKSThursday 15 April, 6pmMary Raftery& Róisín McBrinnWriter Mary Raftery and directorRóisín McBrinn discuss the processof making documentary theatre withLiterary Director, Aideen Howard.Tuesday 20 April, 6pmThe Politics of Abuse:Bruce ArnoldWriter and journalist Bruce Arnoldin conversation with DirectorFiach Mac Conghail about thepolitical failure to respond to therecent reports on and cover upof clerical abuse.Thursday 22 April, 6pmGerard Mannix FlynnArtist and independent CityCouncillor Gerard Mannix Flynnaddresses issues ofinstitutionalisation.Tickets: €3 (free to members)11
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