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3rd Lughnasa FrielFest, Derry~Londonderry 6th Happy Days: International Beckett Festival Enniskillen 2-19 August 2018

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<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Over</strong> <strong>Borders</strong><br />

presents<br />

3rd Lughnasa<br />

FrielFest:<br />

Derry~Londonderry<br />

& Donegal<br />

6th Happy Days:<br />

International<br />

Beckett Festival<br />

Enniskillen<br />

August 2–19, <strong>2018</strong>


northern literary lands<br />

Principal Partners<br />

Major Partners<br />

Supporting Partners<br />

Community Partners<br />

Festival Donors<br />

Peter & Fiona Espenhahn, Mary Heaney,<br />

Joanna McVey, Tim & Chris Ungar, Michael & Ruth West<br />

Thanks<br />

A special thank you to the Beckett Estate and the Friel Estate.


‘Happy Days is democratising Beckett. Devoted fidelity to Beckett’s<br />

vision works here. …this is brave programming’<br />

FINANCIAL TIMES<br />

‘(Happy Days) has become one of the most enthralling festivals in<br />

the cultural calendar. One senses that Beckett himself, who once<br />

wrote of ‘secret spaces where nobody ever comes’ and ‘sites of a<br />

stirring beyond coming and going, of a being so light and free that<br />

it is as the being of nothing’’, would have approved.<br />

THE OBSERVER<br />

‘Musicians, poets, actors, performers, artists, talkers, doers and<br />

watchers celebrate his life and works on land and beneath the<br />

ground; on water, by water and under soft rain. In this island town,<br />

reflections and precipitation blur boundaries<br />

between earth and sky’<br />

THE OBSERVER<br />

‘…artistic excellence of the highest order. Far from being a<br />

po-faced affair, its programmes are laced with wit and some<br />

degree of eccentricity’<br />

THE STAGE<br />

‘Happy Days is a festival filled with good surprises… (it) deserves<br />

extra credit for reviving May B – a gem of European dance theatre<br />

that deserves to be much more widely known’.<br />

THE GUARDIAN<br />

‘a festive and buoyant atmosphere that works strangely well with<br />

Beckett’s famously dark, difficult and often mordantly humorous<br />

oeuvre…an admirable balance between a focus on the writer’s own<br />

pieces, and on other artistic events with associations to Beckett and<br />

his work’.<br />

NEW YORK TIMES<br />

‘…must rank as the most paradoxical arts festival on Earth. A<br />

chance to soul-search and sightsee at the same time. Can you have<br />

your Beckettian cake and eat it? Once a year, I think, it’s allowed’.<br />

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH


<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Over</strong> <strong>Borders</strong> - Artist Honorary Patrons<br />

Laurie Anderson<br />

John Banville<br />

Kevin Barry<br />

Ciaran Carson<br />

Roma Downey<br />

Adrian Dunbar<br />

Lisa Dwan<br />

Roy Foster<br />

Philip Glass<br />

Nick Laird<br />

Eimear McBride<br />

Lisa McInerney<br />

Sinead Morrissey<br />

Paul Muldoon<br />

Ohad Naharin<br />

Glenn Patterson<br />

Tom Paulin<br />

Fiona Shaw<br />

Raja Shehadeh<br />

Colm Toibin<br />

Robert Wilson<br />

<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Over</strong> <strong>Borders</strong> - Board of Trustees<br />

Chairperson Mary Heaney<br />

Mary Campbell<br />

Peter Espenhahn<br />

Carlo Gebler<br />

Tess Maginess<br />

William Morrison<br />

Oliver O’Connor<br />

Paul Sternberg<br />

and a very special thank<br />

you to our Vice-Chair<br />

Alison McArdle (2014-<strong>2018</strong>)<br />

who has returned to<br />

Australia.<br />

<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Over</strong> <strong>Borders</strong> - Festival Staff<br />

Festival Manager (Happy Days): Siobhan O’Connor<br />

Festival Manager (Lughnasa FrielFest): Jonathan Burgess<br />

Artist Liaison (Happy Days): Sally Rees<br />

Odyssey Manager (FrielFest) Arthur Oliver-Brown<br />

Music Manager (Happy Days): Matthew Murphy<br />

Production Manager (Happy Days): Barry McKinney<br />

Copywriter: Alistair Daniel<br />

Programme Design: Keith Connolly, Tonic Design - tonicdesign01@gmail.com<br />

Our thanks to<br />

Enniskillen<br />

Monsignor Peter O’Reilly,<br />

Dean Kenneth Hall,<br />

John Graham,<br />

Barbara Johnston,<br />

Heather White,<br />

Enniskillen Royal Grammar,<br />

Lord Brookeborough,<br />

Jimmy Rogers,<br />

Ian Davidson,<br />

Bryony May,<br />

Hazel Johnson &<br />

the Jolly Sandwich<br />

Derry-Londonderry<br />

Marty Melarkey, the<br />

Sandwich Company,<br />

Warehouse Café,<br />

Mark Lusby, Karen Friel.<br />

Others: Orla Constant,<br />

Nessa McGill and a BIG<br />

thank you to all our<br />

volunteers.<br />

Donegal<br />

Fr. Donoghue, Glenties<br />

Patricia McBride<br />

Traolach O’Fionnain


W E L C O M E<br />

Welcome to <strong>Arts</strong> over <strong>Borders</strong> (Ireland’s presenting body for cross-border<br />

arts festivals) & welcome to its 3rd Lughnasa FrielFest and 6th Happy Days:<br />

Enniskillen International Beckett Festival.<br />

Our bio-festival model is a bespoke format which takes its inspiration from<br />

the genius of a single artist and is curated with a strong sense of place, both<br />

rural & urban, throughout border communities and landscapes - what we<br />

now call the northern literary lands.<br />

<strong>Over</strong> three weekends in August (Gaelic, Lughnasa), this year’s projects<br />

extend across six counties from Ballycastle in Co. Antrim to Portnoo in Co.<br />

Donegal, from Omagh in Co. Tyrone to Magheroarty, from Derry-<br />

Londonderry city to outside Blacklion in Co. Cavan and from Magilligan<br />

in Co. Derry-Londonderry to Enniskillen in Co. Fermanagh, taking place<br />

in underground caves, islands on a lake, beaches, the Walls of Derry, village<br />

halls, cafes, arts centres, schools, a crypt, a roadside, a pier and a mountain!<br />

First and foremost though our heightened site-specific experiences are<br />

there to underpin the artist’s work.<br />

For six years, we have presented festivals on Beckett, Friel and Wilde in<br />

Ireland’s border counties but August <strong>2018</strong> will be our last festivals before<br />

Brexit. And so we offer two experiential Beckett Border projects: Three (or<br />

more) Billboards Outside Enniskillen & Sligo and Purgatorio: Walking for Waiting<br />

for Godot in the Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Geopark.<br />

We have chosen Homer's two great poetic epics to sit either side of the<br />

border: the Odyssey being to Donegal - the county with Ireland's longest<br />

coastline - as the Iliad, epic of all epics, is to Derry - the city with the longest<br />

siege in British and Irish history.<br />

We thank all our artists – local, national and international – our small but<br />

resourceful compliment of staff, our ever supportive and enabling Board<br />

of Trustees and all our courageous partners and funders.<br />

Seán Doran & Liam Browne<br />

Festival Curators-DoranBrowne<br />

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3rd Lughnasa<br />

FrielFest:<br />

Derry~Londonderry<br />

& Donegal<br />

T H E O D y S S E y B y H O M E r<br />

T H E I L I A D B y H O M E r<br />

FA I T H H E A L E r B y B r I A n F r I E L<br />

T H r E E S I S T E r S B y B r I A n F r I E L ( T r A n S L AT I O n )<br />

L I v I n g Q uA rT E r S B y B r I A n F r I E L<br />

T H E yA LTA g A M E B y B r I A n F r I E L<br />

A F T E r P L Ay B y B r I A n F r I E L<br />

L I S A M C g E E I n C O n v E r S AT I O n<br />

J E z B u T T E r W O rT H I n C O n v E r S AT I O n<br />

C O S k u n k A r A D E M I r Q uA rT E T<br />

r u B y P H I LO g E n E ( M E z zO S O P r A n O )<br />

S P I r I T uA LS A n D S O n g S<br />

A n D r E I B O n D A r E n kO ( B A r I TO n E )<br />

r u S S I A n S O n g r E C I TA L<br />

F r I E L F E S T D I A r y<br />

6<br />

8<br />

1 2<br />

2 6<br />

2 8<br />

3 0<br />

3 1<br />

2 2<br />

2 3<br />

2 9<br />

9<br />

3 2<br />

3 8


1 0<br />

4 0<br />

1 4<br />

1 7<br />

1 8<br />

2 0<br />

24<br />

3 6<br />

3 7<br />

1 6<br />

2 5<br />

3 5<br />

3 9<br />

P u r g ATO r I O - WA L k I n g FO r WA I T I n g FO r<br />

g O D OT B y S A M u E L B E C k E T T<br />

T H r E E ( O r M O r E ) B I L L B O A r D S O u T S I D E<br />

E n n I S k I L L E n & S L I g O<br />

W H AT W H E r E B y S A M u E L B E C k E T T<br />

n OT I & PA S M O I B y S A M u E L B E C k E T T<br />

T H E O L D T u n E B y S A M u E L B E C k E T T<br />

T H E D E v E n I S H I S L A n D T r I P T y C H<br />

g u y S TAg g &<br />

C A r LO g E B L E r : I n T r O D u C TO r y TA L k<br />

T H E P O rTO r A r E A D I n g S & OT H E r<br />

r E A D I n g S / TA L k S<br />

C O L I n S A L M O n - B E C k E T T r E A D E r I n<br />

r E S I D E n C E<br />

C A M I L L E O ’ S u L L I vA n ( S I n g E r )<br />

W I n T E r r E I S E : C H r I S T I A n n E S TOT I J n ( M E z zO S O P r A n O )<br />

J u L I E n vA n M E L L A E rT S ( B A r I TO n E )<br />

F r E n C H S O n g r E C I TA L<br />

H A P P y D Ay S D I A r y<br />

6th Happy Days:<br />

International<br />

Beckett Festival<br />

Enniskillen<br />

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T H E O D y S S E y<br />

by Homer<br />

Rhapsodes (Actors) Maxine Peake, Imogen Stubbs,<br />

Natascha McElhone, Frances Barber<br />

Thursday 9 August, 3pm<br />

Downhill Beach,<br />

Co. Derry~Londonderry<br />

( M A x I n E P E A k E )<br />

Friday 10 August, T I M E T B C<br />

killahoey Beach,<br />

Co. Donegal<br />

( M A x I n E P E A k E )<br />

Saturday 11 August, 2.30pm<br />

Portstewart Beach,<br />

Co. Derry~Londonderry<br />

( I M O g E n S T u B B S )<br />

Sunday 12 August, 2.30pm<br />

Magilligan Beach,<br />

Co. Derry~Londonderry<br />

( I M O g E n S T u B B S )<br />

Wednesday 15 August, 7pm<br />

Ballycastle Beach,<br />

Co. Antrim<br />

( S E E W E B S I T E )<br />

Thursday 16 August, 7pm<br />

narin Beach, Portnoo,<br />

Co. Donegal<br />

( S E E W E B S I T E )<br />

Friday 17 August, 7pm<br />

Carrickfinn Beach<br />

Co. Donegal<br />

( n ATA S C H A M C E L H O n E )<br />

Saturday 18 August, 5pm<br />

Magheroarty Beach,<br />

Co. Donegal<br />

( F r A n C E S B A r B E r )<br />

Sunday 19 August, 6pm<br />

Lisfannon Beach,<br />

Co. Donegal<br />

( F r A n C E S B A r B E r )<br />

Tickets: £15 ( n I ) / €15 ( r O I ) | Duration: 60mins<br />

CELEBRATING FRIEL’S PASSION for all things Homeric and transposing the<br />

story from Greece to Europe’s western edge the festival presents readings<br />

from Homer’s great epic of voyage, shipwreck and homecoming across<br />

beaches in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. From the northeast<br />

of Ballycastle (where Greek hexameters meet the hexagonal rock<br />

formations of the Giant’s Causeway) to the north-west’s sweeping sands of<br />

Narin & Portnoo in Co. Donegal the readings move in and out of the<br />

exhilaratingly beautiful indented coastline and back and forth across the<br />

border. And along the way the Greek myths of Homer meet Irish myths -<br />

such as Balor the one-eyed giant or Finn McCool. It finishes on the<br />

Inishowen Peninsula, the safe harbour of Brian Friel’s own Ithaca homeland.<br />

Inside a pitched tent, an acclaimed actor reads from Emily Wilson’s superb<br />

new translation (the first in English by a woman), accompanied by Greek<br />

food, live Greek music and the crashing of the Atlantic waves.<br />

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T H E I L I A D<br />

by Homer<br />

Rhapsode (Actor) Niall Cusack<br />

E P I S O D E 1<br />

Friday 10 August, 6.30pm<br />

Outside Walls below Walker’s Plinth<br />

E P I S O D E 2<br />

Saturday 11 August, 1.30pm<br />

grand Parade at Walker’s Plinth<br />

( W E S T FA C I n g )<br />

E P I S O D E 3<br />

Saturday 11 August, 5.30pm<br />

Double Bastion at verbal <strong>Arts</strong> Centre<br />

( S O u T H FA C I n g )<br />

E P I S O D E 4<br />

Sunday 12 August, 11am<br />

East Wall at Artillery Bastion<br />

E P I S O D E 5<br />

Sunday 12 August, 5pm<br />

Church bastion at St. Columb’s Cathedral ( E A S T FA C I n g )<br />

*Followed by ruby Philogene M B E - Mezzo Soprano & Trevor Burnside - Piano<br />

Concert in St. Columb’s Cathedral | Duration 30mins l Free*<br />

Tickets: £10 | Duration: 60mins<br />

BRIAN FRIEL LOVED HOMER and when it comes to a reading of The Iliad, in<br />

which Homer recounts the story of the Siege of Troy (Ilium meaning Troy)<br />

with Achilles, Hector, Helen, Odysseus & Agamemnon, where better to<br />

hold it than on the Walls of Derry, a city famous for its own siege. Five<br />

episodes from the epic will be read in a military-style tent; the opening<br />

episode will take place on a grassy knoll just outside the Walls overlooking<br />

the Bogside (with its terraced rows of houses reimagined as the camped<br />

tents of the Greeks). The remaining four episodes will be held on different<br />

bastions within the Walls surrounded on the Saturday by the dramatic<br />

soundscape of the Apprentice Boys' marching bands.<br />

To conclude the Iliad readings and as a counterbalance to a weekend of<br />

brutal descriptions of war and its aftermath, a short concert of balm with<br />

spirituals and songs will be given by opera and gospel singer Ruby Philogene,<br />

a first prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and who has sung at,<br />

amongst other places, the Royal Opera House and Deutsche Oper Berlin<br />

and at the special invitation of Princess Diana.<br />

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PurgATOrIO: WALkIng FOr<br />

WAITIng FOr gODOT<br />

Tragi-Comedy for the Border<br />

Marble Arch Caves unESCO global geo-park<br />

W E E k E n D 1<br />

Saturday 4 August, 10am<br />

Sunday 5 August, 10am<br />

W E E k E n D 2<br />

Saturday 18 August, 10am<br />

Sunday 19 August, 10am<br />

( A L L P E r F O r M A n C E S n E C E S S I TAT E W A L k I n g F r O M 8 A M O r B E F O r E<br />

S E E W E B S I T E F O r C A S T A n D F u r T H E r D E TA I L S )<br />

Tickets: £15<br />

A Country Road. A Mountain. A Tree. Morning<br />

IN ‘WAITING FOR GODOT’ it is usually the characters of the play, Vladimir<br />

and Estragon who do the walking and suffer sore feet for their troubles but<br />

in this unique site-specific Godot it is the audience who walk, through the<br />

Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geo-park (the first transnational geopark<br />

in the world), through the existential Beckettian landscape, to gather<br />

at the Irish border around Antony Gormley’s Tree for Waiting for Godot<br />

(specially installed for the occasion) for a rehearsed reading of the play.<br />

This is participatory, experiential drama at its<br />

most extreme and on the last Happy Days before<br />

Brexit the festival is culturally occupying the<br />

border with a quintessentially Irish play that<br />

nonetheless has universal appeal, whose themes<br />

could not be more relevant to our times - themes<br />

of waiting, of the sense of the days repeating<br />

themselves, of despair, of pathos, of homelessness,<br />

but all of this lifted by the hopefulness of<br />

great art.<br />

The Festival presents its<br />

first Waiting for Godot<br />

in English, subsequent<br />

to previously presented<br />

productions from The<br />

Berliner Ensemble in<br />

german Warten Auf<br />

Godot directed by<br />

george Tabori (2015),<br />

Theatre nono in French<br />

En Attendant Godot<br />

(2014) and new york<br />

new yiddish rep in<br />

yiddish Wartn Af Godot<br />

(2013). This site-specific<br />

godot is a sequel to the<br />

Dante-inspired Inferno<br />

(2013).<br />

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‘It arrives at the custom-house as it were, with no<br />

luggage, no passport and nothing to declare yet it<br />

gets through, as might a pilgrim from Mars…’<br />

Kenneth Tynan on Waiting for Godot, Observer 1953


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FA I T H H E A L E r<br />

by Brian Friel<br />

A Promenade Reading<br />

Location: Pick up at Market Hall, glenties | Duration: 4 hours<br />

W E E k E n D 1<br />

Friday 10 August, 6pm<br />

Saturday 11 August, 5pm<br />

Sunday 12 August, 4pm<br />

Frank - See website<br />

grace - Tamsin greig<br />

Teddy - Alex Jennings<br />

W E E k E n D 2<br />

Friday 17 August, 6pm<br />

Saturday 18 August, 5pm<br />

Sunday 19 August, 4pm<br />

Frank - rory kinnear<br />

grace - Laura Donnelly<br />

Teddy - See website<br />

Tickets: €25 ( I n C L u D E S P I C n I C A n D B u S )<br />

P L E A S E n O T E : F O r T H E F I n A L A C T 4 O F W E E k E n D 1 , S I n g L E T I C k E T S W I L L B E S O L D<br />

BRIAN FRIEL’S DARING four-act monologue masterpiece, Faith Healer (1979)<br />

has acquired cult status with audiences and actors alike. The play is a journey<br />

to Ballybeg, Friel’s fictional town, and is set during the time of Lughnasa<br />

(the Gaelic word for August). One story, three storytellers, four monologues;<br />

no director, no rehearsals, each actor offers his or her interpretation of their<br />

role. The first three take place in a different village hall (Edininfagh - Frank,<br />

Portnoo - Grace and Ardara - Teddy) and the audience travels by bus,<br />

stopping along the way for an interval barbecue on Portnoo Pier (the setting<br />

for Friel’s Wonderful Tennessee). The final act is held in the ballroom of the<br />

Highlands Hotel in Glenties, the town where Brian Friel once summerholidayed<br />

as a child and is now buried.<br />

It’s an utterly unique and extraordinary way to experience this great play,<br />

an exploration of truth, lies and the mystery of inspiration.<br />

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FESTIVAL NEW<br />

PRODUCTION<br />

W H AT W H E r E<br />

by Samuel Beckett<br />

Produced by Kabosh, Directed by Paula McFetridge<br />

Designed by Liz Cullinane<br />

Secret Location ( B u S D E PA r T S E n n I S k I L L E n C A S T L E )<br />

Thursday 2 August: 7.00pm<br />

Friday 3 August: 7.30pm<br />

Saturday 4 August: 4.30pm & 6.30pm<br />

Sunday 5 August: 1.30pm<br />

Cast: Michael Condron, Tony Flynn, vincent Higgins, neil keery<br />

Tickets: £12 ( I n C L u D E S B u S )<br />

WHAT WHERE (1983) is Beckett’s last play. ‘We are the last five’ says a voice<br />

though only four characters appear throughout. It’s a powerful political<br />

drama which explores what information must be divulged and when…..if<br />

ever. ’You’ll be given the works until you confess’ says the voice but what<br />

must be confessed? Do we act alone? Who or<br />

what will save us? This powerful new production<br />

from Belfast-based Kabosh is directed by Festival<br />

Associate Paula McFetridge and takes place in a<br />

secret location somewhere in Fermanagh.<br />

Previous secret<br />

locations included<br />

Beckett’s Catastrophe at<br />

Pubble Church (2014),<br />

Beckett's Stirring’s Still<br />

at Castle Archdale (2015)<br />

and Beckett's From an<br />

abandoned work in an<br />

abandoned house off<br />

the Shore road (2017).<br />

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C A M I L L E O ’ S u L L I vA n<br />

Ireland’s Cabaret Chanteuse<br />

Enniskillen royal grammar, The Steele Hall ( F O r M E r Ly P O r T O r A )<br />

Friday 3 August, 10pm<br />

Tickets: £15<br />

‘sexy, wild and dangerous’<br />

The Telegraph<br />

OVER THE LAST DECADE, chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan has established a<br />

reputation as a uniquely gifted performer singing in English and French,<br />

capable of driving an audience into raptures or bringing a tear to the eye.<br />

Her bold interpretations of everyone from Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill to<br />

Tom Waits and Nick Cave wring every drop of drama from a song (she has<br />

starred in the Olivier Award-winning musical La Clique and in Conall<br />

Morrison’s highly-acclaimed, Woyzeck in Winter), and Beckett & Oscar Wilde’s<br />

old school of Portora (now known as Enniskillen Royal Grammar) is the<br />

perfect setting for her Parisian cabaret theatrical blend of spectacle,<br />

seduction and charm.<br />

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n OT I & PA S M O I<br />

by Samuel Beckett<br />

FESTIVAL NEW<br />

PRODUCTION<br />

Ardhowen Theatre By the Lake<br />

Saturday 4 August, 2pm | Sunday 5 August, 12.30pm<br />

Tickets: £10 | Duration: 30mins<br />

THIS ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION, which premiered at Happy Days’ Paris Beckett<br />

Festival (2016), features a first ever back-to-back performance of Beckett’s<br />

Not I and its French-language version, Pas Moi by the award-winning Frenchbased,<br />

Irish actress Clara Simpson. In 2010 in a Corn Exchange production<br />

Clara played Winnie in Happy Days directed by Annie Ryan.<br />

Not I is a haunting piece, a sonic masterpiece, in which an unnamed woman,<br />

visible only by her mouth, reflects on her life in a torrent of words. To hear<br />

Beckett’s two languages side by side in one sitting<br />

with, as Clara puts it, ‘no transition, one language<br />

weaving into the other, to become a single piece’ is<br />

as intense and mind-blowing a thirty minutes as you<br />

will experience in a theatre.<br />

Previous Festival Not I<br />

productions included<br />

Lisa Dwan at Portora<br />

royal School (Beckett’s<br />

School) in 2012 and the<br />

Marble Arch Caves as<br />

part of the Inferno<br />

triptych in 2013.<br />

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‘...and we only after meeting once in a blue moon’<br />

The Old Tune<br />

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T H E O L D T u n E<br />

by Samuel Beckett<br />

Directed by Conall Morrison<br />

Starring Barry McGovern & Eamon Morrissey<br />

FESTIVAL NEW<br />

PRODUCTION<br />

Strule <strong>Arts</strong> Centre, Omagh<br />

Wednesday 1 August 1, 8pm<br />

The regal, Enniskillen<br />

Friday 3 August, 6.30pm<br />

Saturday 4 August, 3pm and 8.30pm<br />

Sunday 6 August, 5.30pm<br />

Tickets: £10 | Duration: 40mins<br />

TWO MEN LIVING on the margins of society, struggling to communicate,<br />

facing isolation and memory loss; it’s not hard to see why Beckett was drawn<br />

to his friend Robert Pinget’s play La Manivelle (The Crank) and offered to<br />

translate it into English. But Beckett went further than most translators,<br />

transposing the setting to Dublin and changing the characters, Gorman and<br />

Cream, to Irishmen.<br />

This new production is directed by Conall Morrison (whose Woyzeck in<br />

Winter received rave reviews in Galway and London last year). It’s being<br />

staged in The Regal in the heart of Enniskillen, a perfect setting with its<br />

atmosphere of faded 1950’s glory, and it stars two iconic Irish actors, Barry<br />

McGovern and Eamon Morrissey. This is a rare opportunity to see both<br />

The Old Tune itself and two of Ireland’s finest theatre actors performing on<br />

stage together.<br />

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D E v E n I S H I S L A n D<br />

T r I P T y C H<br />

The Tower by W B Yeats – a reading<br />

…but the clouds… by Samuel Beckett – a screening<br />

Beethoven String Trio – a movement<br />

FESTIVAL NEW<br />

PRODUCTION<br />

Devenish Island, Lough Erne<br />

Boat departs from the round O, Shore road, Enniskillen<br />

Friday 3 August<br />

Departs 6.30pm<br />

Saturday 4 August<br />

Departs 6.30pm<br />

Sunday 5 August<br />

Departs 6.30pm<br />

Tickets: £15 ( I n C L u D I n g B O AT J O u r n E y ) Duration: 2hrs<br />

DEVENISH HELD A SPECIAL PLACE in Beckett’s memory, as he and other pupils<br />

from Portora rowed out to the island every morning and this three-part<br />

event pays tribute by presenting three connected pieces in different locations<br />

on the island. The atmospheric boat journey still harks back to the history<br />

of the lakes as the ancient highway for early Christian pilgrimage.<br />

Yeats’s famous poem The Tower is performed by an unseen actor reading<br />

from inside the beautiful Round Tower. The poem inspired Beckett’s 1977’s<br />

television play … but the clouds…, which is screened in the hut on the island,<br />

while for the concluding element a string trio performs a movement from<br />

Beethoven in the ruins of the Augustine abbey. With sunset imminent each<br />

evening this intimate and multi-sensory Devenish Island Triptych promises to<br />

be a spiritually uplifting experience in a landscape so associated with Beckett.<br />

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L I S A M c g E E<br />

I n C O n v E r S AT I O n<br />

great Hall, Magee Campus, ulster university<br />

Friday 17 August, 7.30pm<br />

Tickets: £10<br />

AS A CURTAIN-RAISER to the presentation of Brian Friel’s Hiberno-English<br />

translation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Derry girl Lisa McGee opens the<br />

second weekend of Lughnasa Frielfest, <strong>2018</strong>. ‘If you aren’t already watching,’<br />

raved The Guardian after the first episode of Derry Girls, ‘then catch yourself<br />

on.’ Lisa McGee’s deliciously tart comedy series about a gang of schoolgirls<br />

(and one boy) at a convent school in Derry ~Londonderry in the early 1990s,<br />

was a runaway hit and, like Friel, captured the humour and complexity of<br />

family life. McGee, who created the RTÉ show Raw and the sitcom London<br />

Irish is also an award-winning playwright, and for this homecoming event<br />

she talks about her admiration for Friel and the extraordinary success of<br />

Derry Girls.<br />

'Daft, profane and absolutely brilliant…..'<br />

The Guardian on Derry Girls<br />

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JEz BuTTErWOrTH<br />

I n C O n v E r S AT I O n<br />

An grianán Theatre, Letterkenny<br />

Saturday 18 August, 2pm<br />

Tickets: €10<br />

JEZ BUTTERWORTH HAD ALREADY established himself as one of his<br />

generation’s leading playwrights when his play Jerusalem, starring Mark<br />

Rylance, premiered in London in 2009. The play, a bold, exuberant, stateof-the-nation<br />

comedy about modern-day Pied Piper Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,<br />

won a clutch of awards and catapulted Butterworth to international fame.<br />

His latest play, The Ferryman, a gripping family drama set in an Armagh<br />

farmhouse in 1981, has been just as rapturously received. In an exclusive<br />

Irish appearance for Lughnasa FrielFest Jez Butterworth talks about his<br />

passion for Friel’s work and the challenges of writing plays, from dialogue<br />

to engaging with the Troubles.<br />

‘a playwright without equal’<br />

The Guardian<br />

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F E S T I vA L I n T r O D u C TO r y TA L k<br />

g u y S TAg g I n C O n v E r S AT I O n<br />

with Carlo Gébler<br />

Town Hall, Enniskillen<br />

Friday 3 August, 5.30pm<br />

Tickets: £5<br />

‘a sublime, intense, and intimate account’<br />

Philip Hoare<br />

WITH AUDIENCES UNDERTAKING A WALK through Fermanagh country to<br />

watch Waiting for Godot at this year’s festival, the theme of walking is also<br />

explored in this opening talk. A few years ago Guy Stagg set out to walk from<br />

Canterbury to Jerusalem on a secular, 5,000km pilgrimage. <strong>Over</strong> ten months<br />

he passed through ten countries, climbed over the Alps in winter, survived<br />

a terrorist attack in Lebanon and spent Easter in Rome with the Pope. His<br />

account of this epic journey, The Crossway, was published earlier this summer<br />

to rapturous reviews. Guy Stagg talks to Carlo Gébler about his adventures,<br />

and explores what walking means to him.<br />

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W I n T E r r E I S E<br />

by Franz Schubert<br />

Christianne Stotijn - Mezzo-Soprano & Julius Drake - Piano<br />

St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen<br />

Sunday 5 August, 3.30pm<br />

Tickets: £15 | Duration: 75mins<br />

We are grateful to the <strong>Arts</strong> Council of Northern<br />

Ireland for the loan of the Steinway Model D – 9ft<br />

Grand Piano for the purpose of this event<br />

IT MAY BE AUGUST, but a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise – Beckett’s<br />

favourite piece of music – has been at the heart of the Happy Days<br />

programme since its inception. This great song cycle was originally intended<br />

for a male singer but this year, for the first time at Happy Days, we’re thrilled<br />

to welcome internationally acclaimed mezzo soprano, Christianne Stotijn,<br />

accompanied by Julius Drake. Their long-standing partnership has seen them<br />

perform Schubert’s lieder at many of the world’s<br />

leading concert halls and this performance, taking<br />

place in the magnificent acoustic of St Macartin’s<br />

Cathedral, is sure to be a festival highlight.<br />

Preceded by Samuel Beckett's short prose Texts<br />

for Nothing No. 12, read by Colin Salmon.<br />

This is the festival’s<br />

fifth Winterreise and<br />

its first to be sung by<br />

a woman. Previous<br />

singers included Ian<br />

Bostridge (2012),<br />

Florian Boesch (2013),<br />

Sir John Tomlinson<br />

(2014) and nicky<br />

Spence (2017).<br />

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T H r E E S I S T E r S<br />

by Brian Friel<br />

A version of the play by Anton Chekhov<br />

Directed by Paula McFetridge<br />

Produced by Kabosh Theatre Company<br />

Foyle <strong>Arts</strong> Centre, Top Floor Dance Studio, Derry~Londonderry<br />

Saturday 18 August, 12pm & 6pm<br />

Sunday 19 August, 2pm<br />

Cast: Michael Condron, gary Crossan, rhys Dunlop, Tony Flynn, Darren Franklin<br />

nicky Harley, Conor Hinds, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Terry keeley, noel Mcgee<br />

Dearbháile Mckinney, Carol Moore, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Lalor roddy<br />

Tickets: £15 ( I n C L u D E S r E F r E S H M E n T S )<br />

‘IRELAND IS A LITTLE RUSSIA’, wrote George Moore in 1911, ten years after<br />

Three Sisters was first performed on the Russian stage. Set at the turn of the<br />

century in a grand provincial house, the play follows the emotional entanglements<br />

of three sisters and their awkward brother, dreaming of returning to<br />

Moscow as the old world crumbles around them.<br />

Brian Friel’s translation, which premiered in the Guildhall, Derry~Londonderry<br />

in 1981, seamlessly adapts Chekhov’s language to the rhythms of Irish<br />

conversation. This rehearsed reading brings together fourteen actors (including<br />

some of the cast of Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls) in a world of deception, disaster<br />

and self-sacrifice played out on the banks of the Foyle.<br />

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L I v I n g Q uA rT E r S<br />

A F T E r H I P P O Ly T u S<br />

by Brian Friel<br />

A Rehearsed Reading directed by Mick Gordon<br />

An grianán Theatre,<br />

Letterkenny<br />

Friday 10 August, 8pm<br />

Strule <strong>Arts</strong> Centre<br />

Dance Studio, Omagh<br />

Saturday 11 August, 2.30pm<br />

Derry/Londonderry<br />

venue TBC<br />

Saturday 11 August, 8pm<br />

€10 and €8<br />

Tickets: £8<br />

Tickets: £10<br />

Cast: Tony Flynn, Ian McElhinney, Aislin Mcguckin,<br />

Bronagh Waugh, Michael Condron, Eimear keating, Charlie Bonner,<br />

David Pearse, Charlotte McCurry<br />

Joint ticket: Coskun karademir Quartet<br />

and Living Quarters €15 /£15<br />

LIVING QUARTERS (1977) is Lughnasa FrielFest’s signature play for <strong>2018</strong> and<br />

leads the Chekhov & Russian theme, being Friel’s first Chekhovian play. It’s<br />

a family drama concerning an Irish commandant who returns home to<br />

Donegal a hero after a successful UN mission in the Middle East and it<br />

explores those quintessentially Chekhovian themes of conflict and<br />

resolution in an unmistakably Irish context. It’s set twenty miles outside<br />

Derry and the first of our rehearsed readings takes place in Letterkenny.<br />

Derry~Londonderry and Omagh, where the other two readings are<br />

happening, are referenced in the play, the characters passing through them<br />

on their way to Friel’s imaginary Ballybeg.<br />

Music has always been a powerful element in Brian Friel’s drama and the<br />

Middle-Eastern connection in Living Quarters is celebrated with a prereading<br />

performance by Sufi musicians from Turkey and Iran, Coskun<br />

Karademir Quartet.<br />

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COSkun kArADEMIr<br />

QuArTET<br />

Sufi World Music Concert<br />

FESTIVAL<br />

EXCLUSIVE<br />

An grianán Theatre Letterkenny,<br />

Co.Donegal<br />

Living Quarters Concert<br />

Friday 10 August, 6.45pm<br />

First Presbyterian Church, Derry,<br />

Derry - Londonderry<br />

Living Quarters Concert<br />

Saturday 11 August, 6.45pm<br />

Tickets: £10/€10.<br />

Joint ticket for Coskun karademir Quartet and Living Quarters €15/£15<br />

LUGHNASA FRIELFEST PRESENTS the Coskun Karademir Quartet as a musical<br />

prelude to Brian Friel’s Living Quarters , inspired by the play's protagonist<br />

(Commandant Frank Butler) returning to Ballybeg from the Middle East .<br />

Coskun Karademir was captivated by the music of his homeland, Anatolia<br />

(where Troy is reputed to be sited), and has devoted himself to its folk and<br />

mystical music. His group, The Secret Ensemble (of which the quartet is part)<br />

emerged onto the world stage with its first album, Kusların Çagrısı (The Call<br />

of Birds).<br />

Traditional Iranian and Turkish Sufi music meet in an extraordinary and<br />

glorious sound. The spirituality of their music is inspired by an ethos of<br />

unity, a coming together, a world harmony. As the poet Rumi wrote, ‘Those<br />

who share the same soul are preferred to those who speak the same language.’<br />

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T H E yA LTA g A M E<br />

by Brian Friel<br />

A Rehearsed Reading<br />

Actors: Stanley Townsend & Orla Charlton<br />

St. Eugene’s Hall, Moville, Co. Donegal<br />

Friday 10 August, 8.30pm<br />

Saturday 11 August, 3pm & 8.30pm<br />

Sunday 12 August, 2.30pm<br />

Tickets: €8<br />

THE YALTA GAME IS based on a theme in The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton<br />

Chekhov. Like that story, Friel’s play is set in Yalta, a Black Sea resort for<br />

summering Muscovites. In the festival’s rehearsed reading, Moville stands<br />

in for Yalta, both seaside resorts with promenades for strolling and former<br />

ports and fishing settlements. Where Chekhov looked out from his house,<br />

The White Dacha, in Yalta across the Black Sea to Turkey, Friel wrote The<br />

Yalta Game just a few miles from Moville, looking across the estuary to<br />

Magilligan in Northern Ireland. The husband and wife pairing of Stanley<br />

Townsend and Orla Charlton read the roles of Dmitri and Anna.<br />

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A F T E r P L Ay<br />

by Brian Friel<br />

A Rehearsed Reading<br />

Actors: Donna Dent & Richard Henders<br />

Sandwich Company, Bishop Street, Derry-Londonderry<br />

Friday 17 August, 9.30pm | Saturday 18 August. 9.30pm<br />

Warehouse Café, guildhall Street, Derry-Londonderry<br />

Sunday 19 August, 4pm<br />

Tickets: £8<br />

BRIAN FRIEL’S AUDACIOUS TWO-HANDER, Afterplay (2002) takes two of<br />

Chekhov’s most celebrated characters - Sonya from Uncle Vanya and Andrey<br />

from Three Sisters - and brings them together in a Moscow cafe some 20 to<br />

30 years after the events in the plays. In the spirit of Friel’s theatrical conceit,<br />

the festival has invited two actors who have themselves played Sonya and<br />

Andrey previously, Donna Dent (Uncle Vanya, Gate Theatre, 1998) and<br />

Richard Henders (Three Sisters, Chichester, 2001) , to re-engage with those<br />

characters. They meet after-hours in a Derry~Londonderry café to talk of<br />

life, love, and its disappointments.<br />

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u S S I A n S O n g r E C I TA L<br />

A Tribute to the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky<br />

Andrei Bondarenko: Baritone<br />

Gary Matthewman: Piano<br />

St Columba’s Church, Long Tower, Derry~Londonderry<br />

Sunday 19 August, 8pm<br />

Tickets: £15<br />

© J O n A H P E r S S O n<br />

‘an astonishingly beautiful voice<br />

… on his way to greatness’<br />

The Guardian on Andrei Bondarenko<br />

THE RUSSIAN FLAVOUR of this year’s Lughnasa FrielFest continues with this<br />

special concert paying tribute to the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky, perhaps the<br />

greatest of all Russian baritones, who died late last year. Andrei Bondarenko,<br />

the exciting young Ukrainian baritone (and former pupil of Hvorostovsky)<br />

performs a recital of Russian music. Taking place in the Long Tower<br />

Church, with its spectacular (and Orthodox-style) interior, this promises to<br />

be a thrilling celebration of Russian song.<br />

Songs by: Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glière, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov<br />

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F r E n C H S O n g r E C I TA L<br />

Julien Van Mellaerts: Baritone<br />

Julius Drake: Piano<br />

St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen<br />

Saturday 4 August, 11.30am<br />

Tickets: £15<br />

‘sophisticated, precise fearlessness’<br />

Scmopera on Julien Van Mellaerts<br />

AS PART OF THIS YEAR’S dual language focus, marking Happy Days’<br />

presentation of its Paris Beckett festival in 2016 and Beckett’s own years in<br />

Paris, this wonderful concert of French songs is performed by the exciting<br />

young baritone Julien Van Mellaerts.<br />

Julien Van Mellaerts is one of the leading baritones of his generation. He<br />

only graduated from the Royal College of Music last year, but has already<br />

received numerous accolades, including winning the 2017 Wigmore Hall/<br />

Kohn Foundation International Song Competition and most recently he<br />

won the Maureen Forrester Second Prize and the German Lied Award at<br />

the <strong>2018</strong> Concours musical international de Montréal.<br />

Programme: Poulenc, Ravel, Duparc, Debussy<br />

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T H E P O rTO r A r E A D I n g S<br />

A Celebration of Samuel Beckett’s Short Prose<br />

Enniskillen royal grammar, Steele Hall<br />

See website for dates and times<br />

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SOME OF BECKETT’S FINEST WRITING is to be found in his short prose<br />

works, indeed Beckett saw himself as first and foremost a prose writer,<br />

not a dramatist. Audiences though seldom get a chance to hear these<br />

wonderful short pieces being read out loud but in this year’s festival<br />

over the course of the weekend a number of leading actors will do<br />

just that - and in the evocative environs of Beckett’s old school Portora<br />

(now Enniskillen Royal Grammar School) and other spaces.<br />

This includes some sunset Fizzles in St. Michael’s Crypt with readers<br />

Adrian Dunbar, Anna Nygh & Ciaran McMenamin. Other short<br />

prose being read includes First Love, Stirrings Still, From an Abandoned<br />

Work, Ping and the short play A Piece of Monologue.<br />

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C O L I n S A L M O n<br />

<strong>2018</strong> Beckett Reader In Residence<br />

PSnI Enniskillen Police Station<br />

Friday 3 August, 9pm<br />

Texts For Nothing No.9<br />

by Samuel Beckett<br />

Tickets £10<br />

St. Macartin’s Cathedral<br />

Sunday 5 August, 3.30pm<br />

Texts For Nothing No. 12<br />

by Samuel Beckett opening the<br />

Winterreise concert<br />

COLIN SALMON HAS BEEN a star of film and television since his big<br />

break playing opposite Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect in 1992.<br />

Further success followed with Soldier Soldier and Colin appeared in<br />

three Bond movies, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and<br />

Die Another Day. Colin has since mixed TV and film roles, ranging<br />

from Doctor Who and The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency to lead<br />

characters in blockbuster films such as Alien Versus Predator and<br />

Resident Evil. Colin was one of the contestants in Strictly Come Dancing<br />

in 2012. He currently plays General Zod in the Syfy series Krypton.<br />

For details on further readings by Colin please check festival website<br />

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Frielfest Diary of Events<br />

Thursday 9 August<br />

8.30pm The Odyssey,<br />

Episode 1, Maxine Peake<br />

Downhill Beach £ 1 5<br />

Friday 10 August<br />

6pm Faith Healer<br />

Bus departure from Market<br />

Theatre, Glenties € 2 5<br />

The Odyssey, Episode 2,<br />

Maxine Peake<br />

Killahoey Beach, Dunfanaghy:<br />

see website for time € 1 5<br />

6.30pm The Iliad, Episode 1<br />

Outside Derry Walls (Walker’s<br />

Plinth) £ 1 0<br />

6.45pm The Coskun<br />

Karademir Quartet<br />

An Grianán Theatre € 1 0<br />

8pm Living Quarters<br />

An Grianan Theatre € 1 0/€ 8<br />

8.30pm The Yalta Game<br />

St Eugene’s Hall, Moville € 8<br />

Saturday 11 August<br />

1.30pm The Iliad, Episode 2<br />

Grand Parade Walker’s Plinth,<br />

Derry Walls £ 1 0<br />

2.30pm Living Quarters<br />

Strule <strong>Arts</strong> Centre, Omagh £ 8<br />

2.30pm The Odyssey,<br />

Episode 3, Imogen Stubbs<br />

Portstewart Strand £ 1 5<br />

3pm The Yalta Game<br />

St. Eugene’s Hall, Moville € 8<br />

5pm Faith Healer<br />

Bus departure from Market<br />

Theatre, Glenties € 2 5<br />

5.30pm The Iliad, Episode 3<br />

Bastion near Verbal <strong>Arts</strong><br />

Centre, Derry Walls £ 1 0<br />

6.45pm The Coskun<br />

Karademir Quartet<br />

First Derry Presbyterian<br />

Church £ 1 0<br />

8pm Living Quarters<br />

see website for venue details<br />

£ 1 0<br />

8.30pm The Yalta Game<br />

St Eugene’s Hall, Moville € 8<br />

Sunday 12 August<br />

2.30pm The Odyssey,<br />

Episode 4, Imogen Stubbs<br />

Magilligan Strand £ 1 5<br />

11am The Iliad, Episode 4<br />

East Wall Artillery Bastion,<br />

Derry Walls £ 1 0<br />

2.30pm The Yalta Game<br />

St Eugene’s Hall, Moville € 8<br />

4pm Faith Healer<br />

Bus departure from Market<br />

Theatre, Glenties € 2 5<br />

5pm The Iliad, Episode 5<br />

Church Bastion St. Columb’s<br />

Cathedral, Derry Walls £ 1 0<br />

6pm The Iliad Closing Short<br />

Concert of Spirituals and<br />

Songs - Ruby Philogene<br />

St Columb’s Cathedral F r E E<br />

Wednesday 15 August<br />

7pm The Odyssey, Episode 5<br />

Ballycastle Beach, see<br />

website for full details £ 1 5<br />

Thursday August 16<br />

7pm The Odyssey, Episode 6<br />

Narin Beach, Portnoo, see<br />

website for full details € 1 5<br />

Friday August 17<br />

6pm Faith Healer<br />

Bus departure from Market<br />

Theatre Glenties € 2 5<br />

7pm The Odyssey, Episode 7<br />

Natascha McElhone<br />

Carrickfinn Beach € 1 5<br />

7.30pm Lisa McGee<br />

Ulster University,Magee £ 1 0<br />

9.30pm Afterplay<br />

Sandwich Company, Bishop<br />

St. Derry~Londonderry £ 8<br />

Saturday August 18<br />

12pm Three Sisters<br />

Foyle <strong>Arts</strong> Centre £ 1 5<br />

2pm Jez Butterworth<br />

An Grianán Theatre € 1 0<br />

5pm Faith Healer<br />

Bus departure from Market<br />

Theatre, Glenties € 2 5<br />

6pm Three Sisters<br />

Foyle <strong>Arts</strong> Centre £ 1 5<br />

5pm The Odyssey, Episode 8<br />

Frances Barber<br />

Magheroarty Beach € 1 5<br />

9.30pm Afterplay<br />

Sandwich Company, Bishop<br />

St., Derry~Londonderry £ 8<br />

Sunday 19 August<br />

2pm Three Sisters<br />

Foyle <strong>Arts</strong> Centre £ 1 5<br />

4pm Faith Healer<br />

Bus departure from Market<br />

Theatre, Glenties € 2 5<br />

4pm Afterplay<br />

Warehouse Café, Guildhall<br />

St., Derry~Londonderry £ 8<br />

6pm The Odyssey, Episode 9<br />

Frances Barber, Lisfannon<br />

Beach € 1 5<br />

8pm Russian Song Recital,<br />

Andrei Bondarenko<br />

St. Columba’s Church, Long<br />

Tower £ 1 5<br />

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Happy Days Diary of Events<br />

Wednesday 1 August<br />

8pm The Old Tune<br />

Strule <strong>Arts</strong> Centre, Omagh<br />

£ 1 0<br />

Thursday 2 August<br />

7pm What Where<br />

Secret Location, Bus<br />

departure: Enniskillen Castle<br />

£ 1 2<br />

Friday 3 August<br />

5.30pm Festival Introductory<br />

Talk, Guy Stagg with Carlo<br />

Gébler The Town Hall £ 5<br />

6.30pm The Old Tune<br />

The Regal £ 1 0<br />

6.30pm Triptych<br />

Boat departure: Round ‘O’<br />

Devenish Island £ 1 5<br />

7.30pm What Where<br />

Bus departure: Enniskillen<br />

Castle, Secret Location £ 1 2<br />

7.45pm A Piece of<br />

Monologue<br />

see website for details<br />

9pm Colin Salmon, Texts for<br />

Nothing No 9 reading<br />

PSNI Station £ 1 0<br />

9.27pm Fizzles 1 & 2<br />

The Crypt, St Michael’s<br />

Church £ 5<br />

10pm Camille O’Sullivan<br />

Enniskillen Royal Grammar<br />

School £ 1 5<br />

Saturday 4 August<br />

8am Morning Reading on<br />

Lough Erne Boat departure:<br />

Round ‘O’ £ 1 0<br />

10am Purgatorio: Walking<br />

for Godot Marble Arch<br />

Caves UNESCO Global Geopark<br />

(full length walk of 7km<br />

begins at 8am) £ 1 5<br />

10am The Portora Readings<br />

Enniskillen Royal Grammar<br />

School, see website for<br />

details<br />

11.30am French Song Recital<br />

St Macartin’s Cathedral £ 1 5<br />

2pm Not I & Pas Moi<br />

Ardhowen Theatre £ 1 0<br />

3pm The Old Tune<br />

The Regal £ 1 0<br />

3pm The Portora Readings<br />

Enniskillen Royal Grammar<br />

School, see website for<br />

details<br />

4pm Precious Little Recital<br />

St. Michael’s Church F r E E<br />

4.30pm What Where<br />

Bus departure: Enniskillen<br />

Castle, Secret Location £ 1 2<br />

6.30pm The Portora<br />

Readings Enniskillen Royal<br />

Grammar School, see<br />

website for details<br />

6.30pm Triptych<br />

Devenish Island, Boat<br />

departure, Round ‘O’ £ 1 5<br />

6.30pm What Where<br />

Bus departure: Enniskillen<br />

Castle, Secret Location £ 1 2<br />

7pm A Piece of Monologue<br />

see website for details<br />

8.30pm The Old Tune<br />

The Regal £ 1 0<br />

9.25pm Fizzles 3,4,5,6<br />

The Crypt, St Michael's<br />

Church, £ 5<br />

Sunday 5 August<br />

9am Morning Krapp<br />

Reading Boat departure<br />

Round ‘O’ £ 1 0<br />

10am Purgatorio:<br />

Walking for Godot<br />

Marble Arch Caves UNESCO<br />

Global Geo-park (full walk of<br />

7km begins at 8am) £ 1 5<br />

11am The Portora Readings<br />

Enniskillen Royal Grammar<br />

School, see website for<br />

details<br />

12.30pm Not I & Pas Moi<br />

Ardhowen Theatre £ 1 0<br />

1.30pm What Where<br />

Bus departure: Enniskillen<br />

Castle, Secret Location £ 1 2<br />

2pm The Portora Readings<br />

Enniskillen Royal Grammar<br />

School, see website for<br />

details<br />

3.30pm Winterreise<br />

St Macartin’s Cathedral £ 1 5<br />

5.30pm The Old Tune<br />

The Regal £ 1 0<br />

6.30pm Triptych<br />

Devenish Island, Boat<br />

departure: Round ‘O’ £ 1 5<br />

7pm A Piece of Monologue<br />

see website for details<br />

9.23pm Fizzles Reading 8<br />

The Crypt, St Michael’s<br />

Church £ 5<br />

Saturday 18/<br />

Sunday 19 August<br />

10am Purgatorio:<br />

Walking for Godot<br />

Marble Arch Caves UNESCO<br />

Global Geo-park (full walk of<br />

7km begins at 8am) £ 1 5<br />

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T H r E E B I L L B O A r D S ( O r M O r E )<br />

O u T S I D E E n n I S k I L L E n & S L I g O<br />

25 July - 25 August<br />

Location: The Irish Border ( S E E W E B S I T E F O r D E TA I L S )<br />

Design: Alan Milligan<br />

The Tower<br />

ENNISKILLEN’S Happy Days and Sligo’s Tread Softly festivals come together<br />

for a cross-border collaboration celebrating the work of two great Irish<br />

Nobel Laureates: Samuel Beckett and WB Yeats. For a whole month,<br />

travellers heading across the border into the Republic of Ireland will be<br />

treated to the last stanza of Yeats’ The Tower (a poem that inspired Beckett’s<br />

late film-play …but the clouds...) writ large across a series of specially<br />

commissioned bespoke billboards at the border, while drivers heading in<br />

the opposite direction will be welcomed to Northern Ireland with Beckett’s<br />

liminal 11 line poem neither.


northern literary lands<br />

Booking and further information<br />

www.artsoverborders.com<br />

Donegal Box Office<br />

An grianán Theatre<br />

Port Road<br />

Letterkenny<br />

Tel: + 353 (0) 74 9120777<br />

Derry~Londonderry Box Office<br />

nerve Centre<br />

5-6 Magazine Street<br />

Derry~Londonderry<br />

BT48 6HJ<br />

Tel: 028 7126 0562<br />

Fermanagh Box Office<br />

Ardhowen Theatre<br />

97 Dublin Road<br />

Enniskillen<br />

BT74 6FZ<br />

Tel: 028 6632 5440<br />

Please note all events and artists<br />

are correct at time of going to<br />

press. Some festival events and<br />

artists may be subject to last<br />

minute change due to<br />

circumstances beyond our<br />

control. In the event of an artist<br />

change, a replacement will be<br />

engaged. Ticket buyers will be<br />

refunded for any event<br />

cancellation.<br />

All events have a limited<br />

capacity so advance booking is<br />

recommended.<br />

For further information and<br />

event updates visit:<br />

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‘…this most distinctive,<br />

original and dreamlike of<br />

festivals offered profound<br />

experiences’<br />

THE InDEPEnDEnT ★★★★★<br />

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