Arts Over Borders 2018 Brochure
3rd Lughnasa FrielFest, Derry~Londonderry 6th Happy Days: International Beckett Festival Enniskillen 2-19 August 2018
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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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