Exclusive Offer to GSA Students for Dublin Dance Festival!!

Dublin Dance Festival would like to do a special offer for Gaiety School of Acting students for Daniel Linehan’s performances at the Samuel Beckett Theatre on Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 at 7pm.

 

They are offering tickets for €8, bookable through the DDF Box Office – on 01 672 8815, or pop in the Box Office in Filmbase in Temple Bar in person. Gaiety School students should quote: ‘Linehan Offer’ to avail of the discount.

 

Daniel Linehan – Montage for Three & Not About Everything

Samuel Beckett Theatre

May 15 & 16

7pm

This smart, witty double bill is bursting with ideas. Montage for Three sees two dancers recreate a series of projected photos – breathing new life into the static images and making you think afresh about what’s happening in pictures of people we all know – Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King to name a few.
Linehan delivers a monologue to the audience all through Not About Everything – but while spinning constantly. It’s a physical tour de force!

http://www.dublindancefestival.ie/festival-performances/montage-for-three-not-about-everything/

 

Here’s Daniel talking about the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viT4vFx-klo

30 – 45 Year Old Irish Men and Women Sought For Research Workshop

Next Monday, February 11th, Fieldwork Future are organising a research workshop. They are looking for ambitious and imaginative 30 – 45 year old men and women who were born in Ireland and have an interest in the arts, books and films. The research is all about Ireland and our society today and how we can make things better.

There is an incentive of €70 being offered to participants and refreshments will also be served.

The Workshop will take place from 6.15pm to 8.45pm.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Emma: emma@fieldworkfuture.com

Radio Presentation Workshop Returns to GSA Sun 24th Feb

Get ‘on radio’ with the Gaiety School of Acting – The National Theatre School of Ireland and our Radio Presentation Workshop. We are proud to announce that this popular workshop returns this term, in our Temple Bar school, on Sunday 24th February with Newstalk Presenter Orla Barry as its tutor.

Orla is a national radio broadcaster with NewsTalk 106-108FM and a broadcast journalist with the BBC World Service in London. She is also a print journalist with over 15 years experience in the media.

Orla presents the arts and culture show ‘The Green Room’ on Newstalk and has been a presenter on the station since 2003. She writes a weekly column for the Irish Independent newspaper and is a features writer with the Irish Examiner. Orla is also an accomplished documentary maker whose work has focused mainly on Africa.

This one day workshop will focus on helping you find your natural voice and encourage you to keep it alive, alert and interesting for the listener. Key aspects of the day will include:

• learning the basic skills of radio presentation
• learn how to communicate one to one with your radio audience
• learn how to maximise your audience by what you say and how you say it
• listen and analyse your voice
• feel confident in your own unique presenting style.

Former GSA pupil Doireann Wylde gave the workshop 9/10, stating it was ‘exceptional value for money, very interesting subject, and thoroughly enjoyable day’. You can check out how she got on by reading her blog here!

So if you’re interested in getting your voice out on the airwaves, then this is the workshop for you!

Call 01 679 9277, visit our website, or our Facebook shop and book your place now!

Twisted Focus present “Apples” by John Retallack 28th Jan- 2nd Feb

Twisted Focus present “Apples” by John Retallack the 28th Jan- 2nd Feb at The New Theatre Temple Bar

Apples by John Retalack adapted from the novel by Richard Milward

Directed by Ronan Wilmot

Produced by Twisted Focus

 Apples is a play about sex and the city when you’re 15.

“Apples cocks an unflinching hard-stare at the sharp end of teenage life,

and the play is edgy, exciting and quite brilliant. The drugs, the sex, the 

boozing… it all smacks beautifully of the real thing.

Time Out

It has toured the UK and was a winner of the coveted Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

After its sell out Irish Debut in RiRa at The Globe, Twisted Focus are delighted to be bringing back “Apples” to The New Theatre, Temple Bar.

Cast includes: Anna Clifford, Diane Jennings, Mark Lavery, Matthew Kelly, Nicola Lucey and Ruairí Heading.

 

Performances: Mon Jan 28th –  Sat 2nd Feb 2013,

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: The New Theatre Temple Bar

Tickets:€15/€12 concession/€10- group rate

Booking: 016703361 www.thenewtheatre.com

 

2 Actors Required for HELL & BACK: Ireland’s Toughest 10K Challenge

Alive Outside Sports Events Company require 2 actors for 2 separate day’s work at our HELL&BACK event.

It is vital that both actors are available to attend both H&B dates for continuity…

Male/Female actors (does not matter gender) as long as quirky, energetic and able to scare the living bejayzuz out of our 2,000+ nervous participants!

HELL&BACK is a unique, extreme running event in Killruddery House & Gardens, Bray, Co Wicklow (estate where they filmed Tudors and other movies).

It involves participants running over mountains, forests, swamps, getting electric shocks, crawling under barbed wire and lots more insane challenges!

We want YOU to add to our “Sense of Theatre” on the day & meet and greet 2,000+ crazies at Killruddery gate and ‘wind them up’ at start line and give a hell of a congratulations when they cross the Finish line exhausted!

Dates: Sunday 27^th January & Sun 3^rd February 2013

Time: 9am – 3pm

Pay: €150pp/pd / event = €300 per actor for both H&B events

We will provide the Devil costume and face paint

We will also  have your brief – but you have ‘carte blanche’ to fit into your role…

Check out our web: http://www.hellandback.ie/index.html

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEz2gaee8ow

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Zv6Cu_YlM

We will require to meet you to choose 2 suitable actors in our office in Dun Laoghaire (see address below) next week.

5 Rogan’s Court, Patrick Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

If interested, please contact Simon Bewley, by email with your contact mob no.

E: simon.bewley@aliveoutside.ie

Collaborations Festival 2013 Call for Volunteers

After the unprecedented success of last year, The Jack Burdell Experience returns with their second COLLABORATIONS Festival. COLLABORATIONS is a multi-disciplinary Arts Festival, which is running from February 22^nd to March 9^th 2013.  COLLABORATIONS 2013 is going to be bigger and better than last year; over 15 days we’re presenting a great mix of New Plays, Rehearsed Readings, Poetry, Dance, Art, and other excitement; with a different programme nearly every night.

We are looking for volunteers to join our Front of House, and Backstage teams in the venue. Shifts will usually be about 3-4 hours in length, and as a thank you we would like to offer you free entry to a show with each shift you work for us, and a volunteer T-shirt. Volunteering is a great way to gain experience; see new work from some of the best up-and-coming writers, artists, and theatre practitioners in Ireland; and form new contacts and friendships.

The entire COLLABORATIONS programme will take place in and around Smock Alley Theatre. Being a small festival, you will have the chance to get to know everyone, and have a real peek behind the scenes. The passion and enthusiasm of volunteers plays a huge role in creating an atmosphere of excitement and creativity; and was a great contributor in making our inaugural festival in 2012 such a huge success.

This year, we will also be recruiting interns for Production, and Stage Management. The chosen participants must be available between February 18^th and March 9^th 2013 (this includes the 4 days of technical rehearsal, as well as the run of the Festival) and for some part-time shifts before this. The COLLABORATIONS Festival is run by a very small team, so you’ll be right in the thick of the action. Though intern positions will require a much larger commitment than the volunteer roles, you will also have the opportunity to gain valuable experience of Theatre, and of the inner workings of a Festival!

As a volunteer you will be making an invaluable contribution to the whole event; we literally couldn’t do it without you!

2013 Volunteer Application Form (also available on thejackburdellexperience.wordpress.com)

To apply, please fill in the above application form, and return it to thejackburdellexperience@gmail.com with ‘volunteers’ or ‘interns’ in the subject line. Applications close on Friday January 25^th 2013 at 6pm.

 

Are you passionate about acting and would like to use your drama skills for a good cause?

Calling all Students!

Are you passionate about acting and would like to use your drama skills for a good cause?

Interested in making a huge difference and bringing the gift of performing arts to street children in Calcutta?

Well now is your chance.. The Hope Foundation – an Irish Charity working with street and slum children in Calcutta, India are seeking to recruit acting students and teachers to take part in a one week ‘Performance with a Difference’ Volunteer Programme in Calcutta next year.

Participants on the programme will work directly with the children living in our protection homes and take part in drama workshops and acting classes during the week long visit.

Participants will have the unique opportunity to make a huge difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable children during the workshops and classes by encouraging them to harness their imaginations, be creative and most of all to have confidence in themselves.

It really is performance with a difference!

For more information about this life changing experience please contact Jayann at

The Hope Foundation Dublin Office on 01-8716930,

directly on 087-7388307

or email Jayann@hopefoundation.ie

http://www.hopefoundation.ie

2nd Year Original Showcase in Smock Alley Theatre

Come see our 2nd Year students perform original pieces on the main stage in Smock Alley Theatre! This is a fantastic opportunity to see new work from merging actors and actresses and will help raise vital funds for their Graduation Play! The Showcase is on Saturday, 8th December from 9.30pm.  Tickets only €10.  Call Smock on 01 6770014 to book yours now!

Bubbly, chatty and articulate Mums (& Mum’s to be!) wanted for Market Research

LA Creative Arts College requires 3-4 people, between the age of 16-25, for the purpose of role playing!

LA Creative Arts College requires 3-4 people, between the age of 16-25, who would like to attend our training meeting for for the purpose of role playing!

We want them to act as difficult students for training purposes.

They would be needed for 1 hour, provisional time is 1-2pm on Fri 16th Nov.

This is unpaid, for any actors who would like the experience.

I will fully brief them on the scenarios involved.

Actors interested need to respond by Friday @ 12pm to Naomh Geday at naomh@lamakeupacademy.com