The Hawk's Well Theatre

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leap is the name of the Hawk's Well's new children's theatre season, featuring shows, workshops and summer schools. Sign up for a leapyear card for just €5 a year and get an extra euro off tickets (maximum four) per leap show, plus discounts on other events. See below for leap shows. For more info, contact boxoffice on 071 9161518 or email info@hawkswell.com July 2008 NEW! Hawk’s Well Theatre Summer School Monday 21 to Friday 25 July This year for the first time the Hawk’s Well will host a fun drama summer school for children aged eight to 12. The summer school will be a gentle introduction to the art of theatre, designed to develop children’s confidence and creativity. Bob Kelly, director of Sligo County Youth Theatre, and two facilitators will lead the children through games and exercises and later on look at aspects of theatre performance in a fun way. The school will run from 9.30am to 3.30pm each day and children should bring a packed lunch. Places are limited so must be booked in advance. The cost is €100 per child or €90 for siblings taking part. 5% discount for leapyear card-holders. Full payment is required at the time of booking and is non-refundable. For more information or to book call box office on 071 916 1526 / 1518. Back to Top Sunday 27 July - Friday 8 August The Hawk’s Well welcomes the 49th Yeats International Summer School. All lectures are open to the public and cost €10 The world’s leading scholars on WB Yeats will be in Sligo for two weeks to deliver a series of illuminating lectures on the poet and his work. The Yeats Society has also arranged a series of evening events, including theatre performances and concerts. For more information on the lecture programme, see www.yeats-sligo.com. Back to Top Wed 30 July, 8.30pm The Yeats Society presents Dordán €18 / €16 concs and Friends Innovative and highly respected, this all-female group breathes new life into Ireland’s rich musical heritage, intricately and creatively weaving together traditional and baroque styles. The combination of fiddle, harp, whistle, a touch of percussion and occasional vocals creates a sweet, delicate sound which harks back to the ensemble music of the 19th century. Dordán have toured extensively in Ireland, Europe and the US, and their experience both as performers and music instructors is reflected in their wide ranging knowledge and imaginative interpretation of the music they perform. Back to Top Thur 31 July, 8.30pm The Yeats Society presents A Poetry Reading by Seamus Heaney and Peter Fallon €15 / 12 concs Nobel Literature Prize-winner Seamus Heaney's major poetry collections include Death of a Naturalist, Door Into the Dark, Wintering Out, North, Field Work, Station Island, The Haw Lantern, which won the Whitbread Poetry Award, Seeing Things, Electric Light and District and Circle. The Spirit Level and his translation of Beowulf both won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He has published several works of prose and criticism, and translated two Sophocles plays. He taught English and poetry at Queen's University and at Harvard University , and was professor of poetry at Oxford University from 1989 to 1994. Peter Fallon is a poet, editor and publisher. He was born in Germany and grew up near Kells, Co. Meath where he now lives. He is an Honours Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin , where he has been Writer in Residence. Since 1978, his collections of poetry include: The Speaking Stones; Winter Work; The News and Weather; Eye to Eye; The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart. His selected poems, News of the World: Selected and New Poems , was included in the Irish Times' Books of the Year in 1998. In 1993 he received the O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute; he was Poet in Residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and, in spring 2000, he was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University , PA, where he was also conferred with an Honorary Doctorate. In 1990 he edited, with Derek Mahon, The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry , and contributed to The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 500AD to the present. August Mon 4 to Thur 7 August, 1.10pm (running time 55 minutes) Lunchtime Theatre at the Hawk’s Well presents Beezie Gallagher by Dave and Sheila Flitton €14 including a light lunch “Sheila Flitton has created in Beezie one of the most impressive monologue programmes in contemporary Irish theatre” The Sligo Champion “This is intimate theatre at its best, pure, professional and with a big heart” Cape Argus Review For more than 60 years Beezie Gallagher lived alone on an island on Lough Gill, Sligo, where her wisdom, robust humour and fierce independence gained her a reputation as a healer, wise woman and a witch. She was befriended by the young WB Yeats, who dedicated his poem *The Lonely One* to her. Old age and a bad winter brought crisis, but her enforced move to the County Home was prison to her free spirit. She escaped, and died alone on her beloved island a year later. Performer and co-writer Sheila Flitton has more than 30 years’ experience as an actress on stage, television and film, playwright and novelist. Back to Top Tuesday 5 August, 8.30pm The Yeats Society presents NoCrows in concert €15 Steve Wickham’s virtuoso fiddle playing features on The Waterboys’ classic albums This Is the Sea and Fisherman’s Blues and he has recorded or performed with U2, Elvis Costello, Sinead O’Connor, Bob Dylan and Sharon Shannon. Steve joins NoCrows’ eclectic gathering of musicians as they mix up elements of classical, Irish traditional, jazz, rock, Latin and world music to create their exciting global sound. Mallorcan Felip Carbonell, with his flamenco/manouche style guitar, provides the engine for the music and Café Orchestra musician Eddie Lee the hot grooves on his double bass, while Anna Houston's Swiss/Celtic roots are apparent in her intricate and soulful playing of mandolin and cello. Back to Top Thur 7 August, 8.30pm Yeats International Summer School Free admission. Students from the Yeats International Summer School present their traditional production of a WB Yeats play. For further details please ring box office on 071 916 1526. Back to Top Sligo Jazz Project presents Fri 8 August, 8pm €15 / 12 concs and Friends of the Hawk’s Well Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra (UK) with guest soloist Michael Buckley (Ireland) (tenor sax/flute) Eleven times winners in the BBC National Big Band Competition! One of the UK's finest young jazz orchestras, MYJO is a 23 piece big band under the musical direction of John Ruddick. This performance is very much a one-off, as it features as guest soloist the great Michael Buckley, Ireland’s foremost tenor saxophonist and star of SJP 2006. Not to be missed. "Honestly, I haven’t heard a better big band since the days of Herman, Ellington and Basie." DIGBY FAIRWEATHER Sat 9 August, 8pm €25 / €20 Wertico's All-Star SJP Revue featuring : "This is where the talking stops and the playing starts, as seven times Grammy winning drummer Paul Wertico (USA) leads various small groups comprised of members of the prestigious Sligo Jazz Project 2008 International Summer School Faculty through their paces in a rich and varied mixture of jazz old and new. " Paul Wertico drums Wertico: "Like an Impressionist painter, Wertico thinks in great expanses of color and pattern... One of the most creative drummers in jazz" CHICAGO TRIBUNE Anita Wardell vocal Wardell: "The singer's dramatic credibility and storytelling gift always draw you into her vividly evoked narratives" JAZZWISE 2008 Ulf Wakenius guitar Wakenius: "Pristinely sculptured guitar improv" JAZZWISE 2008 Todd Coolman double bass Reggie Washington bass Julian Arguelles saxophone Arguelles:"one is left almost speechless with admiration" *THE INDEPENDENT 2004* Mike Nielsen guitar Nielsen: "One of the best and most original jazz talents ever produced in this country" *IRISH TIMES* Paul Williamson trumpet Bill Carrothers piano Steve Davis drums With appearances from prodigious Vocalese exponent, Australian singer Anita Wardell, Grammy winning US double bassist Todd Coolman, Oscar Peterson's long-time sideman guitarist Ulf Wakenius, rebellious US pianist Bill Carrothers, US bassist Reggie Washington, sax virtuoso Julian Arguelles and Sligo's guitar phenomenon, Mike Nielsen, drummer Steve Davis and Aussie trumpeter Paul Williamson. An action packed show with something for everyone. NEW! Mon 11 to Sat 16 August Choral Academy with Jim Maley NEW! Suitable for ages ten to 18. Participants will be divided into two groups: ten to 14 years and 15 to 18 years. The ChoralAcademy aims to help participants learn to use their voices to their maximum potential and have plenty of fun while they’re doing it. Throughout the week they’ll learn to take care and control of their voices using a combination of vocal exercises and breathing techniques. Other aspects of the course will include some fun team building exercises. They’ll have the opportunity to sing a wide variety of musical styles from rock and pop to classical as part of a choir. The tuition culminates in a performance at 7.30pm on Sat 16 August showcasing the vocal talents of those who take part (tickets €5). The school will run from 9.30am to 3.30pm Mon to Fri and from 10am to 1.30pm on Saturday. Children should bring a packed lunch. Places are limited so must be booked in advance. The cost is €120 per child or €100 for siblings taking part. 5% discount for leapyear card-holders. Full payment is required at the time of booking and is non-refundable. For more information or to book call box office on 071 916 1526 / 1518. Back to Top Mon 18 – Sat 23 August, 1.10pm - 2pm Lunchtime Theatre at the Hawk’s Well Mangiare Theatre Company presents The Grand Voyage of the Spalpeen Bonaparts €14, including a light lunch This is a red-nose clown show for all ages full of slapstick, physical comedy and general clown mayhem. Meet the Spalpeen Bonaparts, an innocent clown band of brothers who decided to run away from the French army in 1813 and have been trying to find their way home ever since... Mishaps, mis-adventures, accidents, general chaos and a great-escape in a cardboard boat... all this and more is just a day in the life of the Spalpeen Bonaparts. Today they pitch their patchwork tent in the Hawk’s Well and invite you to join them as they make camp, cook their dinner, study the wrong map, and plan their madcap adventure home. Jamie Carswell, Pablo Ibarlueza and Jean-Marie Perinetti are all graduates of the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris. Followed by children’s workshops – please contact box office on 071 916 1526 for details. Back to Top Thursday 25 September, 8pm The Gate Theatre presents Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett €25 / €22 concs & Friends The Hawk’s Well is delighted to welcome the Gate Theatre’s acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot. The performance is in Sligo FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY as part of the Gate’s first ever all-Ireland (32 county) tour. “The Gate production is definitive, not just in Irish but in global terms…probably the closest we will ever get to the perfect official Godot” The Irish Times As part of the theatre’s 80th anniversary celebrations, the production will tour to 40 venues across the 32 counties of Ireland, playing for one night only in each venue. The tour, which will also mark the 20th anniversary of this now legendary production, will star the original cast members including Stephen Brennan, Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy and Alan Stanford. Early booking recommended Exhibitions The Hawk’s Well’s foyer and bar area has been transformed into a space for artists and photographers, amateur and professional, to show their work. Fri 26 June to Thur 17 July Eamonn Dowdican This annual exhibition showcases a sample of oil paintings by students of Sligo artist Eamonn Dowdican, who meet at St Anne’s Centre and the Northside Centre each week. The photograph shows work from a group at one of their regular all-day workshops at the old schoolhouse in Mullaghmore. Sat 26 July to Sat 23 August Annie West: Yeats on a Train Artist and illustrator Annie West depicts the tortured love life of Ireland`s Most Famous Poet WB Yeats as he relentlessly pursues Maud Gonne to the point of farce. Alongside are some Unfortunate Moments in History, continuing Annie`s quest for the funnier side of those historic events that we studied ad nauseam for the Leaving Cert. The exhibition runs for a month and will be officially opened by United States Ambassador to Ireland, Tom Foley, on Sat 26 July. Back to Top Call 071 9161518 for further details on all productions.

Hawk's Well Theatre, Temple Street, Sligo, Ireland

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Email: info@hawkswell.com