This afternoon.
The Millenium Wing, The National Gallery, Dublin 2.
Theatre director co-founder of Druid Garry Hynes at the unveiling of a sculpture of herself by Vera Klute( (above) a former winner of the Hennessy Portrait Prize.
In fairness.
Rollingnews
Playwright Tom Murphy and director Garry Hynes, of the Druid Theatre. on the Rosie Hackett Bridge today launching the Dublin Theatre festival programme.
The Festival will run from September 25- October 12 and includes Druid’s world premiere of Tom Murphy’s new play Brigit, presented in a double-bill alongside his acclaimed Bailegangaire.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
[The Peacock Theatre at the Abbey Theatre, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin]
“And then there is the issue of the Peacock. How could it be part of any well-thought-out strategy or understanding of the responsibilities of the National Theatre to commit significant funding to it over a three-year period while tolerating the effective closure of what is, to all intents and purposes, the engine room of the Irish theatre?
The future of the Abbey comes through the Peacock. And if a National Theatre is not about the future, then it is increasingly forced to fall back on institutional rhetoric rather than excellence of performance, to justify its existence.
It also has to be asked: where does the chair and board of the Abbey stand on this? The Peacock going dark for such long periods of time is something that surely, as a strategic issue, had to have board approval?Garry Hynes, of the Druid Theatre Company.
Fixing the Abbey: where next for the National Theatre? (Garry Hynes, Irish Times)
Previously: Abbey On His Bonnet
Pic: DublinRocks
He [Tom Murphy] is the artist most of us Irish writers look to for inspiration and example. Thus, it will be fascinating to see three of his plays directed by {Garry] Hynes at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 5 to 14. The plays deal with loss and emigration, and dramatize illusion and self-delusion. Hynes’s method as a director is forensic: she strips away, using her sharp sense of the abiding power of the theatrical image, cajoling actors toward the emotional and intellectual core of a play. In the past, Hynes and Murphy together have produced the very best of Irish theater. Re-united, they are likely to cause sparks to fly.
From Galway To Broadway (Colm Tóibín, Vanity Fair,)
Photographed for Vanity Fair by Donald Milne at Dunguaire Castle, Co Galway.
