Foreign people in Dublin take the stage!

by Sean Keegan Fri Aug 22, 2003 16:20

Do you have to be "foreign" to join ? "No Irish Need Apply" ?

by mick Fri Aug 22, 2003 16:29

Preferably Irish people who can read Sean. Try starting with the first paragraph of the original post.

by Sean Keegan Fri Aug 22, 2003 18:59

It might help me if you could count. The first paragraph says:
...It was about time- a thatre group fully created, run and made up of people from the four corners of the world...and they all live in Dublin!

It says that they live in Dublin, not that they are Dubliners.

By the way, wouldn't it be more culturally rewarding for them to do a play by an Irish author, rather than the nothing play that they have chosen ? Or maybe, like many immigrants I have come across, they have not the slightest interest in Irish history, language or culture. One person from Eastern Europe even expressed surprise to me that Irish history is taught as a separate subject in the schools here, she felt we should just study it as part of British history.

by oxonion Fri Aug 22, 2003 20:36

Irish history was until 1984 and the beginning of the Carrol chair of Irish history considered to be just that :a part of British history at Oxford University.
1984 saw the new Irish history school be set up under a revisionist Irish historian, so I suppose nothing changed there at least. very few people really study such things.

by mick Fri Aug 22, 2003 20:56

alright sean, good to see you're paying attention. Now, if you can count over one read the second paragraph line three.
As an obviously cultured man could you make any suggestions for a culturally rewarding play? Shakespeare would be out of the question of course. Eugene O'Neil? No, he was the son of emigrants so he would be no good either.Something by that fine Irishman Hugh Leonard perhaps.

by Patrick Fri Aug 22, 2003 21:14

I think this is an excellent idea. i have been in musical societies here, and they are full of shit. Most time is spent rehearsing for 15 minutes and waiting for 2 hours. Nobody ever attempts lesser done musicals..its always Guys and Dolls,Oklahoma etc..
Little Shop is excellent for the music, comedy and sense of fun...good luck to them.

by Seáinín Fri Aug 22, 2003 22:10

Some of these foreigners don't need acting lessons at all, with all the social welfare fraud that's going on. Who's money are they stealing? Mine and yours.

I hope anyone taking part in this project has been fully checked by immigration.

by P Moore Sat Aug 23, 2003 06:57

Didn't the rot begin to set in when them Firbolg arrived?
Not to mention the Vikings, we have been interbreding with them for over a thousand years.
Maybe we could get that moron seainin to round them up and send them back to Ribe or Struer, or wherever they came from?
But be careful, seainin, in case there may be a drop of Viking blood in your own veins. You might have to deport yourself.....

by Seáinín Sat Aug 23, 2003 22:45

You'll find no drop of Viking blood in my veins.

In Mayo we have preserved our ethnic purity for many centuries, offsetting the ill effects of inbreeding by occasional miscegenation with the ovine population ....

by chief cuntstable derek bulldog bullroot Sun Aug 24, 2003 00:40

I hate foreigners too, thank god, you irish paddy bog trotters are wising up to the dangers of immigrant foreigners. For many years we pure blue blooded brits have tried to stop the tide of impure mongrels infecting our white aryan race, not to mention the scourge of paddy white nig nogs, like your irish selves. Good to see, after all you have learnt somethings such as how to discriminate off your english betters. Keep learning and someday you too irish bogtrotters may be welcome into polite society.

by Seáinín Sun Aug 24, 2003 01:31

Please? Typical Stalinist.

by iosaf. Sun Aug 24, 2003 17:47

BWT is looking for real life stories from the public on sexuality
by J.R. Teeter
Email: [email protected] (verificat) 24 ago 2003
Modificat: 08:58:08
As part of an ongoing effort to create new works of theatre and promote involvement in the arts, Bread & Water Theatre is currently asking for the community to contribute their stories of sexuality to this year’s festival. These stories will be molded into a series of monologues, which will be a part of this year’s final performance.
Rainbow Theater Festival 2004
Monologue Submissions Begin




Bread & Water Theatre is currently in pre-production for Rainbow Theater Festival 2004 (RTF), a series of performances dedicated to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender themes.

As part of an ongoing effort to create new works of theatre and promote involvement in the arts, Bread & Water Theatre is currently asking for the community to contribute their stories of sexuality to this year’s festival. These stories will be molded into a series of monologues, which will be a part of this year’s final performance.

Some may be familiar with this style of theatre from the works of other well-known artists. Studs Terkel, an actor and radio host, has spent his life traveling all over the world interviewing people. These interviews have been compiled in Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, American Dreams: Lost and Found, Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, Hard Times, The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two, and more. In 1985 Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize for The Good War. The monologue story has also been a part of making The Vagina Monologues an international phenomenon and a rallying cry for women everywhere. Eve Ensler, the playwright behind the success of The Vagina Monologues, spent years traveling the world interviewing women for this very important piece of theatre.

Bread & Water Theatre is accepting stories through www.breadandwatertheatre.org where participants can submit their stories through an online form. These submissions can deal with any aspect of sexuality and anyone can be a participant.

Rainbow Theater Festival was first started in 1999 by a group of Nazareth College students as a medium to showcase plays with homosexual themes, foster tolerance and awareness for the gay and lesbian community and as a way of giving back to the greater Rochester community.

Founded in 2001, The Bread and Water Theatre, under the artistic direction of J.R. Teeter, develops theatre that speaks to our new and evolving world through new works of dramatic literature and adapted classics. In the next year, BWT will be applying for non-profit status and aspires to be a major force in American theatre, providing audiences with challenging contemporary drama and innovative community outreach programs.

A series of new theatrical works devoted to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender themes, The Rainbow Theater Festival 2004 will be presented during the 2nd and 3rd weekends of January 2004 at a time and location yet to be determined. A press release listing show dates, performance location(s), and play details will be sent out in the next two weeks.

Mira també:
http://www.breadandwatertheatre.org

by Aisling Mon Aug 25, 2003 09:00

I think this is a very good idea, as for the ignorant comments just ignore them, these morons seem to think they are best at everything, they wish!

Cheers
Aisling

by Robert Mon Aug 25, 2003 10:53

Fair play to this theatre group- typical of us irish people just putting people down when they try to do something interesting.

by Lina Tue Aug 26, 2003 11:48 Lina-08 at hotmail dot com

Agree with above posters, think its a cool idea..good way of bringing international and irish ppl 2gether anyway..am from Brazil in Dublin on holiday, and there are enough international people in Dublin and we are all not immigrants/illegal/assylum seekers..besides i dont think that is the kind of ppl this venture is going to target.

All the best -
Lina from Brazil!

by Anon Mon Sep 01, 2003 22:56

It is a sham.
I went forthe audition and it was only filled with Irish people! Not one foreigner! And I expected to meet people from "Poland, USA, etc".
What a joke

by Anonymous too Thu Sep 04, 2003 17:11

I disagree I am from France and when I went to audition I met more foreigners and it was fun and also the organisers are foreigners! I think maybe this person was not selected?