#Aoife Duffin

[domhnallgleesonhaven]

Domhnall and Aoife Duffin as John and Mary, in Enda Walsh’s masterpiece Medicine.

📸 Jessica Shurte

[denimbex1986]

Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival has announced its last brace of ticketed live and cinema programming for its 2023 instalment in September, in Cork city.

Taking place between Thursday, September 7 and Sunday, September 10, the festival has added a new film from Cillian Murphy, new theatre work from Enda Walsh, and an expansive live music offering to a four-day line-up of previously-announced music, performance and conversation events, which organisers are calling "the biggest to date".

Friday, September 8 sees the Irish premiere of All of this Unreal Time at Triskel Christchurch - a short film starring Cillian Murphy, written by celebrated author Max Porter (Grief Is The Thing With Feathers), directed by Aoife McArdle, and featuring music by festival co-curators Aaron & Bryce Dessner (The National), and UK electronic producer Jon Hopkins. The 24-minute film was originally commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival in 2021.

On Saturday 9 and Sunday 10, the festival stages a co-production with the Abbey Theatre of Untitled Song Cycle, by festival co-curator Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey, at the Cork Arts Theatre; sung by Aoife Duffin with projections by Jack Phelan - a work-in-progress detailing the impact of bullying and memory on a woman who leaves her small town.

American composer and musician Alex Somers, and special guests, head to the Marina Market on Saturday, September 9 at 10pm, providing "a way of experiencing music in a live environment where slowing down, focussing on your senses and being present in the moment are the aim", according to the Sigur Rós producer - patrons are encouraged to bring their yoga mats.

Seanie Buttons presents Mayfield punks Pretty Happy at the Opera House's Green Room on Friday, September 8; and Cork-based singer and songwriter Elaine Malone launches debut LP Pyrrhic on Saturday, September 9, at the same venue.

Meanwhile, at the newly-refurbished Pavilion venue on Carey's Lane, Saturday September 9 sees a midday performance from Rónán Ó Snodaigh (Kíla) and Myles O'Reilly, with songs from new album The Beautiful Road representing a crossover of tradition and ambient music. American songwriter and producer Caroline Rose will also perform at the venue that afternoon.

The Pav also plays host to the festival's late-night club, with DJ Sally Cinnamon anchoring proceedings with special guests on the Friday and Saturday nights.

Speaking on a heavily-loaded announcement, Festival Director Mary Hickson says: "This is the biggest SFSH to date - we are really pushing the boat out this year. We have one more piece of information to come later this month that will connect everything. You'll see special guests listed on many events, we plan to share these details with you soon.

"Working with The Abbey is a huge deal for the festival, we're thrilled to be working with them to bring Enda and his team back to Cork for the week to workshop ‘Untitled Song Cycle’ and share their work in progress with an audience. The final work will be produced for The Abbey Theatre at a later date.

"Presenting the Irish Premiere of ‘All of This Unreal Time’ in our home town of Cork is very important for Cillian and I. Add our incredible director, Aoife McArdle to this and we have a lot to celebrate together on Irish soil."

The announcements join a stacked festival line-up, including major independent music artists like Feist, Wilco and supergroup Bonny Light Horseman; Ye Vagabonds' Lighthouse Constellations residency, including Anna B Savage & Brìghde Chaimbeul, Cormac Begley, Crash Ensemble and more; and experiences like Teac Damsa’s How to Be a Dancer, Luke Murphy’s Volcano, and much more besides.'

[shesnake]

Hamlets and Ophelias played by women: Maxine Peake and Katie West (Royal Exchange 2014) // Ruth Negga and Aoife Duffin (Gate Theatre 2018) // Harriet Gordon-Anderson and Sophie Wilde (Bell Shakespeare 2020)

[drifteratheart]

Promotional pictures for Medicine (Brooklyn production) pt. 2

[azrael-landfill]

[avoca]

Medicine opening night at St Ann’s Warehouse

📸 Teddy Wolff

[tookarask]

Domhnall Gleeson, Enda Walsh, Aoife Duffin, Clare Barrett, and Sean Carpio in promo photos for Medicine (9/26/20)

Source: Twitter

[jayfinch]

Moone Boy

[whamcitycomedy]

I tried to take pity on my followers and condense my thoughts about hamlet to more or less one post so you only have to ignore me once... but anyways here’s a list of things I cannot stop thinking about since seeing hamlet at st ann’s:

-the sounds (the clock chiming, the doors opening and closing, the echoey way the ghost talks, the plastic sheet curtain, the song the grave diggers and ophelia sing)

-the way that hamlet’s father’s body is first wheeled out covered in a plastic sheet, and later a curtain is used that really just a big plastic sheet but looks super glowy and cool with the lighting, and makes the scenes with the ghost and the very end super surreal and cool

-the incense/smoke in the air when you first come in which also just looks. So Cool with the lighting

-the way it just starts, without any announcements or anything, and everyone just instantly going silent when hamlet opens a door, walks across to the middle of the stage, and cries silently

-the way claudius’s speech is so loud it hurts, and how claudius is facing away, but hamlet faces us, and we can see how pained his face is, and realize that the speech is so painfully loud because that’s how it sounds to him

-the stage crew/players/gravediggers/embodiments of death and their constantly taking things off stage, leaning against doorways, being cool and ominous with their black eye makeup and bowler hats

-the set, and the doors, the way light streams through them sometimes when they’re open

-the way hamlet is moving constantly, erratically, jumping on tables, laying in the ground, etc

-when it rains onstage but only in one small rectangular area, that ophelia stands in towards the beginning, calling for hamlet (the very overt but somehow not annoyingly so foreshadowing of how that spot of rain was the exact size and shape of a coffin)

-rosencrantz and guildenstern (they just. They came on stage and they were like. Just some Guys. Just some Dudes. They looked like somebody had 3D printed two stock photos of white guys. They looked like they had the personality of a sea cucumber. One of them was wearing adidas sneakers. They looked like the most boring gay people you’ve ever met. Guildenstern looked almost exactly like Travis McElroy. The entire audience burst into laughter as soon as they stepped on stage.)

-when the actors would walk up and down the aisles or along the side of the theater, right by the audience (which was quite often) and especially when the king and everyone watching the play was just seated in basically another row of the audience, with the performers on stage

-the fact that characters would be in all different places throughout the theater and you’d wish you could look at all of them at once because all of them, even the most minor characters were each doing something unique and interesting with their expressions (especially right after the mousetrap scene, I just wanted to look at EVERYBODY)

-the ppl sitting behind us who during intermission alternated between analyzing what was happening in the most stuck-up snobby way and quoting the “I am once again asking for” Bernie meme, but at the end of the play, simply said, “so. that hamlet guy huh.”

-Ruth negga

-Ruth negga in the hoodie

-Ruth negga when her shirt gets untucked

-Ruth negga and the way she sat/lounged in that armchair while talking to rosencrantz and guildenstern

-hamlet fucking with polonius

-hamlet being sassy and whiny and funny and serious all at once

-Ruth negga and just absolutely killing every single scene

-every single cast member also killing all of their scenes and adding so much depth to their characters (although I didn’t particularly like ophelia’s “mad” scene, I felt like aoife duffin was absolutely incredible at being Ophelia)

-the way horatio held hamlet to him when they learned of ophelia’s death

-how all of hamlet’s interactions with ophelia, horatio, and laertes, were simultaneously all so gay

-obviously it was all a very different experience seeing it performed rather than reading it, but I felt like it especially made everything with laertes and ophelia SO much more tragic and upsetting... like the casual way that claudius and polonius ignore ophelia’s humiliation and grief is so painful to watch

-the way the chair was left overturned on the stage during intermission. once again it just looked so cool

-I was worried it would be completely serious, because it seemed like such a dark interpretation of hamlet, but the parts that were funny to read were even funnier, and parts that I didn’t even expect to be funny were hilarious

-I totally still think the gertrude killed ophelia theory fits here ( the way gertrude repeated “drowned” several times with increasing emphasis...👀)

-hamlet playing the recorder terribly

-laertes

-hamlet seeming so comfortable and almost happy around the players (he jus wanted to be an actor bro 😣) and the fact that some of their reactions and the way they performed the mousetrap made it seem like he had even confided in them and told them a little about what he was doing

-gertrude’s bright red bed, and the way that bright red curtain falls quickly all at once to the floor

-the part they changed slightly to make it clear that gertrude was suspicious of claudius and drank the poisoned cup to protect hamlet

-Ruth negga

-the hands reaching out behind the plastic curtain... and the end 😳

[kwebtv]

Moone Boy  -   Sky One  -  September 14, 2012 - April 6, 2015

Sitcom (18 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Chris O'Dowd as Seán Caution Murphy

David Rawle as Martin Paul Kenny Dalglish Moone

Deirdre O'Kane as Debra Moone

Peter McDonald as Liam Moone

Ian O'Reilly as Padraic O'Dwyer

Aoife Duffin as Trisha Moone

Clare Monnelly as Fidelma Moone

Sarah White as Sinéad Moone

Steve Coogan as Francie "Touchy" Fehily

Evan O'Hanlon as Paulie

Johnny Vegas as Crunchie Haystacks

Steve Wall as Danny Moone

Norma Sheahan as Linda

Ronan Raftery as Dessie

Tom Hickey as Granddad Joe

[whenharrymetsallys]

At the start, she appears unbearably small and sad, blanketed in grief, broken by it, but soon the light returns to her eyes – she has such expressive eyes – and she seems to grow in size.

[...]

and there’s an electricity between her and Aoife Duffin’s Ophelia that makes her later rejection all the more devastating.

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the gravediggers – decked out like exiles from a Beckett play – are not tools of light relief, but something more forbidding. They are increasingly present on stage as the play progresses, shovels in hand, harbingers of death.

[...]

This is Elsinore as purgatory or memory palace.

[...]

Negga is an inspired choice as Hamlet – playful, vulnerable, resilient, radiant.

this review of ruth negga’s hamlet makes me so happy idk where to start

[domhnallgleesonhaven]

The awesome cast of Medicine, photographed by Enda Walsh during the American run of the play, 2021:

Domhnall, Clare Barrett, Aoife Duffin and Sean Carpio ❤️

[haroldgross]

New Post has been published on Harold Gross: The 5a.m. Critic

New Post has been published on http://literaryends.com/hgblog/timely-mysteries/

Timely Mysteries

Timely as in “not of this time,” that is. Though all the shows do seem to be reflective of present day in ways that matter.

Dead Still [Victorian Ireland-1880s-ish] I’d often wondered why no one, including myself, had created a mystery series around photographers of the dead…that quaint Victorian custom of photographing the family along with the dead relative as some sort of bizarre memento mori. Well, here we finally are. And Michael Smiley (Ragdoll, Free Fire) is a perfect embodiment of the era and profession. He is a reluctant sort of detective, forced into situations more than seeking them. He, Kerr Logan (C. B Strike: Lethal White), and Eileen O’Higgins (The Irregulars) make for an interesting trio of conflicting goals and backgrounds. O’Higgins, however, is somewhat amorphous, seemingly being remade as needed by the show in each episode.

While the main trio is outside of the law, Aidan O’Hare (Jackie) and his life partner Aoife Duffin (Moone Boy) make for an amusing set of detectives within the law. There are a slew of other faces and supporting roles as well, but why give everything away?

The writing, sadly, isn’t quite up to the talent they collected for the show. It has odd rhythms and clunky moments in logic. However, it does also have an interesting uber-arc holding the series together. It’s all a bit obvious in ways, but leaves open a path for a second round that might build on the foundation nicely if they recognize and fix the issues.

Dagliesh (2022) [mid-70s England] Bertie Carvel (The Pale Horse) nicely captures PD James’ poet-detective in this new series. While highly cerebral, Carvel manages to keep the energy up and tense as he works through the various and complicated crimes on his patch (and sometimes off his patch). Whether he can improve Jeremy Irvine’s (Paradise Hills) DS is probably going to be a longer effort than a single season, though Carlyss Peer (Intergalactic) is tailor made for his team. The short first season delivers mysteries which are nicely twisty and full of human frailty.

Father Brown [1950s-ish England] I’m hooked on this show for it’s sense of humor and, sometimes, its mysteries. And while this season sets up some impending changes, I found myself grinding my teeth more than usual thanks to the ongoing lack of growth for Jack Deam (Agatha Christie and the Curse of Ishtar). But this latest series does move several other characters into new orbits and resolutions, such as John Burton and Nancy Carroll. Even Flambeau’s appearance promises new directions for John Light (Around the World in 80 Days). It isn’t their best season, but it promises some interesting times ahead if they can manage to pay off the setups.

Death in Paradise  [This is a stretch for the post, but think “island time.” It’s a thing.] In any event, this show continues to evolve and change, much to its credit. This particular season more than most. It used to be the top and bottom of each series would mark the transitions, but the current round (the 11th) has several transitions and changes both in personnel and formula. They really work to keep it fresh despite the many years and the small geography they have to work with. It’s still light mystery, but the characters keep it amusing and engaging.

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[drifteratheart]

Promotional pictures for Medicine (Brooklyn production) pt. 1

[ubu507]

Aoife Duffin Photo Credit...Jessica Shurte

[avoca]

Medicine opening night party at St Ann‘s Warehouse

The cast with Helena July CG of Ireland in NYC

Source Irish CG in NYC