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     <description><![CDATA[When Nokia Siemens sought a term to make the loss of 3,000 of its employees seem more palatable, they broke new ground with the phrase, &ldquo;synergy-related headcount restructuring&rdquo;. In the wake of such corporate jargon, and preparing for economic turbulence, the Abbey Theatre has been treading a thin line between euphemism and straight talking. 

At the launch of the theatre&rsquo;s new season, Artistic Director, Fiach MacConghail, seemed to be upfront about the issue: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re in the middle of a major restructuring process at the moment at The Abbey,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;in...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Welcome to Facebook. You added &ldquo;arts&rdquo; to your interests. You joined the group Dublin Central Arts Workers. You are attending a meeting with your local TD. You are now friends with several thousand people.&rdquo;

So goes the Newsfeed version of what has quickly become an electronic-political groundswell, a movement intended to mobilise anyone who makes a living from the arts. It delineates membership according to constituencies and marshals its members to campaign for the survival of their professions. With members connected via Facebook, email lists, and honest-to-goodness...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[The Abbey Theatre Workshop is likely to be the most significant casualty of the Abbey&rsquo;s restructuring, with proposals made to abolish the department entirely. This would lose eleven full-time jobs at the theatre while also sacrificing the Abbey&rsquo;s capacity to construct its own sets. 

According to the Abbey&rsquo;s director of finance and administration, Declan Cantwell, the workshop has been under scrutiny for some time. In 2006, when the Abbey was the recipient of generous State subsidy, a review of the workshop revealed &ldquo;a huge difference in cost&rdquo; between manufacturing...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[A combination of achievement and sadness accompanies every retirement, but as Jack Gilligan prepares to step down as Arts Officer of Dublin City Council there is an attendant anxiety over the matter of his replacement. Currently there are no plans to appoint a successor. All new appointments are embargoed while the Government attempts to weather these straitened economic times. A spokesperson told ITM that &ldquo;the Council is examining its options for filling the post in the context of the current difficult budget situation.&rdquo;  

Gilligan, who held the position since 1993 and worked for...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[STEPHEN FALOON has been appointed General Manager of the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin&rsquo;s Docklands. The new 2,000-seat venue (model, right) designed by Daniel Libeskind, will open on 18 March, 2010, with a performance of Swan Lake by Russian State Ballet.  It will host large-scale visiting productions of music, theatre, opera, ballet and dance.
SANDRA ADAMS has been appointed General Manager of The Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin, replacing Stephen Faloon this month. She was formerly General Manager of Dublin Dance Festival.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS, who was Acting General Manager of Dublin Dance...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[From Monday morning, the day that the Arts Council&rsquo;s funding decisions for 2010 were communicated to the majority of its clients by post, members of the theatre and dance community began phoning each other with heavy concern, the kind usually reserved for times of natural disaster, each asking the same question: Are you ok?
For an unprecedented number of independent theatre companies, the answer was no. Eleven production companies have had their funding discontinued, among them such high profile and long-standing organisations as Barabbas (pictured), Bedrock and Meridian. While companies...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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The meeting held by Theatre Forum in Dublin last week was an opportunity for practitioners in theatre, dance and opera to air their reactions to the severe cuts in revenue funding for this year, and to discuss their implications. Responding to a series of questions posed in a letter from Theatre Forum to the Arts Council about the current theatre strategy, clarity of communication and transparency of process, the Arts Council&rsquo;s Director Mary Cloake made a presentation at the meeting, which Fergal McGrath, Chair of Theatre Forum, said &ldquo;brought some clarity, but didn&rsquo;t bring a...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[While many in the theatre sector grapple with the threat to the company model, and seek further information about pilot production hubs and new mechanisms for funding, others are adopting an adapt-or-die pragmatism.Cork Midsummer Festival received a cut of just 3.7 per cent, from &euro;187,000 to &euro;180,000, which fits a pattern its artistic director, William Galinsky, observed of &ldquo;preserving medium-scale festivals&hellip; that do an awful lot on quite a little.&rdquo; How they operate may prove instructive for a sector long dependent on state subsidy and critically vulnerable in straitened...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Project funding deadline]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Every moment counts in making theatre, especially in the next few months. Today the Arts Council confirmed that the deadlines for theatre Project funding awards would remain as March 25 (for hard copy submissions) and April 1 (for online), adding, &ldquo;the same as for all other projects, as previously announced&rdquo;.

Such reiteration seems unusual, but clarification may have been necessary following widely disseminated information to the contrary. Theatre Forum was just one source for news that seemed to have originally stemmed from Arts Council staff last week, informing its members that...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Actors resist pay cuts at the Peacock]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At a time of severe budget cuts across the theatre sector and tentatively proposed new models of making work, not all fee reductions are being readily accepted.
In a letter to acting agencies this month, seen by ITM, Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail referred to the National Theatre&rsquo;s decline in state subsidy &ndash; from &euro;10m in 2008 to &euro;7.25m in 2010 &ndash; as a rationale to explore new operational methods and to cut production costs. Having instituted a pay freeze on actors&rsquo; fees for Abbey productions in 2010 last December, he informed the letter&rsquo;s recipients of...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Less work expected at the Peacock]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The pay dispute over actors&rsquo; fees at the Peacock may have been resolved, but as the Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail pursues new models of operating the National Theatre with diminished resources, the role of the Peacock still seems to be under review.
Contending with a 27% cut from 2008 funding levels (from &euro;10m two years ago to &euro;7.25m in 2010) while the theatre continues a protracted period of restructuring and expects the loss of 26 staff positions, Mac Conghail told ITM that his priorities are to invest in big casts on the Abbey stage. Between Christ Deliver Us!, nearing the...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Werk season]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Anyone passing the Abbey Theatre will notice a striking new poster next to the stage door: yes, that is Pope Benedict&rsquo;s face propped up on a beefy torso, draped in gold chains, with the word WERK slashed through the centre in bright yellow. A programme of documentary theatre  - last month&rsquo;s The Darkest Corner - is one way to approach the nation&rsquo;s topical concerns; a subversive poster heralding a season of experimental performance and clubbing is another.
WERK is organised by the company THISISPOPBABY in conjunction with the Abbey Theatre. Programmed by Jenny Jennings and Phillip...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[A new policy for theatre: Theatre Forum responds]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the end of March, the Arts Council quietly released its new theatre policy, a short but radical document that has redefined the landscape of Irish theatre. Responses from the theatre sector so far have been cautious, if not muted, largely because Supporting the production and presentation of theatre: a new approach enshrines an approach that is already clearly evident.
Identifying six types of support for theatre makers &ndash; core funding of producing organisations, project funding, shared administrative resources, touring, artists&rsquo; support and development initiatives &ndash; the policy...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Arts Council announces theatre project decisions]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A clearer picture of the Irish theatre enabled by the Arts Council&rsquo;s new theatre policy has emerged with the publication of this year&rsquo;s theatre project awards. Designed to directly support the development and production of work outside of a core-funded company model, these awards represent a significant emphasis on new and emerging companies with notably few awards extended to companies recently removed from the revenue-funding stream.
More than 100 applicants sought grants among three possible strands &ndash; development, presentation or production of work &ndash; with just twenty-four...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Complex productions' base in Smithfield]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Unusually for a theatre company these days, Complex Productions has actually benefited from the economic crisis. The building the group now occupies onSmithfield Square in Dublin was initially developed as a retail space, although having remained empty for seven years, it has recently been claimed by NAMA. The Complex is a cavernous, concrete space that currently houses Complex Productions. Under the artistic direction of Vanessa Fielding, the company of six core members was launched in February 2009 with the site-specific piece, Complexity, scripted by Anthony Goulding. No rent is exchanged, but...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[As the decisions for this year&rsquo;s Arts Council touring grants filter out &ndash; applicants were notified by post this week &ndash; there has already been one surprising and high profile casualty. NOMAD, the north Midlands touring network set up to produce work and share it between seven venues, has not received funding.
Founded in 2006, NOMAD is a collaboration between Livin&rsquo; Dred Theatre Company, Dundalk&rsquo;s An Táin, Longford&rsquo;s Backstage, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Iontas, Mullingar Arts Centre, Ramor Theatre and Roscommon Arts Centre. It has since produced three critically...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Balancing public and private funding]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Traditionally in Irish theatre, the commercial and subsidised theatres have stood benignly apart. The subsidised sector prizes artistic credibility above the need for solid returns &ndash; &ldquo;the freedom to fail&rdquo; were once its watch words &ndash; while the commercial sector sought to give the public what it wanted, and suffered gravely when it didn&rsquo;t. Or so conventional wisdom goes. If that has proven to be a false dichotomy, with both sectors sharing the same talent pool, informing the other and sharing audiences, a new climate for funding theatre has made it imperative that they...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Critics' Forum 2010]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The annual ITM International Critics' Forum at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival takes place on Thursday, October 14th. Leading theatre critics from Ireland and abroad will discuss a selection of productions from the Festival's programme. The panel will be chaired by academic and critic Patrick Lonergan, author of Theatre and Globalisation: Irish drama in the Celtic Tiger era, and a regular contributor to ITM.
Panelists include: Mark Fisher, the Guardian's Scotland critic; Natalie Haynes, writer and critic for BBC radio and television arts programmes, and Guest Contributor to theTimes; Peter...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Opera Theatre Company closure]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For supporters of the work of Opera Theatre Company who gathered on Tuesday evening in Dublin for the launch of its latest production, the announcement that the company is to close down at the end of the year marked the end of an era. The final production,The Diary of Anne Frankby Russian composer Grigory Frid, will open next month on the Abbey&rsquo;s Peacock stage, before touring to twelve venues around the country, following a pattern established by Opera Theatre Company (OTC) over many years. It will be the closing chapter of a twenty-four-year performance history, and the choice of this opera...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Death of Mick Lally]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The death of actor Mick Lally comes as very sad news, not only for his colleagues in Druid Theatre Company and the theatre world in general, but to viewers who felt they knew him, having watched him in the role of Miley Byrne in Glenroe on RTÉ television for many years. The founder member of Druid died on Tuesday morning (August 31st 2010) aged 64, after a short illness, and will be an enormous loss to Irish theatre, film and television.
Pat Moylan, Chairperson of the Arts Council, stated: &quot;He was a talented actor and a gentleman, and his loss will be felt by those both outside and within...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[National Academy of Dramatic Art ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It is almost a year since it was officially announced, more than two years since the Forum on Acting Training recommended its establishment, and more than three years since a controversy erupted in the wake of Trinity College Dublin&rsquo;s decision to discontinue its degree course in acting. But now the new National Academy of Dramatic Art is ready for business. Developed by Trinity College and the Cathal Ryan Trust, and formally associated with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, it is currently accepting applications for its first student intake, to begin in autumn 2011, with...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Opera Theatre Company reprieve]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A final plot twist ensures that Opera Theatre Company will survive for another twelve months, to celebrate its twenty-fifth year of touring opera throughout Ireland. In a response to a question in the Dáil last Thursday about opera production in 2011, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin, gave repeated assurances that Opera Theatre Company (OTC) will receive Arts Council funding next year, to enable it to continue to produce opera. It had been announced in August that OTC, along with Opera Ireland, was to be wound down at the end of this year, to pave the way for the formation...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Rachel O'Riordan leaves Ransom Theatre Company]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Rachel O&rsquo;Riordan, who has been appointed the new Creative Director of Perth Theatre, does not appear to be letting go of Ransom Theatre Company easily. The new writing company she founded in Belfast in 2002, which has premiered several new works since its first production of Richard Dormer&rsquo;s Hurricane, is to continue under a new structure when O&rsquo;Riordan leaves for Scotland in January. But she will continue to be attached to Ransom, as Artistic Associate, overseeing the programming of &quot;guest directors&quot;.
Perth Theatre, an institution that has stood for more than a century,...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Abbey Theatre restructuring process ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For &euro;30, you can have a two-piece suit, or for &euro;35, you can upgrade to a three piece. Leather trousers are a steal at &euro;20, although a military uniform will set you back &euro;60. When the Abbey Theatre sought new ways to diversify its revenue streams as it decreased running costs and instituted pay freezes and salary cuts, the wardrobe department found an effective way of monetising one of the theatre&rsquo;s resources. &ldquo;We were supplying costumes before, but on a very small scale,&rdquo; says Declan Cantwell, the Abbey&rsquo;s director of finance and administration. &ldquo;Sometimes...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Abbey announces 2011 programme]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Following a turbulent two years, which saw the Abbey Theatre&rsquo;s state funding fall in steep proportion to the recession &ndash; from &euro;10m in 2008 to &euro;7.25m for 2010 &ndash; the national theatre&rsquo;s actions have been candid, cautious and severe. Sometimes, that seems to be as true of its programming as its internal operations. Earlier this month the Abbey, which had an operating surplus of &euro;56,485 in 2008, returned accounts for 2009 that showed &euro;1.8m in losses, largely incurred by its long negotiated and soon to conclude restructuring process. When that process is finished,...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Access to Peacock Theatre]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Almost forty-five years since it first opened on Abbey Street, the Peacock theatre is now finally accessible to wheelchair users. Visitors to the Abbey&rsquo;s basement studio this year will have noticed a neat refurbishment to the space which includes the installation of a lift at its street level entrance leading down to its foyer which now has a fully-accessible toilet facility. However, there will be no ribbon-cutting ceremony or fanfare to mark the &euro;80,000 refurbishment. So far, in fact, there has barely been a whisper about it.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s more than forty years coming, frankly,&rdquo;...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The art of politics]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When, on Valentine&rsquo;s Day, representatives of Ireland&rsquo;s five political parties spoke about their respective artistic policies at a hustings arranged by the National Campaign for the Arts in Dublin (three more took place in Cork, Galway and Limerick), two red roses sat dreamily on their table. A photo-op, maybe, but the symbols almost begged for deeper consideration. Roses, like the arts, have a unquestioned intrinsic value, yet they also make no small amount of economic impact. On this day in particular, a rose&rsquo;s investors might hope to see more than a modest return.
With less...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[The Abbey Theatre has appointed Róise Goan and Jane Brennan to its board, filling positions vacated by the performer Olwen Fouéré and Rough Magic&rsquo;s director Lynne Parker who both stepped down some months ago.
Brennan, one of the country&rsquo;s most recognisable actors and co-founder of B*Spoke Theatre Company, ensures a continuing presence of performers in the governance of the National Theatre; while Goan, artistic director of the Absolut Fringe festival and co-founder of Project Brand New, represents a curatorial nous and a focus on stimulating new work.
&ldquo;Both Jane and Róise are...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Tom Creed appointed to Cork Midsummer Festival ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tom Creed, one of the busiest theatre directors in the country, has been appointed the new Festival Director of the Cork Midsummer Festival. Succeeding William Galinsky, who resigned last year to take up the artistic director position with the Norwich and Norfolk festival, Creed takes the reins of Cork&rsquo;s 16-day multi-disciplinary arts festival, designed to support local artists, while presenting innovative international new work across the art forms. It is hard to imagine a more appropriate appointment.
Creed, who is 30, made his professional debut at the festival in 2003, directing Lynda...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[ITM Editor recruitment]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Irish Theatre Magazine is currently recuiting a new Editor to succeed Helen Meany, who has held the post since 2005. The closing date for applications is Monday, April 4th, and those interested in applying should refer to the detailed job description and information below:
Editor
Irish Theatre Magazine (ITM) is an online cultural journal providing in-depth critical coverage of theatre and all aspects of the performing arts. It is the only journal of its kind in Ireland, and was founded in 1999.  It is funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
It is currently recruiting a new Editor to...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Loughlin Deegan's latest exit and an entrance]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Loughlin Deegan is to step down as Artistic Director of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in October to become the Director of The Lir, the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Trinity College Dublin. This is a new position.&rdquo;
Economical in its phrasing, free of comment, clean and precise, that is how ITM's Entrance and Exits column might have announced the news of one of the most significant shifts in Irish theatre when the eagerly read feature was first compiled by our former contributor, Loughlin Deegan (pictured).
A man whose artistic CV may be uncommonly variegated, Deegan...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Orlaith McBride appointed new Director of the Arts Council]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Orlaith McBride has been appointed the new Director of the Arts Council. McBride, who takes over from Mary Cloake in September, is the Director of the National Association for Youth Drama and has worked in the arts in various capacities for fifteen years. She has previously served as a member of the Arts Council for seven years.
The Arts Council, the agency for funding and developing the arts in Ireland, had its Government funding reduced last year by 5%, a relatively modest cut in times of financial crisis. While it has been restructured in recent years, reducing its staff by nearly a quarter,...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[Smock Alley is under pressure. But its director, Patrick Sutton, who is also the director of the Gaiety School of Acting, soon to be its &ldquo;anchor tenant&rdquo; admits this with a characteristic upsurge of rhetoric and determination. 

&ldquo;Are we under pressure?&rdquo; he asks. &ldquo;Yes we are. Will we get there? Yes we will.&rdquo; The first set back for the redevelopment of the oldest theatre in Ireland (established: 1662) had been a relatively minor snag. A delay in the fabrication of steel for its new seating bank pushed back the finish date of its five-month construction. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[The search for a new artistic director and CEO of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival may have extended far and wide, a position of influence that tends to attract international attention, but in the end the successful applicant occupies an office two doors down the street from the Festival office. Willie White, director of Project Arts Centre on 39 East Essex Street, will succeed Loughlin Deegan, the outgoing festival director currently based on 44 East Essex Street.

In some respects that proximity is artistic and philosophical too. Under Deegan, the Festival has come to invest more attention...]]></description>
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     <title><![CDATA[Bringing it all back home: Loughlin Deegan reveals the 2011 UBDTF programme]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[He started as he meant to continue. As Loughlin Deegan delivers his fifth and final programme for the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival as Artistic Director, there is as much continuity as there are new challenges in the three-week event. This year&rsquo;s Festival features ten world premieres,builds on previous relationships, pursues new connections and reflects both a theatre and nation that has vastly changed since 2007.
As in his first year, Deegan&rsquo;s programme features new productions from Rough Magic and Fabulous Beast, a Marina Carr play at the Abbey, a playful production from &lsquo;Victorian...]]></description>
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     <title><![CDATA[Cian O'Brien is the Project's new Artistic Director]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cian O&rsquo;Brien is the new Artistic Director of Project Arts Centre, an appointment that is as welcome, encouraging and refreshing as it is entirely unsurprising. Some career trajectories have a clear logic and unstoppable momentum.
O&rsquo;Brien leaves Rough Magic Theatre Company, with whom he has served as producer with responsibility towards managing and co-curating its artist development programmes, such as ADVANCE and SEEDS. The latter, in fact, was where he first served a form of apprenticeship with the company, from 2006/7, joining full time shortly after.
With O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Touring, report after report shows, is an expensive business which can lead to punitive losses if undertaken unwisely but is an effective way of growing audiences, prestige and even box-office if done well. It is also one of the only ways an abundance of regional venues can fill their under populated stages.

Since the end of the Arts Council Touring Policy in 2000, the culture of touring has lacked continuity, going through periods of retreat and resurgence as stalwarts such as Druid and the Abbey continued touring on modest means, before the kick-start of regional venue associations such as...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[Nobody has come out of this year's Arts Council funding decisions well. In the fourth straight year of declining State subsidy for the arts, two regional theatre companies have lost recurring funding from the Arts Council completely while two others (neither based in Dublin) have incurred significant reductions and been told that their regular grants will conclude in 2013. Yet there has still been much surprise at the magnitude of cuts apportioned to various companies in the independent sector followed by renewed calls for transparency in the Council&rsquo;s assessments and clearer communication...]]></description>
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     <title><![CDATA[The NCI merger debate is brought out in the open]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A debate in Dáil Eireann and the Seanad on the implications of the Public Service Reform Plan had been a long time coming. The plan&rsquo;s proposals to merge the National Archives, the Irish Manuscripts Commission and the National Library, and to combine the &ldquo;backroom&rdquo; administration of the National Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Crawford Art Gallery, as well as a critical review of Culture Ireland, had been announced in November of last year. But similar amalgamation plans had been drafted &ndash; and abandoned &ndash; by previous Governments in 2008 and 1974. This...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Irish Theatre Magazine hosts its annual Critics' Forum, at which leading theatre critics from home and abroad offer lively discussion and analysis of the highlights of the Festival programme.

The panel will be chaired by academic and critic, Patrick Lonergan. The panel includes Peter Crawley (chief theatre critic ofThe Irish Times and news editor of ITM); Susan Conley (cultural critic and author) and Joanna Derkaczew (chief theatre critic of Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza).
Audience participation welcome - in fact, actively encouraged. Come along and discuss the Festival performances you have...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Throughout years of speculation, during which Hawkins House, the Carlton Cinema, Coláiste Mhuire, the Dublin Docklands and, most recently, the GPO have been suggested as potential sites for the National Theatre&rsquo;s...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Minister Deenihan has been furthering an agenda to promote a new culture of private fundraising, most recently with the launch of the Arts Council&rsquo;s RAISE: Building Fundraising Capacity. A pilot scheme that provides professional support from the consultancy companies 2into3 and Networking Matters to eight organisations that have committed to raising more than &euro;250,000 a year in private investment, it features eight companies, among them the Galway Arts Festival and the Gate Theatre. The scale of those companies and the target suggests a focus on big players with big backers, but, a day...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[On the launch day of the Abbey&rsquo;s joint undertaking with NUI Galway to digitise its expansive archive, everybody seemed capable of making unusual associations. Some of these sounded like earnest topics for a PhD thesis, others sounded borderline facetious, but - with the theatre&rsquo;s historical store ranging from programmes, scripts, photos and original prompt books to posters, designs, videos and company minute books &ndash; all of them now seemed much more possible to pursue. 

The commercial relationship between Seán O&rsquo;Casey and the Abbey, was one volunteered by the theatre&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[In recent years, following the separation of the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Dublin Theatre Festival as concurrent events, some people began to speak longingly of redesigning the performance calendar.  &ldquo;What would be really helpful, and I&rsquo;m sure everybody hassaid it for years, would be if those two festivals were at opposite ends of the year,&rdquo; one producer told ITM in 2011. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve all got our backs broken putting on shows weeks apart.&rdquo;

This, admittedly, is a luxurious complaint made by theatre makers atfull canter (not everyone made work for both festivals)...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[If you are preparing for the worst, it&rsquo;s easy to believe the worst. When one newspaper reported what seemed like another cruel detail of a punishing National Budget for 2013, it caught much attention and criticism: &ldquo;Philanthropic donations will now be subject to a new 31 per cent tax of what is donated.&rdquo; It was also completely wrong. 

The measure, a legislative change to Section 848a, is actually for tax relief on charity donations, of 31 per cent, which, ironically, is intended to simplify a process hitherto clogged with bureaucracy. It also has implications, potentially very...]]></description>
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     <title><![CDATA[Beyond the Belltable]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As the Belltable company went into liquidation this month, the full extent of the beleaguered organisation&rsquo;s debts were finally revealed at a creditors meeting on March 12. The company owes more than &euro;2.3m to its various creditors, most of whom are arts companies and staff. But the most significant claim is for almost &euro;1m from the building contractors that carried out the theatre&rsquo;s renovations in 2009 and 2010, which the Belltable still disputes.

To follow the detailed reporting of the Limerick Leader since January is to see the consequence of the Belltable&rsquo;s apparent...]]></description>
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     <title><![CDATA[The IETM puts its trust in Dublin's performing arts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Just how informal is the Informal European Theatre Meeting? Convening for the first time in Dublin next month, the IETM Spring Plenary Meeting features four days of discussion, performance and collateral networking, but could never be referred to as an entirely casual affair. (A few years ago the organisation began operating under the more jacket-and-tie description, &ldquo;International network for contemporary performing arts&rdquo;.)
With this Spring&rsquo;s plenary meeting themed around the issue of &ldquo;Trust&rdquo;, the artistic programme curated by Project Arts Centre&rsquo;s Artistic...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Those in possession of specialist and general knowledge together with dependable memory retrieval skills can put their point scoring to a number of good causes this month. The National Campaign for the Arts, which is entirely funded by donations, is hosting its first table quiz next month on April 18, while those well-established quizmasters, the Theatrical Cavaliers, will host their own Annual Quiz ten days later in support of the Equity Benevolent Fund on April 28.
The acronym-studded NCFA &ldquo;WTF&rdquo; Table Quiz is a fundraising event for the organisation to be held at Yamamori on Bachelor&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[The life of a festival director is one of constant motion. Regularly seeing art at home and abroad is one of the most appealing parts of the job (as anyone who has never worked as a festival director will tell you), but to those accustomed to pre-dawn flights, the threat of deep vein thrombosis, five shows a day, budget crunching, sponsorship courting, box office calculations and promotion drives, the culture of event organising requires more stamina than glamour. Yet with three high-profile manoeuvres currently on the international festival circuit, these energetic jobs never seem to lose their...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[Mark Cantan has been awarded the Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary of &euro;7,500 for his debut full-length play, Jezebel. The award, which recognises and supports new Irish playwrights, goes to Cantan&rsquo;s contemporary farce staged last year by Rough Magic, in which a statistician and his partner attempt to enliven their sex life by having a threesome, which results in statistically unlikely complications. To anyone who missed the show, that might sound flagrantly risqué, but Cantan&rsquo;s comedy was more concerned with the tangles of miscommunication and miscalculation. Last year,...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[The fortunes of Colm Tóibín&rsquo;s The Testament of Mary on Broadway might best be described as a mixed blessing. Barely an hour after it received Tony Award nominations for Best Play (Tóibín), Best Lighting (Jennifer Tipton) and Best Sound Design (Mel Mercier, who was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award), its producer Scott Rudin announced that the show would close after only 16 performances. (It had 27 previews). The play&rsquo;s premiere production opened in 2011 at the Dublin Theatre Festival in a co-production between Landmark Productions and the Festival starring Marie Mullen and directed...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Kris Nelson, a Montreal-based producer and curator, has been announced as the new director of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Nelson, who succeeds Róise Goan as she concludes five years at the multi-disciplinary arts festival, is the founding director of Antonym Productions, a Canadian organisation that manages a range of artists working in theatre, dance, live art and music. He is also a curatorial advisor to the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver.
Nelson has already had some contact with the Dublin Fringe before; Evan Webber, the Canadian theatre maker who brought his critically...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[It is hard to say what an ideal Dublin Theatre Festival would look like, but the 56th programme, announced today, seems to have all the necessary ingredients.
A number of new Irish plays, several new Irish productions of Irish and international classics, and a new Irish adaptation of a seminal European musical all feature prominently, as do 16 international productions drawn from Japan, India, America, the UK, Poland, France, Germany, Portugal and Canada. If you want a richly costumed Shakespeare production &ndash; or, indeed, a stripped-down postdramatic riff inspired by Shakespeare &ndash; I&rsquo;m...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Arts Council seeking Advisers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Arts Council is seeking a number of Arts Advisers in the following areas: Architecture; Circus, Street Arts &amp; Spectacle; Film; Opera; Theatre; Traditional Arts.

The Arts Council is seeking experienced practitioners in the relevant areas, to work with the Arts Council's staff by assisting in the appraisal and assessment of funding applications, providing critical advice on artistic work and providing advice in relation to artform policy as required.

Application for each of these contracts is exclusively by a public tender process offered via the eTenders procurement website on Monday...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company discover Sky's the limit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Rough Magic Theatre Company has been named the next Sky Arts Ignition partner, winning &euro;230,000 in funding from the digital broadcaster Sky Ireland to stage a new co-production with Opera Theatre Company.
Chosen from a long-list of 60 candidates for the award, which was this year restricted to Irish applicants, Rough Magic&rsquo;s winning submission is a production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill&rsquo;s 1930 political satire, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The production will run at the Olympia Theatre from 12 - 22 June, 2014.
&ldquo;The Sky Arts Ignition award enables us to bring...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Irish Theatre Magazine Press Release]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the start of the year, Irish Theatre Magazine received news that the Arts Council would not offer funding to the magazine for 2014. Following a subsequent meeting with the Arts Council to discuss the implications of that decision, ITM&rsquo;s must suspend publishing new content.
ITM has benefitted from Arts Council financial support since 1999, soon after it first began publishing. The withdrawal of funding now follows a series of cuts to ITM and significant changes to the publication itself. Since becoming an online-only publication in 2009, ITM has been reliant on the Arts Council to fund...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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