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16/7/2006

Galway Arts Festival 2006

Eyre Square Shopping Centre, Galway

Over 400 writers, artists, performers and musicians

Galway Arts Festival 2006 features over 400 writers, artists, performers and musicians from Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Israel, Mexico, Palestine, Peru, Romania, Scotland, Spain, The Netherlands, Ukraine, UK, USA, Wales and of course Ireland.

The 29th Galway Arts Festival is the first under the direction of new Festival Artistic Director Paul Fahy and celebrates artistic innovation from around the world.

Dance performances from some of the most exciting choreographers in the USA today combine with theatre, spectacle, a widely expanded visual arts programme and the spectacular Festival Parade, to add to the magic and diversity of this year’s programme which features some of the most extraordinarily ambitious and innovative projects to be seen in Ireland this year and includes five world premieres and four Irish premieres.

Festival 06 sees the World Premiere of Vincent Woods’ new version of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi - King Ubu. Fineswine Productions & Galway Arts Festival’s production is directed and designed by Monica Frawley who brings a mad universe to vivid life creating a visual spectacle of a timeless story in a savagely funny, black comedy with an enduring relevance. Jim Vincent’s Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is among the original forces in contemporary dance today. Making their Irish debut in Galway HSDCpresent a stunning programme from their internationally acclaimed repertoire featuring exhilarating movement, intricate choreography and raw physicality including a new work by Irish choreographer Marguerite Donlon. My Name Is Rachel Corrie also makes its Irish debut in Galway fresh from a successful sell-out season in London’s West End and two sell-out seasons at The Royal Court Theatre in a production directed by Alan Rickman.

Other international work includes The Gimmick, set in Harlem in the 1960s during the civil rights movement, written and performed by Pulitzer Prize nominee Dael Orlandersmith, while leading British playwright Mark Ravenhill directs his new play Product co-presented by UK theatre company Paines Plough. Galway Arts Festival and Peer Pressure Productions team up once again to present the world premiere of Dog Show: Rex, written and directed by Garrett Keogh following the success of last year’s Dog Show recently awarded the Stewart Parker BBC Radio Drama Award while Barabbas present the world premiere of Raymond Keane and Veronica Coburn’s Hairdresser in the House.

Bringing the very best of musical talent to Galway this summer a host of world-renowned and emerging Irish artists join together with an exciting line-up of musicians from around the globe for a mouth watering music programme which includes Lambchop, Annoushka Shankar, Richard Thompson, The Tiger Lillies, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment who perform in venues throughout Galway. A series of six concerts Live at the Festival Big Top features singer-songwriter David Gray, reggae legends UB40, the New Orleans All Star Party featuring Allen Toussaint, Marcia Ball and the Charmain Neville Band; Scottish rockers Simple Minds, leading Irish rock band Bell X1 and the Irish-based Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela. Other music highlights include Tom Baxter, Teddy Thompson, Galway’s ConTempo String Quartet and The Bad Plus amongst a host of others.

Galway Arts Festival’s commitment to developing new work for younger audiences is evident in the world premiere of The Clerk and the Clown, a collaboration between Mark Doherty and Mikel Murfi produced in association with the Mermaid Arts Centre. Award-winning author, Eoin McNamee will read from his first children’s book The Navigator in libraries throughout Co. Galway; Tall Tales & Network of Stuff present their new show Them with Tails while Spanish artist Guixot’s interactive sculptural installations can be seen in outdoor city-centre locations. Macnas take to the city streets for the annual spectacular Festival Parade The Big River while other street spectacle includes Les Sages Fous’ The Bizzarium Street Aquarium featuring a myriad of underwater creatures, Teatro Pachuco from Mexico, Spain’s Cirq Civil and Australia’s Icarus featuring their giant kangaroos in Roo’d bringing the city streets to life every day throughout the Festival in true Galway magic and style.

The visual arts programme includes a major exhibition of epic paintings based on the theme of the sea by Hughie O’Donoghue in the new and specially adapted vast Fairgreen Gallery in Galway City and on Inis Oirr in A'ras E'anna Arts Centre. David Mach’s magnificent sculpture Hell Bent will be installed by the new Galway City Museum, which also hosts exhibitions by Josef Albers and Hans Beenhakker.

The Festival’s commitment to the development of Irish artists is evident in a new initiative showcasing the work of a young, emerging Galway artist each year. For 2006 Vicki McCormack has been invited to exhibit her latest multi-media work Ex Cathedra with further exhibitions from Galway based artists including Colm Hogan, Artspace and Deirdre O’Mahony. Other Festival exhibitions include a major installation in NUI Galway by Frank Morzuch and exhibitions by Icelandic Love Corporation, Tom Mathews, Janet Pierce, Susan McWilliams and Jan Garrup, Peter Blake, Uri Gersht and a photographic exhibition from Israeli and Palestinian photographers, Conflict Inherited.

This year Galway Arts Festival adds a touch of New York to the Festival comedy programme with the charming and hilarious Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. while Edinburgh Festival favourite Owen O’Neill re-invents some of his finest moments in Chasing My Tale. Other comedians visiting Galway include Adam Hills, David O’Doherty and Reginald D Hunter.

Literary events at Festival 06 include novelists and authors joined by leading cultural and political commentators from around the world in discussion, readings and debate including Suad Amiry, Caryl Phillips, Andrew O’Hagan and journalist Paddy Agnew while England’s Mark Ravenhill is joined in conversation by John Deeney in an event presented in association with Critical Voices.

Galway Arts Festival Box Office
Eyre Square Shopping Centre, Eyre Square - Galway

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