Daily Archives: November 10, 2010

Reunion at the New Theatre, Dublin

  By bngr | November 10, 2010 - 8:07 pm | The Culch
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Reunion is a one-man show performed by Daniel Reardon adapted for the stage for the first time by Ronan Wilmot, from the autobiographical novella by Fred Uhlman. This is a story of two sixteen year old boys and their time together in the early 1930s at Karl Alexander Gymnasium in Stuttgart, as narrated 40 years later by Hans Schwartz, a now successful German-American Jewish lawyer. Having been asked to contribute to a memorial to his former classmates who died during the Second World War, Hans revists the story of his school friendship in the early days of Hitler’s rise and growing anti-semitism. This is a nice play, with a story that grips you and a poignant and surprising end. Good for people who like history; the Holocaust; mis-lit; or just a good story, told well. And if you haven’t been before, the New Theatre is a great theatre experience. Reunion … There’s more →

Ticket Alert: The Script - Aviva 2011

  By seanear1ey | November 10, 2010 - 2:39 pm | Music, The Culch
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We’re big fans of the Script here at Culch. Having sat down with the lads around their Arthur Guinness day performance and caught their live shows more than once, we are definitely excited about this one. The lads are playing a massive homecoming show in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium (or Landsdowne Road to the old fashioned amongst you). Tickets went on sale this morning for €44.20 for the show which s the perfect chance to see how the band has evolved from playing the Dublin pub scene to handling a giant stadium, an achievement for any band just fresh from their second album. We can’t see tickets lasting long considering the epic slew of 3 sold out dates in March for Dublin’s O2 so grab yours over on Ticketmaster.ie.

Review: Big Ole Piece of Cake

  By Niamh | November 10, 2010 - 1:41 pm | Theatre
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When I was asked if I would like to go see ‘Big Ole Piece of Cake’ I immediately said yes. It sounded exactly like something I would enjoy. The blurb on it told me this much about it: Dublin lads Colin and Ray are out of work, out of luck, and nearly out of fags. On a whim, old and lonely ex-teacher Clarence invites the two brothers back to his cottage in Wicklow. Through the course of one electric and increasingly drunken evening, the unlikely trio bond over naggins and history lessons, but will Colin’s destructive streak ruin their chance of finally finding a happy family? I really enjoyed this last night in the Project Arts Centre - after a couple of failed attempts to see it last week. The set, Clarence’s front room, was worthy of the Abbey. A very cosy front room or as Colin put it “mad … There’s more →

Review: Kid Karate - Heart

  By Bryano | November 10, 2010 - 10:27 am | Gigs, Music
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Having gained notoriety for their live shows over the past year, Heart arrives as the first proper release from Dublin duo Kid Karate. Indeed, it was live where they first shot to my attention following an outstanding performance at last month’s Hard Working Class Heroes festival (pictures below). The pair swept away the Mercantile’s intimate confines in a blistering set which culminated in participatory drumming and with vocals delivered from a lead singer who lay convulsed at the feet of the audience. From that performance it was clear that Kid Karate possessed an unrestrained and impatient streak to impress and just as it paid off that night, so too does it on Heart.

Full Circle Exhibition

  By Kitty Catastrophe | November 10, 2010 - 9:47 am | Events, The Arts, The Culch
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A few months ago, a lovely friend of mine had a great idea. Getting our old class from college back together by organising an exhibition where we each go back and tackle the very first graphic design brief given to us back in 2002 in our first year of Visual Communications in CIT. The result of this brainwave, along with several months of work, is Full Circle. Fourteen of us took part, each given free rein to either tackle and put our own unique spin on, or reject and react to the classic “Black Squares Problem” in the form of a single A0 poster. The idea behind this exhibition is to showcase how far our work has come in the eight years since we were first confronted with this brief. The opening of the exhibition kicks off from 6pm this Friday, in FilmBase (across from The Button Factory) on Curved … There’s more →