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Theatre: Minute After Midday @ The Project

  By Sinead Keogh | November 14, 2011 - 9:24 am | Events, The Arts, Theatre
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It’s the 15th of August, 1998. It’s a Saturday on Lower Market Street and it’s just gone 17 seconds past noon. In 43 seconds, Lizzy, Conor and Mari’s lives will change forever… Kicking off this evening at The Project is Minute After Midday, a new Irish play written by Ross Dungan. Looking at the effects of the Omagh bombing on three characters - a young girl who was at the scene, a repentant bomber and woman who lost her husband in the tragedy - it’s an unexpected theme from Dungan who is better known as a member of comedy sketch group A Betrayal of Penguins. Having received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe where it won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for Innovation in New Writing, we reckon it’s worth a look. Booking Information: Dates: 14th – 26th November Preview: 14th and 15th November (Tickets €8) Matinee: 2pm, 26th November … There’s more →

Events: Tonight - The Quiet Pint Comedy Club

  By Sinead Keogh | October 13, 2011 - 11:16 am | Comedy, Events
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As David O’Doherty would say, ‘do you enjoy enjoyment?’ Are you looking for something to do tonight? Are you suggestible? Read on. Certain members of Team Culch were lucky enough to go to college with some funny people who went on to become The Quiet Pint Comedy Club. A solid couple of hours of laughter and wit, the club has evolved from amateur stand-up to an ever more polished offering which regularly attracts some big name guests from the field of Irish comedy. It just so happens that their next show is this evening, and we recommend it massively. In their own words: “October’s edition of the Quiet Pint Comedy Club has arrived. Come to one of Dublin’s coolest venues, 4 Dame Lane, to see some of Dublin’s coolest comedy. Previous acts have included Dead Cat Bounce; Jarlath Regan, Damo Clarke, A Betrayal of Penguins and Andrew Stanley. Don’t miss … There’s more →

Events: The Workman’s Club’s 1st Birthday

  By Culch.ie | August 8, 2011 - 10:11 am | Comedy, Events, Featured Post, Gigs, Music, Random Whimsy, The Arts
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For those of you who frequent the place, it might be bloody hard to believe it’s turning the big 1 already, we know we were shocked, but stick it in your diary - the Workman’s Club are having a birthday party. What night, you ask? Pfft. It’s a full week of celebrations from September 5th - 11th so you’ve no excuse for missing it. If you’re not acquainted, The Workman’s Club on Wellington Quay used to be just that - The Dublin Workingmen’s Club. It opened it’s doors back in 1888 and closed them in 2003 and since the place got it’s new lease of life last year you can hear history singing in the walls. History, or whatever band is playing The Venue. Split across a few nubs and hubs of activity from The Venue and The Venue Bar on the ground floor where we’ve caught many a fine … There’s more →

Review: A Betrayal of Penguins - The Workman’s Club

  By Andy Gaffney | July 25, 2011 - 11:45 am | Comedy, Featured Post, Gigs, Theatre
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A little while ago after seeing A Betrayal of Penguins supporting their sketch comedy peers ‘Foil, Arms and Hog’ at Whelan’s I mentioned that, golly I would like to see a full show of them. Sure enough just like that time I asked for Power Ranger toys for Christmas, I got my wish (which by the way, was very hard that year, when children did that thing where on Christmas Eve they talk to a Santa on a radio show, he was all like “Oh, I don’t know, the elves are finding them very hard to make”, so yeah, up yours other kids).

Festival Preview: 10 Days in Dublin

  By Sinead Keogh | June 30, 2011 - 10:52 am | The Culch
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10 Days in Dublin, which kicks off on Thursday July 7th and runs all the way through to the following Saturday is something we very much like the look of. Covering music, theatre and comedy it’s got an excellent and awesomely cheap line up (seriously, most shows are a fiver) and you’ll definitely bump into some of team Culch at the gigs (in the unlikely event that bumping into us is a selling point for anyone). Happening across a few entirely likable venues (The Workman’s and The International for the music and comedy and a bunch of others for the theatre listings), here’s a breakdown of some of the things we recommend catching: Comedy Conor O’Toole’s Manual of Style - A new comedy show about font - The International - 6:30pm, Thursday 7th July - €5. It’s been described as ‘quirky and endearing’ by Chortle (aka The Comedy Bible). If … There’s more →

Comedy Review - Foil, Arms and Hog / A Betrayal of Penguins @ Whelans

  By Andy Gaffney | March 30, 2011 - 11:29 am | Comedy, Events, Gigs, The Culch
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  Sketch comedy can be a pretty tricky thing to get right. For every ‘The Two Ronnie’s’ you have Frankie Boyle’s ‘Tramadol Nights’ and for every two good sketches in ‘That Mitchell and Webb look’ , you have a further ten other sketches in ‘That Mitchell and Webb look’. The hardest thing about any sketch show is the hit rate of the good sketches. You could be laughing away for ages and then suddenly be met with a horrible unfunny silence that has you staring into a drink until the pain has gone away. A little bit like at a wedding where the best man suddenly decides to mention that time he thought this day would never come after he walked in on you and the butch Polish mature student back in first year during your ‘experimental’ stage. Yes, while the same applies to straight stand-up, it is a lot … There’s more →