Kilkenny Arts Festival 6 - 15 August 2010

The Kilkenny Arts Festival is due to start on 6th August next in Kilkenny, marking the beginning of a 10 day festival of Bertie Bassetts - All Sorts! This is the 37th year of the festival and the maturity of the festival shows in the numerous, wide-ranging and quality acts they have lined up for 2010. To make things easier, the festival has been separated into 9 different strands - that’s nine varieties of ways in which you can be entertained! Wired - a musical exploration. According to curator Matthew Nolan, this strand features one of the best live acts performing in Ireland at the moment, And So I Watch You From Afar.

Dracula The Un-Dead: review

Not too long ago I posted about the upcoming release of Dracula The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and the fact that he was coming to Dublin to hold some talks on the book. Sadly I couldn’t make it to the talk but I have just finished reading the book. Having only recently read Dracula for the first time I was really excited to read this ‘official’ sequel, approved by the Stoker family. In my previous post I had mentioned that the format was the same as the original, a story told through a series of letters, telegrams and diary entries. However, this is not entirely true. Although letters, documents, diaries and telegrams do play a part in Dracula The Un-Dead, the story is told through the authors narrative. The story picks up twenty five years after Dracula has been defeated by our band of heroes in Transylvania. Mina and Jonathan … There’s more

Poe Show, spooky tales and story telling

Poe Show is returning to Bewleys Café Theatre on 20 October for the Halloween season having played earlier this year to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and Gothic master of mysterious and macabre tales. It features some of Poes most terrifying, dark tales and poems with a backdrop of live music…no doubt eery, spooky music. If you enjoy Poes work, storytelling or ghost stories I think this will be a great event to go to, especially at this time of the year. Poe Show will be performed for two weeks from Tuesday 20 Oct (preview Mon 19th) with the final performance, fittingly, on Halloween. Shows are every day at 1.10pm (doors open 12.50pm), with an additional 8pm show on Halloween.