FIRKIN CRANE PRESENTS

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 3rd February 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

The Architecture and Playability of Theatre
Programmed by the Cork City Dance Artists in Residence at Firkin Crane.

Mikel Murfi will lead a workshop for actors, dancers and scenographers to explore the core ideas in the theatre practice of Jacques Lecoq. The workshop will also explore Mikel’s current practice methods. An ideal opportunity to have your creative mind challenged and reinvigorated as Mikel brings the discipline of architecture to the work of the body in order to give the theatre maker a more complete compendium of physical expression. 

Mikel Murphy from Sligo trained at Ecole Jaques Lecoq, Paris.

His performances in theatre include Swan Lake (Teac Damsa); Dolores (Junk Ensemble), The Man in The Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice (Loco and Reckless Productions); The Last Hotel and Ballyturk (Galway Arts Festival/Landmark/Wide Open Opera); The New Electric Ballroom (Druid); The Chairs (Blue Raincoat Theatre); Morning After Optimism, Playboy of the Western World (Peacock Theatre);  The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (Abbey Theatre) Giselle, Rite of Spring and Petrushka (Fabulous Beast), Desire Under The Elms (Lyric, Hammersmith).

Directing includes: Toraiocht (Fíbín); The Walworth Farce, Penelope (Druid); Trad, The Great Goat Bubble (Galway Arts Festival); The Country Girls (Red Kettle); Diamonds in the Soil (Macnas); Waiting for Godot (Theatre Du Pif, Hong Kong); The Far Off Hills (Nomad Theatre Network).

Film includes: The Ballad of Kid Kanturk, Intermission, Sweety Barrett, The Butcher Boy, Love and Rage, Guiltrip and most recently Jimmy’s Hall. As a director Druma and John Duffy’s Brother. 

Friday 8th February 2019 8pm

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Fat Blokes is a sort of dance show about flab, double chins and getting your kit off in public.

Fat Blokes uncovers why fat men are never sexy but are always funny, always the ‘before’ but never the ‘after’ shot. Made in collaboration with Lea Anderson and four fat blokes who’ve never done this sort of thing before. Prepare yourself for a show about pent up aggression, riot grrrl and the hokey cokey.

This is fat rebellion.“Angry, lovable and tender show…an act of theatrical consciousness-raising” ★★★★ Guardian

Scottee is an artist and writer, working across theatre, fine art and installation. In 2010, as an emerging artist he won the title of Time Out Performer of the Year, since then he has been creating provocative work for audiences across UK, Europe, Australia, Japan and the US. His debut solo tour The Worst of Scottee won the prestigious Total Theatre Award in 2014. In 2016 he was included on Independent’s Rainbow List as one of Britain’s most influential LGBTQI+ people. Scottee’s critically acclaimed Putting Words in Your Mouth uncovered a queer community turning to neo-nationalist groups and was named one of Matt Trueman’s top shows of 2017. This quickly followed sell-out tour and his first stage text Bravado exploring working class masculinity. Currently he is touring ‘a sort of dance show’ Fat Blokes across England, Scotland and Ireland.

Scottee is co-host on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends. His debut radio documentary My Big Fat Documentary was made BBC Radio 4’s Documentary of the Week. Scottee has since appeared on Front Row, BBC Radio 3’s The Verb & Free Thinking. In 2018 he made a short documentary for BBC Three on street abuse titled Fat & Fabulous and The Gamble for BBC Radio 4 on autobiographical art.

​Scottee is not easily definable, his work is brash, political and will often purposefully leave you a bit annoyed, overwhelmed but never impartial.

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Saturday 9th February 2019 8pm

An epic saga of two brothers and their destiny to Dance.

From the lads that brought you RELEASE THE FREAK. the boys that concord the street performance world, RAVED it up in alleys across the country, confused the f**k out of Simon Cowell on Britain’s Got Talent, stars of THISISPOPBABY’s RIOT (don’t tell Panti) and through it all they are still working at TONY’S BISTRO.

A mythical memoir of how they came to be, A Pop Opera of daring, disappointments and delusions… a family feud finds the brothers in a secretive yet epic battle for the soul of the world!

The clothes are too tight, the dreams are too big and there might not be enough room in this double act for the two of them!

Yes there will be dance – Yes there will be drama – Yes there will be keytar!

Cork’s Lords of Strut have been ripping it up across the Irish and international festival scene since they first squeezed themselves into spandex. Their unique brand of comedy acrobatics and what the hell are they doing has been delighting and confusing audiences in more than 25 countries (26 counting Cork) for 10 years!

Cian Kinsella and Cormac Mohally perform and created the legend that is … LORDS OF STRUT

Contains moderate language, graphic scenes , Adult Content, Partial nudity, strobe and smoke
Age 15+

“TRULY SUBVERSIVE” New York Times

“I think I get it now….. stupidly funny” Simon Cowell

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 26th May 2019 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

Natural Body Movement and Trained Body Movement

Natural Body Movement may incorporate some of the very early infant movements in the womb and later on as we learn to work with gravity and come to standing. Whatever we may call it; there are natural and spontaneous movements that we all know from very early in our lives. As we grow and learn, these early movements get overlaid or enhanced by the many movement techniques available to us now. This workshop will explore seeing where the natural and more learned dance or movement techniques meet, partially meet or even conflict with each other.

Joan Davis has been exploring the nature of creativity, particularly from a body based perspective, for over 40 years. She pioneered contemporary dance in Ireland in the 70s & 80s and has experimented with collaborative art as a professional artist and therapist.

From 1996, when she moved to Wicklow, she developed the arts practice and performance offerings of Maya Lila which was based on bringing Authentic Movement into performance. She published two books on this process in 2007.

Joan is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler, and Voice Work with Chloe Goodchild and Rajeswar Bhattacharya. She is a Hakomi Sensorimotor Trauma Psychotherapist.

She continues to study developmental processes as well as embryology and early infant trauma. Joan has undertaken trainings in Dynamic Attachment Repair Experiences (DARE) with Dr. Diane Poole Heller in Europe. She continues her studies with trainings in HANDLE an holistic approach to neuro developmental healing and repatterning.

In 2012 Joan offered a four year somatic training called ORIGINS which covered the journey from preconception to standing.

In 2013 Mary Wycherley, a dance filmmaker based in Limerick, Ireland, was funded to make a film of the work of Maya Lila. This film, called ‘In the Bell’s Shadow’ has been screened nationally and internationally since it premiered in 2015.

Joan offers ongoing one to one somatic therapy sessions as well as her group work and solo retreats. Her most recent publication (2018) is the journey of ORIGINS, a journey from preconception to standing. www.gorsehill.net