
<rss version="2.0">
 <channel>
  <title>Irish Theatre Magazine news RSS</title>
 <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/]]></link> 
  <description>Irish Theatre Magazine RSS Feed</description>  
    
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Abbey-Story]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Abbey Story]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When Nokia Siemens sought a term to make the loss of 3,000 of its employees seem more palatable, they broke new ground with the phrase, &ldquo;synergy-related headcount restructuring&rdquo;. In the wake of such corporate jargon, and preparing for economic turbulence, the Abbey Theatre has been treading a thin line between euphemism and straight talking. 

At the launch of the theatre&rsquo;s new season, Artistic Director, Fiach MacConghail, seemed to be upfront about the issue: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re in the middle of a major restructuring process at the moment at The Abbey,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;in...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Abbey-Story]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/ConstituencyArtsWorkers]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[ConstituencyArtsWorkers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Welcome to Facebook. You added &ldquo;arts&rdquo; to your interests. You joined the group Dublin Central Arts Workers. You are attending a meeting with your local TD. You are now friends with several thousand people.&rdquo;

So goes the Newsfeed version of what has quickly become an electronic-political groundswell, a movement intended to mobilise anyone who makes a living from the arts. It delineates membership according to constituencies and marshals its members to campaign for the survival of their professions. With members connected via Facebook, email lists, and honest-to-goodness...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/ConstituencyArtsWorkers]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Workshop]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Workshop]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Abbey Theatre Workshop is likely to be the most significant casualty of the Abbey&rsquo;s restructuring, with proposals made to abolish the department entirely. This would lose eleven full-time jobs at the theatre while also sacrificing the Abbey&rsquo;s capacity to construct its own sets. 

According to the Abbey&rsquo;s director of finance and administration, Declan Cantwell, the workshop has been under scrutiny for some time. In 2006, when the Abbey was the recipient of generous State subsidy, a review of the workshop revealed &ldquo;a huge difference in cost&rdquo; between manufacturing...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Workshop]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Gilligan]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Gilligan]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A combination of achievement and sadness accompanies every retirement, but as Jack Gilligan prepares to step down as Arts Officer of Dublin City Council there is an attendant anxiety over the matter of his replacement. Currently there are no plans to appoint a successor. All new appointments are embargoed while the Government attempts to weather these straitened economic times. A spokesperson told ITM that &ldquo;the Council is examining its options for filling the post in the context of the current difficult budget situation.&rdquo;  

Gilligan, who held the position since 1993 and worked for...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Gilligan]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Entrances---Exits]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Entrances & Exits]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[STEPHEN FALOON has been appointed General Manager of the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin&rsquo;s Docklands. The new 2,000-seat venue (model, right) designed by Daniel Libeskind, will open on 18 March, 2010, with a performance of Swan Lake by Russian State Ballet.  It will host large-scale visiting productions of music, theatre, opera, ballet and dance.
SANDRA ADAMS has been appointed General Manager of The Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin, replacing Stephen Faloon this month. She was formerly General Manager of Dublin Dance Festival.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS, who was Acting General Manager of Dublin Dance...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Entrances---Exits]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/funding-cuts]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[funding cuts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[From Monday morning, the day that the Arts Council&rsquo;s funding decisions for 2010 were communicated to the majority of its clients by post, members of the theatre and dance community began phoning each other with heavy concern, the kind usually reserved for times of natural disaster, each asking the same question: Are you ok?
For an unprecedented number of independent theatre companies, the answer was no. Eleven production companies have had their funding discontinued, among them such high profile and long-standing organisations as Barabbas (pictured), Bedrock and Meridian. While companies...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/funding-cuts]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/theatre-forum-meeting]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[theatre forum meeting ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[
The meeting held by Theatre Forum in Dublin last week was an opportunity for practitioners in theatre, dance and opera to air their reactions to the severe cuts in revenue funding for this year, and to discuss their implications. Responding to a series of questions posed in a letter from Theatre Forum to the Arts Council about the current theatre strategy, clarity of communication and transparency of process, the Arts Council&rsquo;s Director Mary Cloake made a presentation at the meeting, which Fergal McGrath, Chair of Theatre Forum, said &ldquo;brought some clarity, but didn&rsquo;t bring a...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/theatre-forum-meeting]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Galinksy-on-planning]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Galinksy on planning]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While many in the theatre sector grapple with the threat to the company model, and seek further information about pilot production hubs and new mechanisms for funding, others are adopting an adapt-or-die pragmatism.Cork Midsummer Festival received a cut of just 3.7 per cent, from &euro;187,000 to &euro;180,000, which fits a pattern its artistic director, William Galinsky, observed of &ldquo;preserving medium-scale festivals&hellip; that do an awful lot on quite a little.&rdquo; How they operate may prove instructive for a sector long dependent on state subsidy and critically vulnerable in straitened...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Galinksy-on-planning]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/No-fast-track-for-project-funding]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Project funding deadline]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Every moment counts in making theatre, especially in the next few months. Today the Arts Council confirmed that the deadlines for theatre Project funding awards would remain as March 25 (for hard copy submissions) and April 1 (for online), adding, &ldquo;the same as for all other projects, as previously announced&rdquo;.

Such reiteration seems unusual, but clarification may have been necessary following widely disseminated information to the contrary. Theatre Forum was just one source for news that seemed to have originally stemmed from Arts Council staff last week, informing its members that...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/No-fast-track-for-project-funding]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Actors-resist-pay-cuts-at-the-Peacock]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Actors resist pay cuts at the Peacock]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At a time of severe budget cuts across the theatre sector and tentatively proposed new models of making work, not all fee reductions are being readily accepted.
In a letter to acting agencies this month, seen by ITM, Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail referred to the National Theatre&rsquo;s decline in state subsidy &ndash; from &euro;10m in 2008 to &euro;7.25m in 2010 &ndash; as a rationale to explore new operational methods and to cut production costs. Having instituted a pay freeze on actors&rsquo; fees for Abbey productions in 2010 last December, he informed the letter&rsquo;s recipients of...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Actors-resist-pay-cuts-at-the-Peacock]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Less-work-predicted-for-the-Peacock]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Less work expected at the Peacock]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The pay dispute over actors&rsquo; fees at the Peacock may have been resolved, but as the Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail pursues new models of operating the National Theatre with diminished resources, the role of the Peacock still seems to be under review.
Contending with a 27% cut from 2008 funding levels (from &euro;10m two years ago to &euro;7.25m in 2010) while the theatre continues a protracted period of restructuring and expects the loss of 26 staff positions, Mac Conghail told ITM that his priorities are to invest in big casts on the Abbey stage. Between Christ Deliver Us!, nearing the...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Less-work-predicted-for-the-Peacock]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Werk-season]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Werk season]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Anyone passing the Abbey Theatre will notice a striking new poster next to the stage door: yes, that is Pope Benedict&rsquo;s face propped up on a beefy torso, draped in gold chains, with the word WERK slashed through the centre in bright yellow. A programme of documentary theatre  - last month&rsquo;s The Darkest Corner - is one way to approach the nation&rsquo;s topical concerns; a subversive poster heralding a season of experimental performance and clubbing is another.
WERK is organised by the company THISISPOPBABY in conjunction with the Abbey Theatre. Programmed by Jenny Jennings and Phillip...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Werk-season]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/A-new-policy-for-theatre--Theatre-Forum-responds]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[A new policy for theatre: Theatre Forum responds]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the end of March, the Arts Council quietly released its new theatre policy, a short but radical document that has redefined the landscape of Irish theatre. Responses from the theatre sector so far have been cautious, if not muted, largely because Supporting the production and presentation of theatre: a new approach enshrines an approach that is already clearly evident.
Identifying six types of support for theatre makers &ndash; core funding of producing organisations, project funding, shared administrative resources, touring, artists&rsquo; support and development initiatives &ndash; the policy...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/A-new-policy-for-theatre--Theatre-Forum-responds]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Arts-Council-announces-theatre-project-decisions]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Arts Council announces theatre project decisions]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A clearer picture of the Irish theatre enabled by the Arts Council&rsquo;s new theatre policy has emerged with the publication of this year&rsquo;s theatre project awards. Designed to directly support the development and production of work outside of a core-funded company model, these awards represent a significant emphasis on new and emerging companies with notably few awards extended to companies recently removed from the revenue-funding stream.
More than 100 applicants sought grants among three possible strands &ndash; development, presentation or production of work &ndash; with just twenty-four...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Arts-Council-announces-theatre-project-decisions]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Complex-productions-base-in-Smithfield]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Complex productions' base in Smithfield]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Unusually for a theatre company these days, Complex Productions has actually benefited from the economic crisis. The building the group now occupies onSmithfield Square in Dublin was initially developed as a retail space, although having remained empty for seven years, it has recently been claimed by NAMA. The Complex is a cavernous, concrete space that currently houses Complex Productions. Under the artistic direction of Vanessa Fielding, the company of six core members was launched in February 2009 with the site-specific piece, Complexity, scripted by Anthony Goulding. No rent is exchanged, but...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Complex-productions-base-in-Smithfield]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Nomadnotfunded]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Nomadnotfunded]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As the decisions for this year&rsquo;s Arts Council touring grants filter out &ndash; applicants were notified by post this week &ndash; there has already been one surprising and high profile casualty. NOMAD, the north Midlands touring network set up to produce work and share it between seven venues, has not received funding.
Founded in 2006, NOMAD is a collaboration between Livin&rsquo; Dred Theatre Company, Dundalk&rsquo;s An Táin, Longford&rsquo;s Backstage, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Iontas, Mullingar Arts Centre, Ramor Theatre and Roscommon Arts Centre. It has since produced three critically...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Nomadnotfunded]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Balancing-public-and-private-funding]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Balancing public and private funding]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Traditionally in Irish theatre, the commercial and subsidised theatres have stood benignly apart. The subsidised sector prizes artistic credibility above the need for solid returns &ndash; &ldquo;the freedom to fail&rdquo; were once its watch words &ndash; while the commercial sector sought to give the public what it wanted, and suffered gravely when it didn&rsquo;t. Or so conventional wisdom goes. If that has proven to be a false dichotomy, with both sectors sharing the same talent pool, informing the other and sharing audiences, a new climate for funding theatre has made it imperative that they...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Balancing-public-and-private-funding]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Critics--Forum-2010]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Critics' Forum 2010]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The annual ITM International Critics' Forum at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival takes place this year on Thursday, October 14th. Leading theatre critics from Ireland and abroad will analyse a selection of productions from the Festival's programme. The panel will be chaired by academic and critic Patrick Lonergan (pictured), author of Theatre and Globalisation: Irish drama in the Celtic Tiger era, and a regular contributor to ITM.Audience participation is welcome, and the discussion will run from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
Admission free; to reserve...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Critics--Forum-2010]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Opera-Theatre-Company-closure]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Opera Theatre Company closure]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For supporters of the work of Opera Theatre Company who gathered on Tuesday evening in Dublin for the launch of its latest production, the announcement that the company is to close down at the end of the year marked the end of an era. The final production,The Diary of Anne Frankby Russian composer Grigory Frid, will open next month on the Abbey&rsquo;s Peacock stage, before touring to twelve venues around the country, following a pattern established by Opera Theatre Company (OTC) over many years. It will be the closing chapter of a twenty-four-year performance history, and the choice of this opera...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Opera-Theatre-Company-closure]]></link>     
</item>
<item>
     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Death-of-Mick-Lally]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Death of Mick Lally]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The death of actor Mick Lally comes as sad news, not only for his colleagues in Druid Theatre Company and the theatre world in general, but to viewers who felt they knew him, having watched him in the role of Miley Byrne in Glenroe on RTÉ television for many years. The founder member of Druid died on Tuesday morning (August 31st) at the age of 64 after a short illness, and will be an enormous loss to Irish theatre, film and television.
Pat Moylan, Chairperson of the Arts Council, stated earlier: &quot;He was a talented actor and a gentleman, and his loss will be felt by those both outside and...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/News/Current/Death-of-Mick-Lally]]></link>     
</item>   
 </channel>
</rss>
