Playhouse Derry

"Our voices are rarely heard so I really wanted this piece to be an opportunity to allow voices from Northern Ireland, at a time when people were talking more at us, and about us.
Wake the Beast's Adam McGuigan and Aislinn Harley Baxter talk to Kathy Clugston on her new arts show The Ticket on BBC Radio Ulster about new play 'The Biggest Show In The Country', coming here Saturday night!
🎧🎧Listen back at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009yrz (37mins in)

Delighted to welcome GCSE and A level drama students from Limavady High School to our building this week!
The students took a backstage tour of The Playhouse, followed by a workshop with Playhouse Director and Producer Kieran Griffiths to learn about our creative processes, and got the chance to view a scene from our musical in development, Chicago! Thanks to everyone who came along, it was a pleasure hosting you all!

"had everyone bursting their sides and personally had me laughing all the way home’" North West End Review (Liverpool Irish Festival)
"Adam McGuigan’s The Biggest Show In The Country at the Liverpool Irish Festival finds the funny in the current political turmoil" Annie Driver, The Irish World
"I’ll sue them" - Stephen Nolan
... A dark new musical comedy inspired by ‘The Nolan show’- swapping guns, bombs & bullets for glitter- @The Biggest Show In The Country comes to us this Saturday!
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“This is in the ethos and context of the Theatre of Witness tradition, well known to the people of the city, in which a theatre professional works at the shoulder of people carrying their own stories to an audience.”
We're delighted that Poet and Playwright Damian Gorman has begun his Peacebuilding Residency with us.
Damian will work with people around their experiences of 1972, the worst year of the ‘Troubles’, and his residency will finish with a free performance in The Pl...ayhouse, which will run from Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 April 2020.
There's still time for people to get involved, and Damian and The Playhouse want to extend the invitation as widely as possible.
Damian will be inviting people to drop in to The Playhouse for an informal chat this Saturday morning (November 9) from 10am.
Anyone interested can also arrange a meeting at another time by contacting project co-ordinator Elaine Forde on elaine@derryplayhouse.co.uk.
Find out more about the project here www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/â€Ķ/poet-and-pla ywright-damian-gâ€Ķ/430
Special EU Programmes Body - SEUPB Holywell Trust Queen's University Belfast Arts Council Ireland Arts Council of Northern Ireland
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Raising awareness about Safety in the Community.
Young people from Enagh, Raphoe, Clooney, Ballymagroarty are using film and Virtual Reality to express their views.
This film, Stranger Danger by Enagh Youth Forum Strathfoyle/Maydown, is one of four short films released online as part of our cross community project, Street Talk.
... More info at www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/â€Ķ/young-people -from-four-localâ€Ķ/426
Special EU Programmes Body - SEUPB
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***JOB CALL****
Theatre Designer & Builder
The Playhouse Theatre and Peacebuilding Academy is seeking a dynamic and ambitious set designer / builder to create and realise the set for "First Response", a participatory arts piece created with people who worked on the front line during The Troubles. The ideal candidate will be experienced in conceiving and creating exciting, interactive, conceptual spaces; will be adept at constructing tour-able sets (to fit in 1x long wheel b...ased medium height transit van); will have an enthusiasm for cross-form collaboration; and will ideally have experience working in a devising theatre process.
Maximum available fee: ÂĢ2,640 to cover design, build, and any subsistence or personal expenses. There is a materials budget of approx. ÂĢ2,500.
Schedule Playhouse Derry-Londonderry Rehearsals: Dec / Feb 2020 Get-In - Build Monday Feb 17th - Wednesday Feb 19th Tech from Sunday Feb 23rd Preview Tuesday 25th Opening Wednesday 26th Feb and runs until Saturday 29th.
Riverside Theatre Coleraine Get-in: Tuesday March 3rd Show and Get-out: Wednesday March 4th
To apply send a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role and your fee, portfolio / images of your set design and your CV to Elaine Forde at elaine@derryplayhouse.co.uk Closing date for applications: 29th November 2019
Special EU Programmes Body - SEUPB Holywell Trust Queen's University Belfast Arts Council of Northern Ireland Arts Council Ireland Greater Shantallow Community Arts Community Arts Partnership Balor Developmental Community Arts (DCA) Earagail Arts Festival Freelancer
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On Saturday 14th December we’re bringing Hot Priest himself to our screen!
See Andrew Scott ‘shine’ (Independent) and ‘dazzle’ (Guardian) in the ⭐ïļâ­ïļâ­ïļâ­ïļâ­ïļ provocative comedy, Present Laughter.
https://www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/â€Ķ/det⠀Ķ/present-laughter/990

"If you were the documentarian witness, right there on site, what would your responsibility be? And if you make the picture, what would you be trying to communicate?"
Fascinating article on the role of photography and art in conflict.
www.theguardian.com/â€Ķ/five-conflict-pho tographers-on-some-oâ€Ķ

“I took part in Street Talk with others from Enagh Youth Forum as I felt it gave us, the young people from Strathfoyle, a platform at express our fears and dangers..."
Lovely piece in Derry Journal about the brilliant short films created by young people from Enagh, Raphoe, Clooney and Ballymagroarty for our Street Talk Project.
www.derryjournal.com/â€Ķ/four-short-films -released-online-as-â€Ķ

Another lovely sample from the new studio album by Dundalk musician Emer Kenny. This track, with Stephen Travers, is from the album Ghosts, and is presented by The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy in a unique endeavour centred on the composition and interpretation of music and songs driven and inspired by first-hand accounts of specific events and tragedies connected to the conflict in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties. Live launch in Spirit Store, George's Quay, Dundalk on Thursday November 14 at 7.30pm.

HOW DERRY BECAME THE BEST HALLOWEEN DESTINATION IN THE WORLD
Brilliant shout out from the Independent yesterday (originally published in 2017) about why our city is the best!!
#DerryHalloween #ScaryDerry ðŸ•ļðŸ‘ŧ... Derry Halloween
www.independent.co.uk/â€Ķ/derry-best-hall oween-destination-woâ€Ķ
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We couldn't hold her back.... an appearance from our evil nun. She's gone for another year, we promise.
Happy Halloween everyone! #DerryHalloween #ScaryDerry ðŸ•ļðŸ‘ŧ Derry Halloween

In memory. This date every year is always a difficult one for Playhouse staff, friends and family of Lenny Nelson, who tragically died in a road accident on this day in 2014.
We will always consider ourselves humbled to have known such a creative bright spark, a man who generously and quietly shared his talent, joy and fun with everyone around him. We continue to remember and celebrate him, and think of his wife MÃĄire, family and friends.
We all miss him very much. RIP Lenny

Young people from Enagh, Raphoe, Clooney, Ballymagroarty use film and Virtual Reality to express their views.
This film, Connected = Disconnected by Raphoe, is best viewed with VR Headset, and is one of four short films released online as part of our cross community project, Street Talk.
It's aim is to raise awareness about Mental Health in the community from device/gaming addictions and highlighting the debilitating effects this has on the social life of young people.
... More info at www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/â€Ķ/young-people -from-four-localâ€Ķ/426
Special EU Programmes Body - SEUPB
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A gorgeous sample from the new studio album by Dundalk musician Emer Kenny.
This album, entitled Ghosts, is presented by The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy and is a unique endeavour centred on the composition and interpretation of music and songs driven and inspired by first-hand accounts of specific events and tragedies connected to the conflict in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties.
Live launch in Spirit Store, George's Quay, Dundalk on Thursday November 14 at 7.30pm.

For all those asking, we're definitely not, we repeat NOT, expecting an appearance from our evil nun this Halloween .......................... Right? 😎😎 #DerryHalloween #ScaryDerry ðŸ•ļðŸ‘ŧ Derry Halloween

Do you have a script you are working on? Want to experiment with it? See professional actors and a director working with your script? Get valuable feedback on development?
Sole Purpose Productions will be holding a Theatre Lab here on Saturday 16th November 10am - 4.30pm
Facilitated by writer / director Don McCamphill who has worked with a number of major theatres including Soho Theatre in London, 7:84 (Scotland), Aisling Ghear (Belfast), and Kisi (Iceland). His own writing ...includes a number of screenplays for BBC. It will be convened by Patricia Byrne, Artistic Director of Sole Purpose.
Send up to 5 pages with a short synopsis to solepurpose@mac.com by Friday 8th November. The fee is ÂĢ45 / ÂĢ35 concs.
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"This classic work still stirs readers and audiences because it is at its heart an experiment to separate virtue from wickedness"
Lovely piece in today's Derry Journal about tomorrow night's visit from Isosceles for #DerryHalloween #ScaryDerry ðŸ•ļðŸ‘ŧ Derry Halloween.
THey're bringing Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde to our stage at 8pm!
... www.derryjournal.com/â€Ķ/oh-no-dr-jeckyll -and-mr-hyde-visit-dâ€Ķ
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