Bolshoi Ballet’s Nutcracker
COMING to Limerick Omniplex by satellite from Moscow, The Bolshoi Ballet’s live staging of ‘The Nutcracker’ will be streamed to Irish cinemas on Sunday December 18, 3pm.
Broadcast in high definition on the Dooradoyle silver screen, ‘The Nutcracker’ is a magical story of a little girl who sees the toys come to life under the tree on Christmas Eve. Better still, she is saved from an army of mice by toy soldiers under the command of a nutcracker, all to music by Tchaikovsky.
Carmel Conway and other Voices
VOICES of Limerick are joined by Castletroy soprano Carmel Conway at Rosary Church, Ennis Road this Thursday 15 at 7.30pm. The carol service is a fundraiser for Brothers of Charity, Bawnmore, proceeds by collection.
“We hope our performance will add to the Christmas spirit for us all,” says PRO Ann O’Gorman.
Peter and the Body (Guards)
PETER and the Body (Guards) is an unusual revue combining the atmosphere of folk music with the raw melancholy of contemporary dance. It’s a show taking place at Daghdha Space on Friday December 16, 8pm that features composition and song by Peter Delaney. Delaney is a Limerick based songwriter who draws inspiration from traditional songs and old folk music.
Angie Smalis and Katarína Mojecová are Limerick based dance artists, responding to this format by generating scenes and dance while guarding his journey of voice, body and ukulele. Tickets on the door.
Workshop for acting auditions
THE Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin, is on tour with a roadshow offering a masterclass in audition tips and techniques. Current into January, these events are hosted by Lir’s director Loughlin Deegan and academic director Brian Singleton.
A full-day audition workshop with David Horan will take place on Saturday December 17 with Limerick Youth Theatre from 10am-5pm. There is a fee and places must be booked in advance through The Lir by telephone or by email at info@thelir.ie.
Limerick in the rare oul’ times
A NEWLY published set of memoirs by a local man represent “a nostalgic boyhood recollection of not only a Limerick, but also an Ireland, long since gone”.
75-year-old Kevin Egan launched ‘I Remember Well’ at Leamy’s Gallery and Frank McCourt Museum on Monday 12 last.
According to PRO for the book, Nicky Woulfe, “We are taken back on a walk through time to the ‘40s and ‘50s where Kevin’s detailed description of everyday life helps us to relive a world of hardship, poverty and ill health in a simpler, more innocent Ireland where the Catholic Church was in its heyday”.
Delighted to go to press on his many experiences, Mr Egan commented, “It was my lifelong dream to write a book that recalled my childhood and early life in Limerick, and it’s wonderful that after years of hard work my book of memoirs has materialised. I really do hope it acts as a good historical reference of times gone by for this generation, and generations to come.”
