{"id":11372,"date":"2016-05-04T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=11372"},"modified":"2016-05-04T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:07:03","slug":"ulster-drama-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/05\/ulster-drama-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Drama Festival 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exhilarating week of drama is programmed for Theatre at the Mill from Monday 16th<\/sup> May to Saturday 21st<\/sup> May nightly at 7.45pm<\/h1>\n
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Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Councillor Thomas Hogg, Maureen Dunn (Ulster Drama Festival ), Bernard Clarkson (Arts Services Manager)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following a series of highly competitive festivals which took place throughout Northern Ireland in March, the top six award winning productions from North and South of Ireland have gained the honour of appearing in the 64th Ulster Drama Festival at Theatre at The Mill, Monday 16 \u2013 Saturday 21 May sponsored by Arts Council of N.I. and Enkalon Foundation.<\/p>\n

The programme offers the amazing opportunity for audiences to see a spectacular range of plays by well-known and highly acclaimed authors from USA, England and Ireland \u2013 performed by companies from Dundalk, Ballyshannon, Wexford, Ennis, Dublin and Belfast<\/p>\n

Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Councillor Thomas Hogg commented \u201c I am delighted to welcome the Ulster Drama Festival back to Theatre at The Mill where audiences will be entertained each evening by the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of amateur theatre groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the festival are priced at \u00a312 & \u00a310 (Concession) Week Festival Ticket \u00a360 or \u00a350 (Concession) available from Box Office: 028 9034 0202 or www.theatreatthemill.com<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MONDAY 16 MAY<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS<\/strong> David Mamet\u2019s dark comedy is nonetheless a ruthless play about small-time, cut-throat Real Estate Agents. Behind the suave exteriors are lies, blackmail, scheming and desperation – all in a day\u2019s work! This is Mamet\u2019s writing at its best, an abrasive attack on American business and a withering depiction of the men whose lives and values are twisted in order to survive.\u00a0 \u201c….a chillingly funny endictment of a world in which you are what you sell.\u201d <\/em>Guardian<\/p>\n

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OLD TIMES<\/strong> by Harold Pinter.\u00a0 Deeley and his wife Kate are visited by Anna, a mysterious friend of Kate\u2019s from long ago. What begins as a trip down memory lane quickly becomes something much more as long-simmering feelings of fear and jealousy begin to fuel the trio\u2019s passions, sparking a seductive battle for power. \u201cOld Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have theatre\u201d <\/em>New York Times<\/p>\n

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WEDNESDAY 18 MAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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LOST IN YONKERS by Neil Simon.<\/strong> Set in 1942 over a candy store in Yonkers, New York, teenage boys Jay and Arty find their lives turned upside down when their father, Eddie, moves away for work, leaving them in care of their strong-willed and stern grandmother and their loving and childlike Aunt Bella. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance and with Louie her brother, a small-time hood, his wife Gert who has her own afflictions and this strange new world called Yonkers!\u00a0 \u201cOne of Simon\u2019s most impressive and funniest plays\u201d <\/em>New York Daily News<\/p>\n

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THURSDAY 19 MAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE LOVES OF CASS McGUIRE <\/strong>by Brian Freil. <\/strong>After fifty two years of romping as a saloon waitress in America, Cass goes home to Ireland. But the brother and his family, to whom she turns, really have no need for her, and ship her off to a rest haven for old dreamers. Nothing is as Cass envisioned it. She begins living off past memories like others in the rest home. This bawdy, vital and compassionate play deals with her genteel family\u2019s rejection of her and her lonely struggle to re-discover the home she\u2019s dreamt of all her life and her eventual surrender to the make- believe of Eden House.<\/p>\n

FRIDAY 20 MAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS <\/strong>BY Richard Bean <\/strong>Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small-time east end hood, now in Brighton to collect \u00a36000 from his fianc\u00e9s dad. However, Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who\u2019s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at the Cricketer\u2019s Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with Stanley Stubbers who is hiding from the police and waiting to be reunited with Rachel. <\/strong>To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple… or is it?\u00a0 \u201cThis is the most hilarious comic evening in the theatre since Noises Off. <\/em>The Stage<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SATURDAY 21 MAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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KINDERTRANSPORT <\/strong>by Diane Samuels. <\/strong>Between 1938 and the outbreak of war, almost 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, were sent by their parents from Germany to Britain.\u00a0 Nine year old Eva ends up in Manchester. When Eva\u2019s parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins the process of denial of her roots. It is only when her own daughter discovers some old letters in the attic that Eva is forced to confront the truth about her past. Samuels has written the best play about the pain and passion of mother\/daughter relationships. <\/em>Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n

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