Willi Betz

Spotted in Dublin yesterday.

Nine Years Old (Not Quite Ten/No Longer Eight)

Nine Years is at SS Michael & John, Essex Street West (3 minutes from Project Arts Centre) tonight and tomorrow.

Since forming in 1997 Lone Twin has become one of the UK's leading performance makers, showing regularly across the world to popular and critical acclaim. Formed by Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters, originally to work with performance on ideas of place, context and travel, Lone Twin have created an internationally celebrated body of work. Performances often involve great physical attempts on playfully heroic journeys, concentrating on contextual concerns the work has often engaged with local environments and conditions. For some years a series of walks across cities, villages, towns and shorelines created performances built of meetings with local residents, workers, tourists. Premiered in 2006, this is Lone Twin's last duo performance piece, a farewell to their first nine years.

You will learn about their heroic attempts to line dance blindfolded for 12 hours, to read Moby Dick's 135 chapters in their entirety over a three day North Sea crossing and many other wonderful follies.

Strange things taking place behind closed doors....

Gob Squad are gearing up for the first performance of Room Service tonight, Wednesday, starting at 7pm. You will be invited to help Bastian, Berit, Simon and Sarah make it through the night as they sit alone in their hotel bedrooms with only the minibar and their own desperate inventiveness for company. With Wynn's Hotel the backdrop for the half-marathon performance they will run the gamut of emotions from A to B, at least. Connected via a phone line to the conference room where the audience watches the drama unfold they may make an occasional bid for contact with the outside word but as Leo Sayer knows "A telephone can't take the place of your smile."

Audiodetour: video

This is how some of our audiodetour might look:

Video by Alex Synge:


*maebh

Fawlty Towers meets Big Brother?

Probably not, but I thought that might get your attention. Now that Cargo Sofia is firing on all cylinders I'm looking forward to the Gob Squad show next week. Room Service is another smart and accessible piece from the Anglo-German group, last with us in 2006, and will be performed at the inimitable Wynn's Hotel, just off O'Connell Street, on Wednesday and Thursday next, 9 & 10 May.


On their previous visit Gob Squad presented Super Night Shot a four channel digital film which they shot in on the streets of Dublin in a single take in January of last year. The Irish Times described Super Night Shot as "riveting viewing... like a no-budget mesh of 24 and the title sequence of Dallas."

Room Service lasts for five hours from 7pm and you can come and go as you please, although it's advisable to be there for the first hour as that's when you get a handle on the setup for the show. You watch Room Service on four large monitors in the function room of Wynn's and can nip in and out of the bar next door as you please.

Cargo Sofia reviewed

Great response to the piece on RTÉ's 'The View' programme last night.
Click here to watch the programme - you will need something like RealPlayer to view the clip but if you're reading this you probably know how that works.

Cargo Sofia photos :: Tuesday 01 May

Judy Molloy from BFK took part in the Cargo Sofia event last night. She brought along her camera. Here are few shots that give a flavour of yesterday’s event.

The audience loitering around chq, waiting for everything to kick-off.

The driver narrating one of his stories from outside of the truck.

Singing amidst the containers.

The driver-cam projected inside the viewing room.

All of the performers join the singer on O’Connell Street. To the bemusement and amusement of the passers-by.

Disembarking back at chq.

Full programme now available all over Dublin

The full very handy postcard sized programme for We Are Here 2.0 is available in pubs, restaurants, bars etc in PictureWorks postcard racks. Spotted it in Cafe Bar Deli on George's Street on Saturday night - hot off the press!