EvEnts programmE | September - DeCember 2014

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bookinginformation Events at a Glance at The Ramor Theatre September-December

September Event Type5, 6 Padraig Pott’s Guide to Walking by Seamus O’Rourke Theatre9 The Stag Film13 The Legend of Luke Kelly Music16 The Armstrong Lie Film18 Matt Leavy in Concert Country Music19 Culture Night 2014 - A Terrible Beauty Exhibition & Theatre20 The Great Big Shiny Show - The Nualas Comedy23 The Sea Film26, 27 Get Rhythm - A Tribute to Johnny Cash Music30 The Lunchbox FilmOctober Event Type3, 4 The Cripple of Inishmaan Theatre7 Calvary Film8 Ger Carey Live School Show10 The Billy Joel Songbook with Elio Pace Music 14 Blue Jasmine Film17 Persuasion by Jane Austen Theatre18 The Henry Girls Music21 IIo IIo Film23 Two Brothers Music 28 Inside Llewyn Davis Film30 Robert Mizzell in Concert MusicNovember Event Type4 We are the best! Film7 Defender of the Faith Theatre11 The Past Film13 Ger Carey Live School Show19, 20, 21 The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down Theatre24-30 Virginia College present Back to the 80’s MusicalDecember Event Type2 The Grand Budapest Hotel Film6 Crooning at Christmas Music7 Cuckoo Connolly’s Curious Clock-Shop Theatre12 Liam Lawton - A Celtic Christmas Music14 Abba Forever Music 19, 20 The Far Off Hills Theatre

Big Guerilla Productions present The Ramor Theatre presentThe Ramor Film Club present

Fri 5 & Sat 6 SeptemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

Saturday 13 SeptemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m20

Tues 9 SeptemberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

the Legend of Luke KellyWritten by Seamus O’Rourke

Directed by Charles McGuinness

Funny and tender, this latest show by Seamus O’Rourke, follows the life of Padraig Potts McKeirnan, who has a habit of just eating whatever is on his plate...Metaphorically that is...from growing up near the tiny rural village of Drumnamee, County Leitrim in the 70’s and 80’s to falling in love with Silvia Lang, a perfect protestant girl...to marrying Mary Tague, the priests housekeeper, who he never really liked...to getting rid of Mary Tague and her mother, who he claims invented vinegar...and eventually to the realisation that the world isn’t as big as he first thought.

the stag (John Butler, Ireland 2013, 94 mins, 15A)

Starring: Hugh O’Conor, Andrew Scott, Brian Gleeson, Peter McDonald, Amy Huberman

Not your average groom, Fionán (Hugh O’Conor) has little interest in a stag party. He would much rather stay at home and make seating plans with his fiancée Ruth (Amy Huberman), but when his micromanagement of the wedding begins to get out of hand, Ruth decides that he needs a nudge in the right direction. Enlisting the help of best man Davin, a stag weekend is planned: nothing crazy, just five friends on a simple camping trip in the country. That is, until Ruth insists that her brother (nicknamed ‘The Machine’) is invited along too. Hilarious debut feature from John Butler.

This ever popular tribute show to the iconic Luke Kelly of The Dubliners, returns to Virginia for what promises to be another memorable performance. Featuring the acclaimed vocals of arguably Ireland’s finest ballad voice of today, Chris Kavanagh, this performance will take the audience on a journey through the numerous hit songs and music of the legendary Luke Kelly. Accompanied by excellent musicians, lead singer Chris Kavanagh captures the depth and passion of this folk legend. Chris toured with The Dubliners on their final European Tour and received rave reviews across Europe.

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Ramor Theatre present

Fri 19 September Time: 7:00 & 8:30pm | Adm: Free

Thursday 18 SeptemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m20

matt Leavy

Ramor Film Club present

Tuesday 16 September Time: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

the armstrong Lie(Alex Gibney, USA 2013, 123 mins, 15A)

Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) masterfully explores the fall of the disgraced cycling champion following the 2009 Tour de France. Making use of his extraordinary access to attain rare interviews with former teammates, alleged doping mastermind Dr Michele Ferrari, and Armstrong himself, he creates an intriguing documentary.

7:00pm Exhibition and launch of Book Club Publication

8:30pmThe Virginians present

A Terrible BeautyDirected by Vincent Lee

The Virginians present ‘A Terrible Beauty’- a look at Ireland’s history and culture at the start of the 20th Century through music, song, poetry and drama-including their winning Léiriú depiction of Easter 1916.

Matt is one of Irelands greatest voices and legendary Troubadours of Country Music. Coming from a large musical family from Athboy, Co. Meath, Matt has had an amazing career playing alongside such legends as Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Buck Owens, George Jones, Charlie Pride, Georgette Jones and many, many more.

Matt has just recently launched a new album, ‘Home Sweet Home’ which features a fantastic version of ‘All Together Now, Let’s Fall Apart’.

Ramor Theatre presentFILM

Ramor Theatre present Ramor Film Club present

Saturday 20 SeptemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

Tuesday 23 SeptemberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

the great Big shiny show - the nualas

the sea

The Nualas are jetting in for one night only with their shiniest show ever. Expect shine, expect glitz, expect (knee) cleavage. With acrobatic vocals, original self-penned numbers and provocative chat about current stuff, you will laugh, you will cry, you will probably need to go to the toilet at some point.

(Stephen Brown, Ireland 2013, 87 mins, 12A)

Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Sinéad Cusack

Grieving after the death of his wife, Max Morden returns to the seaside resort where he spent summers as a child. He lodges at a boarding house run by frosty proprietor Miss Vavasour. Before long, and despite protestations from his daughter Clare, Max revisits the ghosts of his past. A faithful adaptation of John Banville’s moving novel about memory, longing and loss.

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Fri 26 & Sat 27 SeptemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

Get Rhythm (A Tribute to Johnny Cash) are a seven piece band from County Cavan who recreate the prison concerts performed by Johnny Cash, The Tennessee Three and The Carter Family in the 1960’s. Following 2013’s tour of Irelands prisons; sell out shows across the country; a closing slot at Electric Picnic and 2014’s UK Tour, Get Rhythm returns to the Ramor Theatre. Paul McCann recreates the role of Johnny Cash and June Carters vocal duties are performed by Louise O’Reilly.

Ramor Film Club present Ramor Film Club present

Tuesday 30 SeptemberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

Tuesday 7 OctoberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

Fri 3 & Sat 4 OctoberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m16 / m14

the Lunchboxthe Cripple of Inishmaan

Calvary(Ritesh Batra, India 2013, 104 mins, PG)

Starring: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddique, Denzil Smith

In Mumbai, home to over 18 million people, more than 5,000 famously efficient dabbawallas - lunchbox couriers - navigate chaotic streets to deliver lunches, lovingly-prepared by housewives, to working men across the city. Ila is a housewife living in a middle-class neighbourhood with a husband who ignores her. Saajan is a beaten-down widower about to retire from his number-crunching job. After Ila realizes that Saajan is receiving the meals meant for her husband, the two begin sending each other letters through the lunchbox.

By Martin McDonagh Directed by Conor Shaffrey

The play is set against the backdrop of the filming of Robert Flaherty’s Man of Aran. “Cripple” Billy Claven, dreams of making it in Hollywood, and leaves the island and its ‘small minded’ inhabitants behind. Every aspect of Irish life is examined and held up for inspection. Darkly comic in its critique of “authentic” irishness and what it means to be Irish.

(John Michael McDonagh, Ireland 2013, 100 mins, 15A). Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, Domhnall Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Dylan Moran, Aidan Gillen

Father James Lavelle is a priest in a small Sligo parish. One day, while hearing confession, he is told that he is going to be murdered... in a week’s time. As the day draws nearer, Father James struggles to understand his death sentence, searching for hope and faith amongst his motley collection of parishioners - a community of lost souls and, it seems, potential murder suspects.

FILMFILM Millrace Drama Group present

Ramor Film Club present

Tuesday 14 OctoberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

Blue Jasmine(Woody Allen, USA 2013, 98 mins, 15A)

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay

Jasmine is blue: that is, she is profoundly depressed. Or it could be a nickname, applying to the tune Jasmine heard playing when she first met her immensely rich husband-to-be: Blue Moon. Once, Jasmine was a Park Avenue princess but something terrible has happened both to Jasmine’s marriage and to her wealth. Penniless and alone, she has come to San Francisco to live with her divorced sister, Ginger, in a cramped apartment. Woody Allen’s latest film is pure movie-going pleasure.

Ramor Theatre present

Friday 10 October Time: 8:30pm | Adm: m20

the Billy Joel songbook By ELIo paCEFollowing on from his highly-acclaimed New York and Philadelphia, Billy Joel ‘Original Touring Band’ concerts, Elio Pace delivers this sensational tour celebrating the phenomenal music of Billy Joel. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to experience The Billy Joel Songbook in this electrifying concert performed by the dynamic singer/songwriter and piano-player, Elio Pace and his magnificent 6-piece band.

FILMRamor Theatre present

Wednesday 8 OctoberThursday 13 NovemberTime: 11:20am-1:00pm | Adm: m10

ger Carey LiveGer Carey is back with his hilarious stand-up comedy show for transition year students. By secretly observing his subjects in their natural habitat, such as leaning on lampposts, in chippers, outside chippers, in shopping centres and sitting on any kind of steps, Ger has uncovered the weird and frightening world of the teenager!

The aim of the show is to get teenagers to laugh at themselves and appreciate the differences of others.

* Teachers admitted free

SCHOOL

SHOW

Ramor Theatre present

Saturday 18 OctoberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

the Henry girlsThe Henry Girls are three sisters from Co. Donegal, Ireland. They were brought up by music loving parents who introduced them to an eclectic array of sounds such as The Everly Brothers, The Bothy Band, The Beatles, Johnny Cash and Ella Fitzgerald as well as being surrounded by traditional Irish music. In their own music, they have a unique rootsy sound which blends their native traditional Irish folk music with hints of americana, bluegrass and blues. They are renowned for their fine close harmonies and musical arrangements.

Hotbuckle Productions present Ramor Film Club present

Friday 17 OctoberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

Tuesday 21 October Time: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

persuasion

Ilo Ilo

BY JANE AUSTEN

Beautifully romantic, touchingly funny and often unbearably poignant, Austen’s most personal novel is brought to the stage. Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth were once hopelessly in love. Persuaded by her family that he is not of her standing, she ends their engagement and he leaves for the sea. Anne soon realises her mistake and spends the next eight years regretting her decision. The now wealthy Wentworth returns to seek a wife. Treating Anne with cold indifference, she can only watch as he courts another. But will he ever forgive her?

(Anthony Chen, Singapore 2013, 99 mins, 12A)

Starring: Angeli Bayani, Yeo Yann Yann, Chen Tianwen, Koh Jia Ler

Lim Jiale is a very naughty ten-year-old in 1990s Singapore. His parents are struggling middle-class Chinese-speaking Singaporeans who seem on the verge of slipping out of their middle-class status. When his father loses his sales job, (but lacks the courage to tell his family) and the company where his mother works is downsizing, they hire a Filipina maid to help handle Jiale. A compelling and very emotionally-involving family story.

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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Ramor Theatre present Tommy Swarbrigg presentRamor Film Club present

Thursday 23 OctoberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

Thursday 30 October Time: 8:30pm | Adm: m20

Tuesday 28 OctoberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

Inside Llewyn Davis

robert mizzellIn ConCErt

VLADIMIR AND ANTON JABLOKOV

Vladimir is proud to announce his brand new show for 2014. Together with his brother Anton they will perform an all new popular movie / musical and classical programme accompanied by their piano player Adam Kuruc.

Hear music from Johannes Brahms, J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Strauss and themes from movies and musicals including The Godfather, Dr. Zhivago, Fiddler on the Roof as well as many sing-along favourites.

(Joel & Ethan Coen, USA 2013, 105 mins, 15A)

Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake

Llewyn Davis is a cantankerous, self-obsessed folk singer from the outer boroughs. Fellow warbler Jean Berkey - quickly revealed to be pregnant by him - offers up a series of hilariously furious commentaries on his numerous defects. He is, she explains, like some horrible version of King Midas in reverse: everything he touches turns to ordure. The Coen Brothers’ latest film proves them to be the most consistently reliable American film-makers of their generation

As anyone who ever attended a Robert Mizzell show will testify, Robert with his band The Country Kings put on a show filled with energy and color. He is truly the authentic voice of Country music. He is steeped in the tradition of Country and Cajun music since he was a child, growing up in Louisiana.

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two Brothers

Ramor Film Club present Ramor Film Club presentDecadent Theatre present

Tuesday 4 NovemberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

Tuesday 11 NovemberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

Friday 7 November Time: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

We are the Best the past

Defender of the Faith

(Lucas Moodysson, Sweden 2013, 101 mins, 15A)

Starring: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, Johan Lijemark, Mattias Wiberg

Smells like Swedish teen spirit. Based on a graphic novel by the director’s wife, this is a buoyant account of three awkward-age girls who form an impromptu punk band. Specific to its 1982 Stockholm setting and yet thematically universal, the film is all the more disarming for its breezy unpretentiousness.

Winner - Grand Prix, Tokyo International Film Festival 2013

(Asghar Farhadi, Iran 2013, 130 mins, 12A)

Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis,

A stunning study of modern family life, set on the outskirts of Paris where Ahmad arrives from Tehran to finalise the end of his tempestuous marriage to his estranged wife, Marie. This becomes a gripping, emotional detective story, as curious Ahmad investigates the events of the previous four years, his interest piqued by Marie’s sulky teenage daughter Lucie whose strange contempt for her mother’s new boyfriend Samir sets the story in motion.

Written by Stuart Carolan (LOVE/HATE) Directed by Andrew Flynn

Defender Of The Faith is a brilliant thriller set on a farm in Armagh 1986. The play tells the story of a family, entrenched in paramilitarism and under the constant watch of British forces. When a visitor arrives with the job of rooting out a police informer, paranoia grips the farm. Joe, his son Thomas, and a long-serving farm hand, Barney, all fall under suspicion…The family’s isolated farm becomes the setting for the electrifying exploration of a family tested by loyalty and love. Defender Of The Faith is blackly comic and chillingly real, with an atmosphere taut with tension.

Note: Production contains strong language. Recommended Age 15 upwards.

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Wednesday 19, Thursday 20 & Friday 21 NovemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m25

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND FOR ITS FINAL RUN!! Imagine being stranded with the legendary Joe Dolan in a rural pub in Cavan on the night his car breaks down. That’s just the sort of fantasy scenario that’s imagined in The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down a play written and directed by Padraic McIntyre. The play is set on a stormy St. Stephen’s night as people gather to celebrate the 60th birthday party of the The Horse Munley. As the storm worsens and people head home a knock to the door brings the night’s entertainment to a new level. As the play unfolds so too does personal secrets, the music and the craic. Mixing comedy, drama and music it is a treat for all theatre and Joe Dolan fans alike.

Written & Directed by Padraic McIntytre

Ramor Theatre present

the night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down

Virginia College present

Mon 24-Sat 29 November | 8:30pmSun 30 November | 3:00pmChildren & Students: m10 Adults: m12 | Family of 4: m40

Back to the 80sVirginia College are about to bring you on a journey. A Journey back to a time when bubble skirts and blue eye shadow were cool... When Michael Jackson and Rick Astley were the Kings of Pop. Thats right dudes you are about to go on a journey Back to the 80’s. Join the graduating class for William Ocean High School as they live through their final senior year - as they experience the fun, the heartbreak, the loves and the loneliness of growing up...all set to the biggest hits of the 80’s, including “Man in the Mirror”, Kids in America, I’ve had the Time of my Life, and many more.

★ ★ ★ ★The Horse... a powerful performance

Irish Times Michael Harding

★ ★ ★ ★ ...it wasn’t a million miles away

from plays by JB Keane Irish Times Michael Harding

Ramor Film Club present

Ramor Theatre present

the grand Budapest Hotel

Crooning at Christmas

(Wes Anderson, USA/UK 2013, 109 mins, 15A). Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton.

Ralph Fiennes plays Gustave H, the legendary concierge of the titular hotel, who, with his young friend, becomes embroiled in a plot revolving around a priceless Renaissance painting and a family fortune. Set between the two world wars, against the backdrop of a dramatically changing continent, this witty fabulist film won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

Direct from playing Dean Martin in the West End hit ‘The Rat Pack’, Emmerdale star Liam O’Brien presents his tribute to the Yuletide swing season with his original show “Crooning at Christmas”.

A 10th anniversary tour full of seasonal hits like White Christmas, I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Silver Bells and more, the Irish ambassador of swing promises you a sentimental journey with hits by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble. A night for every lover of swing and jazz, by a world class vocalist with the superb million dollar swing band guaranteed to please.

Tuesday 2 DecemberTime: 8:00pm | Adm: m7

Saturday 6 DecemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

Celebrate Christmas at The Ramor Theatre

Ramor Theatre present Ramor Theatre present

Sunday 7 December Time: 3:00pm | Adm: m8

Friday 12 December Time: 8:30pm | Adm: m20

Liam Lawton a Celtic ChristmasEvery culture celebrates Christmas in their own unique way drawing on the traditions, beliefs and customs of their people, and the Irish culture is no different. A Celtic Christmas reflects the great affection of the Irish heart for the Christmas story and all that happens around it.

Using beautiful songs from the tradition, in Gaelic, English and Latin interspersed with well known traditional Christmas songs and carols and some new original songs from Liam Lawton the Christmas story is told.

Cuckoo Connolly’s Curious Clock shopBY PADRAIC MCINTYRE

Cuckoo Connolly owns the Curious Little Clock Shop at the bottom of Main Street. No one really comes in anymore but Cuckoo doesn’t mind. He spends his time caring for his 80 different clocks, one for each year of his life. Each clock is very special to him and when he works on them they transport him back in time to where the clocks came from. A story of an old and gentle man, who goes on amazing adventures unknown to the world outside. That is until something terrible happens in the town one Christmas Eve and Cuckoo has to use his time-travel to try and solve the mystery! Can Cuckoo Connolly do it in time?

Tommy Swarbrigg present

Sunday 14 DecemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m20

Friday 19 & Saturday 20 DecemberTime: 8:30pm | Adm: m18 / m16

It’s always party time when ABBA is about, but when it’s the Christmas Show, then that’s a real excuse for a party! Also, it’s exactly 40 years since ABBA burst on to the world stage with their Eurovision win with “Waterloo” This happy sing-a-long tribute, celebrates with a loud and proud fanfare!

NOMAD in association with Loco & Reckless present

the Far off HillsBy Lennox Robinson. Directed by Mikel MurfiBy agreement with Abbey Theatre Amharclann na Mainistreach

A hilarious tale of scheming siblings, love and general jiggery-pokery.

Set in a sleepy town in rural Ireland, everything is set to change in the lives of Patrick Clancy and his three daughters. A looming eye operation, a daughter soon to leave for the convent, the arrival of the young and devilishly handsome Pierce Hegarty, the gloomy presence of Harold Mahoney - the biggest moaner in Ireland - ever. Will the Clancy household be able to withstand the pressure?

A slapstick, boisterous production that’ll leave audiences spinning in their seats!

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