This Week at The New Theatre

Paul Kennedy's new play 'The Best Place For Love' has its World Premiere here at The New Theatre tomorrow evening! A story of art, sex, love and money, The Best Place for Love tells the story of four lives coming into contact, against the backdrop of the global banking crisis. How much should we trust our gut instinct? How can our intuitions betray us? What should we do when our feelings run so deep that they choke us and render us into stone? Come and find out... The Best Place for Love runs until November 26th!
This weekend we are delighted to host once again the Feminist Film Festival, with a fantastic programme of feminist films centring on the theme of 'Othered Voices'. Running November 18th - 20th.

The Best Place For Love
by Paul Kennedy

Dates: November 14th - 26th, 7.30pm

Tickets: €16 (€12.50 concession)

About the Show:
Four lives come into contact....

Frank is an overconfident accountant; he buys paintings and invests in the stock market and has an exaggerated sense of the rightness of his own judgements.

Anna is an actress who has a profound identification with the characters she reads, but does not understand the 'business' of theatre.

Mick is an artist who begins to doubt his talent and perceive the futility of art.

Audrey is a woman who seeks answers for a tragedy in her life, and who harbours inside a story of unspeakable acts and indescribable cruelty.

How much should we trust our gut instinct? How can our intuitions betray us? What should we do when our feelings run so deep that they choke us and render us into stone?

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The Feminist Film Festival Dublin 2016
'Othered Voices'

Dates: November 20th - 22nd, times vary

Tickets: €10

About the Festival:
The Feminist Film Festival Dublin is an annual festival which helps counteract the mis/under-representation of women in cinema and in the film industry. Now in its third year, this year's festival will focus on the theme of 'Othered Voices', with a programme of films which capture the female voice in its many forms.

Media discourse surrounding women in cinema is increasingly structured around metaphors of the voice and 'silencing'. In the past five years, 'The Bechdel Test' - which measures women's film dialogue using a simple quantitative formula - has become a media sensation. Related commentary stresses the need for women in the industry to 'speak up'. But, historically, little attention has been paid to women's voices on-screen. The continued impact of Laura Mulvey's (1975) analysis of the visual objectification of women in cinema has distracted attention away from their vocal and verbal representation. Feminist Film Festival Dublin 2016 aims to address this by screening films which highlight and celebrate women's literal and figurative voices, including interpretations of 'the voice' as a character's or filmmaker's particular point of view.

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Dubliners Women
An adaptation of James Joyce's Dubliners

Dates: November 28th - December 17th, 7.30pm

Tickets: €16 (€12.50 concession)

About the Show:
"A bell clanged upon her heart. She felt him seize her hand:
-Come!
All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her" - Eveline

"Mrs. Mooney dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind" - The Boarding House

"They led her to the table amid laughing and joking and she put her hand out in the air as she was told to do. She moved her hand about here and there in the air and descended on one of the saucers. She felt a soft wet substance with her fingers and was surprised that nobody spoke or took off her bandage." - Clay

Birth. Love. Death. 100 years ago to now.
Immerse yourself in the hidden worlds of Eveline, Clay and The Boarding House, three short stories by one of the 20th Century's greatest writers, James Joyce. Dubliners' Women shines a light on the female narratives in Joyce's iconic collection of stories, and their resonances with Ireland today.

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