Showing posts with label Dublin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dublin. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2011

I am My Own Wife

A play by Doug Wright and winner of a Tony and Pulitzer prize for drama (2004), is based on conversations with antiquarian Charlotte Van Mahlsborf who lived in Berlin and survived communist and Nazi regimes around the period of the second World War.  
A new production of this play is showing in Dublin's Pearse Centre and is running until the 5th of February. It really is a lovely way to wile away a weekday evening at this time of year. 




This one man show acted by Donncha O'Dea who plays over forty, yes forty characters throughout very effortlessly. He gives a fascinating portrayal of controversial character and life of an extraordinary boy, woman and wife. I was also lucky enough to meet the actor afterwards and got the opportunity to chat more to him about the play. Donncha is just as fascinating off stage as he is playing the forty characters. 
Go check it out! You will not be unimpressed. 


"Ich bin mein eigene frau" 

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Excuse me I can't seem to find the door, and my feet don't find the floor

Stumbled across this video earlier while flicking through some blaggards blog. 
Made by local artists in Dublin by the names of Xnthony and Patrick Hough, NCAD 'heads'. 
It is frighteningly terrific 



Deserved of a watch and probably more... 
Below is the original from Shirley Bassey in 1972 Talk of the Town Concert. Loll, my uncle in London was a huge fan back in the seventies and did some impersonations himself around the London Club scene and afar. I really must delve more into this with him..  
Check out that lip quiver..