Dramatic News at the Everyman

2nd Feb 2009

Dramatic News! All Tickets €15 for opening nights at The Everyman Palace

The Everyman Palace Theatre heads into 2009 with news of a new pricing policy. All tickets for an opening night of a run at the MacCurtain Street venue will be just €15.The initiative takes off as the Everyman launches its season for 2009 with a programme that includes two Irish premieres, a national tour presented by Everyman Palace Theatre, work from internationally renowned companies, and great homegrown comedy. The €15 opening night ticket is a significant reduction on the usual ticket price of €25, giving Cork audiences the chance to experience great theatre for little over the price of a cinema ticket.

The diverse programme of events from January to June 2009 really does have something for everyone. The new season includes work from one of Ireland's most important theatre companies, Druid, the prolific touring company London Classic Theatre, Prime Cut Productions from Belfast, award winning Scottish group Dogstar Theatre Company, and The Godot Company from London.

The new €15 ticket price is now available to book for all Everyman opening nights. Prices for the remainder of performance runs at the Everyman Palace Theatre will remain at €25 and €20 concession, with student tickets at €7 from Mondays to Wednesdays.

Shows include: HUMBLE BOY – ENDGAME – THE TRUMAN CAPOTE TALK SHOW – PAKIE O’CALLAGHAN – MRS WHIPPY – WOMAN AND SCARECROW – THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM – THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS - BOUNCERS

For more details on the new season log on to www.everymanpalace.com or call 021 450 1673

January - June 2009 Season
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Cork Arts Theatre presents
KNOWING CAIRO
Tues 27 - Sat 31 January

By Andrea Stolowiz
Directed by Dolores Mannion

An alternately funny, moving and disturbing play about the relationship between an elderly New Yorker, her carer and her daughter.
8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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London Classic Theatre present the Irish Premiere of
HUMBLE BOY
Mon 2 - Sat 7 February
By Charlotte Jones
Directed by Michael Cabot

A highly original, award winning comedy about broken vows, failed hopes, and the joys of beekeeping.

8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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John Calder and The Godot Company present
ENDGAME
Monday 16 - Saturday 21 February

Grim and bleak and yet monstrously funny, Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME is a play fraught with contradictions.
8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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Opera Theatre Company presents
XERXES
Tuesday 24 February

A tangled web of lovers get caught in the romantic crossfire as they plot, connive and scheme in Handel's glorious opera.
8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 / €7 Students
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Richard Jordan Productions presents
THE TRUMAN CAPOTE TALK SHOW
Monday 2 - Saturday 7 March

With BOB KINGDOM

No one looked or sounded like Truman Capote. A five foot four terror with a high-pitched Southern drawl, made by words and destroyed by words. This show lays bare both sides of this classic American tragedy.

8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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Everyman Palace Theatre presents
PAKIE O' CALLAGHAN - A SHOW OF PATRIOTIC DUTY
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 March

As our political masters call for a show of patriotic duty, Pakie answers the call with his unique brand of political satire.

8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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City Theatre Dublin & MCD present
MRS WHIPPY
Monday 23 - Saturday 28 March

By Cecilia Ahern
Directed by Michael Scott

Cecilia Ahern's first play is a funny and moving tale of one woman's search for happiness.

8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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Prime Cut Productions present
WOMAN AND SCARECROW
Monday 30 March - Saturday 4 April

By Marina Carr

Full of black humour and brutal honesty, Woman and Scarecrow is a fierce, passionate and moving lament for a life half lived.

8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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Druid Theatre Company presents
THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
Tuesday 21 - Saturday 25 April

By Enda Walsh

Funny, tender-hearted and at times pitch dark, The New Electric Ballroom is a coiled, glitter-dusted fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life.

8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed
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Everyman Palace Theatre presents the Irish Premiere and National Tour of
THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS
Monday 27 April - Saturday 2 May

Written and performed by Mathew Zajac
Directed by Ben Harrison
A Dogstar Theatre Production

Beautifully realised, The Tailor of Inverness is a powerful, moving and unsettling tale about family roots, the effect of history on the masses and the burden of buried secrets.

8pm, Tickets €25 / €20 conc. / €15 OPENING NIGHT / €7 students Tue & Wed