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Barry Douglas


Lisa Dwan is mesmerising in these late Samuel Beckett works, which played to sold-out houses at the Royal Court and Barbican in London. “Like nothing else in theatre” (The Times), the short plays transport audiences to a strangely beautiful, unsettling space where death and decay are never far away. Dwan makes the pieces her own in a virtuosic performance that is chilling and absorbing in equal measure.


Irish composer John Field was very highly regarded by his contemporaries for his playing and compositions across early 19th century Europe. As well as performing Field’s works, Barry Douglas (winner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition), celebrates his long-standing collaboration with the acclaimed Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki with a performance of his landmark piece, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.


Acclaimed columnist and writer Fintan O’Toole presents a new, evocative piece that brings together the themes of the evening.


“Summoning Casement but also the wider republican tradition that is our most important European heritage: the idea of a universal human dignity. It looks outward as well as inward from the rights of tenant farmers in Mayo to the rights of rubber collectors in Peru. It acknowledges women and children as full citizens. It dreams of a society in which we can all look one another in the eye without reason for fear or deference.” Fintan O’Toole


Programme includes: Krzysztof Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima John Field Nocturnes


Tickets: ¤39.50, ¤29.50, ¤22.50


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