EVENT: INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL DUBLIN
Actor Stanley Tucci, novelists Joe O'Connor, Roddy Doyle and Douglas Stuart and crime authors Jane Casey, Catherine Ryan Howard and Claire Allan will be among the featured authors (and 180 events!) at this year's ILFD, alongside Schitt's Creek screenwriter Monica Heisey, Rwandan author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, and a kids' programme that includes Derek Landy, Eoin Colfer and Lockwood & Co creator Johnathan Stroud. Good luck trying to get a Tucci ticket (Merrion Square Park, Dublin, May 19th - 28th)
#ILFD23 kicks off Friday 19 May! With something for curious minds of all ages, you won't want to miss this. 📚 Returning to Merrion Square Park for ten days of literary fun for everyone.
— International Literature Festival Dublin (@ILFDublin) May 8, 2023
Visit https://t.co/3fpqtRFH3S to explore the programme and book tickets! pic.twitter.com/AtTcwFoPv2
FILM: BEAU IS AFRAID
The most divisive film of the year? Depending upon who you talk to, the new movie from hot studio A24 and Midsommar director Ari Aster, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a middle-aged hypochondriac with severe mammy issues, is a masterpiece or a total dud. Either way, you can't fault the ambition. Those looking for something less challenging might plump for Fast X instead (Selected cinemas nationwide)
THEATRE: FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA
The mother, the refugee, the penitent, the dreamer. From a Low and Quiet Sea is a carefully crafted portrait of the intersecting lives of four characters, four lost souls, each searching for a version of home. From war–torn Syria to small–town Ireland, they are scarred by all they have loved and lost. They are drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways... Decadent Theatre Company adapt Donal Ryan's acclaimed novel for the stage - he talks to Miriam O'Callaghan below (Touring nationwide through May and June - find a venue near you here)
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BOOK: THE HAPPY COUPLE
Naoise Dolan follows her acclaimed debut Exciting Times with a lively ensemble piece charting the lives of five characters en route to the same wedding, each looking for a path to their own happily ever after - but does it lie at the end of an aisle? As RTÉ's Charlotte Ryan says in her review: 'Dolan's second novel continues her work of dissecting the dynamics we surround ourselves with, opening out the mechanics of how we operate and asking the question, is there another way of doing this?' (W&N, in bookshops now)
TOURING: SONG TALES SA SPÉIR
A troupe of Ireland's finest traditional musicians and singers will perform to over 10,000 children in 15 different counties at local schools nationwide between May and June from a fully equipped mobile stage presenting this exciting, interactive live music initiative from Ceol Connected, developed to bring their unique experience of music, song and storytelling to young audiences (Schools nationwide)
Infants to 2nd class had a brilliant time enjoying 'Song Tales Sa Speir' from @CeolConnected in partnership with @MusicGenKildare on Friday! pic.twitter.com/HJ22Bjcf4W
— Scoil Mhuire, Ballymore Eustace (@BallymoreEusNS) May 7, 2023
Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1pm - listen back here.
