CINEMAS: Asteroid City
The movie by Wes Anderson is set in a US desert town in the 1950s, telling the tale of a Junior Stargazer convention disrupted by rather unusual events. In addition to Anderson regulars such as Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum and Edward Norton, the ridiculously stacked cast also features Anderson debuts from A-listers Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Carrell, plus Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston, Stranger Things star Maya Hawke and recent Oscar nominee Hong Chau. Oh, and the movie's great. (Selected cinemas nationwide)
DANCE: Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography
Now in its 5th year, the Dublin-based festival curated by Irish Modern Dance Theatre's John Scott features 28 Irish-based choreographers from 8 countries in a series of live dance performances or gatherings, films, dance talks, classes and workshops. Highlights include the return of Deirdre Griffin/headonbody's stunning Soup, an absurd meditation on the process of grief. (Various venues from 24 -28 June)
THEATRE: Found
Inspired by writer and performer Aideen Wylde's deep connection to the province of Newfoundland, Canada—her 'backwards genealogy’— Found channels a mish-mash of traditions, from here and there, that make the Irish of both places 'a people divided by time’. Think Bridget Jones meets Indiana Jones, fusing theatre, traditional storytelling, music and talking fish. Aideen Wylde and director Julie Kelleher tell Marty all about their surreal and heartfelt comedy below (At Cork Midsummer Festival from 22nd-25th June, then at Clonmel Junction Festival from June 30 - July 8th)
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BOOKS: Hinterland
Kells' annual festival of literature and arts returns with a knockout line-up that promises an illuminating journey of debate, discussion, reflection and imagination – on the world as it is, and how it might be. Participants include Joseph O'Connor, John Boyne, crime fiction queens Liz Nugent, Jane Casey & Sam Blake, Riverdance composer Bill Whelan and Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford. Then there's Kurdish/Irish hurler Zak Moradi, former RTE stalwarts Eileen Dunne & Tommie Gorman, columnist Fintan O’Toole, not to mention Nicole Flattery, Cristin Leach, Edel Coffey, Anne Griffin and Liverpudlian poetry legend Roger McGough (Various venues, Kells, Co. Meath, 22-25 June)
MUSIC: West Cork Chamber Music Festival
Mozart features throughout this year's programme with all six of his magical set of quartets performed throughout the ten-day bash. The Opening Concert closes with the world-renowned Pacifica Quartet playing the last and most famous of these quartets, the Dissonance – light-filled music sparkling with joy. Mozart specialists, the Armida Quartet play his very first quartet followed by his quartet in D minor, famous for being composed while his wife Constanze was giving birth and on the last day of the Festival, they start the day with three Mozart quartets - music centred almost exclusively on preoccupations of colour, one of the boldest, most prophetic conceptions of the famous composer’s art. (Various venues throughout Bantry. West Cork, 23rd June - 2nd July)
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