EVENT: MUSIC FOR GALWAY PRESENT RAVEL
The annual Music for Galway Midwinter Festival present a survey of Ravel's solo piano, chamber and vocal music, as well as a new choreography of his world-famous Boléro, in partnership with Galway Dance. Swiss pianist François-Xavier Poizat – currently recording all of Ravel's piano and chamber music – performs the bulk of the programmes, with Irish mezzo-soprano Gemma Ní Bhriain performing a selection of Ravel’s songs. François-Xavier talks to RTÉ Arena below (Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Friday 17th - Sunday 19th January)
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BOOK: NESTING
On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe... Urgent, timely and compelling, Roisín O'Donnell's debut novel kicks off the new year in must-read Irish fiction with a bang (Scribner, out now)
FILM: A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
In the early 1960s, 19-year-old Robert Zimmerman (AKA Bob Dylan) arrives in New York city with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music... Director James Mangold already gave us one of the great music biopics with Walk The Line, now he's transformed Oscar contender Timothée Chalamet into a rather convincing Bob Dylan - Timothée even does his own vocals - leading a peerless cast that also includes Elle Fanning and Ed Norton as Pete Seeger (Cinemas nationwide)
THEATRE: ACCENTS
Following two sold-out runs in 2022, writer and performer Emmet Kirwan's acclaimed new work returns for an Irish tour; taking the form of eight poems by Kirwan, delivered to a soundtrack by the late, great Eoin French (AKA Talos), here the creator of Dublin Old School explores the arrival of new life, the post-crash boom generation living a life delayed, and the sounds of our voices and how they define us (Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, January 16 - 18, then touring nationwide, with dates in Wicklow, Limerick, Cork and Galway)
STREAMING: SEVERANCE
The out-there workplace satire finally returns for a second season, with Ben Stiller once again directing several of the episodes; for the unitiated, the great Adam Scott plays Mark, who leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. From there, it gets stranger and stranger... The cast also includes Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken, If you haven't caught up with this one yet, we're mildly jealous - get binging pronto (Apple TV+, new episodes weekly)
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