FILM: MICKEY 17
Downtrodden Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) takes a job on a newly colonised planet where he is to be an expendable, and will be 'reprinted' every time he dies... Mark Ruffalo and Toni Colette co-star in Bong Joon-Ho's sci-fi satire, his first film since the Oscar-winning Parasite (Cinemas nationwide)
THEATRE: HEAVEN
Two of Ireland's finest actors, Janet Moran and Andrew Bennett, star in Eugene O'Brien's award-winning play, set in the Irish midlands during the weekend of a local wedding. Mairead (Moran) and Mal (Bennett) are struggling to keep their marriage together. Perhaps attending a wedding will help, or it might raise questions that are difficult to answer... The production is touring Ireland in March, with dates in Dun Laoghaire, Waterford, Tullamore, Sligo, Tralee and Limerick - find one near you here.
STREAMING: NO OTHER LAND
Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this Oscar-winning documentary offers a powerful view of destruction in the West Bank and the unlikely friendship between a Palestinian filmmaker and an Israeli journalist- it screens at Dublin's Light House Cinema on March 9th, and is currently streaming online via Channel 4 - watch it here.
MUSIC: DEE ARMSTRONG
As well as playing and recording with Kilá for over three decades, fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist Dee Armstrong has composed soundtracks for films such as Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers; now she makes her solo album debut with DETINE Deichtine's Daughter, recorded in her Co. Leitrim home and featuring collaborations with her Kilá cohort Ronan Ó Snodaigh, Rick Epping, and Peter Browne, alongside Dee's children, Lughaidh and Diarmuid - incedentally, in Irish mythology, Deichtine (or Deichtire) was the sister of Conchobar mac Nessa and the mother of Cú Chulainn (Now streaming)
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EVENT: FINDING A VOICE
Founded in 2017 by sisters Róisín and Clíona Maher, over the past eight years this Clonmel-based festival has featured music by hundreds of women composers across eras and genres—classical, contemporary, jazz, and traditional. Highlights include one of Ireland's foremost pianists, Thérèse Fahy, performing the Irish premiere of Mel Bonis’ complete Femmes de Légende series in a free early evening performance at Old St Mary’s Church on Friday, March 7th (Various venues, Clonmel, until March 9th)
Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1pm - listen back here
