FILM
Salomé and Wilde Salomé
Triskel Christchurch on September 21st at 3:45pm. Tickets €15/€14 concession
Al Pacino became obsessed with Oscar Wilde's Salomé when he saw Steven Berkoff's turn as Herod in 1988. This madly meta double bill comprises Pacino's filmed version of the play Salomé (2013) and an extensive making-of documentary feature Wilde Salomé (2011). Jessica Chastain (with Pacino, left) essays the titular seductress with a performance that would instantly make her Hollywood's hottest ticket. A Q&A with Pacino, hosted by Stephen Fry, will be broadcast live to cinemas across the UK and Ireland. TARA BRADY
ARTS
Clifden Arts Festival
Claddaghduff Hall, Clifden, Co Galway Sun 11am-4.30pm €3 per child
Advanced booking 087-9887530 clifdenartsweek.ie
It’s the closest you’ll ever get to flying. The aerial dancers of Fidget Feet will offer children a chance to learn some “aerial cocoon work”. The 90-minute workshops are divided into separate age groups (ages 4-7 with their parents, 8-10 and 11-14) so everyone gets the best chance to practise their climbs and aerial sequences.
THEATRE
Brigit & BailegangaireTown Hall Theatre. Ends Sep 21; Bailegangaire only, Clifden Town Hall. Sep 23 clifdenartsweek.ie
Tom Murphy's plays now seem to enjoy each other's company. In 2001, the Abbey staged six of his works. In 2012, Druid presented a suite of three. Now, with the delivery of Brigit, a prequel to Bailegangaire, Druid stages a mutually enhancing pair. Brigit, set in 1950s Ireland, reveals the drive and torment of an artist at work; Murphy's clear self-portrait.
Seen in tandem with the extraordinary Bailegangaire, Garry Hynes's productions give poignant inherited details to the home of three women locked together in despair and bound by Mommo's endless telling of an unresolved story. There is plenty to recommend Bailegangaire, but none more so than Marie Mullen's transcendental performance, who, in the younger character's command of folktales and steady hardening, and the older character's otherworldly senility, is poised astonishingly between mortality and godliness.
