SOUNDTRACK
David Arnold
National Concert Hall, Dublin 8pm €45/€35/€20
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David Arnold has scored five James Bond movies, as well as the likes of Independence Day, Godzilla and the BBC's Sherlock. He's also a really good songwriter. This performance with the RTÉ CO focuses primarily on Arnold's movie and telly work, but it will also highlight some of his original songs and his droll way with an audience.
JAZZ
Peter Brötzmann /Paul G Smyth Duo
National Concert Hall, Dublin, 8.30pm, €15
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Note Productions’ new series of duo concerts featuring Irish free pianist Paul G Smyth kicks off with a visit from German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. Smyth, who made his mark on the new music scene with rock explorers the Jimmy Cake, has collaborated with many of the greats of the European free scene, and his meeting with Brötzmann, an uncompromisingly liberated reed player, will open minds and ears, and may well strip paint from the walls of the NCH’s Kevin Barry Room.
THEATRE
Matched
Everyman, Cork. Ends Jan 24 7.30pm (Matinees 2pm) €26/ €23 Students €9 (Mon-Thurs)
everymancork.com
Michael Frayn, a frequent translator of Chekhov, once identified the main energies of national farces. English farce was all about embarrassment, he decided, French about stupidity, and Russian farce about anger. There's no great tradition of farce in Ireland (Landmark's current Enda Walsh revival is both an exception and inclusion to the rule), so Ger Fitzgibbon's new adaptation of two of Chekhov's more irate comedies, The Bear and The Proposal, transposed to a 20th-century Big House ought to make for an intriguing clash of cultures. How does the Anglo-Irish ascendancy handle a pratfall?
