‘Time’ to Get a Victorian Twist as Chekhov takes the Stage.
As part of the Inaugural Kildare Readers Festival Time Bar and Venue will get a taste of the Victorian era as Chekhov’s farce ‘The Proposal’ takes to the stage.
Presented by devise+conquer theatre company ‘The Proposal’ is a fast paced witty farce about the two most important things in a marriage – power and property. Ivan wants to marry Stepan’s daughter – and Stepan wants this marriage to go ahead. Natalya wants to marry Ivan – so everything should run smoothly when we get to the Proposal shouldn’t it?
Full of faintings, fist fights and freak outs this one-act play, under the direction of Fiona White is set to send the Readers Festival off to a flying start.
The Proposal will play in Time Bar and Venue on Fri 14th at 7pm, and in the Osprey Ballroom on Sat 15th at 6pm as part of the Kildare Readers Festival – tickets for the performance (and all events in the festival) are free and can be booked through krf@kildarecoco.ie
Brendan Farrell
Brendan has performed many roles over the years, favourites including: Owen in Translations, Trigorin in The Seagull, Henry in Agincourt (Henry V), iphigenia in orem (monologue), Macduff in Macbeth, Happy in Death of a Salesman, Jerry Devine and Charles Bentham in Juno and The Paycock, Christy Mahon in Playboy of the Western World, as well as many other roles in Sive, Big Maggie, A Life, Our Town, The Spelling of Coynes, Shadow of a Gunman, Many Young Men of Twenty and numerous pantomimes. He has also written and directed two highly-successful new pantomimes for the Moat Theatre Naas.
Brendan’s work in musical theatre has included: Franz Liebkind in The Producers with the R&R Musical Society at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin; Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot!, Ko-Ko in Hot Mikado (AIMS Best Comedian Award 2004), Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Sergeant of Police in The New Pirates Of Penzance, and Gerald in Me And My Girl, all with Clane Musical Society; and performances with Pioneer Musical & Dramatic Society at the National Concert Hall Dublin and Keable Young Generation.
Brendan is currently training with the Gaiety School of Acting.
Daniel Newman
Daniel is from Southend-On-Sea, UK. He is currently in his third year of training with Bull Alley Theatre Training Company in Dublin. During his time in Bull Alley he has played various roles including Thomas Putnam in "The Crucible", Bernard in "Strippers", Malcolm in "Macbeth", Jacomo in "The Libertine", George Pepper in "Red Peppers" and Jonathan Harker in "Dracula". He teaches drama and dance to young children with "Take a Bow Staage School" which he recently set up in Crumlin, Dublin.
Karen McCartney
When asked as a child what Karen wanted to be when she grew up her reply was always, ‘I want to be an actress’. She attended the National Performing Arts School for two years as a child but lost confidence in her ability. She went on to spend seven years performing music. While attending two acting workshops in Berlin in order to improve her performance on stage as part of a band, her passion for acting was re-awakened. Since then she has gone on to study acting at the Gaiety School of Acting and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.