We bid fond farewell to the first festival of the year, First Fortnight Festival will be back next year, with some luck. So what of this week? What’s in store for us on an average week in January. There must be something, right? Things are starting to get back to normal to be honest, so lots to do. Top tips for the week include 65daysofstatic at the Academy and Macbeth at Smock Alley. There’s also a Big Lebowski dress up party at the Lighthouse this Friday!
Theatre
It’s the last week to see Pride and Prejudice at the Gate, there’s also a new version of Macbeth at Smock Alley which sounds intriguing. Check out all the details below.
The Abbey – Previews of The Risen People continues until Feb 1st.
The Gate – Previews of Pride and Prejudice continues until Jan 18th. Our review is here.
Project Arts Centre has an interview with Meave Connolly on Jan 18th at 3pm.
Smock Alley has Macbeth and Under my Bed.
Viking Theatre has a Picture of Dorian Gray until 18th of Jan.
The Early Hours is at the New Theatre from Jan 13th – 18th.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is at the Gaiety Theatre until Jan 19th.
The Civic Theatre is quiet this week.
Theatre Upstairs snoozes.
Movies
Coen Brothers Season is in full flow at the Lighthouse with the Big Lebowski on the 15th and a dress up party on the 17th.
Possession is at the Lighhouse Cinema on 18th of Jan at 22.45.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll season is on at the IFI, with the first part Sex running this week. You can see the great ‘Shortbus’ and ‘Female Trouble’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8A1dwEhSMY
Gigs
Ok, it’s a bit of a slow one out there, but there is 65daysofstatic, Deer tick and the Fun Lovin Criminals, so a few bits to choose from! I remember seeing 65daysofstatic in Crawdaddy a few years ago, and they almost deafened me. Wear ear plugs!
Mon 13 Jan
Iced Earth – The Button Factory
Tue 14 Jan
The Plateau Sessions – Workman’s Club
Union J – The O2
Thu 16 Jan
Maroon 5 – The O2
Deer Tick – Whelans
Fri 17 Jan
Fun Lovin Criminals – The Academy
Bernard O’Shea – Vicar Street
Nathan Carter – Olympia Theatre
Max Cooper – The Button Factory
Conor Delaney – The Academy 2
Sat 18 Jan
65daysofstatic – The Button Factory
Hidden Agenda present Tourists – Button Factory
Nathan Carter – Olympia Theatre
DJ Sam Divine – The Academy
Boddika – The Twisted Pepper
Tourist – The Button Factory
Sun 19 Jan
A Stór Mo Chroí – Vicar Street
Joy Kills Sorrow – Whelans
Talks/ Lectures
An Evening with Christos Tsiolkas – Dunlaoghaire Pavillion on 17th of January.
Gill Park and Linzi Stauvers are in conversation with Meave Connolly at the Project, 18th Jan at 3pm.
Grow your own… ink at the Science Gallery on the 16th Jan at 3-4.30
Designing Life: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology, with Professor Drew Endy of Stanford University – at the Science Gallery on the 16th Jan, 6-7.30.
Art –
IMMA – Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist – until 26th Jan
– Eileen Gray – IMMA Kilmainham – until Jan 19th
RHA Gallery – New Exhibitions from the 17th Jan.
Douglas Hyde –From 15th November until 15th January 2014 (Last week and well worth seeing!)
Gallery 1 – George Shaw – Neither My Arse Nor My Elbow
Gallery 2 – Paloma Varga Weisz – Krummer Hund
Dublin Divided is at the Hugh Lane Gallery until 2nd Feb.
General Exhibition at the National Gallery
General Exhibition at the Chester Beatty
Tom Wood – Men and Women – Gallery of Photography
Private Galleries:
Kerlin – Willie Doherty – from the 17th Jan
Oliver Sears – Hughie O’Donoghue: GORT RUA (finishes 9th Jan)
Sean Hillen and Stephanie Rowe – 16 January 2014 – 13 February 2014
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery – Enigma – Roxana Manouchehri (until 14th Jan)
Cross Gallery -Winter Show – Until 30th Jan
No More Workhorse 