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MAY 2009
Writers in the Community: Dave Duggan & Special Guests
Derry Central Library
On Thursday 28 May Derry Central Library, Foyle Street is delighted
to welcome renowned Waterford-born writer Dave Duggan to showcase
his new dramatic work for stage, radio and screen. This event will
also be an unique opportunity to witness four of Derry’s best
local actors perform dramatic readings from Dave's work. The audience
will have a chance to participate in a discussion session afterwards
with both writer and performers and find out how they all got started
Dave Duggan is a dramatist and novelist based in Derry. Much of
his past work has reflected on the particular problems which have
beset the city and has received international acclaim: the Oscar
nomination for the film Dance Lexie Dance, the stage play AH 6905,
which was produced in Afghanistan in 2008 and winning the Stewart
Parker Trust Award for his Irish language play Gruagairí.
Duggan also wrote the powerful Scenes from an Inquiry based on
his own reflections on the Saville Inquiry which is part of a collection
of his work from Sole Purpose Productions published by Guildhall
Press as Plays in a Peace Process in 2008.
Duggan's new radio play Everyone's got a Mountain to Climb will
be broadcast on RTÉ in June as Ireland's entry to the international
radio drama series World Play.
Actors performing at the library will include Damien Hasson, Kieran
Griffiths, Kat Woods and Ashley Downey.
Damien Hasson graduated from The Oxford School of Drama in August
of 2008 and has been working in Dublin, most recently appearing
in La Dispute by Pierre Marivaux in The Abbey Theatre.
Kieran Griffiths starred in Ki Productions' musical I Love you,
You're Perfect, Now Change by Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts in
the Millennium Forum and will take the lead in a Scott Marshall
play Home Boy, Home in the Playhouse, Derry at the end of September.
Kat Woods is artistic director of Purple Penguin Productions. She
is the only person this year to be awarded a place for Directing
with the Drama Studio London.
Ashley Downey will star in The Open Couple by Dario Fo and Franca
Rame with Purple Penguin Productions in July. She will attend the
Atlantic Acting School in New York in September.
This is sure to be an entertaining and interesting evening with
Dave Duggan and special guests and one not to be missed. If you
are an avid reader, a budding writer, an aspiring actor and/or you
just want to sit back and enjoy listening to and watching some local
talent then come along to Derry Central Library on Thursday 28 May
at 7.30pm.
All are welcome and light refreshments will be available. Free
Admission. Copies of Plays in a Peace Process will also be on sale.
Writers in the Community is part of a season of writing showcases
hosted by Libraries NI throughout all public libraries in Northern
Ireland.
For more details please contact Central
Library
Tel: 028 (048 from ROI) 71272300
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