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Locating The Gothic Presents The Veil
Locating The Gothic
The darker side of Limerick
By I Love Limerick Correspondent Niamh Higgins
‘Locating The Gothic’ is a 4 day conference and festival which will be held here in Limerick City from 22nd to the 25th of October 2014.
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The conference is being organised by Maria Beville (Mary Immaculate College, UL) and Tracy Fahey (Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT).
The two met at the Studies in Gothic Fiction conference in San Diego in 2012. From there the idea and fascination grew to bring their research in the Gothic to the historic, cultural and idiosyncratic location of Limerick city.
‘Locating The Gothic’ is an international conference and series of intertwined events exploring the concept of Gothic localities in and around Limerick City.
The festival will celebrate Limerick as a gothic location and by attending the events you will learn about the gory, bloody history, literature, art, and folklore of our city, from tales of battles and sieges, river monsters and ghosts to cannibalism and a long-standing city-curse.
The two day international conference is being held for academic delegates but all other events are open to the public.
Events over the 4 days will include ghost story telling sessions, workshops with Danish monster makers, Fantasy Fabrikken, horror writing sessions with acclaimed Limerick horror writer Gemma Mawdsley, Limerick Zombie Festival and a ghost bus tour of Limerick.
Keynote speakers will include Dr Iain Biggs, Dr Tabish Khair, Monica Germana and Lorna Piatti-Farnell.
The launch of ‘Locating the Gothic’ is open to the public and will take place from 5pm on the 22nd of October in the Tara Building in Mary Immaculate College.
For more information on ‘Locating The Gothic’ you can visit their website www.locatingthegothic.weebly.com
Or find ‘Locating The Gothic’ on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/locatingthegothic
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Locating the Gothic
Presents
The Veil, Fri Oct 24 – Sat 25
by
Conor McPherson
In No. 1 Pery Square
May 1822, rural Ireland …
The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen year-old Hannah to England
She is to be married off to a Marquis in order to resolve the debts of her mother’s estate
However, compelled by the strange voices that haunt his beautiful young charge and a fascination with the psychic current that pervades the house, Berkeley proposes a séance, the consequences of which are catastrophic
Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, Conor McPherson’s new play weaves Ireland’s troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time
A beautifully lyrical study of the existence of supernatural forces and the frailty of the human heart
“The finest dramatist of his generation” ~ Daily Telegraph
Starring: John Murphy, Meg Hennessy, Marcus Quane, Michelle O’Flanagan, Darren Maher, Bernie Hayes, Bernie Kavanagh, Eleanor O’Brien
Directed by Deirdre Flynn
Lighting Design: Michael Finneran
Costume: Sharon Kiely
Photography: Philip Desmond
Production: Shane Hickey O’Mara, Conor McCoy, Sadhbh McCoy
Fri Oct 24 8pm – Sat 25 2pm
For tickets go HERE
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