‘Trainspotting’ – The Opening Scene

We’ve just released the first of several video clips from our production of ‘Trainspotting‘ in the Watergate Theatre, last June.

Filmed by our Devious friend Alan Slattery, check out the opening scene on the Friday night performance, featuring Ross Costigan (Rentboy), John Morton (Sickboy), Ken McGuire (Tommy) and Stephen Colfer (Spud).

Don’t forget to subscribe to the Devious Theatre YouTube, as there’s plenty more to come.

Lost Weekend In Kilkenny

While we’ve been plugging The Barn Owls recent production of The Whiteheaded Boy in Kilkenny, Dreamstuff’s second coming of The Life of Brian, another production we should give mention to is Lost Weekend by Kilkenny-based playwright Gillian Grattan.

Myself (Ken), John and Ross met up with Gillian over the summer and are delighted to see her production of The Lost Weekend take to the stage this week.

In her own words…

Lost Weekend was written by Gilian Grattan, and is the story of Vanessa and Harry, a married couple who are having a weekend away… from each other. Vanessa is heading up to Nothern Ireland with her annoying sister Violet on a hen weekend. Harry is counting the hours to her departure. In fact he just can’t wait to see the back of her so he can get stuck into a wild weekend in her absence. Lost Weekend is the story of what Harry and Vanessa get up to while they’re apart. Apart from the two main characters, the two actors play all of the other characters that Harry and Vanessa meet along the way.

Lost Weekend opened last night (Wednesday) in Cleere’s Theatre Kilkenny and runs to this Saturday. There will be a one-night-only performance at the Bridgebrook Arms in Thomastown on Sunday December 14th. Tickets are available from the respective venues, priced 10 euro.

The Devious Theatre Company wish Gillian, the cast and crew of Lost Weekend all the best and we’ll be along ourselves to see the show before the weekend is out.

Congratulations too to Dreamstuff Youth Theatre who opened their second production of The Life of Brian early this week. I went along on Tuesday for the opening night and immediately found myself running scenes in my head from our own production seven years ago. The stage version stands the test of time and if you’re looking for entertainment this weekend, get yourself to the Watergate Theatre where tickets for ‘Brian are only €10,

The Second Coming Is…. Coming

Our friends and affiliates Dreamstuff Youth Theatre are presenting their newest production from tomorrow night in The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny. And it will be that comic masterpiece Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. The production is being referred to as ‘The Second Coming’. The first coming occured from January 23rd to 26th 2001 as the very first production staged by the newly formed Dreamstuff Youth Theatre.

A lot of members of The Devious Theatre Company enjoyed long tenures in Dreamstuff Youth Theatre which served us immensely well in setting up our own theatrical outfit in 2006. Devious Theatre members Ken McGuire (as the titular character), David Thompson (The Virgin Mandy/Ben), Kevin Mooney (Biggus Dickus), Amy Dunne (Judith), Hazel Fahy (Mrs. Gregory), Sean Hackett (The Young Roman) and Dave Minogue (Ex-Leper/Harry The Haggler) all made our spotty pubesecent starts in The Life of Brian back in 2001. I got to play the parts of First Wise Man, Francis the Revolutionary and Otto The Nazirene and a very exciting theatrical debut it was for us young whippersnappers at the time. So on behalf of Devious Theatre, we want to wish the new generation of spotty young whippersnappers the best of luck tomorrow night.

This new production is again being directed by Mike Kelly and it will start tomorrow at 8pm in The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny and will play until Saturday December 13th. For all information, check out the newly relaunched www.YIFM.com