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AUTUMN | WINTER 2019
THEATRE FILM
The Irish Play or:
The Orphan’s Birthday Maradona
Saturday 28 September Wednesday 02 October
Dublin, 1975: Liam, a thirty-two county
enthusiast - is gathered with friends on the
night of his 25th birthday. He and his girlfriend
Suzy, a rebellious British runaway, are set to
travel north to join the IRA, while their
roommates Cian, an idealistic American
playwright and his pregnant girlfriend Nora,
strive to dissuade Liam from the radical path he
has chosen. ‘’A bit of cheating and a lot of genius.” That’s
how a commentator in this film summarises the
Argentinian football megastar Diego Maradona
after his triumphant performance in the 1986
World Cup, and it seems fair. The film gives you a
chance to gauge how the cheating was a minor
ingredient of the genius, not an adjacent flaw.
When an unexpected birthday ‘gift’ throws
Liam’s plans awry, the friends are thrust into a
hilariously tangled web of Fenian tirades,
personal loyalties and outstanding ESB bills.
PreseNTeD by JoKerThieF
FeaTuriNG oisÍN liNNaNe, yvoNNe lyDoN,
shaNe GaFFNey aND Niamh ryaN
Time: 8 Pm Price: €18/15 coNc.
Director Asif Kapadia (‘Senna’, ‘Amy’) follows the
boy genius’ early years in a shantytown in
Buenos Aires, his contract for Argentinos Juniors
at the age of 15, when he moved his entire family
into the apartment he had been given and
became the breadwinner. We see his calamitous
career at Barcelona in the early 1980s – and then
the move to Naples, where his staggering
successes made him a hero and a living saint –
and a fellow-traveller for the local mob.
‘A compelling, tragic life of gangsters, glory, goal-
scoring and addiction — told with flair, if not with
full substance, by a master storyteller.’- Empire
Dir. asiF KaPaDia, uNiTeD KiNGDom, 2019, 130 miN
Time: 8 Pm Price: €9/5
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