Flying Turtle Productions

at the Abbey School of Drama, Dublin

Showdown at Hickory Gulch Sept 23rd & 24th 2022! Culture Night and Saturday Night

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On Friday Sept 23rd Culture Night 2022! (SORRY CULTURE NIGHT BOOKED OUT)
+ SATURDAY OPTION   Saturday Sept 24th – SOME LIMITED SPACE FOR SATURDAY PERFORMANCES AT A SMALL TICKET PRICE. SEE LINK BELOW.

We hope you will join us for our CULTURE NIGHT event!   Back after a sold out production last year.
Our site-specific live 35-minute outdoor performance with music, will take you back to the world of the wild, wild west! Welcome to the world of cowboys and cattlerustlers, Sheriffs and Deputies, outlaws and ladies of ill repute. If you think it could all end in a gunfight, you can be darn tootin’ sure it will!

Please read full details below before booking.

LOCATION: OUTDOORS at Flying Turtle Productions, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin D02K037 in the Ireland Institute.

Building on our previous years of presenting genre styled performance (Culture Night Noir, Midsummer Night’s Dream Escapes!), we now celebrate the classic westerns. The audience will pass briefly through a building corrider then will view the performance from an outside atrium area which has an overhead shelter. Some limited seating will be available for those in need.  See you there, partner!

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED – SEE BOOKING LINK BELOW. There will be some limited folding chairs available for those unable to stand for the length of the performance.   This is a “MOST WEATHER” performance, so we will go on if there is mild rain. Umbrellas available for temporary use!

CULTURE NIGHT  FREE TICKETED EVENT FRIDAY Evening September 23rd– (SORRY BOOKED OUT )  Performance times for this FREE Culture Night event performing promptly at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30:

WE HAVE A BONUS PERFORMANCE night on SATURDAY Evening, September 24th – RESERVING NOW for a small ticket price of €10 per person (plus transaction charge) and must be purchased in advance through the link. This can be purchased NOW and selling fast. Performances start promptly at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30. All proceeds go to the performers and creative team.

CLICK THE TICKET LINK BELOW, SELECT A PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME, AND RESERVE FOR YOUR FREE (Friday) OR PAID (Saturday) PERFORMANCES TIMES:  

BOOKING LINK :
Eventbrite Showdown At Hickory Gulch

NOTE: Performances will begin promptly as scheduled and this event is fills quickly. A place will be held for you in the performance time that you select, but YOU MUST BE IN LINE IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING 5 MINUTES BEFORE PERFORMANCE OR YOUR PLACE WILL BE GIVEN AWAY TO THE WAIT LIST PEOPLE. NO LATE ADMISSION.

IF you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or have had contact with anyone known to have COVID-19 please do not attend this performance. A reminder of this will be sent prior to the performance.

Ability to climb 5 steps is required, and it is recommended for adults or young people age 10 and older. There will be some limited folding chairs available for those who cannot stand for the performance length of approximately 35 minutes.

SEE OUR YOUTUBE TESTIMONIALS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS FILM NOIR PERFORMANCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOjm9M0ZEM&t=6s

FEATURED CHARACTERS AND ACTORS:  

SHERIFF JOSEPH OBADIAH HICKMAN (Michael Keegan)

JIMMY-JOE JOHNSON (Simon Cunningham)

REVEREN SAMUEL CARTER (Alan Buckley)

DOC CARAWAY (Stephen Kelly)

JESSIE STEED (Ella Mooney)

RUBY SADLER (Julie Dean)

LILY MARTIN (Kate O’Donnell)

ROSEBUD EUSTICE CARTWRIGHT (Sophia Cadogan)

MISS MARY JONES (Phoebe Moore)

JANE WILDER (Louise O’Toole)

DAVY SAWYER (Richard Sweetman)

WILD BILL MacGINLEY (Bill Paton)

TWO-GUN TOMMY AUSTIN (Philip Dillon)

JOHNNY LEVI (Simon Mombrun O’Neill)

DAISY DILLINGTON (Deirdre Grant)

Conceived and directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE IRELAND INSTITUTE.

@culturenightdublin @culturenight

Flying Turtle Productions provides part-time evening courses in Drama, Screenwriting and Public Speaking, as well as film and theatre production and corporate training. Please see more details on our website for full details at www.flyingturtleproductions.com.

For any additional inquireys contact info@flyingturtleproductions.com or 086 824 4826

#CultureNight #LOVECulture @CultureNight @CulturenightDub

Final Presentation Week June 25th-29th, 2019 – The New Theatre, Temple Bar

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Come see our Flying Turtle Productions – End of Term Presentation Series for THREE DIFFERENT COURSES ON DIFFERENT EVENINGS from 7:30pm Tuesday-Saturday, June 25th-30th,2019 at the New Theatre in Temple Bar. (SEE DETAILS BELOW FOR WHICH GROUP PERFORMS ON WHICH EVENINGS).

Our advanced adult and teen courses have been working towards this week of shared work from our Advanced 6-month Actor Training ,  Advanced Adult Scene Study  , Teen Drama Production Week  While we cherish the beginner adult drama and youth options, this is the opportunity for those with some more serious intentions to share their work with the public. Many of our past alumni are working in the top levels of the film and theatre industry. See Our Alumni page.

6-MONTH ACTOR TRAINING PRESENTATION (Our most advanced course, director Kathleen Warner Yeates) TUES-WED, June 25th-26th @ 7:30PM, The end of a 6 month part-time acting course culminating in a series of dynamic contemporary scenes and an edited version of “Midsummer Night’s Dream: Lovers”. This will be an engaging and entertaining evening of theatre! FEATURING: Simon Cunningham, Fionnuala Cox, Anne-Sophie Delap, Charles Ferguson, Patrick Fogarty,  Kevin Koidl, and Helen Kelly.

ADVANCED ADULT SCENE STUDY PRESENTATION (directed by Ann Russell) THURS-FRI, June 27th & 28th @7:30pm This is the end of a 12-week Advanced course, and will feature selected dramatic contemporary scenes in the first act and an lighter improvisation series in the second act! FEATURING: Samuel Clarke, Colin Fitzsimons, Albert Gillick, Caoimhe O’Leary, Séan O’Regan, and Jane Tuohy

THE TEEN DRAMA PRODUCTION SAT June 29th, 7:30pm This is a devised theatre piece created in one week, then fully staged and performed under the direction of Kathleen Warner Yeates.

Lighting design by Cathy Ocarroll

Flying Turtle Productions was formerly The Abbey School of Drama

BOOK TICKETS THROUGH THE NEW THEATRE HERE: http://www.thenewtheatre.com/show-info/