LIVE CONCERTS
Film, Documentary and Drama with the Kenmare Film Society
Film, Documentary & Drama with:
- ‘Timbuktu’ – Thursday 8th October – 8pm.
- ‘A Doctors Sword’ – Saturday 10th October – 8pm.
- ‘Lady Gregory, A Galway Life’ – Friday 16th October – 8pm.
Kenmare Film Society: ‘Timbuktu’ (2014) ( France) ( 97 mins) (12A)
Thursday 8th October 2015 – 8pm
Admission : €7/€5 (students)
Set in the early days of the jihadist takeover of northern Mali in 2012, the film is a stunningly shot condemnation of intolerance and its annihilation of diversity, told in a way that clearly denounces without resorting to cardboard perpetrators.
For trailer click: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0yFA5qQ5cM
Film: ‘A Doctor’s Sword’ (2015) (Documentary) (12A) (70 mins)
Saturday 10th October 2015 @ 8pm
Tickets: €7 / €5 (Students)
A Doctor’s Sword:
A Doctor’s Sword (documentary) tells the remarkable story of Aidan MacCarthy, a doctor from Castletownbere West Cork, who, at 28, joined the RAF in London as the 2nd World war began. Soon after he found himself evacuated from Dunkirk and in May 1941 received the George’s Cross for rescuing the crew of a burning RAF plane which had crashed into a bomb dump on landing. He volunteered for service in Asia as Singapore fell to the Japanese, was captured in Java and survived almost 4 years of brutal captivity enduring starvation, malnutrition, forced labour, beatings and torture as a prisoner of war.
Aidan MacCarthy was a POW at the camp attached to the Mitsubishi Steel and Iron works in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city at 11:02am on August 9th 1945. This was the beginning of the end of his captivity and he later returned home with a Samurai sword which was given to him as a gift by the POW camp commander at the end of the war.
The documentary tells Dr Aidan MacCarthy’s incredible story of resilience and bravery, and his daughter Nicola’s journey to find the family of the Japanese officer who gave their ancestral sword to her father.
For Trailer Click: https://youtu.be/v-R2IM8oIE0
Drama: Lady Gregory: A Galway Life
Friday 16th October 2015 – 8pm
Tickets: €15 / €12
Lady Gregory was the driving force behind the Irish Literary Movement at the turn of the 20th century and was a central figure in the founding of Ireland’s Abbey showbox Theatre. She was also a major influence on Yeats, Synge, O’Casey and many of the Irish writers of the day.
Written by Phil Mason
Directed by John Dunne
For Website Click: http://www.irish-theatre.com/
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