Stage to Screen
Stage to Screen - Mayo Movie World Cinema – February Programme
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Oil City Confidential: Film Premier and Live Concert in HD Tuesday 2nd February @ 7.30pm
Julien Temple's Oil City Confidential is the last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970s. It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in The Filth & The Fury and Joe Strummer in The Future Is Unwritten. Rather than being standard 'rockumentaries', Julien uses the music as a prism through which he examines the social and cultural conditions of the times. The films share his characteristic cinematic language - an irreverent and anarchic style of montage of archive and fictive footage which he pioneered in The Great Rock & Roll Swindle.
Perfect Moment: Instant (Digital HD Film) Tuesday 9th February @ 9.15pm
Arts Alliance Media is proud to present the first installment of a three-year global cinema event.“Instant” documents the universal search for that tenth of a second where athletes must decide how to make a turn, jump a cliff or enter into the tube of a 10-metre wave. The riders live for this instant, when the rest of the world disappears and they are at one with nature. From the Chamonix Valley to the Balearic and Canary Islands, Australia to Hawaii, Micronesia to the Spanish Basque country, from Switzerland to Scotland – “Instant” takes us on a discovery of many different and redeeming personalities in the world of glisse
Otello (Verdii) Opera in HD from Salzburg Saturday 13th February @ 7pm
Verdi’s last tragic opera Otello, like Shakespeare’s play, is a shattering psychological drama. The new production for the Salzburg Festival is directed by Stephen Langridge, who in 2006 attracted attention with his production of Offenbach’s Bluebeard in Bregenz. Riccardo Muti, one of the best Verdi conductors of our time, is returning to Salzburg. Alongside to the Spanish baritone Carlos Álvarez as Jago, two rising international singers of the younger generation can be heard as Otello and Desdemona: the Latvian spinto tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko and the Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya.
Mayerling (Rudolf-affaire Mayerling) Ballet in HD from The Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Saturday 20th February @ 7pm
The Royal Ballet presents a stellar cast in Kenneth MacMillan's daring and powerful ballet, filmed in 1994, with John Lanchbery's sumptuous scoring of music by Franz Liszt. The dramatic soundscape is matched by MacMillan’s penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his young mistress, Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling in January 1889.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Romeo and Juliet in HD from Shakespeare’s Globe theatre Wed 10th & Wed 17th February @ 7pm
A violent street brawl between their rival families is the prelude to Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet. Despite this, and the fact that Juliet has been promised to another man in marriage, they fall in love. But any plans for their future happiness are cruelly destroyed by renewed violence between the two families – and while the adults remain almost comically preoccupied with their own affairs, among their children a hidden tragedy begins to unfold.
With its wonderful combination of lyricism, suspense and dramatic changes of mood, Shakespeare’s heartbreaking tale is one of the greatest of all love stories.
As you like it in HD from Shakespeare’s Globe theatre Wed 24th February and Wed 3rd March @ 7pm
Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, falls in love with Orlando at a wrestling match. Her usurping uncle, jealous of her popularity banishes her from court. Disguised as a boy she leaves with her cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone, to seek out her father in the Forest of Arden. Here she meets Orlando again and, under the guise of a young man, counsels him in the art of love and wooing.
A firm favourite among Shakespeare’s comedies, and including some of his bestloved characters, As You Like It runs the glorious gamut of pastoral romance: cross-dressing and love-notes; poetry and brilliant conversation; gentle satire, slapstick and passion.