FILM: FURIOSA
The summer movie season revs into a higher gear with mastermind George Miller's prequel to his celebrated Mad Max: Fury Road, exploring the origins of post-apocalyptic bad-ass Furiosa in a suitably epic fashion. Anya Taylor-Joy steps into Charlize Theron's boots in the title role, while a scenery-devouring Chris Helmsworth dons a rubber nose as the baddie. Whereas Fury Road was essentially one extended chase scene, this one spans 15 years, burning some serious rubber en route - think Mad Max does Ben Hur (Cinemas nationwide)
THEATRE: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION
The Gate Theatre presents the first major Irish production of a play by celebrated US playwright Annie Baker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Flick; this 2009 work is a meditation on theatre and life and death and the passing of time - the Gate's Artistic Director Roisin McBrinn directs a killer cast that includes Risteárd Cooper, Imogen Doel, Hazel Doupe, Marty Rea and Niamh Cusack, who talks to Miriam O'Callaghan below (Gate Theatre, Dublin, Friday 24th May - Sunday 30th June)
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ART: DOROTHY CROSS
Veins of Other is the first solo exhibition in Ireland for five years from one of the giants of contemporary Irish art, Dorothy Cross; at the heart of the show is Tread, an installation of 12 hand-carved marble sculptures, alongside Bloodlines, a series of new works combining the artist’s personal archive photography with hand-poured stained glass. She talks to Brendan O'Connor below (Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 24th May – 6th July 2024)
OPERA: BLACKWATER VALLEY OPERA
Waterford's Blackwater Valley plays host to 100 international and Irish performers, 22 events, 11 venues and more than 75 hours of live music at historic homes in Lismore, Youghal, Dungarvan, and Castlemartyr; the flagship opera at BVOF 2024 is Giulio Cesare by G.F. Handel, directed by Tom Creed and performed in the breathtaking grounds of Lismore Castle, Waterford, and a spectacular finish is guaranteed via a Vivaldi celebration with the Irish Baroque Orchestra at Dromore Yard (Various venues, Waterford, 27th May to 3rd June)
BOOK: LONG ISLAND
15 years after the publication of Brooklyn, and nine years after its Oscar-nominated screen version, Colm Tóibin returns to his heroine Eilis Lacey for an eagerly-anticipated sequel that catches up with Eilis in the 1970s, 20 years after the events of the first novel, living with her husband and children on the eponymous New York island - a shocking piece of news propels her back to Ireland, to a world she thought she had long left behind and to ways of living, and loving, she thought she had lost. And yes, we hear Saoirse Ronan already has a copy (Out now, Picador)
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