A Semester in London: IRELAND: Dublin, Galway, Gaiety School of Acting and Smock Alley

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

This is the Temple Bar area of Dublin where our hostel, Barnacles is located and the Gaiety School of Acting. The following photos are of the Temple Bar area, Smock Alley theatre that is run by the Gaiety School and where Ben did part of his internship. He also worked at the Project Theatre. You will also see some photos I took of Ben's photo shoot of the second year acting students at the Gaiety School in the Smock Alley Theatre....which is the oldest theatre in Dublin. Ben found the location, set up lights and directed and shot the photos...I just took photos of his photo shoot. Other photos are of some of the plays we went to and the final showcase the Sam, Krista, and Lindsay did at the end of our two weeks. We took a trip to Galway during our middle weekend.

Barnacles Hostel

Daniel from Melbourne Australia was one of the friend we made in the hostel. Follow photos are in the Common Room of Barnacles

Kuba and Shannon who run the West Coast Coffee House that will soon be called Shannon's. One of our hangouts!!!

Irish Film Institute where I saw many films in the two weeks we were in Ireland including Me and Orson Wells and the Coen Brother's new movie.

John and Edward, aka Jedward were two Irish guys from Dublin that were on the X Factor who couldn't sing but kept getting voted on every week. They finally got cut!!!! For some reason Dublin is proud of them...???? The spiked hair that they have has started a craze....Lindsay loves them, too.

We spent the weekend in Galway. Stayed at Barnacles there. Rained the entire time. Below is an open market and my favorite little pub in Galway. We had dinner upstairs and went downstairs to enjoy some local music and a great fire in the fireplace

The Temple Bar is one of the many, many pubs in the Temple Bar area. Ben, Sam, and I went to The Quays Pub to see my friend, David Ross (Nassau Royal) perform. Hopefully, I can download some video at the end of this blog. He has a CD coming out this spring with all original song

Got Guinness?

Ben's Photo Shoot in Smock Alley Theatre

Smock Alley, the oldest theatre in Dublin

Kevin

Eoin

Richard

Ben at work.

David doing his thing

The Second Year Gaiety Acting Students

Christian, Smock Alley Production Manager, and Ben

The Gaiety Theatre where the Panto, Jack and the Beanstalk, was performed.

All the day-glo kitch that is sold at Pantos

Sam buying a fuzzy flashing light fairy stick or something like that.....

Saw a wonderful play, Terminus, at the Peacock Theatre

The Seafarer was a great comedy at The Abbey Theatre, Ireland's National Theatre.

The girls before their 40 minute showcase at the Gaiety school....They performed works of Beckett, Synge, O'Casey, and Friel.

Lindsay with the lipstick that they put on for Beckett's Not I for their finale.

Many of the first and second year acting students attended the performance

The girls with their two acting teachers, Patrick Sutton and Martin McGuire.

Krista and Martin

The group doing the "tiger" pose?????? Patrick's idea....

Don't ask!

Sam and Krista made lasagna, I made a Greek salad and we invited Patrick and Martin over to the hostel after the showcase for dinner! A good time was had by all....a real good time!