{"id":20413,"date":"2022-07-02T03:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T02:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/irish-language-theatre-commission\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T03:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T02:02:23","slug":"irish-language-theatre-commission","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/irish-language-theatre-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Language Theatre Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Cork County Council has awarded the commission for a new Irish language play for children, to writer and theatre maker Grace Kiely. This new work will be performed in library settings and other locations in County Cork in 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Following a 14-year period of making theatre while based in Galway, Grace Kiely has recently returned to Cork, where she studied theatre in Kinsale before attaining her Bachelor\u2019s in UCC. Her return to Cork saw her become part of the team working on Graffiti theatre\u2019s show <em>Trasna <\/em>as well as working with the early years\u2019 art programme, BEAG.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Also an accomplished musician, Grace plays double bass with Cork\u2019s Fleischmann Orchestra while musical composition and songwriting form a key part of her theatrical creativity. She is also a contributing writer for N\u00f3s magazine and welcomes the opportunity to apply all of these skills to create an Irish language piece for young audiences in Cork County.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Gillian Coughlan welcomed the announcement saying,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cCork County Council is very grateful to Creative Ireland for providing funding for this project. This is a great opportunity to engage children in the joy of the Irish language. This specially commissioned piece will illustrate all the fun of theatre while immersing young audiences in the Irish language in an accessible and entertaining environment. I look forward to seeing the play tour across the county&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Further information will be available as the project progresses.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20414,"template":"","class_list":["post-20413","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Irish Language Theatre Commission - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cork County Council has awarded the commission for a new Irish language play for children, to writer and theatre maker Grace Kiely.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/irish-language-theatre-commission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Irish Language Theatre Commission - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cork County Council has awarded the commission for a new Irish language play for children, to writer and theatre maker Grace Kiely. 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