The Theatre Machine Turns You on: Volume II

Project Arts Centre Feb 15th-19th 6pm, 7pm, 8.30pm 10pm 10-12 (four shows for €22) 01-8819613 www.projectartscentre.ie

Strictly speaking, the second instalment of THEATREclub's adrenaline rush of a mini-festival for new artists and performance work should be called Theatre Machine I Love You. That was – near enough – how the follow-up to the 1968 record sampler The Rock Machine Turns You Onwas titled. Those albums were an introduction to the music of the counterculture for late bloomers.

Here, THEATREclub’s agenda is not too different: things are happening in alternative theatre that you need to know about, so let them to turn you on to some undiscovered talents and new directions in theatre.

Sticking with a musical theme, albeit not a wieldy one, the 15 productions are divided into four shows each night according to a section: Demotape (6pm) showcases short works in progress; New Releases (7pm) is a platform for theatrical debuts; while LPs (8.30pm) hosts fully-staged headline shows, among them THEATREclub's hotly anticipated new play, The Family(pictured); Spilt Gin's Tasteand Lydia Prior and Edwina Casey's gloriously titled I Dreamt Tom Stoppard's Email Address.

The night is rounded off with EPs (10pm), a bonus section of experimental work from better known artists: Nyree Yergainharsian of The Company performs her Where Do I Start?(Feb 15-16); an unadorned cabaret performance comes from Ciaran O'Melia ( La Melia: A Late Night LullabyFeb 17-18) and Lynnette Moran airs her TRASH: Live Art Electro Trash Band(Feb 19), which sounds like an appropriate attempt to break some records.

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