FOLLOWED BY PHANTOM 105.2 DJ djs richie mccormack & richie ryan DOORS 8PM FREE ADMISSION BEFORE 10PM 5 AFTERFRI oct 2nd PHANTOm.ie FIRST FRIDAY Supported By the Flaws the chakras saville audio AND ANOTHER THING... Other events this weekend Friday, October 2, 2009 metrolife 13 the many guests on his 2006 debut album, The Amazing Adventures Of DJ Yoda, and he has released a series of mix CDs, including one for London super club Fabric. Tonights early show sees Yoda pick a mash of his favourite films, cartoons and TV shows and blend them with his beats to create an audio-visual spectacular. Tonight, Mud, The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 8pm, 15 to 20. Pygmalion has established itself as one of the best underground clubs in Dublin, and tomorrow it plays host to two promising techno producers. Lee Curtiss hails from Detroit, but his stripped-back, robotic techno releases have more in common with European minimalism. Ryan Crosson is another Motor City native, but his releases fuse his hometowns deeply musical techno sound with the experimental legacy of Thomas Brinkmann. This is an inexpensive opportunity to catch these fast- rising stars in an intimate venue. Richard Brophy Tomorrow, Pygmalion, South William Street D2, 11pm, 10. Silver Stars Dublin Theatre Festival Reviews Sean Millars song cycle, produced by Brokentalkers and based on the testimonies of older gay Irish men, might so easily have come undone by its own ambition. It features ten, mostly inexperienced, performers and it incorporates not only original songs, but oral testimonies, audio recordings and video footage all of which could have come across as fussy and distracting. This is, however, an effortlessly engaging and unified show where participants are disarmingly natural and technology is seamlessly integrated. Millar wisely steers clear of tired coming-out tales and instead finds stories that are pleasingly offbeat, touching, or sad. We hear from one performer who recounts being in Greece in the late 1970s at the time of Pope Paul VIs death; after celebrating the pontiffs passing at a nudist beach party, he later finds himself attending the funeral in the company of two Benedictine monks. Theres the account of a gay Irish man protesting during a Patricks Day parade in New York in the early 1990s to a chorus of boos and hisses, while footage from the event is projected overhead. Perhaps the most startling piece is when Neil Watkins lip-synchs to a recording from a one-time Jesuit and WWII veteran who speaks of the difficulty in coming to terms with his sexuality. The music, thankfully, does justice to the spoken word, with three cellists supplementing Millar on guitar. Highlights include a torch song dedicated to a deceased lover and a track in which a woman flouts Catholicism in open support of her gay son, which includes the spine-tingling refrain I love you more than God. This production is as accomplished as it is heartfelt and deserves a longer run. Daragh Reddin Until Sun, Project Arts Centre, 39 Essex Street East D2 (tonight 10pm, tomorrow 6pm & 10pm, Sun 3pm & 6pm), 18 to 25. Tel: (01) 677 8899. www.dublintheatrefestival.com Three Sisters Chekhovs well-worn family saga is given new life in this Russian language production by the multi-award winning theatre company Cheek By Jowl and remains faithful to his every corset, decanter and moustache hair. Set in 1900s provincial Russia, sisters Masha (Irina Grineva), Irina (Nelly Uvarova) and Olga (Evgenia Dmitrieva) strike an arresting family portrait pose with their gambling brother Andrey (Valery Pankov) at the plays opening. Its one year on from the death of their father, and the girls are becoming increasingly isolated from cosmopolitan Moscow. Over- educated and under-sexed, the snooty siblings work and domestic duties only add to the monotony: Irina toils in a telegraph office, teacher Olgas students are literally a headache, while Masha is a desperately bored housewife to doting husband Feodor (Vitaly Egorov). But family ties start to unravel with the arrival of colonel Vershinin (Alexander Feklistov), and Andreys vulgar wife Natasha (Ekaterina Sibiryakova), who quickly vies for matriarchal position. Oddly sterile, the sexual chemistry that crackled between Derbhle Crotty and Lorcan Cranitch in David Leveauxs production at The Abbey last year is lacking here. And the surtitles are too high up to really engage with the drama. Still, performances are otherwise impeccable under Declan Donnellans direction, and the economic set white tables and chairs configured so seamlessly by the cast you barely notice the scene changes is simple and effective. Lucy White Until Sun, Gaiety Theatre, South King Street D2, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm), 20 to 40. Tel: (01) 677 8899. www.dublin theatrefestival.com How will luvvies influence the plight of Roman Polanski, facing extradition from Switzerland to the US over an unresolved to-do with a 13-year-old girl there in 1977? Supporters such as Scorsese, Almodvar and Woody Allen might boycott Swiss goods, bringing the cuckoo clock industry to its knees, while Hollywoods super- rich could always refuse to park their tax-free dosh with Zurichs gnomes. The Americans want the director back to answer a string of accusations including oral copulation, drug rape and sodomy charges Polanski thought would be dropped in a plea bargain if he admitted unlawful sex with a minor. Shouldnt US law enforcers be concentrating their efforts elsewhere, though? The inbreeds encountered in Americas boondocks suggest sexual practices closer to home should be on trial. Keith Barker-Main Planet Celeb Welcome To The World Of Roman Polanski Simon Amstell Cocky bugger or vital mouthpiece? You decide at this stand- up show by the former Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Popworld host Tonight, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street D8, 8.30pm, 28 (returns only). Tel: 0818 719 300. www. simonamstell.com Mysterious Ways Joseph (Philip Doherty) sells Virgin Mary statues by day in a souvenir shop and seeks pleasure by night a comical yet poignant look at religion Until tomorrow, The New Theatre, 43 Essex Street East D2, 8pm (today mat 1pm), 10 to 12.50. 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