MUSIC Duke Special’s new two-part show

Silence gets Special treatment


Following on from the recent release of the brilliant and beloved Top 20 album ‘The Stage, A Book & The Silver Screen’, Duke Special and his band are bringing their brand new live show ‘The Silent World of Hector Mann & Songs from Mother Courage’ to venues around the country. Audiences in the west can catch the two-part show in Galway’s Black Box Theatre on Saturday, May 29, and in the newly renovated Model Theatre in Sligo on June 6.
‘The Silent World of Hector Mann’ celebrates a much-overlooked treasure of the silent film era. Mann made 12 silent movies before his mysterious disappearance in the late 1920s. The songs for this part of the show have been especially written for each of Mann’s silent-screen gems, combining celluloid and vinyl, spoken words and musical yarns, bringing to life a beautiful and sinister world. The Duke, known for his Vaudeville style as much as his musicianship, will whisk audiences away on a magical mystery tour of train tracks, tramps, romance and violins.
The show’s second part, ‘Songs from Mother Courage’, will feature music from the new production of the Bertolt Brecht anti-war classic ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’, which ran at the National Theatre in London and featured Duke Special and his band alongside award-winning actress Fiona Shaw.
For tickets for the Galway show (€26.50 each), visit www.tht.ie; for tickets to the Sligo show (€28 each), visit www.themodel.ie.

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