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Roadmap Theatre Our New Girl Playwright Nancy Har
ris is no stranger to the stage of The Gate having adapted The Red Shoes in 2017 and making her Druid debut with The Beacon last October. First performed in London in 2012, Our New Girl is knee-deep in dysfunctional family territory. Annie, an Irish nanny, turns up unexpectedly in the affluent London home of Hazel who is coping with her pregnancy, troubled son and Richard, her plastic surgeon husband, who is away on charitable work. Everything is simmering, she’s the ingredient which brings it to the boil when Richard returns. It’s bears all the hallmarks of a excruciatingly taut psychological drama, one both feared and beloved by the middle-classes. Gate Theatre, Thursday February 27 until Saturday March 21, €15-€40 Concert Festival A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the ambient output of Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie. O’Halloran has created countless scores for film and TV, most notably Transparent and God’s Own Country. Wiltzie is a founder of fellow ambient outfit Stars of the Lid and has collaborated with the late Jóhann Jóhannsson on his scores for the Theory of Everything and Arrival, as well as working with O’Halloran on Lion. The Undivided Five is their fifth release and shimmers and swells in its symphonic grandeur. It’s a melodic palette as speckled as the sky is with stars. National Concert Hall, Tuesday March 3, €27.50-€34 New Music Dublin Who doesn’t love new music, even of the ‘contemporary’ variety? New Music Dublin returns with a jam-packed schedule of over 17 Irish and 22 International premieres in over 20 concerts and events including works from Gerald Barry, Jane O’Leary, Una Monaghan and Fergus Johnston and performances from Lawrence Power, Bang On a Can, Andreas Borregaard, Crash Ensemble, the Ligeti Quartet and the Totally Made Up Orchestra (no relation). Dublin-based Australian flute player Lina Andonovska launches ‘A Way A Lone A Last’, new music for flute and percussion, while the work of Samuel Beckett will be explored in an afternoon concert book-ended by a night-time triple bill of cutting-edge improvised music from Ireland, France and the UK in the presence of BABs, ReDiviDeR and the Guillaume Orti / Stéphane Payen duo. Get with it. #NMD19 National Concert Hall, Friday February 28 to Tuesday March 3 newmusicdublin.ie 6