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THE ABBEY THEATRE is staging a production of Jane Austen’s Emma – but this time it’s “brat”.
This adaptation is promised to be a “period-but-playful” retelling of the classic comedy, which follows the title character Emma and her upper-class peers in a Georgian-Regency era England.
Adapted by Kate Hamill and directed by Claire O’Reilly, the play boasts a contemporary soundtrack with the same lovable characters.
For those who are better acquainted with the theatre than TikTok, a quick explanation of the recently-popularised “brat” aesthetic and lifestyle may be useful before making the trip to the Abbey.
The Journal has a handy guide to the concept which you can find here, but in summary the word “brat” took on a new meaning earlier this year upon the release of an album of the same name by British singer Charli XCX.
While some may say the “brat” aesthetic is so June 2024, a remix of the album released just last week titled ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat’ ensures the Abbey has its finger firmly on the pulse.
The cast includes Toni O’Rourke (The Boy That Never Was; God’s Creatures) as Emma, alongside Patrick Martins (Redemption), Clare Barrett (Wild Mountain Thyme), Liz Fitzgibbon (Normal People), Ciara Berkeley (She Said), Domhnall Herdman (Angela’s Ashes), Hannah Mamalis (Republic of Telly), and Damien Kearney (The Wind That Shakes The Barley).
Emma’s life is fun, privileged and party-filled – but it has cost her and that will become very evident in the play.
She was plied with the best education but with nowhere to use it. She is obsessed with matchmaking but dedicated to celibacy, her class collides with the limitations of gender and social pressure leaving this buoyant, extroverted person unsure of her next move.
The play asks: How can you flourish in the world you want when it’s been decided that you can’t fully participate?
Emma will run in the Abbey Theatre from 22 November 2024 to 25 January 2025 and tickets are on sale now.
It’s not the first modern adaptation of the timeless story, with films like Clueless (1995) and the period-style Emma (2020) starring Anya-Taylor Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) creating new generations of fans.
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As long as they don’t go on strike over Xmas I don’t care as I’m flying home with them then. However they have lost me as a customer from now on as I’m sick and tired of strike threats I will fly with Etihad from now on.
Etihad? But Aer Lingus don’t fly to Abu Dhabi?
Code share, look it up, if you fly from the Middle East with Klm you get on Aer Lingus in Amsterdam
Unless of course their on strike
They’re
If DAA go on strike none of the airlines will be going anywhere, at least not from Dublin
The usual pre-christmas strike action threat from the Shamrocks
Belfast
Another possible strike involving Aer Lingus? Do the staff ever work? Give me a job and I will work and I won’t even miss a day to be sick!
The quicker this Aer Lingus crowd are completely privatised the better. Overpaid,underworked, jumped up malingerers. They should all be sent to work for Ryanair for a few months. There wouldn’t be a word out of them when they came back.
It’s the DAA ye should be worried about if this strike goes ahead( which it won’t) Aer Lingus staff can’t shut the airport down…. All the Ryanair, easyjet flights won’t take off either then……
There is no easyjet flights
Rodrigo you’re a d1ckhead
Sounds like your new to town,workers have paid their own money into pensions ,some people which have 30yrs service,they will be lucky to see 20% of that!understand now?
I think we’ve all had quite enough of Trade Unions holding the country to ransom.
Explain.
Oh my goodness……how rare!!!
Can someone please explain to me why in this age of employment law and measures in place to protect employees rights we need unions at all?
Fat cat salaries for the elite union officials sends to be the only reason left.
Can someone please explain to me why in this age of employment law and measures in place to protect employees rights we need unions at all?”
– how about static or declining wages – and conditions- – zero hour contracts.
We have never needed Unions more – pity they became part of the Establishment – at least some did – but that can be changed .
I can’t understand why SIPTU has a problem with the separation of SNN from the DAA. Since the airport has went its own way there has been nothing but good news coming out of there regarding new routes and frequency increases on existing routes. This week alone Aer Lingus Regional announced the reintroduction of the route to Bristol and also the basing of a second aircraft at the airport which may lead to even more routes being introduced. Couple all that with new Ryanair routes and increases to transatlantic things seem to be going in the right direction.
Lockout please but wait until jan :)
Big Jim is turning in his grave at union fatcats who are now self serving as opposed to serving their members.
What the feck do unions know about whats good for a business, they commented on the separation last week…….it happened weeks ago……someone must have disturbed their hibernation…go back to sleep you moron…..
It’s worth remembering when people are condemning ESB workers for defending their pensions that the DAA and Aer Lingus denied any future short fall in the pension fund only a few short years ago. The airports won’t close because SIPTU will not allow it to happen. Unfortunately the employers and the government know this so how effective this ballot will be is questionable.
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