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Evening Concert: Chaconnes, Charades and Chicanery
Presented by Limerick Early Music Festival
Chaconne: a stately dance, popular in the 18th century.
Charade: an absurd pretence intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance.
Chicanery: the use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose.
Evening Concert: Chaconnes, Charades and Chicanery
This delightful performance of dance, music, and drama offers a peek into the world of Baroque Theatre with its fascination for masquing, disguising and Commedia dell’Arte and explores the use of these conventions to satirise and reflect the timeless foibles of human behaviour.
Mary Collins: historical dance specialist
Steven Player: baroque guitar, historical dance specialist
With guest musicians: Paulo Alonso (viola), Sarah Groser (viola da gamba), Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord)
T&Cs
- Please note all ticket prices include a booking charge.
- No exchanges or refunds.
- Wheelchair spaces can only be booked over the phone. Please call box office on (061) 953400 if you wish to book a wheelchair space.
- No late comers admitted to the theatre once show commences.
- On street parking.
