THE IRISH THEATRE INSTITUTE
Irish Theatre Institute is a knowledge resource organisation for the professional
Irish theatre sector, promoting Irish theatre and dance companies,
theatre artists and the Irish repertoire in an international
and all-island context.
Irish Theatre Online
Irish Theatre Online is a guide to contemporary drama, dance
and opera in Ireland, North and South. The website has been
designed to give users, be they directors, producers, writers,
actors or audience, immediate access to the current professional
Irish theatre scene.
The main Search page leads into the listing sections
where you will find detailed information on:
Irish Funding Bodies; Arts Officers; Support Organisations;
Youth Drama & Dance Groups; Drama & Dance Training
Courses; Scholarships & Bursaries; Awards & Competitions.
And you can link directly to the 100s of email and web addresses
therein.
But the stars of irishtheatreonline.com are, of course, the
Irish Theatre Companies, Venues and Festivals. These pages
include contact info, artistic/ programming policies, up to
5 recent productions and up to 5 images of the work.
Companies, Venues, Festivals and their Personnel are listed
and searchable, though not freelance individuals, who are
outside the scope of this website. All information and images
have been supplied by the organisations themselves.
The Quick Search allows you to directly enter the name
– or part of a name – of a Company, Venue or Festival
to call up its information. So even if you know half the name
of a theatre organisation, you should be able to trace them!
If you type in the word ‘box’, for example, the
results page gives you 3 choices:
the Black Box Theatre Company in Wicklow, the Black Box Venue
in Galway, and the Tinderbox Theatre Company in Belfast.
The Advanced Search options offer a greater range of
searches on Companies, Venues, Festivals and their Personnel.
You can search for all these organisations by town, county
or region, say, festivals in Galway, companies in Cork, or
venues in Northern Ireland.
In addition, Companies can also be searched by art
form – in other words, drama, dance, opera, puppet, circus
and street theatre – and Theatre/Arts Festivals
by the month in which they take place.
For Venues, there are multiple search options. As before,
you can search by location, but you can also search by: no.
of seats, venue terms, stage type and stage dimensions. If
the venue has its own resident company, you can also access
it directly from its page.
The final Advanced search relates to the Personnel
specified by the Companies, Venues and Festivals.
Editorial guidelines
The editorial policy of this website is defined as follows:
Production Companies: those companies or production
houses (including receiving venues producing in-house work,
such as the Civic Theatre, Tallaght) who have been in existence
for more than 12 months and have produced at least one professional
show.
There are 5 Production Companies in the Republic who are
venue-based – the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Blue Raincoat
Theatre Company, Sligo, Druid Theatre Company, Galway, the
Focus Theatre, Dublin and the Gate Theatre, Dublin –
and 1 Production Company in Northern Ireland – The
Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
Receiving Venues/Festivals: professionally managed
and programming a significant amount of professional drama
and dance each year.
Drama & Dance Training: courses at least one
year in duration and offer official accreditation from a
recognised body. A number of exceptions were made for courses
that are of major significance to the sector.
Submitting information
Organisations interested in submitting or changing
information and images should contact info@irishtheatreinstitute.ie
as irishtheatreonline.com will be updated on a quarterly
basis. Images should be no larger than 1MB!
Disclaimer
While Irish Theatre Institute has taken every care in collating
information for this website, it does not assume and hereby
disclaims any liability to any party for loss or damage
caused by errors or omissions in www.irishtheatreonline.com
The contents of this website will be updated quarterly,
making it an up-to-the-minute practical guide to the Irish
theatre scene. As such, its data will always differ in degree
to that of the printed Irish Theatre Handbook (last published
in June 2004, 4th edition due June 2007).
Tech spec
Irish Theatre Institute database has been designed by Irish Theatre Institute's technical partners, the Dublin-based IT company,
X
Communications Ltd. The scale of the database required
an enterprise-level, industry-standard database solution.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 was chosen on the basis of easy
integration with Microsoft's Internet Information Server
(IIS), the standard Internet server software supplied by
Microsoft.
A note on telephone numbers
International telephone codes are, of course, used
at all times on this website. Locally, to phone Northern
Ireland from the Republic of Ireland, users can dial the
direct code 048 instead of the international code + 44 28.
Jen Coppinger
Editor, Irish Theatre Online,
July 2006
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