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sPeCial eventsthe Wooster grouparchiveto mark the Wooster group’s first visitto Dublin, its archivist Clay hapaz hascurated a programme of screenings thatspans three decades of this remarkabletheatre company’s career. all screeningswill take place in the irish film institute.tiCkets €7.50, see all 5 screenings for €25rumstiCk roaDA work-in-progress reconstruction of thegroundbreaking 1977 production. rumstickroad was an attempt to understandSpalding Gray’s mother’s suicide using audiotaped conversations, family letters, dance,slides, and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.rumstick road will be introduced byElizabeth LeCompte, the director of TheWooster Group.oct 1, 5pm (90mins)the roaD to immortalitYA program of clips from route 1 & 9, L.S.D.(…just the high points…), and Frank Dell’sthe temptation of St anthony.The 1980s trilogy features fiercejuxtapositions and syntheses of theatre,video, music, dance, raucous vaudeville,stilted TV soap opera, naked talk shows,and meditations on lust and death,religious ecstasy, and social repression.oct 3, 5pm (80mins)house/lightsThe Wooster Group’s 1999 OBIE-winningcollision of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor FaustusLights the Lights with Joseph Mawra’sB-movie classic, olga’s house of Shame.oct 6, 11am (75mins)three PlaCes in rhoDe islanDand the emPeror JonesClips from the seminal 1970s trilogy,comprised of Sakonnet point, rumstickroad, nayatt School as well as point judith(an epilog).Plus the video re-conception of the emperorjones, with original music by David Linton andan OBIE-winning performance by Kate Valk inthe title role.oct 6, 12.25pm (85mins)to You, the BirDie! (PhèDre)The Wooster Group’s 2002 OBIE-winningproduction of Paul Schmidt’s version ofRacine’s phèdre, set in a mobile modernistlandscape of sliding plexiglass panels,omnipresent monitors, hidden cameras,and badminton…oct 6, 2pm (75mins)preSenteD In aSSocIatIon wIth the IrISh FILM InStItute.Drama in the airthe BaCon sliCerDublin Theatre Festival in association withRTÉ’s Drama On One are proud to presentthe Bacon Slicer by Andrew Fox, winner ofthe 2012 PJ O’Connor Award for Radio Drama.Friends Brian and Declan are in for theevening, in the company of Brian’s motherwith good supplies of alcohol. As the beercans empty, the conversation shifts to murder,in a wickedly black comedy of assassination,planned from the couch.This new radio play will be recorded inStudio One, Montrose, with an audiencepresent, and broadcast live on RTÉ Radio 1on Oct 7, 8pm. For further information seewww.rte.ie/dramaonone57