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Oh the stories The Ticket could tell about our home. There are the countless late-night jam sessions with the great and the good of music (and yes belting out I Have Nothing at 2am with no accompaniment counts). Barely a day goes by without some actor on the make giving us a soliloquy in the good salon (in-between their cleaning shifts); and the conservatory is where we like to retire for brandy and cigars of an evening, and, no, that’s not a stupid name for the garden shed.
The Science Gallery has other ideas though. In its latest show, curators including Anne Enright, Ali Grehan and Anna R Davies imagine how our gaffs might be reimagined as “centres of communication”, and how they might produce food and energy rather than just consume it (the wind power from our Whitney bursts alone could energise a small village).
Artist Fergal McCarthy has built a replica of Dublin’s Northbank Lighthouse. Science Gallery staff will also happily swab your belly button to find out what’s living in you (tests for the spirit of Whitney have so far proved inconclusive).
Diego Trujillo Pisanty’s With Robots looks at how our homes could be redesigned to accommodate our new best friends: robots. And WashLab invites visitors to pull back the shower curtain and join a collaborative research project that looks at your washing habits and explores how changing these could reduce water consumption while still keeping you box-fresh.
All of which puts our downstairs disco loo in perspective. But we did get a great deal on it when installed the water bed and jacuzzi.
TRADITIONAL
The Very Round Robin Tour
Inec, Killarney 7.30pm
22.90
064-6671555
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Declan O’Rourke, Roesy and British acapella trio The Young Folk continue on their short Irish debut tour. All three acts sing and perform “in the round”. Preciousnes will hold no sway here, as the artists swap and share one another’s songs, harmonising and storytelling along the way. This venue is an ideally intimate setting within which such a Shakespearean drama may unfold.
PIANO MAN
Tobias Jesso Jr
Unitarian Church, Dublin 7.30pm €15
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Channeling the kind of piano balladry pioneered in the 1970s by the likes of Harry Nilsson, Elton John and Billy Joel, Vancouver singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr may not appeal to fans of Gallows, but there’s a liking out there for this kind of thing. Insipid? Hey, did we really say that?
