Jazz Festival putting social issues centre stage with drama and film
Film and theatre will feature at this year’s Galway Jazz Festival and will include a newly commissioned show, Roxy’s Head is Melted, by renowned actor, writer and human rights activist Donal O'Kelly.
Roxy's Head is Melted, part of the GJF strand of newly commissioned work is an urgent contemplation, in jazz and words, about the state of the planet.
It explores climate catastrophe and global heating from the point of view of Greta Thunberg's dog, Roxy.
Roxy came to Greta via the Cork Dog Action Welfare Group, something that’s not widely known. But, as anyone who loves dogs will understand, that connection means there’s a part of Greta that will always be Irish!
Donal O’Kelly uses words in a fearless, passionate, and intensely communicative manner, in the same was as John Coltrane used notes, according to GJFs Ciarán Ryan, who praised O’Kelly’s multi award-winning plays as “hilarious, insightful and hard-hitting”.
This latest riffing on the state of the world from O’Kelly is a collaboration with percussionist Brian Fleming and flautist Ellen Cranitch, who is also GJF Artistic Director. This commission was made possible by funding from the Galway City Council Arts Office.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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