'The Last Hotel' to Be Broadcast on Sky Arts

Donnacha Dennehy

'The Last Hotel' to Be Broadcast on Sky Arts

Filming took place at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Further scenes to be filmed in Bray.

The Last Hotel, the new opera by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh, is being filmed for future broadcast on Sky Arts.

Directed by Walsh, and produced by Juliette Bonass in association with Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera, initial filming took place while the production was running at the O’Reilly Theatre (27 September to 3 October) as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Further filming will take place in December at the Bray Head Hotel in County Wicklow.

Composer Donnacha Dennehy commented:

I’m very excited that Sky Arts is going to make a film of The Last Hotel. I loved creating this opera with Enda – it was a completely addictive process that just took me over. The film will cut between an actual theatrical performance of the opera and some specially constructed sequences that will be filmed in a hotel just outside Dublin especially for this. For me it’s especially important that The Last Hotel will now reach a wider audience than those able to see it live in the theatre.

Enda Walsh further commented:

We’re very excited to have the opportunity to capture and re-imagine The Last Hotel for Sky Arts. Its strange suburban ‘gothicness’ seems very suited to the world of film and it’s thrilling to delve deeper into the quiet horror of this story.

Earlier this year Sky invited pitches for its Sky Arts Amplify initiative, to which the producers of The Last Hotel submitted an application.

Phil Edgar-Jones, Director of Sky Arts, said:

Amplify with Sky Arts is all about finding new ways to bring great arts content to the screen and with Enda Walsh’s unique adaptation of his hit opera The Last Hotel we have just that. We are thrilled to be working with the cream of Irish talent on this project which builds on last year’s Sky Arts Ignition: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and our current Sky Academy Arts Scholar for Ireland, Kevin Gaffney.

For more, visit www.thelasthotel.ie 

Read a review of The Last Hotel on The Journal of Music here.

Published on 6 October 2015

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