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Robinsons' Sunday Roadshow Café by Priscilla Robinson
| | There is a keyboard in the Robinsons’ Cafe. If you can play piano, please come in and give us a tune. It is everyday Sunday here, so we love hymns and spirituals.. but anything musical is good! | Saturday 11th July 5 – 6pm | | Hymns and chat with special guest Mrs. Robinson (Helen) in the cafe... All Welcome.. | | |  The Robinsons were a Baptist family from the North who founded a church in Dublin in the 1960's. Sundays were the centre of their social week, with church services and a spread of homemade food for family and visitors. This cafe will be an attempt at re-creating a typical Robinson Sunday for public viewing and participation!
The Robinsons didn’t allow television on Sunday – but they had lots of different kinds of home entertainment. Come along and eat gypsy creams, gingerbread and rock buns. Experience one of my dad’s sermons, play boardgames, or hear stories from my mother about her father the socialist, World War II, her love life, and all the things she wasn’t allowed to do on Sundays. You can listen to the Robinsons' LP collection, try a game of ‘Teapot’, or argue a point in a discussion! There will also be a moment to reflect on loss, as sadly the Robinsons’ church community did not last. In this attempt to blur the boundaries between life and art, there will be games and interaction with the audience, and gentle comedy on offer throughout the day. Hopefully it will all feel a little like a congenial non-conformist church service with an original and offbeat preacher. | | | | | | Opening Times | | Friday 3rd July from 5-7pm | | Sat 4th - Sat 11th July from 11-7pm | | | | Address | | 15 Parnell Street, Clonmel |
| | | Priscilla Robinson has been writing and performing since 2001. She performed stand-up comedy for six years and was described by Hotpress magazine as “always original and highly entertaining”. She has written columns for The Irish Times and in 2007 Priscilla wrote and performed her first one woman show, KuddelMuddel in the Dublin Fringe Festival. In 2008 she wrote and performed The Show about The Show which was literally a show about making KuddelMuddel. Her mother played her mother in this show, she loved doing it but wants to retire now. Priscilla likes thrift shops, jumble sales, finds, bargains, and surprises. In 2009 she received a Commission award to work on a piece with Project Arts Centre, which was a surprise. Priscilla Robinson is also supported by Dublin City Council and the Project Arts Centre. | | | | |  | | | |
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