The Messiness of Human Relationships
Thu, May 03, 2018
A NAÏVE creature, too curious for his own good, embarks on a journey to explore and expose the nature of humans. This is The Messiness of Human Relationships, which is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Life with a large left testicle
Thu, May 03, 2018
FOUR HUNDRED millilitres - that is how much liquid was drained from Michael’s left testicle when he was a teenager. That is more than what a can of lemonade holds, but who could he have talked to about it?
Read more ...Toxic masculinity under the spotlight
Thu, May 03, 2018
"I CURSE, I spit, I scream, I distract from the stinging in my eyes and I smash a bottle over his head." This is Seamie, and he would rather down a litre of paint-stripper then do yoga or talk about his feelings.
Read more ...Theatre Review: The Hired Man
Theatre Reviews Wed, May 02, 2018
LAST NIGHT, Tuesday May 1, at the Black Box Theatre, Galway Musical Society presented the opening night of its terrific production of the musical, The Hired Man, based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of Cumbrian rural and industrial working life in the first quarter of the 20th century.
Read more ...Thirteen Steps To The Attic
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
BALLINASLOE NATIVE Michelle Cahill presents her first solo dance theatre work, Thirteen Steps To The Attic, at next week’s Galway Theatre Festival, a work inspired by her discovery of a box of letters, hidden away for more than 20 years.
Read more ...The morning after the marriage-equality vote
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
SUNDAY MORNING, May 24 2015, 62 per cent of voters in the State have voted Yes to marriage equality, and hungover Ann gets a text from her brother: “How’s the morning after the life before?"
Read more ...Maz and Bricks - a tale of an unlikely friendship
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
MAZ AND BRICKS, the new play by Eva O’Connor, and staged by Fishamble: The New Play Company, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre, as part of the 2018 Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Humanity Dick - one man show for The King's Head
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
HUMANITY DICK, a hit show of the 2016 Galway Fringe Festival about the colourful life and times of Galway MP, humanitarian, and serial duelist Richard Martin, will be performed in The King's Head.
Read more ...Bualadh Bos to stage The Cripple of Inishmaan
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
IN 1934, on Inis Meáin in the Aran Islands, there is great excitement when news arrives that a Hollywood film is being made on the neighbouring island of Inis Mór.
Read more ...Big Maggie in Ballinderreen
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
JOHN B KEANE'S Big Maggie, first staged in 1968 and generating much controversy for its portrait of a woman determined to take back control of her life, is to be be performed in Ballinderreen.
Read more ...All-Ireland bound Compántas Lir to stage Glass Menagerie
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
AFTER ITS award-winning run on this year’s festival circuit, Compántas Lir are back in town with their emotive interpretation of the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams before it opens the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone on May 3.
Read more ...My Fellow Sponges set to 'blur lines between gig and theatre'
Thu, Apr 19, 2018
MUSICIANS, WRITERS, performance artists, jugglers, videographers, animators, conductors, designers, and all kinds of doers, will partake in a genre defying ‘live music video’ experience, as part of the 2018 Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Examining choices in The Streets Are Ours
Thu, Apr 19, 2018
"IN THE city you choose your friends, here you take the hand you're dealt." Four friends are trapped, all in different ways, and each finds that the freedom to choose is not always a welcome privilege, that it can be a burden in itself.
Read more ...A night of dance with Youth Ballet West
Thu, Apr 19, 2018
YOUTH BALLET West will present what promises to be a spectacular evening of classical and contemporary dance, when its dancers take to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.
Read more ...Tin Lies to spread its hilarity this May in Tuam
Wed, Apr 18, 2018
After last year's success in The Mall Theatre, Tuam, and An Taibhdhearc, Galway, the two act play The Crossing written by Patricia King-Callaghan from Tuam explored traditional themes which had their roots in the troubled history of the Irish peasantry.
Read more ...Arts festival to bring hit circus show to Galway this summer
Thu, Apr 12, 2018
BACKBONE, the critically acclaimed new show from the award winning circus and physical theatre group, Gravity & Other Myths, has been announced for the 2018 Galway International Arts Festival.
Read more ...4.48 Psychosis - theatre in a gallery
Thu, Apr 12, 2018
4.48 PSYCHOSIS, Sarah Kane's fearless, unorthodox, portrait of an experience of clinical depression, will be staged in the 126 Gallery, by new Galway theatre company, WestWorks.
Read more ...How to re-imagine the works of Wilde
Thu, Apr 12, 2018
IMAGINE A therapy class in a prison, where the therapist tests the prisoners’ patience and imaginations through the work of Oscar Wilde. This is Pan Pan Theatre's The Importance Of Nothing.
Read more ...One more time for That Same Old Story
Thu, Apr 12, 2018
THAT SAME Old Story, Espresso Productions' acclaimed music/theatre showing life and love in contemporary Ireland, returns to the Town Hall Theatre studio, next week.
Read more ...Irish myth sucks in influences from Monty Python and Martin McDonagh
Theatre Reviews Tue, Apr 10, 2018
THE ANCIENT saga of Diarmuid and Grainne gets a zestful makeover from Fíbín Theatre Company in an entertaining Town Hall staging of Tóraíocht that is a leap-off for a national tour –rather like the cross-country epic of the play’s hero and heroine.
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