Lionesses among The Factory Girls

Frank McGuinness’ classic play comes to Town Hall

FACED WITH the threat of redundancy, five women stage a lock-in at a shirt factory in County Donegal. Ellen, Una, Vera, Rosemary and Rebecca unite against a common enemy and stand up to ‘the man’ and the union, in an effort to save their jobs.

This is The Factory Girls by Frank McGuinness, which arrives at the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday May 21 and Wednesday 22 at 8pm, in a new production from Derry’s Millennium Forum and directed by Caitriona McLaughlin.

Voice and acting classes from Max Hafler and Core

NOTED THEATRE director and teacher Max Hafler, of Core Theatre College, is giving a weekend course of voice training on Saturday June 15 and Sunday 16, entitled The Imaginative Voice.

The course is to help participants develop their vocal skills with exercises in breath, diction, and pitch and to explore their voice using exercises based on the Michael Chekhov technique. The exercises aim to enrich the tone and ‘colour’ of a participant’s voice.

Three shows from Tumbling Bones

DOWN-HOME, old-fashioned American folk music, but played with a contemporary twist and verve is the stuff of US trio Tumbling Bones.

Tumbling Bones are coming to County Galway to play three shows and according to New York Music Daily, “what they do isn’t museum music. It’s fun old-time string band stuff...the trio’s arrangements are original, the energy is unselfconsciously high and they make great party music”.

More The Week

• Lionesses among The Factory Girls
• Voice and acting classes from Max Hafler and Core
• Three shows from Tumbling Bones
• Galway African Film Festival
• ThereisBear! and the man who wrote Lincoln
• Tara Breathnach plays Anne Boleyn on the BBC
• Trad on the Prom
• Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer
• Film and TV exhib-ition
• Win Pilgrim Hill on DVD
• Blue Teapot fundraising table quiz
• Todd Terje - Inspector Norse reporting for duty
• The Bahh Band - a world of sound
• Hells Bells - AC/DC tribute
• Bangers & Lash @ The Cellar
• Leading Armies @ Monroe’s
• Boyfights @ Strange Brew
• Danny Dowling’s Brand Spanking New
• A green tribute to Pink Floyd
• Gatsby, glamour, and The Eye
• Retracing Antonin Artaud in Galway
• Galway Dance Days 2013
• Thomas Ryan - painting Irish history
• GTI End of Year Exhibition 2013
• Singing Nina Simone
• Upbeat Generation @ HALO
• The Riptide Movement - steppin’ out and steppin’ up
• The Whileaways
• Gaelic poetry and song in Aughnanure Castle
• The Woolgatherer