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The Alan Kelly gang and Eddie Reader at the Linenhall

Town Hall Theatre Galway presents Brian Friel’s ‘Faith Healer’ at the Watergate Theatre on Monday September 12 next.

THE WAY in which memory shapes our identities and the way in which we in turn shape our memories, selecting this detail and altering that, have been recurrent themes in the work of Brian Friel and nowhere more so than in his great play Faith Healer, currently running at the Town Hall.

Arriving at the Town Hall theatre to meet Rod Goodall for this interview, I find him hunkered on the steps outside and feeding bits of sandwich to a hungry young gull flapping eagerly around his feet. It could easily be an image of Faith Healer’s Teddy, the cockney showbiz agent who Goodall portrays in the play, auditioning a new performer. Teddy, after all, informs the audience that his roster of talent has included a bagpipe-playing whippet and a woman who can speak to pigeons, so a sassy seagull would fit right in. And Goodall’s convivial ease with the bird mirrors the sociable warmth of Teddy’s character.

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre will stage Brian Friel’s play Loves: Winners and Losers and Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money in the Nuns Island Theatre this July.

Love, mystery, comedy, tragedy: it’s all in a night’s work for the merry men and women of Athlone Little Theatre, and never more so than now, as the theatre gets ready to launch Curtain Calls, a never to be repeated celebration of 75 years, from Tuesday April 12.

Claregalway-Carnmore drama group Compántas Lir bring their awardwinning production of Brian Friel's classic play The Loves of Cass McGuire to the Town Hall Theatre, Galway this weekend.

SUNDAY MORNING Coming Down, a new written and directed play by Michéal Donnellan, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio from Tuesday March 29 to Saturday April 2 at 8.30pm.

Claremorris Drama Festival

The finest amateur drama talent in the country will head to Claregalway from tonight (Thursday) March 10 when the Claregalway Drama Festival gets under way at the local leisure centre.