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FROM EPIC, ancient, voyages to the ‘girls night out’, from stories of bag ladies to the return of Christ, the Galway Fringe Festival theatre strand has it all.

MONDAY MORNING at 10am, a Greek tragedy and a full house, this was the unlikely combination NUI Galway achieved for its inaugural Theatre Season with a fine production of Sophocles’ Electra.

“I’M STANDING here and my car has just been clamped!” Garret Keogh informs me when I ring him on Monday afternoon to chat about Decadent Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s A Skull In Connemara which comes to the Town Hall Theatre this month.

FRANK MCGUINNESS’S adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra will be staged as part of the inaugural NUI Galway Theatre Season.

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.

FOR DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn and Decadent Theatre Company, the early weeks of 2013 have brought a very happy New Year in the shape of three nominations in the coveted Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards.

THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.

THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.

ONE OF the definite highlights of the current Town Hall Theatre season is Decadent Theatre Company’s new staging of Conor McPherson’s Port Authority which starts a five-night run next week.

Next week local theatre group, Little Brother Productions will present an early play by one of Ireland’s finest playwrights, Frank McGuinness: The Factory Girls.