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MARINA CARR’S powerful play The Mai is coming to the Town Hall Theatre in a new staging from Galway’s Mephisto Theatre Company which is sure to be a definite highlight of the venue’s August programme.

GALWAY-BASED theatre company Mephisto is holding auditions next week for its forthcoming summer production of The Mai by Marina Carr.

“ALL GOOD books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.”

THE FOURTH Galway Theatre Festival returns from Tuesday October 25 to Monday 31 and promises a Bank Holiday weekend of exciting new theatre shows.

NEXT WEEK sees Galway’s Mephisto Theatre Company grace the Town Hall main stage with its welcome revival of Bryan McMahon’s powerful, though seldom seen, play The Honey Spike.

THESE ARE the opening lines of Bryan McMahon’s wonderful play The Honey Spike which Mephisto Theatre Company is bringing to the Town Hall Theatre in a production featuring Galway’s finest actors and which marks the 50th anniversary of the play’s first staging at the Abbey.

THE DREAMING House, Thomas Kilroy’s play based on the life of George Moore, has only been performed once - more than 20 years ago.

AMONG THE plays featured in the upcoming Galway Theatre Festival is Tara McKevitt’s Grenades, winner of this year’s RTÉ PJ O’Connor Award, which is being staged by Mephisto Theatre Company.

THE IMPORTANCE Of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated and best loved play. Galway will get to see this classic of mistaken identity when it is staged here next week.

FOLLOWING ITS highly successful versions of The Importance of Being Earnest and The World’s Wife, Mephisto Theatre Company is to stage Tom Murphy’s The Morning After Optimism at the Black Box in August.