Theatre reviews: Galway Arts Festival
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
The Adventures of Shay Mouse: Galway Youth Theatre and Galway Community Theatre, brings Pat McCabe’s early children’s novel to bustling stage life.
Read more ...Silent returns to Town Hall
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 13, 2013
WINNER OF the Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe and the Argus Angel at the 2012 Brighton Festival, Silent is back in Galway.
Written and performed by Pat Kinevane, directed by Jim Culleton, and staged by Fishamble: The New Play Company, Silent is at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday June 20 and Friday 21 at 8pm.
Read more ...Decadent gets its dues
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jan 24, 2013
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.
Read more ...Looking back on theatre 2012
Theatre Reviews Thu, Dec 27, 2012
As the Renmore Panto prepares to see out 2012 in its usual colourful style, for the rest of Galway’s theatre community it’s time to pack away the greasepaint, well-thumbed scripts, and assorted props and costumes, and reflect upon another year of enterprising and imaginative dramatic activity. It has been a year with some indelible highlights, both from locally-based companies and visiting ensembles, and continuing displays of commitment, energy, and imagination from the city’s smaller and emergent troupes which itself merits a standing ovation given the straitened financial circumstances under which they operate.
While there has been much to delight Galway theatre-goers over the past year, the untimely death of the Town Hall’s Mike Diskin was a great sorrow and continues to be deeply felt. As well as providing imaginative and varied programming and getting large audiences into the venue, above all else Mike hugely helped the careers of numerous emergent theatre groups and individuals through providing them with the platform, resources, guidance, and backing that enabled them to achieve the success their work merited but might not otherwise have found. The many effusive and heartfelt tributes posted on the Town Hall’s Facebook page in the immediate aftermath of Mike’s death testified to the extent of his impact and the esteem in which he was held, he will continue to be missed.
Read more ...Gun Metal Grey returns
Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 18, 2012
NEXT WEEK in the Town Hall sees the welcome return of Mick Donnellan’s Gun Metal Grey from the tireless Truman Town Theatre.
Read more ...Theatre review: Sanctuary (Blue Teapot Theatre Company)
Thu, Oct 11, 2012
THE TICKLISH subject of sexual and romantic relationships between intellectually disabled people receives a sensitive and thought-provoking treatment in Christian O’Reilly’s fine new play Sanctuary, presented by Blue Teapot Theatre Company.
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Thu, Jul 26, 2012
EDWARD HALL’S all-male Propeller theatre company have become firm Galway Arts Festival favourites in recent years and they deliver the goods yet again with Henry V at the Black Box in a staging that is brimful of verve and brio.
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Thu, Jul 19, 2012
JULIAN GOUGH’S The Great Goat Bubble first saw the light of day as an article for The Financial Times in 2003.
Read more ...Cúirt theatre reviews - Perve and Breathing Corpses
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
AS PART of the Cúirt festival, the Nuns Island Theatre is hosting a theatrical double bill featuring work from two rising stars of today’s generation of playwrights - Stacy Gregg and Laura Wade.
Read more ...Carthaginians’ ‘sense of hope and release’
Theatre Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2012
FRANK MCGUINNESS’ powerful play Carthaginians, written as an elegy for the dead of Bloody Sunday, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a new production from Derry’s Millennium Forum directed by one of Ireland’s best known actors, Adrian Dunbar.
Read more ...Theatre review: Faith Healer
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
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.
Read more ...Theatre review: The Silver Tassie
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
DRUID HAVE taken on some challenging productions in recent years, with works like the epic DruidSynge cycle and Eugene O’Neill’s searing classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
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Thu, Jul 22, 2010
UNCLE VANYA - Among the highlights of this year’s Galway Arts Festival so far was the visit of Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory with their wonderful co-production of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya.
Read more ...Festival theatre reviews
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
Penelope
From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.
Theatre review: Burn The Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
CÚIRT 2010’s event-packed programme features two plays, Burn the Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon both of which run throughout the week.
Read more ...Theatre review: The Mikado
Thu, Mar 18, 2010
THE PATRICIAN Musical Society’s production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, held last week in the Town Hall Theatre, was a feast of colour, fun, and wonderful songs.
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Thu, Jul 23, 2009
WEEK ONE of the Galway Arts Festival delivered some memorable productions from both home-based and visiting companies in plays that dealt with such diverse themes as familial neuroses, under-age sex, the Iraq war, murderous teenagers, and a property tycoon who wants to sing like Beniamino Gigli.
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Farber Foundry: Molora
SOUTH AFRICA’S Farber Foundry provided an early highlight of this year’s festival with the first-week staging of Molora, director-author Yael Farber’s adaptation of The Oresteia.
Theatre review: New Electric Ballroom (Druid Theatre Co)
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
DRUID’S EXCITING Galway Arts Festival season of Enda Walsh work got off to a compelling start on Monday with the Irish premiere of his “coiled, dark, glitter-dusted fable”, The New Electric Ballroom, which Walsh also directed.
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