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Galway theatregoers are set for a treat this summer when Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival present a major new revival of Bedbound by Enda Walsh, tickets for which go on sale this morning (Thursday)

Galway theatregoers are set for a treat this summer when Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival present a major new revival of Bedbound by Enda Walsh, tickets for which go on sale this morning (Thursday)

TWENTY YEARS to the day after its premiere, Enda Walsh’s iconic play Disco Pigs arrived at the Town Hall this week in a new production jointly staged by Reading Rep and Nick Thompson Productions from London. The show was helmed by Cathal Cleary, who was formerly based in Galway, and is now making his way successfully as an up and coming director in London.

WHILE NEXT week sees Druid open its 20th anniversary revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 1996 also saw the premiere of another iconic Irish play which launched a stellar writing career; Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs.

IT HAS been six years since Charlie Murphy, then fresh from the Gaiety School of Acting, first made an impact with audiences in the role of Siobhan in RTE’s Love/Hate, for which she twice won an IFTA as best actress.