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Ballina Film Club’s Spring Programme commences this month with a screening of the Jean Cocteau classic Orphée, on Tuesday February 10 at 8pm. A poet, novelist, painter and playwright, as well as a filmmaker, the breadth of Cocteau’s talent finds full expression in Orphée, re-imagining of the classical Greek mythological story of Orpheus.

THE TOWN Hall will shortly host what promises to be one of the year’s theatre highlights when Brian Friel’s most recent play The Home Place arrives in a major new production jointly presented by Belfast’s Lyric and Letterkenny’s An Grianan theatres.

THE PATRICK Kavanagh Poetry Award 2008 winner Geraldine Mitchell will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.

Which person do you most admire?

Athlone Film Club will screen the original Hitchcock masterpiece, The 39 Steps (1935) on Tuesday February 24 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre.

Castlerea Musical Society presents a modern twist on the classic tale of the Ugly Duckling with the musical Honk! at Roscommon Arts Centre, from Monday to Saturday February 23 to 28.

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp's Last Tape returns to the Town Hall Theatre Studio by popular demand following a sell-out run last year. The acclaimed production will be performed from Tuesday March 3 to Saturday March 7 at 8.30pm and on Friday March 6 in a special late evening performance at 10.30pm.

A LOCAL storytelling programme called The Community Storytelling Initiative is set to launch the debut performance of a new group of African storytellers next week.

A host of Easter activities are planned for Kilkenny Castle over the Easter weekend.

SLOWLY BUT surely the men and women e writings made Ireland one of the greater global cultural centres from the 1960s to the 1990s are gradually passing on.