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LASTA is the National Arts Festival for young people, with programmes created by young curators chosen through a competitive annual open call.

Renmore Pantomime Society’s production, with a new script by Darren Shine, will run from December 29 to January 11.

A stunning production of the musical ‘Peter Pan’ is on all this week at the Town Hall theatre, Galway. After a brilliant opening night on Tuesday, the show is now selling out fast.

In December 1923, the committee of Galway Golf club, then based at Barna, decided to explore the idea of acquiring the late Col O’Hara’s estate at Blackrock and on April 24, 1924, they bought the West Lodge and the land at Pollnarooma for £4,750 plus £237 auctioneer’s fees. Messrs Tighe, Kennedy, Lenihan and Quinlan were appointed to oversee the laying out of the new course and the renovation of West Lodge which had been Col O’Hara’s house.

On this day, 50 years ago, Druid Theatre Company opened their first production, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road. The following evening they staged “It’s a two foot six inches above the Ground World” and on the third night it was “The Loves of Cass Maguire”. It was an ambitious beginning.

The award-winning, Knocknacarra-based company KATS will perform Joseph Kesselring’s 1939 hit play from Wednesday, May 21, to Friday, May 23, each night at 8pm.

Busking is the practice of performing in public places, such as on the street, for tips or gratuities or voluntary donations. It comes from the Spanish word Buscar—to seek (fame and fortune) or the Latin word Buscare – to procure, to gain. Busking could take many forms, clowning, dancing, singing, fortune telling, mime, living statue, one-man band, puppeteering, juggling, reciting poetry, even Christmas carolling. One’s ‘pitch’, where one performed, was very important. It had to be a place where there was a lot of traffic, lots of people, high visibility and little background noise.

The Town Hall Theatre revealed its headline acts for Galway’s busy spring and summer season this week.