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Twenty-eight artists and arts organisations in Galway are set to receive a total of €2,285,491 in funding from the 2026 Arts Grant Funding Scheme facilitated by The Arts Council.

‘Dathanna Geala Amháin/Bright Colours Only’ is a wickedly funny one-woman show, resurrected for the first time for the Galway Theatre Festival. The legendary Irish wake show has toured from Belfast to Brazil in a hearse, and An Taibhdhearc presents the premiere of its translation into Irish. Enjoy a drop of the hard stuff and join in on this heartwarming journey to the edge of oblivion. This show is only suitable for those dying to live.

Full disclosure: I am an admirer of Seamus O’Rourke’s work. I have been fortunate enough to see most of his plays, all of which I enjoyed immensely. Saying that, one would not describe them all as masterpieces.

Written and directed by Aisling Smith, and performed by Laura Whelan, OCD Me is a one-woman play about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

AN IRISH community and its culture are under siege. Ancient traditions and customs are dying out. The public act of keening is disappearing, and edicts for new ways of doing things are being handed down.

Fregoli Theatre Company in association with Roscommon Arts Centre, present 'Cross Street' by Jarlath Tivan, at the popular venue from Thursday, November 25 to Saturday, November 27.

FROM FRIDAY, on screens in living rooms, home offices, and bedrooms around the country, the Galway Theatre Festival will be streaming, offering a feast of live theatre, works-in-progress, workshops, and talks.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

HOW THEATRE and performance is made, presented, and experienced has changed dramatically over the past 12 months, and the 2021 Galway Theatre Festival will explore this new relationship with creativity and space.

A WEEKEND of theatre from Galway will close out the month of November. InterAction 2.0 will feature visual, online theatre shows where the focus will be on the immersive, the challenging, and the imaginative.