Theatre review: Defender Of The Faith

Theatre Reviews Wed, Oct 08, 2014

DECADENT THEATRE Company could hardly have timed its new staging of Stuart Carolan’s Defender Of The Faith any better, with its opening coming the night after the premiere of the latest series of Love/Hate, the TV show which Carolan created.

The Gombeens - reliving stories of ‘Little Brazil’

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FOR A number of years Gort in south Galway, was known as ‘Little Brazil’ due to the numbers of Brazilians who were living there - and their stories are set to be retold in Stories Of A Yellow Town.

Auditions for Anything Goes

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

GALWAY MUSICAL Society celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015 and will mark this milestone with a production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.

Othello and An Triail for schools

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGIC drama of jealousy, racism, and betrayal, Othello, and the Máiréad Ní Ghráda’s An Triail are to be staged by Fíbín Theatre Company.

Human rights activist to give theatre workshop

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

HUMAN RIGHTS activist Sanjoy Ganguly is coming to Galway to conduct a scripting workshop, organised by ALâ Theatre, from Friday October 17 to 19 in the Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Árus De Brun, NewtownsmitH.

Auditions for Renmore Panto

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

AUDITIONS ARE taking place for Renmore’s 36th annual pantomime, which this year will be the all-time favourite Cinderella.

What happened to Bridgie Cleary?

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

ONE OF the most notorious crimes in Irish history was the burning to death of Bridget Cleary in 1895 in Tipperary, by her husband Michael.

Marie Mullen to open this year’s Autumn Gathering

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

ONE OF Ireland’s best known actors, and co-founder of the famous Druid Theatre, Marie Mullen, will officially open the 20th Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering in Gort on Friday week September 29.

Baboró - a world of pure imagination

Thu, Sep 11, 2014

FLYING COWS, spiralling elves, a boy made of cheese, a singing monkey, spicy feet, and the most spectacular inflatable space imaginable - it’s all at the children’s arts festival, Baboró.

Galway Arts Festival production heads 'down under'

Mon, Sep 08, 2014

RIVERRUN, ONE of the most acclaimed and successful Galway International Arts Festival shows of recent times, is to be performed in Sydney, Australia, next year.

Wilde, Salome, and the ‘homosexual conspiracy’

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

SALOME HAS always attracted controversy, being banned in England in the decadent 1890s and whipping up a storm of controversy about ‘lesbian performances’ during WWI.

The Way Back Home to hit the stage for Baboró

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

THE WAY Back Home, a theatrical adaptation of the hugely successful book by the multi award-winning Oliver Jeffers, is set to be one of the highlights of this year’s Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

Chekhov and the Big Play workshop

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

A WEEKEND course in the Chekhov technique will take place in the Blue Teapot Theatre, Munster Avenue, from October 3 to 5.

Galway run for Love/Hate creator's play

Wed, Sep 03, 2014

LOVE/HATE creator/writer Stuart Carolan's debut play, Defender Of The Faith, is to be staged in Galway next month, starring Diarmuid De Faoite and directed by Andrew Flynn.

‘It’s the culmination of everything I have ever done’

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

AN ELDERLY woman, rapidly going senile, lies bedridden, where, to the distress of her daughters, she persists in telling and re-telling a strange story, yet never comes close to finishing it.

Review of Forgotten Me at the Town Hall

Theatre Reviews Thu, Aug 28, 2014

CURRENTLY RUNNING at the Town Hall studio is Cathal Leonard’s debut play Forgotten Me, a two-hander performed by himself and Gerry Howard and directed by Danielle Destephano.

New York show comes ‘home’ to Headford for Irish premier

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

Award-winning New York show The Bark and the Tree will receive its Irish premier in Headford on Saturday September 6 at 9pm.

Frost, Nixon square off again in Town Hall

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

Eight years after Peter Morgan's play Frost Nixon opened in London, next week Irish theatregoers will have their first chance to see one of the great dramatic pieces of the last decade when Cairde Mol brings the play to the Town Hall.

Emigrant tales in Cathal Leonard’s Forgotten Me

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

The milieu of the London Irish and changing face of the emigrant experience form the backdrop to Forgotten Me, a new play by Cathal Leonard which runs at the Town Hall studio next week.

Olwen Fouéré wins major award at Edinburgh Fringe for riverrun

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

West of Ireland artist Olwen Fouéré, star of the play riverrun, has been awarded The Herald Archangel Award, one of the most prestigious awards of the Edinburgh Festivals.

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