The Galway Theatre Festival continues until Monday and there are a number of shows sure to attract sizeable attention over the weekend.With offerings from Cork, Dublin, Cavan, and Britain, as well as from nine Galway-based theatre companies, theatre fans have a multitude of options at their disposal. Across the card there is an eclectic mix with everyone sure to find something relative to their interests.
One of the highlights is Before the Devil knows you’re dead by Pat Collins and John O’Dowd at Aras Na Gael, Dominic Street on Sunday at 8pm and Monday at 1pm. In this 70 minute production, Conor McDonagh is a reporter desperate for the story that can make his name. One day at the end of October, Conor feels that his professional ambitions are answered when the ‘Sheridan Case’ lands on his desk.
The case has everything, suspicious circumstances, a well-known businessman victim, and a family with a murky history. The scene of the crime offers some clues; the local Garda sergeant sheds some light, background research and the genealogy of Sheridan family offer yet more insights. Ultimately McDonagh’s sleuthing leads him on a trail that places him at the centre of the story.
TrueWest theatre invites you to explore the crossover between this world and the next with this psychological thriller. Fear, suspense, humour and horror are the emotions that audience members are asked to invest in this wholly unique production taking place in the unusual and athmospheric setting of Aras Na Gael.
Blackheart Theatre Company presents The Women Among The Ice, debuting at the Town Hall Studio this weekend. The prize-winning Argentinian play will have its Irish premiere on Sunday with a further performance on Monday. Written by the national award-winner Agustina Muñoz, the production presents three women who have run away from their lives in a scientific base in Alaska. Reunited now in a new place, they try to remember, reconstruct, and make sense out of their experiences, questioning their loves, their lives and themselves.
For those who enjoy their food as much as their theatre, Anam Theatre present Terrifying Theatrical Tapas tomorrow night in the Blue Note from 7pm to 9pm and on Saturday from 11pm to 1am. Following on from the success and hilarity of Anam Theatre’s Literary Restaurant at the Blue Note for the closing of Cúirt, the exciting entertainment format has returned in its Hallowe’en guise as part of Galway Theatre Festival.
Theatre Lovers and Hallowe'en revellers alike can help themselves to Tapas and as part of the Festival Club there will be a sinister smorgasbord of poems and monologues brought to you by a cast of strange and scary characters. Soak in the spine-tingling atmosphere and order from a menu of selected pieces to be presented before your very eyes and ears. Admission to the venue is free and menu prices in no way prohibitive.
