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.

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.

Theatre review: Ballyturk

Theatre Reviews Tue, Jul 15, 2014

“BEAUTIFUL, HILARIOUS, dark as death.” So tweeted actress Olwen Fouéré after seeing the opening of Enda Walsh’s new play Ballyturk, which got the Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying start at the Black Box yesterday evening.

Theatre review: Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 19, 2014

WHILE DUBLINERS were observing Bloomsday by donning Edwardian costumes and retracing Leopold Bloom’s feted journey around the capital, in Galway the day saw the opening of Ann Marie Horan’s very enjoyable one-woman play Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce.

Flying to the moon with Marie Jones

Theatre Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2013

TOWN HALL Theatre audiences should be in for a treat next week when Marie Jones’s most recent play, Fly Me To The Moon, arrives for a four night run at the venue.

Silent returns to Town Hall

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 13, 2013

WINNER OF the Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe and the Argus Angel at the 2012 Brighton Festival, Silent is back in Galway.

Decadent gets its dues

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jan 24, 2013

FOR DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn and Decadent Theatre Company, the early weeks of 2013 have brought a very happy New Year in the shape of three nominations in the coveted Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards.

Looking back on theatre 2012

Theatre Reviews Thu, Dec 27, 2012

As the Renmore Panto prepares to see out 2012 in its usual colourful style, for the rest of Galway’s theatre community it’s time to pack away the greasepaint, well-thumbed scripts, and assorted props and costumes, and reflect upon another year of enterprising and imaginative dramatic activity. It has been a year with some indelible highlights, both from locally-based companies and visiting ensembles, and continuing displays of commitment, energy, and imagination from the city’s smaller and emergent troupes which itself merits a standing ovation given the straitened financial circumstances under which they operate.

While there has been much to delight Galway theatre-goers over the past year, the untimely death of the Town Hall’s Mike Diskin was a great sorrow and continues to be deeply felt. As well as providing imaginative and varied programming and getting large audiences into the venue, above all else Mike hugely helped the careers of numerous emergent theatre groups and individuals through providing them with the platform, resources, guidance, and backing that enabled them to achieve the success their work merited but might not otherwise have found. The many effusive and heartfelt tributes posted on the Town Hall’s Facebook page in the immediate aftermath of Mike’s death testified to the extent of his impact and the esteem in which he was held, he will continue to be missed.

Gun Metal Grey returns

Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 18, 2012

NEXT WEEK in the Town Hall sees the welcome return of Mick Donnellan’s Gun Metal Grey from the tireless Truman Town Theatre.

Carthaginians’ ‘sense of hope and release’

Theatre Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2012

FRANK MCGUINNESS’ powerful play Carthaginians, written as an elegy for the dead of Bloody Sunday, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a new production from Derry’s Millennium Forum directed by one of Ireland’s best known actors, Adrian Dunbar.

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