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Clann Machua Drama Group, Kiltimagh, are delighted to return to the stage with their production of Sive - which is their Festival production for 2022 - and will stage the play on Friday and Saturday February 25 and 26 in the Townhall Theatre with curtain up nightly at 8pm.

By kind permission of the Drama League of Ireland, Parke Drama Group is delighted to perform The Year of The Hiker in Parke Community Hall on Friday, January 17 and Saturday, January 18 at 8pm each evening.

THE MATCHMAKER based on the novella “Letters of a County Matchmaker” by JOHN B. KEANE, one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, returns to the Town Hall Theatre, Westport on Saturday, October 6th at 8pm.

PETER MANDLESON’S autobiography includes a photograph of him relaxing at Mick Jagger’s house. It is hard to imagine former Galway West Fine Gael TD Padraic McCormack ever wanting to hang around with rock stars. Instead McCormack has a genuine interest in the eccentricities that make otherwise unremarkable people, in unremarkable places, far more interesting than anyone photographed with the late Princess Margaret.

One of Ireland's greatest comic talents, Jon Kenny, joins legendary Irish actor, Mary McEvoy, in a revival of Michael Scott's iconic production of The Matchmaker, which is coming to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Saturday October 11.

Des Keogh, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, will tour with his hugely successful and award-winning show The Love Hungry Farmer by John B Keane in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone on Friday April 25.

ONE OF Ireland’s greatest comic talents, Jon Kenny, joins much-loved Irish actor Mary McEvoy in a new revival of Michael Scott’s iconic production of John B Keane’s The Matchmaker which comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

The reinvigorated Island Drama Group brings its version of The Year of the Hiker to Halla Acla at the Fairgreen, Achill Sound on Saturday February 2. The Year of the Hiker is a demanding three-act play by John B Keane. Under the direction of JJ McNamara the complex drama deals with lots of human emotions, always acknowledging Keane’s humour even in the darkest situations. The Island Drama Group portrays all the complexities of the play in a high quality performance.

Steeped in classic John B Keane humour, Many Young Men of Twenty is considered by many to be one of Keane’s finest, and while it deals with the dark topics of poverty, love, and emigration in Ireland in the sixties, all of which have a particular resonance in today’s climate, the play is also raucously funny.