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WHEN THE house you are building is falling down around your ears, when all you have worked for is taken away, what will run out first: your money or your wife? Arthur’s Dig is a 21st century drama, exploring the blurred lines that define what it is to be a man in contemporary Ireland.

This year’s Galway Arts festival succeeds yet again in giving some insight into the minds of remarkable artists whose personal magic interprets our world. These include international journalists Niall O’Dowd, John Lancaster, several writers including Bret Easton Ellis, and the renowned theatre and opera director Sir Peter Hall. On Saturday afternoon, the playwright and poet Frank McGuinness teased out some paths through the labyrinthine mind of Ireland’s leading painter Brian Bourke.

Druid’s production of Enda Walsh’s Penelope, the sell out hit of this year’s Galway Arts Festival, is set to be staged in New York and London in the coming months.

The Galway Arts Festival has introduced a new Group Sales initiative of special ticket options, offers, and hospitality packages aimed at audiences of all ages and interests.

Ireland’s leading arts event, the Galway Arts Festival, is set to provide an internationally acclaimed line-up of music, dance, theatre, comedy, street events and art from July 12 to 25.

SINCE THEIR formation in the mid-1990s, Edward Hall’s all-male Propeller Theatre ensemble have been internationally feted as one of Britain’s most exciting theatre companies. Their appearance at the Galway Arts Festival with the ‘Bardic Brace’ of Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream ranks high on the list of ‘must-see’ events in this year’s programme.