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ONE OF Russia’s foremost theatre companies, Theatre U Mosta, visit An Taibhdhearc this weekend to perform Nikolai Gogol’s Marriage on Saturday, and Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, on Sunday. Both performances are in Russian with English surtitles.

Acclaimed author and filmmaker Kevin Toolis will be on a speaking tour around Mayo next week.

OVER THE last 10 years, women’s poetry in the west of Ireland has re-energised itself. Taking its cue from the pioneering work of Rita Anne Higgins, Mary O’Malley, Eva Bourke, and Anne Kennedy, it seems to have matured on to another level, adding a new dimension, energy, and maturity to the female poetic voice.

With the 2018 drama festival circuit about to begin in three weeks’ time, the Athlone Committee of the RTE All Ireland Drama Festival are busy making plans for the finals, which take place at the Dean Crowe Theatre next May.

Week IV

Galway-based children’s theatre company, Branar returns to Roscommon Arts Centre to present its adaptation of How to Catch a Star on Saturday, February 17, for two captivating performances.

Some of the news in breif from around this county this week.

EMILY CULLEN is a poet, an academic, a harpist, and, in April, will preside over her first Cúirt International Festival of Literature as programme director. Cúirt has been a passion since her student days, and now in a position to run the festival, she has a vision for it that places 'diversity' at its core.

THE SEAMUS O’Kelly Players, 'An Original Script Night', featuring four new comedy plays written by members of the group, will take place in the Loughrea Library on Friday January 19 at 7.30pm.

The average price of a house in Westmeath in the final quarter of 2017 rose to €183,000 - 13 per cent higher than a year previously - according to a report published recently by property website Daft.ie.