Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Upper Church Theatre ‘The best way to rob a bank, is to own one’ (William Crawford, Commissioner of the California Department of Savings and Loans). Ontroerend Goed invites you to get under … Alexander Devriendt & Angelo Tijssens: £¥€$
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre Things I pretend to be interested in. Times my 8 year old self would be proud of me. Places I would hide a body. This is a show composed … Delme Thomas & Rachel Briscoe : Lists for The End of the World
Festivals Performance Theatre Venue: Demonstration Room Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Stagger me sideways! King Ubu, usurper to the throne of Baloney, carries a mop instead of a sceptre and dreams of his ‘Pâté de dog’. Meanwhile, he liquidates enemies and … Philippos Phillipou, Dylan Read & Vangelis Makriyannakis : Ubu Roi
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: King’s Hall, Main Space 30 participants are invited into an intriguing theatrical game exploring security, profiling, privacy and freedom of expression in the age of cybersurveillance. Mobile throughout the performance, the participants … Jeremy Waller, Aryo Khakpour & Milton Lim : Foreign Radical
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 7th to the 25th of August Venue: King’s Hall Backspace An interdisciplinary work from Turtle Island that takes shape around peoples and the land. Indigenous artists of Canada invite reputed artists of othered communities to collaborate in artful protest … Tara Beagan & Andy Moro : Declaration
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 3rd to the 27th of August Venue: Kings Hall, Main Space After numerous North American tours, the critically acclaimed, multi award-winning Mouthpiece makes its UK premiere. Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her … Amy Nostbakken & Norah Sadava : Mouthpiece
Theatre The piece is being co-produced by Waterford actor Andrew Holden (who also stars) in association with Central Arts. It is directed by up-and-coming Cork director Killian Collins and also stars Paula Weldon, who will be well-known to many for her … Andrew Holden : The Collector
Theatre Tuesday 9th – Friday 12th May, 8pm Solstice Arts Centre The Lion King Jr. will be St. Paul’s 5th musical production, which runs every 4 years and includes every child from 3rd – 6th class. Following 2013’s Alice in Wonderland, … Rosemary Meegan : The Lion King Jr. – St. Paul’s Primary School, Navan
Theatre 28th to 30th April Lyric Theatre, Belfast Greise Youth Theatre By Alistair McDowall performed by Greise Youth Theatre. The inmates at a bizarre summer camp are plotting a revolution. Or has it already happened…Spending a day watching their schedule of … Shannon Cash & Evan Smith : Zero for the Young Dudes
Theatre Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s Antarctic explorations as one of the few men to serve with both Scott and Shackleton and survive three famous expeditions: Discovery, (1901 – 1904); Terra Nova (1910 – 1913); and Endurance (1914 – … Aidan Dooley : Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer
Theatre Two elderly farmers, Eamon and Nashee, meet at a gate on a remote hillside. These men are old friends, old rivals, old neighbours. They are men of heart, of humour, of hardness. Their conversation is a throwback to a gentler … Des Keogh : The Quiet Land
Theatre Following the success of three major productions at Visual in 2016, Carlow Little Theatre Society return to the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in April 2017 as part of this year’s Pan Celtic Festival with Marina Carr’s provocative and bewitching play … Paul Dunne : By the Bog of Cats
Theatre Up the Hill Jackie is a new play by Áine Ryan and was performed at Central Arts on Friday 24th and 25th March – with a tour scheduled (see below) following the success of the show’s premiere at The Source … Áine Ryan : Up the Hill Jackie
Theatre Close your eyes as the inventive Carpet Theatre brings you a fascinating play in the dark, where live music, sound effects and smells swirl around you. It’s the floods of 2011. David, an old sailor with failing sight, mops a … Ciarán Taylor : The Flood
Theatre Alice is bored. Everything is school and homework and always doing what you’re told. Until she follows a White Rabbit down a hole and her whole life is quite literally turned upside down and almost inside out. Suddenly, she finds … Janice de Bróithe and Ally O’Neill : Alice in Wonderland
Theatre “He shall not hear the bittern cry In the wild sky, where he is lain” A call to arms. War Poet Francis Ledwidge (Ethan Dillon) is torn between his love for Shivvie (Katie O’Kelly), and Ellie (Amy O’Dwyer), his friend … Amy O’Dwyer : Ledwidge
Theatre ‘Pearse, Connolly, McDermott and the rest of their merry men; they died for a Republic. But we don’t live in a Republic. We live in an economy’ A wry and funny look at Irish life one hundred years after the … Jim Nolan : Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Theatre The Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise The Big Tree Players present Sive by John B Keane Since forming in 2005, The Big Tree Players have presented annual comedies locally including Cassidy’s Chair, Troubled Bachelor, That Family Feeling, Off the Hook and … Michael Lakes : Sive
Theatre Greise Youth Theatre Riverbanks Arts Centre, Newbridge 10th and 11th March 2017 By Alistair McDowall performed by Greise Youth Theatre. The inmates at a bizarre summer camp are plotting a revolution. Or has it already happened…Spending a day watching their … Stephanie Hood, Ethan Allison, Donnacha Adams and Shannon O’Doherty : Zero for the Young Dudes
Theatre Wexford man Noel has advanced MS and decides to end it all. While waiting for his overdose to take effect he records an increasingly rambling message for his best friend. Noel has apologies to make and messages to send. He … Ben Barnes : My Real Life
Theatre 20 February – 25 February 2017 The Source Arts Centre, County Tipperary Thurles Drama Group presents the wonderful human drama by Seán O’Casey to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the group. The play is set in a tenement house in … Margaret McCormack : Juno and the Paycock
Theatre An ensemble of performers with intellectual disability from St Christopher’s Services, Longford and the Visual Theatre Programme, Mermaid will devise a theatre piece with Gemma Gallagher (Shadowbox Theatre). Gemma, will guide and direct this ensemble of actors to create from … Gemma Gallagher, Evelyn Kelly and Linda McGee : Utopia
Theatre Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time. The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through … Derek Egan : The Plough and the Stars
Performance Theatre April 1616 – Shakespeare has returned to Stratford a rich and famous man but all’s not well. Why is he so unhappy? Why can’t he sleep? Why is his wife furious with him? Who is Will waiting for and why … Shakespeare, His Wife And The Dog
Performance Theatre – Venue: Demonstration Room – Category: Performance Theatre – Age Suitability: 14+ – Times: 11.30 (90 mins) – Dates: 16th – 28th August A man, deep in a coma, hides out in the bedroom of Vincent Van Gogh while his … Debs Newbold : Lost in Blue
Performance Theatre Never Mind the Noise / Haley McGee Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Category: Feature Theatre Age Suitability: 18+ Time: 16.15 (60 mins) Blending storytelling, live art and improvisation, this show is a big romantic gesture. Haley McGee : I’m Doing This for You
Performance Theatre Location: Summerhall, Old lab Times: 20:55pm Dates: 11th – 14th Dood Paard, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth MacBeth and Kurt Cobain and Lady Macbeth and Courtney Love inspire a pitch-black comedy about unbridled ambition, hunger for power … Gillis Biesheuvel Manja Topper : Macbain
Performance Theatre Venue: Rose Bruford @ Upper Church, Summerhall Age Suitability: 12+ Times: 20.15 (80 mins) Dates: 5th – 15th August Josef K. wakes up one morning, hungry and disconcerted, only to find himself arrested. He is not told why, nor by … Matt Holt : The Trial
Performance Theatre Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: 9+ Time: 11.25 (55 mins) Mikey is a sunny boy. He lives alone with his mum. Mikey’s mum has a secret. It’s not well kept. Everyone knows it. Everyone except Mikey. Addie is a … Andy Manley : Mikey and Addie
Performance Theatre Théâtre de L’Ancre Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 17.25 (75 mins) Jean-Marc Mahy entered prison at the age of seventeen. He spent nearly 20 years detained, three of them in solitary confinement. On stage with performer Stephane … Jean-Marc Mahy (with Philip Crispin) : A Man Standing
