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
Belfast 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
Theatre Conor is a boy on a mission. To get as far away from home as he possibly can. Part puppet show, part installation piece, part animated film, part immersive experience and part ballet, this sensory and aesthetic introduction to astrophysics … Dan Colley : Conor: At the end of the Universe
Cork Theatre Sacrifice at Easter, a new play by Pat McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, The Big Yum Yum) for 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Entitled Sacrifice at Easter, the production will take place … Mel Mercier : Sacrifice at Easter
Dance Music Theatre Eileen Gray defied expectations – from her innovative designs to her unconventional personal life she challenged what it meant to be an artist, a woman and to be Irish. Inspired by her inimitable life and work, INVITATION TO A JOURNEY … CoisCéim, Crash Ensemble, Fishamble and Galway International Arts Festival : Invitation to a Journey
Theatre The acclaimed Central Arts, ‘Open Mic takes place each month and we are delighted to see how successful they have become. Central Arts is taking submissions for acts; regulars and newbies, seasoned pros and first-timers. If you’ve been hiding your … Niamh Moroney as Lady Lane : Central Arts ‘Open Mic’
Theatre Silent is the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of … Pat Kinevane : Silent
Theatre “What do you do when you fall off the bike?” A huge slice on his stomach gave him his name. How’d it happen? He has no idea and today it’s the least of his worries. Take what you want and … Jeda De Bri : Slice the Thief
Theatre A Moon for the Misbegotten is written by four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, this production features an international creative team and is directed by Theatre Royal Artistic Director and Former Artistic Director of the Abbey … Ben Barnes : A Moon for the Misbegotten
Theatre Garter Lane Arts Centre till 26th March Coming hot on the heels of Dreamland, and directed by the author, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is a topical and provocative contribution to the forthcoming Easter Rising Centenary Commemoration. Set in a … Jim Nolan : Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Festivals Theatre Waterford An introduction to the this year’s Spraoi in Waterford in July. Spraoi : Waterford July 2016
Cork Theatre At the Everyman Theatre till 20th February Meet the Boyles: a hilarious, drunken father; a ferociously loyal mother; a wounded son; and a daughter with “notions”. Theirs is a family beset by poverty and war but offered the tantalising promise … Julie Kelleher : Juno and the Paycock, Everyman Theatre, Cork
Dublin Theatre Creditors at The New Theatre, Dublin by August Strindberg in a version by David Greig C Company Jan 25th – Feb 6th Opens 26 Jan, Previews 25 Jan (Matinees Jan 30 & Feb 3) @ 7.30pm ( + @ 2.30pm … Aoife Spillane-Hinks and The Cast : Creditors
Dublin Theatre The Gate Theatre in Dublin is seeped in history and strongly associated with the likes of Beckett Pinter and Oscar Wilde. We interview the Director of the Gate Theatre Michael Colgan and talk to others with an intimate knowledge and experience of … The Gate Theatre Dublin
Theatre Arthur Miller was a giant of 20th century American theatre. With a writing career that spanned over 50 years, he will be best remembered for the classics Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons and A View from … Arthur Miller : A View From The Bridge
