Programme of Events January - March 2020 2 3 JANUARY - MARCH 2020 PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE THT Town Hall Theatre · BB Black Box Theatre · STUDIO Town Hall Studio Please note Management reserve the right to make essential changes to the programme. MONTH DATE EVENT NAME TIME VENUE EVENT TYPE PAGE MONTH DATE EVENT NAME TIME VENUE EVENT TYPE PAGE DECEMBER SUN 29-SUN 12 JAN RENMORE PANTOMIME-ALADDIN VARIOUS THT FAMILY 6 WED 19 ABSOLOUTE LEGENDS-LORDS OF STRUT VARIOUS THT COMEDY/DANCE 21 THU 20 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 JANUARY FRI 3-SAT 4 INSANITY-KEITH BARRY 8PM BB PSYCHIC 7 THU 20 ALCHEMY-GEARÓID FARRELLY 8.30PM STUDIO COMEDY 21 SAT 4-FRI 31 ALONE IN A CROWD-GLENN GIBSON THT FOYER EXHIBITION 34 FRI 21-SAT 22 FLASH HARRY-A TRIBUTE TO QUEEN 8PM THT MUSIC 24 FRI 10-WED 12 FEB LANDSCAPES-E.M. KEANE THT BAR EXHIBITION 34 SAT 22-SAT 7 MAR THE CHERRY ORCHARD-DRUID VARIOUS BB THEATRE 22-23 MON 13 IRENE’S GHOST-FIRST FORTNIGHT/IFI NATIONAL 8PM THT FILM 7 SUN 23 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS-MARK BEAUMONT 8PM THT TALK 24 WED 15 REELING IN THE SHOWBAND YEARS 8PM THT MUSIC 7 MON 24 TINTOWN-BLUE RAINCOAT 8PM THT THEATRE 24 THU 16 END OF WATCH-NEIL DELAMERE 8PM THT COMEDY 8 MON 24 THEATRE ROOM 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 25 FRI 17 RICHARD WIGMORE TALK-MUSIC FOR GALWAY MIDWINTER FESTIVAL 4PM THT TALK 11 TUE 25-WED 26 COIRM GAEL LINN 10AM-4PM THT VARIETY 25 FRI 17 BEETHOVEN QUARTETS AND SEPTET-MUSIC FOR GALWAY MIDWINTER FESTIVAL 8PM THT MUSIC 11 THU 27 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 SAT 18 RICHARD WIGMORE TALK-MUSIC FOR GALWAY MIDWINTER FESTIVAL 7PM THT TALK 11 THU 27 JULIE REALLY LOVE ME?-JULIE JAY 8.30PM STUDIO COMEDY 25 SAT 18 BEETHOVEN VARIATIONS-MUSIC FOR GALWAY MIDWINTER FESTIVAL 8PM THT MUSIC 11 FRI 28 DEREK RYAN 8PM THT MUSIC 25 SUN 19 BEETHOVEN VARIATIONS & SONATAS-MUSIC FOR GALWAY MIDWINTER FESTIVAL 3PM THT MUSIC 11 SAT 29 MARY COUGHLAN 8PM THT MUSIC 26 SAT 18 OWEN COLGAN 8PM BB COMEDY 8 WED 22 THE BLINDBOY PODCAST 8PM THT TALK 8 MARCH TUE 3 HANSEL & GRETEL-INO 8PM THT OPERA 26 THU 23 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 WED 4 QUEEN OF TECHNICOLOUR-THE STORY OF MAUREEN O’HARA 8PM THT THEATRE 27 THU 23 JOHNNY McEVOY 8PM THT MUSIC 9 THU 5 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 FRI 24-SUN 26 SUBTITLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL VARIOUS THT FILM 12-14 THU 5 AIDAN GREENE 8.30PM STUDIO COMEDY 27 TUE 28 A NEW BEGINNING-GEORGE MURPHY & THE RISING SONS 8PM THT MUSIC 15 FRI 6 FARMER MICHAEL AND KATHLEEN 8PM THT COMEDY 27 WED 29 HOLY SHOW 8PM THT THEATRE 15 FRI 6-WED 8 APRIL SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES-ART IN MIND COLLECTIVE THT BAR EXHIBITION 34 THU 30 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 SAT 7 SLEEPING BEAUTY-ROYAL MOSCOW BALLET VARIOUS THT BALLET 28 THU 30 JUDY COLLINS 8PM THT MUSIC 15 SAT 7-SAT 28 SRUTH NA TEANGA-BRANAR VARIOUS GALWAY AIRPORT FAMILY 28 THU 30-FRI 31 THE PROSECCO EXPRESS-JOANNE McNALLY 8.30PM STUDIO COMEDY 16 TUE 10-SUN 15 9-5 THE MUSICAL-TWIN PRODUCTIONS VARIOUS THT MUSICAL 29 FRI 31 THE MATCHMAKER 8PM THT THEATRE 16 THU 12 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 THU 12 FRESH FILM FESTIVAL 10.15AM THT FILM 30 FEBRUARY SAT 1 THE FUREYS 8PM THT MUSIC 16 WED 18 THE MAI-DECADENT THEATRE 8PM THT THEATRE 30 SUN 2 BOSCO-PAULA LAMBERT PUPPET THEATRE VARIOUS THT FAMILY 16 THU 19 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 MON 3-THU 6 MY FATHER, MY SON-ULTAN MACKEN 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 17 THU 19 - SAT 21 3 HAIL MARYS 8PM THT THEATRE 30 TUE 4 A VIENESSE STRAUSS GALA 8PM THT MUSIC 17 THU 19 - SAT 21 SEMINAR-SAMEPAGE THEATRE 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 31 TUE 4-SAT 9 KIPPS-GALWAY UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY 8PM BB MUSICAL 17 MON 23-TUE 24 CYCLONE REP VARIOUS THT SCHOOLS 31 WED 5 THE MAN IN THE WOMAN’S SHOES-MIKEL MURFI 8PM THT THEATRE 18 TUE 24 WILDERLAND FILM FESTIVAL 8PM THT FILM 31 THU 6 I HEAR YOU AND REJOICE-MIKEL MURFI 8PM THT THEATRE 18 WED 25 THE LOST BROTHERS 8PM THT MUSIC 31 THU 6 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 THU 26 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 FRI 7 PATRICK FEENEY IN CONCERT 8PM THT MUSIC 18 THU 26 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL COUNTRY MUSIC 8PM THT MUSIC 32 FRI 7-SAT 8 PURE GRÁ-TONY CANTWELL 8.30PM STUDIO COMEDY 19 THU 26 CHRISTY DOESN’T LIVE HERE-CHRIS KENT 8.30PM STUDIO COMEDY 32 TUE 11-WED 12 OFF THE TELLY-JACK DEE 8PM THT THEATRE 19 FRI 27 DON BAKER 8PM THT MUSIC 32 WED 12-SAT 15 DO FISH SLEEP-BELUGA THEATRE 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 19 SAT 28 JOE DALY’S CHILDREN’S MAGIC AND ILLUSION SHOW 2PM THT CHILDREN 33 THU 13 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 SAT 28 KEVIN BLOODY WILSON 8PM THT COMEDY 32 FRI 14-WED 4 MAR LETTERS, JOYCE AND NORA-GROUP EXHIBITION THT BAR EXHIBITION 34 SUN 29 MUSIC MATTERS 3PM BB MUSIC 33 FRI 14 WRECKED BUT READY-JASON BYRNE 8PM THT COMEDY 20 MON 30-TUE 31 PEPPA PIG-BEST DAY EVER VARIOUS BB FAMILY 33 SAT 15 DIRTY DUSTING 8PM THT COMEDY 19 SUN 16 SONGS YOU LOVE-FINBAR WRIGHT 8PM THT MUSIC 20 APRIL WED 1 PSYCHIC SALLY 8PM THT PSYCHIC 34 TUE 18 STATE OF EXCEPTIION-CATHERINE YOUNG DANCE 8PM THT DANCE 20 THU 2 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 TUE 18 10 DARK SECRETS OF 1798 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 21 FRI 3-SAT 4 BILLY MCGRATH 8.30PM STUDIO COMEDY 34 THU 16 NUIG LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO TALK 9 4 5 The Town Hall Theatre incorporates the 400-seat main auditorium and the 52-seat Studio at Courthouse Square where our box office is also located, and the multi-purpose Black Box Theatre on nearby Dyke Rd with capacity for up to 550 TOWN HALL THEATRE - SEATING seated and 800 standing. 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6 7 Sun 29 December 2019 – Sun 12 January 2020 Keith Barry 7.30pm INSANITY Dec 29, 30, Jan 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 2.30pm Dec 29, 30, 31, Jan 1, 4, 11 Fri 3 & Sat 4 January 8pm Tickets €31* 12pm** & 4.30pm Jan 5, 12 Keith Barry, the world’s leading TV hypnotist, mentalist, brain hacker and internationally acclaimed Mind Magi- **Sensory Friendly Performance cian is bringing Insanity, his most daring and audacious Sun 5 Jan 12pm** show to date, to Galway. Tickets €18*/€16* Featuring crazy and insane mind-reading, escapology and magic experiments designed to shock, amuse and Renmore’s 41st annual pantomime promises to be a amaze, blurring the lines between sanity and insanity. spectacular adventure of laughter, music and song. Insanity will push boundaries, and astonish even the most sceptical audience members. REELING IN THE Featuring a host of Galway performers, electrifying dance routines and of course the charming little SHOWBAND YEARS Renmore Smurfs, who bring their unique sparkle to this seasonal feast of family entertainment! First Fortnight in partnership Mon 13 January 8pm Wed 15 January 8pm Tickets €10*/€8* € Panto Dame, Peter Kennedy, brings new life to the with IFI National presents Tickets 30* Rating PG traditional tale of Aladdin with his original script. With all IRENE’S GHOST the magic of the Genie of the Lamp and the Slave of the Due to phenomenal public demand, they’re back! Ring, this popular Pantomime tale of Aladdin is packed With RTÉ’s Ronan Collins as host and compere full of familiar characters, lots of comedy, popular songs Irene’s Ghost follows a son’s search to find out about the mother he and featuring Red Hurley, Linda Martin, Shaun and dances, and a few twists to the storyline that see never knew. Iain was 3 when his mother Irene died. His Dad never spoke O’Dowd, Keith and Lorraine McDonald, The the action flying from the Market Place of Abu Dabbu Do, about it, and the family silence around Irene meant that she was alive Conquerors and Ireland’s irrepressible Eurovision to the pyramids of Egypt. only in Iain’s imagination. Later in life, the birth of his own child inspires stars Tommy and Jimmy Swarbrigg, Reeling in a journey to discover the truth about Irene, piecing together fragments Will Aladdin win his Princess Jasmine? Will wicked the Showband Years returns for an incredible of the past to uncover a long held family secret. Irene’s Ghost explores Abanazar meet his Mummy? Will Widow Twankey’s record breaking 11th consecutive year! Bringing memory and mental health to movingly rebuild a lost life. Chinese Laundry be a complete wash-out? You'll just you back in time to this magical musical period. have to come along and find out for yourselves. First Fortnight is a charity that challenges mental health prejudice * All Tickets are subject to THT through arts and cultural action. This film screening is part of the annual Booking & Development Fee More details on www.renmorepantomime.com €1/Ticket First Fortnight Festival. 8 9

HHHHH Tom Kelly Promotions Thurs 23 Jan G is for gold, G is for Galway - the story of ancient goldwork in Galway “You’ll be hard pressed to find a Speaker: Prof. Mary Cahill more gifted comic at the Fringe” AN EVENING WITH THE SCOTSMAN Thurs 30 Jan Bog-deal, in Irish giúis: what is it? what does it tell us about JOHNNY McEVOY past environments? HHHHH Natural and Speaker: Prof. Michael O’Connell “One lean, mean, comedy, killing Thurs 23 January 8pm Human Heritages Tickets €30* Thurs 6 Feb The Dillon Family of Ahascragh, County Galway: Irish Identities and machine” SPRING the Clonbrock Photographic Collection (1860s-1930s) THE HERALD Johnny McEvoy has been one of the most enduring LUNCHTIME Speaker: Úna Kavangah and talented singer/songwriters in these islands over Thurs 13 Feb Back to the future: Renaissance Galway in the mid-seventeenth century NEIL DELAMERE the past 50 years. His songs are haunting, evocative LECTURE Speaker: Paul Walsh and beautifully presented with many in the folk and SERIES END OF WATCH In association with AMA Music Agency ballad style. Thurs 20 Feb Landscape and environmental history of Galway: prehistoric woodlands 2020 to Medieval city Thurs 16 January 8pm BLINDBOY LIVE This nostalgic evening of song and story features Speaker: Dr. Karen Molloy Tickets €24* all of Johnny's many hit songs including Muirsin PODCAST SHOW Durkan, Boston Burglar, Those Brown Eyes, Long Thurs 27 Feb Genealogies of Irish dance in Galway, 1922 to 1992 Fresh from a sell-out tour, star of BBC’s the Long Before Your Time plus some songs from his Speaker: Dr. Méabh Ní Fhuartháin Blame Game, Fighting Talk and the Newsquiz Wed 22 January 8pm new album. The Perfect Christmas Gift. This a full Thursdays Neil Delamere is back with a brand new show. Tickets €25* evening with Johnny McEvoy - no support act. Thurs 5 Mar Archives, a valuable cultural resource 1.10pm - 1.50pm Speaker: Patria McWalter Time waits for no man, especially one trying to Blindboy Boatclub invites you to a live edition of The Admission Free buy a watch. Things always get complicated. Blindboy Podcast. Blindboy’s increased notability Ticket required Thurs 12 Mar Shaped by shock: How abrupt climate change helped mould away from his band The Rubberbandits has allowed Galway's landscapes for him to explore wider avenues and create mind- Speaker: Dr. Gordon altering brainchildren which can only be described as The School of Geography, Archaeology & Irish Thurs 19 Mar Speculative Imaginaries: Rethinking our relationship to the natural world courageous, yet bonkers. With the number-one selling Speaker: Dr. Nessa Cronin Róisín Dubh Comedy book under his belt and a podcast that has reached Studies, NUI Galway over one million listeners in Ireland and internationally, continues its successful Thurs 26 Mar Some student days from UCG, 1920 OWEN COLGAN the satirist could single-handedly change the run of public lectures Speaker: Patrick Larkin conversation around mental health and the stigma exploring the relationship that surrounds it. His latest innovative creation – The between Archaeology, Thurs 2 Apr Do we worry about climate change? Understanding climate change Sat 18 January 8pm Blindboy Podcast – does not only tackle mental health Geography, Irish Studies perceptions in the North West region of Ireland Speaker: Axel Leahy Tickets €19* issues but reaches further into a wide spectrum of and the natural world.

current topics, be it gun laws, feminism, racism or a bit Thurs 16 Apr From Medieval Galway map to 3D model - a window into the past of history. Blindboy has it covered. * All Tickets are subject to THT Booking Speakers: Gavin Duffy & Eithne Verling & Development Fee €1/Ticket 10 11 ConTempo Quartet in partnership with the Galway Music Residency 17-19 January 2020 Alina Ibragimova violin | Cédric Tiberghien piano | Aisling Casey oboe Town Hall Theatre John Finucane clarinet | Amy Harman bassoon | Hervé Joulain horn Dominic Dudley double bass | Richard Wigmore musicologist

Richard Wigmore talk: Friday 4.00pm – 5.00pm Wooing the elite: Beethoven’s conquest of Vienna ADMISSION IS FREE

ConTempo Quartet and friends Friday 8.00pm – 10.00pm String Quartet Op. 18 no. 5 (1798-1800) | String Quartet Op. 18 no. 6 (1798-1800) | Tickets: €25*/€22.50* / MfG Friends €21* Septet Op. 20 (1799-1800) Unwaged & Students (full-time) €12.50*

Richard Wigmore pre-concert talk: Saturday 7.00pm – 7.45pm ‘I will strike out on a new path’: entering Beethoven’s heroic decade ADMISSION IS FREE

Music for Galway & Galway 2020 present Cédric Tiberghien piano and friends Saturday 8.00pm – 10.00pm 12 Variations on “Minuet à la Vigano” by Haibel WoO 68 (1795) | Quintet with winds Tickets: €25*/€22.50* / MfG Friends €21* Midwinter Festival: Op. 16 (1796) | Variations in F major Op. 34 (1802) | Eroica Variations Op. 35 (1802) Unwaged & Students (full-time) €12.50*

Celebrity Concert: Alina Ibramigova violin | Cédric Tiberghien piano Sunday 3.00pm – 5.00pm Variations on „Se vuol ballare“ WoO 40 (1792-93) Violin Sonata No. 2 Op. 12 no. Tickets: €30*/€27* / MfG Friends €26* 2 (1797-98) | Violin Sonata No. 3 Op. 12 no. 3 (1798) | Violin Sonata No. 9 Op. 47 Unwaged & Students (full-time) €15* Beethoven ‘Kreutzer’ (1804)

Sponsored by MJ Conroy & NUI Galway Booking: 091 569777 | In person: Town Hall Theatre | *All Tickets Subject to THT Booking Online: www.musicforgalway.ie & Development Fee of €1/ticket

MfG_MWF_THT2.indd 1 25/11/2019 10:52 12 13 Fri 24 - Sun 26 January Tickets 1pm-5.30pm €9*/€8*, 5.30pm onwards €10*/€9* Festival Pass (access all 10 films) €65*, Festival 5 – see 5 films for €35* IN CONJUNCTION WITH TOWN HALL THEATRE, SUBTITLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL IS DELIGHTED TO RETURN TO GALWAY TO PRESENT SOME OF ITS MOST POPULAR TITLES FOR A WEEKEND BEST OF! COME AND SEE POPULAR, ACCESSIBLE COMEDIES, THRILLERS AND DRAMAS, FOR A MAGICAL WEEKEND OF CINEMA.

SATURDAY 25 JANUARY 3.15PM, €9*/€8* SATURDAY 25 JANUARY 6PM, €10*/€9* SATURDAY 25 JANUARY 8.30PM, €10*/€9* SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 1PM, €9*/€8* AND THEN AURORA LA BELLE ÉPOQUE CUSTODY FINLAND | COMEDY/DRAMA | 2019 | 106 MINS FRANCE | COMEDY/DRAMA | 2019 | 115 MINS FRANCE | DRAMA | 2017 | 93 MINS | FRENCH WE DANCED | FINNISH/PERSIAN | FRENCH Director: Xavier Legrand GEORGIA | DRAMA/ROMANCE | 2019 | 106 MINS Director: Miia Tervo Director: Nicolas Bedos | GEORGIAN Cast: Denis Ménochet | Léa Drucker | Cast: Mimosa Willamo | Amir Escandari Cast: Daniel Auteuil | Doria Tillier | Director: Levan Akin Thomas Gioria | Oona Airola Guillaume Canet FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 6PM, €10*/€9* FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 8PM, €10*/€9* SATURDAY 25 JANUARY 1PM, €9*/€8* Cast: Levan Gelbakhiani | Bachi Valishvili | Besson, Miriam’s divorced husband, Ana Javakishvili Entered as Best Foreign Film, This is a fantastic French comedy drama. is a nice man. In charge of security in OUR STRUGGLES PAPICHA ONE LAST DEAL 2020 Academy Awards. One night, Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees a hospital, he is esteemed both by his FRANCE | DRAMA | 2018 | 98 MINS | FRENCH FRANCE/ALGERIA | DRAMA | 2019 | 106 MINS | FRENCH/ARABIC FINLAND | DRAMA | 2018 | 95 MINS | FINNISH/SWEDISH Entered as Best Foreign Film, 2020 commitment-phobic party animal, his life turned upside down on the day Director: Guillaume Senez Director: Mounia Meddour Director: Klaus Härö Academy Awards. Merab has been superiors and his fellow colleagues. Aurora, meets Darian at a hot-dog stand when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, Cast: Romain Duris | Laetitia Dosch | Lucie Debay Cast: Lyna Khoudri | Shirine Boutella | Yasin Houicha Cast: Heikki Nousiainen | Amos Brotherus | Pirjo Lonka training from a young age at the National Moreover he is a good father who, in Finnish Lapland. Darian – Iranian – offers him a new kind of attraction: Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner willing to be closer to his eleven-year-old needs to marry a Finnish woman to gain mixing theatrical artifices and historical Olivier does the best he can to fight injustice at work. Entered as Best Foreign Film, 2020 Academy Awards. An elderly art dealer Olavi, is about to retire. A man Mary. His world turns upside down when son Julien, has chosen to be transferred asylum; and while Aurora dismisses his reconstruction, this company offers his But from one day to the next, when his wife Laura This debut feature from Mounia Meddour is one of the who has always put business and art before everything the carefree Irakli arrives and becomes to the town where the boy lives with his propositions of , she softens clients a chance to dive back into the era abandons the family home, he is left alone to juggle few films that got tongues wagging at the Cannes Film - even his family - cannot imagine life without work. both his strongest rival and desire. This mother and his older sister Joséphine, with the presence of his daughter and of their choice. Victor then choses to between the children’s needs, life’s daily challenges Festival 2019 and we are thrilled to present it at Subtitle. At an auction, an old painting catches his attention. film, premiering at this year’s Cannes Film soon to be of age. That is the very agrees to help. As Aurora introduces relive the most memorable week of his and his job. Faced with these new responsibilities, Papicha (which means ‘beautiful girl’) is set during Olavi suspects it is worth much more than its starting Festival, has taken a number of festivals reason why Antoine, the caring father, is numerous women to Darian, the two of life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he he struggles to find a balance. Because Laura’s not the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s, also referred to as price, which is low because its authenticity hasn’t been by storm, winning the Grand Jury Prize at asking for joint custody of Julien. Well, them grow closer to set off a feel-good, met his great love. A knock- out cast coming back. This is a superbly crafted and provocative the ‘Black Decade’. It tells the story of a free-spirited, confirmed. Olavi’s instincts kick in. He decides to make the Odessa Film Festival and it features all that would be fine provided Antoine starkly- contrasted romance about two headed by Daniel Auteuil with Fanny film which skilfully approaches the nature of absence: fashion-loving young student, Nedjma, whose freedom one last deal in order to earn some proper pension a superb, breakout performance from actually was the man he claims to be. people at their ends of life, looking for a Ardant and a charismatic, eye-catching how do you talk about desertion, without condemning is increasingly curbed by sinister conservative forces, money. To fulfil his dream, the old dealer must face Georgian actor Lev Gelbakhiani. Definitely The trouble is that his wife and his two new beginning. When the perfect performnce from Doria Tillier. This is the the deserter? The pictures is held together by a until there is nothing else to do but either rebel or leave both the auction house and his own past mistakes. one not to miss. children see him in a very different light. fantastic acting ensemble with an astonishing central — the kind of stark choice which resonates as much Heikki Nousiainen gives a terrific performance as Olavi wife candidate comes along, Darian kind of picture that the French excel at If you missed this in the cinema, make performance by French star, Romain Duris. He was today as it ever did. The film fizzes with an energy and in a fascinating film which seems to suggest that and Aurora are faced with a difficult — witty, laugh-out-loud funny and oh sure to catch it this time round — you nominated for a French César Award as Best Actor and freshness that mark it out as special; one of the main sometimes the most valuable bargains we strike in life choice: pretend to be happy or to finally so stylish. won’t regret it. it’s not hard to see why. Do yourself a favour and get reasons for this is the striking performance of Lyna are more emotional than financial. A little gem. stop running. along to this one... Khoudri in the leading role. * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT BOOKING & DEVELOPMENT FEE €1/TICKET 14 15

Verdant Productions A HOLY SHOW Written and Directed by Janet Moran

Wed 29 January 8pm Tickets €20*/€18*

When Airplane meets Father Ted. A nostalgic comedy SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 3.15PM, €9*/€8* SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 6PM, €10*/€9* SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 8.30PM, €10*/€9* based on a very Irish hijacking of the 1981 Aer Lingus plane by an ex-Trappist monk with a bottle of water as I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE SYSTEM CRASHER THOSE WHO WORK his weapon, the Pope as his nemesis, and a burning GERMANY/FRANCE | DRAMA/ROMANCE | 2019 | GERMANY | DRAMA | 2019 | 118 MINS | SWITZERLAND/BELGIUM/FRANCE | DRAMA | desire to know The Third Secret of Fatima. A Holy 120 MINS | GERMAN/TURKISH/FRENCH GERMAN 2019 | 102 MINS | FRENCH Show takes us back to 1981 and brings us on board Director: Ilker Çatak Director: Nora Fingscheidt Director: Antoine Russbach the ill-fated Aer Lingus flight EI 164 from to Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle | Ogulcan Arman Cast: Helena Zengel | Albrecht Schuch | Cast: Olivier Gourmet | Adèle Bochatay | London. There’ll be music, nostalgia, heroism, praying, Uslu | Godehard Giese Lisa Hagmeister Louka Minnella Friday 24 January Pat Egan Presents visions, romance (maybe) sex (maybe) a special This is a superb film, which won Best Entered as Best Foreign Film, 2020 Frank, a man of action who worked 6pm OUR STRUGGLES (France) A NEW BEGINNING: appearance by Our Lady (definitely). Starring Roseanna Screenplay at the Munich Film Festival Academy Awards. She is small, but his way up all by himself, dedicates 8pm PAPICHA (France/Algeria) Purcell & Mark Fitzgerald. this year. Kurdish gigolo Baran dreams dangerous. Wherever Benni ends up, she his life to work. No matter the place or GEORGE MURPHY AND of a future in Europe, while German pilot, is immediately expelled. The wild 9-year- the circumstances, be it day or night, Saturday 25 January Marion, is struggling to come to terms old girl has already become what child he’s on the phone, handling the cargo 1pm ONE LAST DEAL (Finland) THE RISING SONGS with a difficult medical diagnosis. When protection services call a ‘system crasher’. ships he charters for major companies. 3.15pm AND THEN WE DANCED Tom Keating presents the two meet at the Turkish holiday resort And she is certainly not looking to change But when he has to deal with a crisis (Georgia) Tues 28 January 8pm Legendary Grammy her ways. Because Benni has one single situation, Frank makes a brutal decision Tickets €22* of Marmaris, they engage in a kind of 6pm AURORA (Finland) Award-Winning Artist goal: to be back at home with her mum. and the consequences are severe. mutually beneficial double-cross, which 8.30pm LA BELLE ÉPOQUE (France) rapidly evolves into something far deeper. But Bianca is scared of her own daughter. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system At only 33 years of age, George Murphy has lived JUDY COLLINS The film cleverly charts how and why the Mrs Bafané from child protection services to which he gave his all, he has to an entire life in music. Steeped in the tradition and pursuit of a better life in Europe is not so is trying her best to find a permanent progressively question himself to save Sunday 27 folklore of Ireland’s greatest folk legends, George shot 1pm CUSTODY (France) Thurs 30 January 8pm straightforward as it might be. However, placement for Benni. She hires the anger the one connection that still matters to to fame overnight as a contestant of You’re A Star Tickets €29.50* while the past might be troubled and the management trainer Micha as Benni’s him: the bond he’s managed to maintain 3:15pm I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE and a number one album produced by , present complicated, the hopeful promise school escort and suddenly there is a seed with his youngest daughter, Mathilde. (Germany/France) his brilliant version of Raglan Road was matched only of the future, gives this picture real bite, of hope. Will Micha be able to succeed An impeccable, sensitive performance 6pm SYSTEM CRASHER (Germany) by the great Luke Kelly. Lost his way for a few years leading to a conclusion which is both where all others despaired? This brilliant from Olivier Gourmet lies at the heart 8:30pm THOSE WHO WORK touring the States, but brought very much to life again * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT film will assault your senses like no other of this outstanding picture — and the (Switzerland/Belgium/France) as a brilliant balladeer when he joined The High Kings. BOOKING & DEVELOPMENT FEE unforced and deeply satisfying. € and is not to be missed. moral choices at its centre are ones that Now starring in his own right, his New Beginnings tour 1/TICKET resonate with us all. is now on the road. 16 17

Joanne McNally John B Keane’s VIENNESE STRAUSS GALA THE PROSECCO EXPRESS THE MATCHMAKER STRAUSS · LEHAR · KALMAN Thurs 30 & Fri 31 With Mary McEvoy & Jon Kenny Directed by Stephen Leatherland Directed by Michael Scott January 8.30pm Tues 4 February 8pm Galway University Tickets €15* Tickets €22.50/€20* Musical Society Fri 31 January 8pm The world around her is getting Tickets €20* Back with a sparkling new production and recreating married, having children and the romance of the Viennese Festive season, A Viennese The smash hit comedy based on the novella Letters of a County Matchmaker returns streaming off to buy slow Strauss Gala features highlights from some of the due to public demand! cooker crock pots - and great Operettas of the Strauss family, Kalman and buggies. Don’t miss this special John B. Keane’s beloved hit comedy follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor to Lehar including Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, the night out with Joanne as she make matches for the lonely and lovelorn from all parts of the country. At the centre of Gypsy Baron and many more. The European Orchestral tackles the trials and tribulations this celebrated production is John B Keane’s marvellous and mischievous wit coupled Ensemble will accompany four soloists from major opera of modern life with hilarious and by his unparalleled way with words and taking us back to a simpler time, when even companies including Opera North, English National charming irreverence. phones were few and far between and the only web was one left behind by spiders. Opera and D’Oyly Carte. This wonderful production is Ultan Macken cleverly staged and choreographed, and authentically costumed, and will appeal to the romantic as much as MY FATHER, MY SON the music aficionado. Don’t miss! Written, directed and performed THE FUREYS BOSCO: MAGICAL GARDEN by Ultan Macken AND SLEEPING BEAUTY Tues 4 - Sat 8 February 8pm Sat 1 February 8pm € € € € Tickets €30* Mon 3 - Thurs 6 February 8.30pm Tickets Tues 13*/ 10*, Wed-Sat 15*/ 12* Sun 2 February 1pm & 3pm Tickets €20*/€15* Tickets €12* Legends of Irish music and song Kipps: The New Half a Sixpence Musical is a fresh and renowned for their hit songs Ultan Macken is Walter Macken’s son. This adaptation of the classic H.G. Well’s novel Kipps: The Bosco is Bosco - not a boy, not a girl, just a Bosco: a I Will Love You, When You Were critically acclaimed one-man show gives an Story of a Simple Soul. Arthur Kipps, an orphaned cheeky, lovely, funny, slightly-cracked, irrepressible, Sweet 16, The Green Fields of insight into the family history and life of one of draper’s assistant, unexpectedly inherits a fortune that eternal five-year-old who lives in a box! Enjoy the France, The Old man, Red Rose Ireland’s most cherished authors. It reveals the propels him into high society, where he encounters enchanted story of Sleeping Beauty where an evil Café, From Clare to Here, Her true breadth of Walter Macken’s creativity in love both new and old. Featuring a toe-tapping score Fairy-Night filled with jealousy try’s to harm Beauty Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway, film, novels, plays and theatre management - which includes Flash Bang Wallop, Money to Burn and but luckily she has very good fairy friends. With its Leaving Nancy, Steal Away, and the extraordinary relationship with his son. If The Rain’s Got to Fall, this Irish premiere will delight brilliant array of characters, lots of fun and excitement The Fureys return due to public Don’t miss it. audiences both young and old. through this completely interactive live experience demand! Entertaining audiences Duration 2 hours 15 minutes, including interval. with the absolute magic of Puppet Theatre. worldwide for 42 years, The Duration 2 hours 45 minutes, including interval. Fureys are unmissable! Open to all ages

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Róisín Dubh Comedy & Off the Kerb Productions Final opportunity to see BOTH of Mikel Murfi’s acclaimed one man shows PATRICK FEENEY Written and performed by Mikel Murfi. Returns due to phenomenal public demand! IN CONCERT PURE GRÁ Tickets €20*/€18* or see both productions for €35* TONY CANTWELL “Astonishing performance” “A masterclass in the art of the monologue” Friday 7 February 8pm Tickets €25* THE NEW YORK TIMES TIME OUT Fri 7 & Sat 8 February 8.30pm Patrick Feeney is highly regarded as one of Tickets €15* “In these difficult and uncertain times people need hope Ireland’s finest vocal talents and performers and Tues 11 & Wed 12 Fresh from sell-out shows at the Dublin – a ray of sunshine to brighten their day. And that’s very this ‘Country and Gospel’ concert to coincide with February 8pm and Edinburgh Fringe, cult-comedian Tony much where I come in” says Jack. the launch of his new album will feature many of Tickets €27* Cantwell is taking to the road for his first- his most popular songs like I Believe, Someone ever Irish tour. Join the comedian for a new Star of TV sitcoms Bad Move, and Josh, Jack to Love Me and his recent smash hit recording "The funniest Irish sketch night of stand up, sketches, and songs all also hosts the legendary Radio 4 show I’m Sorry I Haven’t Jerusalem. Joining Patrick on the tour will be his of all time. Simple as” based on his meme-soaked social media A Clue. And more! own band of fantastic musicians and a few of JOE.IE page. Over 5 million views online. Ireland’s finest session players. This is certainly a Duration 120 minutes. Age guidance strictly 14+. Swearing and adult content. show you won’t want to miss! Duration 120 minutes, including interval. Note: strobe lighting in use Beluga Theatre Dressing Room 1 DO FISH SLEEP? DIRTY DUSTING Written by Jens Raschke Starring XFACTOR’s Mary Byrne Directed by Oisín Robbins Sat 15 February 8pm Tickets €25* Wed 12 - Sat 15 February 8.30pm Tickets €10*/€8* Hold onto your seats – and don’t miss THE MAN IN I HEAR YOU AND REJOICE this wild new comedy about a trio of THE WOMAN’S SHOES A companion piece to The Man in the Woman’s Shoes A hundred years old? Who’d really want to be a hundred? 70-something cleaners facing the axe. Thurs 6 February 8pm Probably a ninety-nine year old. Instead of taking threats of redundancy lying down, these game girls set up a phone Wed 5 February 8pm Beluga Theatre proudly presents the English-language premiere of Do Fish Sleep? This sex service - and that’s when the fun begins! Be shocked, delighted and amused by the * ALL TICKETS Late in his life, Pat Farnon, a cobbler and all-round award-winning play is an honest, humorous and moving exploration of childhood, loss only chat-line girls with dusters, attitude and their very own bus passes! Pure theatrical It’s October 1978. Pope John Paul I is not long dead and ARE SUBJECT TO contented man, embarks on a journey he had not quite THT BOOKING & and hope. A world seen through the eyes of a perceptive child with some big questions. Viagra? It probably is for those who might just need the real thing! If you love Mrs. Pat Farnon has ‘some business’ to do in town. A man planned and finds that every twist in the road can bring DEVELOPMENT FEE You’re never too young for an existential crisis. Browns Boys, come and meet their match in this must-see comedy of the year! with a boundless enthusiasm for life, this show is funny, €1/TICKET its own surprises. tender and at times downright daft. Duration 55 minutes, no interval. Age Guideline 10+ Duration 120 minutes. Age guidance 16+. Strong language throughout. 20 21

JASON BYRNE Finbar Wright PADDY CULLIVAN SONGS YOU LOVE Tues 18 February 8.30pm WRECKED BUT READY Tickets €15* Sun 16 February 8pm Fri 14 February 8pm Experience the incredible true story of Ireland’s 1798 Rebellion through song, Tickets €38*/€35* imagery and storytelling with historical entertainer and musician Paddy Tickets €24* Finbar Wright, Ireland’s best-loved popular Cullivan. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions of the late-18th Following on from his sell out success at entertainer and award-winning recording artist, Century, The 10 Dark Secrets of 1798 is a historical drama of Game of Thrones #VCCG19, the Star of Ireland’s Got Talent returns returns for a glorious concert packed with great proportions, bringing a staggering array of characters to life. Wolfe Tone, Lord to Galway! humour and passionate music. Edward Fitzgerald and Napper Tandy - George Washington, The ‘Mad King’ George III and Napoleon Bonaparte. Huge battles, victories and losses from Jason Byrne has had a hard year. But he doesn’t Celebrating his greatest hits and all of your the epic Wexford Rebellion to the unbelievable Year of the French …and most want to talk about that. He’s wrecked but ready. favourite music, Finbar will be joined by an importantly, the timeless call of the United Irishmen (and women!) to unite Ready for a laugh. This show is a celebration. impressive line-up of fine musicians in sparkling ‘Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter’… A celebration of triumph over adversity. A performances to delight all music lovers. celebration of the fact that everybody’s got their Duration 120 minutes, including interval. own crap going on and they don’t need to listen Duration 120 minutes, including interval. Age guidance 16+ to someone else moaning about their problems. So, leave your worries at the door and find out why described Jason as ‘The Outright GEAROID FARRELLY King of Live Comedy’. Catherine Young Dance ALCHEMY STATE OF EXCEPTION Lords of Strut ABSOLUTE LEGENDS Tues 18 February 8pm Thurs 20 February 8.30pm Tickets €18*/€14* Wed 19 Feb 4pm & 7pm Tickets €12* Tickets Adult €12*/Child €9*/Family (4 people) €30* Inspired by the experience of making work with refugees and asylum Alchemy is a new show from comedian Gearóid Farrelly seekers in Direct Provision, State of Exception is a powerful and raw All their lives, Sean and Seamus have wanted to be famous. To get in which he is pretty certain he will be able to solve all of multi-cultural interplay of dance, music and text. Featuring a cast there they need to make the perfect dance routine; they need your the world’s problems. To start with Science needs more of outstanding Irish and international performers, this compelling help. In this dance fantasy adventure the brothers rock out banging laughs, we need more superstar comebacks and Conor and original dance work delves into the world of asylum seekers to moves, run into trouble, cause mayhem and find out if fame is really McGregor should just stop talking. Gearóid has appeared understand, to connect, to challenge and tear down the walls and what they’re looking for. at comedy festivals all over the world, touring with the borders that divide us, finding home in the common that binds us all. likes of Joan Rivers, Patton Oswalt and Sarah Millican. Fusing dizzying acrobatics and riotous comedy, Lords of Strut are “Unmissable” He recently appeared on the BBC radio 4 panel show An There will be a post-show discussion with Catherine. rip-roaringly funny, fantastically bizarre, they are …absolute legends! EVENING Elephant in the Room and can be heard on his podcast STANDARD Duration 60 minutes, no interval. Duration 60 minutes, no interval. Fascinated where he tracks down his childhood heroes! Age guidance 12+ Age guidance 6+ * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT BOOKING & DEVELOPMENT FEE €1/TICKET 22 23 Bringing together one of the world’s great classic plays with one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Druid presents Tom Murphy’s version of Chekhov’s masterpiece.

Directed by Garry Hynes, with the acclaimed creative team behind DruidShakespeare, this production will star Derbhle Crotty and other leading members of the Druid Ensemble, alongside a large company of actors. Druid’s production of The Cherry Orchard, a play about land, legacy, and the struggle between tradition and change, will be the first major production of Tom Murphy’s work since his death in 2018.

Cast includes: Derbhle Crotty, Ian-Lloyd Anderson, Peter Daly, Rachel Feeney, Garrett Lombard, Aaron Monaghan, Rory Nolan, John Olohan, Marty Rea. Times are changing.

Sat 22 February – Sat 7 March An old way of life is dying out. Black Box Theatre, Galway A family faces extinction. Previews Sat 22, Mon 24, Tues 25 February A country prepares for revolution. Matinees Sat 29 Feb and Sat 7 March And the cherry orchard? What will become of it?

Tickets €28*/€24* Preview and matinee tickets €26*/€22* *All tickets are subject to THT booking & development fee €1/ticket See Druid.ie for details 24 25

Speakers from the Edge THEATRE ROOM COIRM GAEL LINN Mon 24 February 8.30pm MARK BEAUMONT GALWAY Free Admission, Ticket Required Dé Máirt 25 & Dé Céadaoin 26 Feabhra 10am - 4pm AROUND THE WORLD A unique, monthly showcase of crowd-sourced one-act plays that are written, Gan Táille/Free Admission directed and performed by talented locals of all stripes, from drama students IN 80 DAYS Primary schools from all over Galway City and County present 20-minute and seasoned professionals to passionate amateurs as well as a few complete variety shows, as Gaeilge. Sun 23 February 8pm chancers. Tickets €19*/€17* Tuilleadh Eolais www.gael-linn.ie/coirm Duration 1hour 30 minutes, no interval. Around the World in 80 Days - Mark Beaumont set out to Over the past decade, Mark’s epic documentaries have make this Victorian fiction a two wheeled reality. taken viewers to over 100 countries, into the Arctic, the high mountains and around the Commonwealth, also Having smashed the circumnavigation cycling World surviving capsize in the mid-Atlantic. Record twice in his career, he now holds this 18,000 Showing films and photography, these events are a mile title in a time of 78 days and 14 hours, averaging fascinating insight into Mark’s career of adventure. Thurs 27 February 8.30pm Tickets €12 * DEREK RYAN 240 miles a day. Duration 125 minutes, including interval. Julie Jay is a comic who has taken the comedy world by storm in recent months. She has also “Wonderful production, supported the biggest terrifically directed” Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Mon 24 February names in comedy, including Neil Delamere, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 8pm Ardal O’Hanlon and MC’d TINTOWN Tickets €20*/€18* FLASH HARRY Written and performed by Bob Kelly the 2019 series of the Fri 28 February 8pm A CELEBRATION Directed by Niall Henry Tommy Tiernan Show. Tickets €30* With the outbreak of WW2, the Irish government introduces internment Her new show Julie Irish country sensation Derek Ryan OF QUEEN LIVE without trial for all suspected IRA members, and Bernard Carroll is Really Love Me explores returns with a brand new show for 2020. her quest for validation, swept up with hundreds of others and held in a ramshackle internment Derek and his fantastic band are back Fri 21 & Sat 22 February 8pm applying lessons gleamed camp on the plains of the Curragh. The camp is packed with left-wing on the road to perform many of Derek’s Tickets €28* from Oprah in the early revolutionaries, civil war veterans and republicans, all held without trial. classic hits from Hold On To Your Hat, nineties to modern life, There’s one catch – they can leave any time they want, provided they Down On Your Uppers and God’s Plan. It’s back! Due to phenomenal public demand! navigating being childless are willing to renounce violence and take an oath of loyalty to the Irish Don’t miss! government. They stay. in the state of Gilead and guards. Lots and lots of Duration 75 minutes, no interval. guards. Not to be missed. * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT BOOKING * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT BOOKING & DEVELOPMENT FEE €1/TICKET & DEVELOPMENT FEE €1/TICKET 26 27

“Her life story gives weight to the truth that the best An Irish National Opera/Theatre Lovett/ Tues 3 March The Lisa Richards Agency singers are the ones with the most painful lives” Abbey Theatre co-production 8pm THE GUARDIAN Tickets €30*/€27* AIDAN GREENE Humperdinck’s “A song is not complete unless it Conductor DID I STUTTER? has been sung by Mary Coughlan” HANSEL AND GRETEL Richard Peirson MELODY MAKER One of the greatest operas about children. Humperdinck’s Directors Thurs 5 March 8.30pm Hansel and Gretel is full of music that is sweet and beguiling, Muireann Ahern, Tickets €12* and it combines childlike simplicity with heart aching beauty. Louis Lovett He wanted a plot that ‘was not made up of murders, brutal Set & Costume Did I Stutter? Yes, I absolutely did. Quite badly actually. I’m award-winning deaths, operetta-like nonsense, or sugar-sweet fairy tales’. comedian Aidan Greene and I have a stutter. Do not be fooled. This is a story of greed and starvation, Designer mouth-wateringly sugar-coated. Jamie Vartan Let’s clear up misconceptions you may have about it: from The King’s Elaine O’Dwyer Speech to bad dates to ancient Nordic cures, this comedy show will break Trouble at home. Two hungry children lost in a haunted forest. Lighting Designer “Brilliant” TOMMY TIERNAN Sarah-Jane Shiels down everything you thought you knew about this sexy, silent disability (and The lure of a gingerbread house. The frightening hocus pocus QUEEN OF TECHNICOLOR teach you some things you definitely didn’t want to know!). of the predatory Witch. And the smarts of the children who Video Designer MPI Artists triumph in the end. All wrapped up in the delicious sound Jack Phelan THE STORY OF world of Engelbert Humperdinck’s operatic masterpiece. Irish National MAUREEN O’HARA MARY COUGHLAN Sung in English with English surtitles Opera Ensemble Wed 4 March 8pm Sat 29 February 8pm Tickets €18*/€16* Tickets €24* This one-woman show marks the centenary of Mary Coughlan is arguably one of Ireland’s greatest female jazz and legendary Irish actress Maureen O’Hara who was born blues singers, a true artist who has carved out a timeless and highly in 1920. Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, O’Hara played regarded career and a legion of devoted fans worldwide. Described roles that often mirrored her true persona as a tough as ‘Ireland’s Billie Holiday’ Mary has overcome childhood trauma, and courageous woman. Fri 6 March 8pm alcoholism & drug addiction to become a musical force like no other. A frontrunner of the #Timesup movement, O’Hara stood Tickets €22.50* up against Hollywood’s studio bosses and steered clear Duration 110 minutes, including interval. of the casting couch. Viral comedy sensations Farmer Michael Age guidance 16+ and Kathleen return to Galway for more Portraying over twenty characters in this tour de force music, satire, madness and carefully “one of the sweetest yet most lushly captivating scores in performance, O’Dwyer takes you on an intimate journey crafted chaos like only they can master! * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT BOOKING & DEVELOPMENT FEE €1/TICKET with Maureen. Don’t miss! the entire operatic repertory” NEW YORK TIMES Duration 110 minutes, including interval. 28 29

Branar Téatar do Pháistí Tugann Branar Téatar do Pháistí cuireadh duit páirt a TWINT WIN PRODUCTIONSP R ODU C TIO N S TUMBLE OUTTA'OUTTA' BED AND STUMBLESTUMBLE TOTO ghlacadh in eachtra thumthach SRUTH NA TEANGA by kind permission from Music Theatre International (Europe) amharclannaíochta trí scéal na DOLLYDOLLY PARTON’SPARTONʼS RIP-ROARINGRIP-ROARING Galway Airport, Carnmore Gaeilge, Sruth na Teanga. Branar Sat 7, Sat 14 - Tues 17 Téatar do Pháistí invite you to PRESENTPRESEN T MUSICALMUSICAL COMEDYCOMEDY 9 TOTO 5 Sat 21 - Sun 22, Sat 28 March join us on an immersive theatre Shows running between adventure through the story of the 9 TOTO 5 THETHE MUSICALMUSICAL COMEDYCOMEDY is gettinggetting downdown to businessbusiness atat thethe TownTown HallHall Theatre,Theatre, 12pm - 3.30pm Irish Language, Sruth na Teanga. coucourtesyrtesy of TTwinwin Productions! For full details visit www.tht.ie Age guidance 8+ DOLLY PARTON’S The smash-hit musical features a book by the iconic mmovie’sovieʼs original screescreenwriternwriter PPatriciaatricia or contact box office Duration approximately RResnickesnick and an Oscar,Oscar, GrammyGrammy and TonyTony award-nominatedaward-nominated scorescore by thethe QueenQueen ofof € € Tickets Adult 11*/Child 8*/ 45 minutes. CountCountryry heherself,rself, DolDollyly PParton.arton. Family (4 people) €34* Limited capacity. 9 TTOO 5 THE MUSIMUSICALCAL tells the stostoryry of DoDoralee,ralee, VVioletiolet aandnd JuJudydy - three wworkmatesorkmates ppushedushed Advance booking essential. to boiling point by their ssexistexist and egotistical boss. Concocting a plan to kidnap and turn the tables on their despicable supesupervisor,rvisor, will the ladies manage to reform their oofficeffice - or will eeventsvents ununravelravel when the CEO ppaysays an ununexpectedexpected visit? Inspired by the hit film this hilarious production is about teaming up, standing up and taking care of business! Based oonn tthehe 2020thth CenturyCentury FFoxox Picture.Picture. OriginallyOriginally producedproduced onon BroadwayBroadway by RobertRobert Greenblatt, April 2009. PPerformederformed by ararrangementrangement with Music Theatre InternationaInternationall (Europe) Limited. Director Brian PPowerower KC Touring Musical/Chorus Director Eoin CorcoCorcoranran The Royal Moscow Ballet ChoreogChoreographerrapher Declan J.GaJ.Gardinerrdiner SLEEPING BEAUTY Sat 7 March TicketsTickets €22*/€20* Starring soloists from the 2.30pm & 8pm ʼ TueTue Mar 10th10th – Sun Mar 15th15th @ 8pm NightlyNightly ((exex Sun) world renowned Bolshoi Ballet Tickets €32*/€30* ay to make a livin ...what a wway to make a livin’ Matinee PPerformanceserformances TTicketsickets €€2121* & & €19* €19* The Royal Moscow Ballet brings every child’s favourite fairy tale to the Galway stage, * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT BOOKING & DEVELOPMENT FEE €1/TICKET Matinees Sat 14th14th at 3pm & Sun 15th15th at 5pm (one show only) with very special guest soloists from the world famous Bolshoi Ballet. MUSICAL COMEDY COMMISSIONED BY GALWAY 2020/I 2 hour shshowow with an inteintervalrval of 115mins.5mins. * All ticketstickets subject to €1 Booking & DevelopmentDevelopment Fee Sleeping Beauty is the classic story of love and innocence, mystery and magic set to LÁTHAIR ARNA MHAOINIÚ AG A musical bbyy PPatriciaatricia ResnickResnick full of girlgirl ppowerower as GAILLIMH 2020 Age Restriction:Recommendation: Age Recommendation: 12+. Please note: 12+. This Please production note: containsThis production comic s containsexual comic sexual Tchaikovsky’s enchanting score. Experience stunning choreography, breath taking wellwell as lyricslyrics byby countrycountry singer DolDollyly PPartonarton references, light drug use and the occasional cucurserse wword.ord. costumes and vibrant sets. 30 31

SamePage Theatre Cyclone Rep SEMINAR 2020 by Theresa Rebeck SHAKESPEARE SESSIONS Thurs 19 - Sat 21 March 8.30pm For bookings or information, contact Cyclone Rep directly at 021 235 5356 Tickets €12*/€10* Mon 23 & Tues 24 March Tickets €15* (Teachers and SNAs free) [email protected] or www.cyclonerep.com Seminar by Theresa Rebeck is SamePage Theatre's 5th production - a provocative Cyclone Rep theatre-in-education comedy exploring the lives, the work and relationships of four aspiring young writers. Mon 23 March 9.45am & 1pm company will perform abridged versions of The group round together to arrange private tutoring by an esteemed former novelist. THE ROMEO & JULIET SESSION Shakespeare’s texts that help to bridge the Their struggles as artists come to the forefront as they learn how harsh the world of Tues 24 March 9.45am gap in student understanding of themes creative arts can be. THE KING LEAR SESSION using a big helping of humour along with THE This amateur production is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. discussions and opportunities to participate. Ireland’s Young Thurs 19 - Sat 21 March Tues 24 March 1pm Duration all shows 120 minutes. MAI 8pm Duration 90 minutes, no interval. THE HAMLET SESSION Filmmaker of the MARINA CARR Tickets €22*/€20* Year 2020 Galway JSM LIVE PRESENTS Regional Heat A Unique Nursing Home An evening of short wildlife films from around the world The Mai is an epic tale, both wildly funny Experience! THE LOST FRESH INTERNATIONAL and humorously tragic, of three generations After spending over 10 years FILM FESTIVAL 2020 together in the same nursing BROTHERS of a family inspired by love but shattered by home, it’s time for Mary O’Toole, Thurs 12 March inescapable reality. Mary O’Neill and Mary O’Brien WILDERLAND Wed 25 March 8pm 10.15am - 1.30pm to bid farewell to one another. It Tickets €20* Free admission might be their last day in each WILDLIFE “A luminous production... beautifully orchestrated... The 2nd annual The screening features the work of other’s company but they decide FILM FESTIVAL Every Lost Brothers album tells its own tale, a play that entertains as it chills and never ceases to celebrate it in style! From but as a whole, they act as different chapters the best young filmmakers from the Tues 24 March 8pm West. If you would like to see the nostalgia to comedy and even a Wildlife Film Festival of the same book, together forming a body of to hold interest” No More Workhorse Tickets €14.50*/€12.50* future of Irish filmmaking, don’t miss! few sing-songs it’s going to be work that along the way has become a sound one hell of a hooley! that is completely their own. Directed by Andrew Flynn Selected from over a hundred entries from film makers around the globe, Wilderland Booking through Eventbrite or email visits Galway for the first time, bringing the very best of the world’s short wildlife films. Fresh Film [email protected] This rip-roaring Irish comedy In their live shows, The Lost Brothers take us is written by Tommy Marren – Wilderland founders Dan O’Neill and Isaac Rice will host and introduce each film live another step deeper into their world, creating Check us out on writer of It’s the Real McCoy and on stage. a wider landscape while writing their own www.freshfilmfestival.com Wed 18 March 8pm Nobody’s Talking To Me – and is a path, forging ahead and shining a light into or call us on 061 319555 Tickets €22*/€20* must-see! Suitable for ages 8+ the darkness.

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CHRIS KENT CHRISTY DOESN’T LIVE HERE Suzuki Education Institute of Ireland Thurs 26 March 8pm Tickets €25* Thurs 26 March 8.30pm € NATIONAL Featuring 20 songs from Tickets 14* the hit compilation album Cork comedian Chris Kent returns to the Town Hall GRADUATION Now That’s What I Call Studio with his brand new show - more stories, CONCERT Country Music and HHHH more kids and a keep cup to compensate for his featuring the six-piece Mon 30 March 4pm “Fresh and original guilt about over population. Chris tries to come to virtuoso country band Tues 31 March 10am, 1pm & 4pm material, extremely terms with being called “well trained” for carrying Hosted by The Wagon Wheelers. out basic tasks. Chris also gets deep and talks JOE DALY Tickets Adult €20* Music Matters endearing performer” € about his favorite clothes horse or “garment CHILDREN’S Child aged 18 months or over 16* Loughrea BROADWAY BABY donkey” if you’re a maniac… Child 12-18 months, on parent’s lap €10* MAGIC AND Child under 12 months Free ILLUSION SHOW Family Ticket (4 people) €65* Pat Egan Presents Peppa Pig is excited to be going on a day out with George, Mummy Pig Sun 29 March 3pm KEVIN BLOODY Sat 28 March 2pm and Daddy Pig - it’s going to be her best day ever! Get ready for a road- Admission free. DON BAKER Tickets €10*. Family of 4 €35* trip full of adventures. From castles to caves, dragons to dinosaurs and Ticket required. WILSON Age guidance 3-12 ice-creams to muddy puddles – there is something for all of the family. BAND ALMOST www.peppapiglive.com Direct from his weekday magic show THE BLUES AWESOME TOUR abraKIDabra on RTÉjr, Joe Daly brings MAN TOUR his children’s comedy magic and illusion Sat 28 March 8pm show to Galway and will bring the Tickets €32.50* Fri 27 March 8pm kids on a rollercoaster ride of magic, Tickets €22* A long time ago, a long way from anywhere, in a West Australian mining town called illusion, comedy and fun. Tables will fly, Kalgoorlie, the legend of Kevin Bloody Wilson was born. It all started innocently enough - newspapers will be torn up and restored, To star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father, headline with Tom Jones just a guy with too much time on his hands changing the words to other people’s songs, cola poured over a volunteers head - and Van Morrison at The Marley Park Festival, have his songs recorded by scores of and writing a few of his own, purely for the fun of it.Thirty-five years later, countless live and Joe will even make it snow! artists and tour at home and internationally for 50 years; it can clearly be seen that Don gigs and millions of album sales down the track, Kevin Bloody Wilson has not only found Baker’s career in the entertainment industry has been amazing. But it is in his love of his niche, he’s grabbed an esky and a deckchair and he’s made himself really bloody “Ireland’s leading Magician” The Blues, of the harmonica and of performing live that Don really shines. Don’t miss! comfortable in it! Don’t miss! THE IRISH TIMES * ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO THT BOOKING & DEVELOPMENT FEE €1/TICKET 34 MUSIC FOR GALWAY & GALWAY 2020 PRESENT Town Hall Theatre Gallery World Premiere EXHIBITIONS Sideline Productions For more, visit www.tht.ie “extremely Cellissimo – a new cello funny, most Glenn Gibson imaginative, ALONE IN exceedingly agile and festival on the western A CROWD irresistibly Sat 4 - charming” Fri 31 January THE IRISH TIMES edge of Europe

E. M. Keane LANDSCAPES Fri 10 January - 25 APRIL – 3 MAY 2020 Wed 12 February

Fri 3 & Sat 4 April 8.30pm Group Exhibition Tickets €15*/€12* LETTERS, In 1983 Billy Magra was hailed as one of Ireland’s best JOYCE stand-up comedians, appearing on the Late Late Show First Edition of Galway’s International Cello AND NORA and blazing a trail for others. But then his ‘other half’ Billy PSYCHIC SALLY Triennale. Nine days of all things cello – recitals, McGrath emerged as an award-winning TV/ Film director 10 YEARS AND COUNTING Fri 14 February - (U2; Italia ’90; Pogues; Clannad; Bowie; Rats); comedy theatre, orchestral performances, exhibition and Wed 4 March producer (Sean Hughes; Izzard: O’Kane; Rubberbandits; world premieres. Tiernan; Bishop); first ever Commissioning Editor of RTÉ Wed 1 April 8pm € Art In Mind TV Entertainment & now Sideline (Great Irish Bake Off; Tickets 25* Collective GAA DVDs; RTÉ Radio 1’s Comedy Showhouse & grintage FB). Now Magra & McGrath re-unite to explore how a Following her gripping appearance on Celebrity Rediscover the Cello in Galway SEE THE WOOD , the nation’s favourite Psychic and FOR THE TREES lifelong hippy punk can still buck the system - and grow old disgracefully. Warning – contains references to sex, forerunner in the Psychic world is back with her all Book tickets musicforgalway.ie/cellissimo Fri 6 March - drugs and sean-nós singing new show. Wed 8 April Duration 75 minutes, no interval. The show is for the purposes of entertainment. Follow @musicforgalway

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Bímis faoi In 2020 Galway will be the gheasa na European Capital of Culture. From the opening ceremony on February 8, draíochta 2020 to the end of the year Galway 2020 will deliver a year of thrilling, life-enhancing experiences through culture and the arts that will live long in the memory and best of all the majority of events will be free to attend.

Beidh Gaillimh mar Phríomhchathair Chultúir na hEorpa in 2020. To find out more visit Ón searmanas oscailte ar an 8 Feabhra, 2020 go deireadh na bliana, cuirfidh Gaillimh bliain www.galway2020.ie iontach d’imeachtaí cultúrtha agus ealaíon ar #Galway2020 siúl, a fhanfaidh sa chuimhne ar feadh i bhfad. Beidh saorchead isteach chuig formhór na n-imeachtaí.