Oct - Dec 2013 Programme of Events

www.tht.ie Town Hall Theatre | Town Hall Studio | Black Box Theatre Galway Film Society Sundays 8.15pm (except where indicated). CONCESSIONS/GROUP RATES Membership/Season ticket for all twelve films E48*/E45* We offer discounts on most shows - concessions apply AUTUMN/WINTER 2013 Guest admission to single films E9*/E7* to under 18 year olds, students, senior citizens and This year’s programme has been extended to 12 films Saturday 4pm Matinee E7*/E5* the unwaged. Proof of eligibility and ID required. 10% to include a number of new releases from Southern Please note that above prices include a small levy in discount for groups of 10+. Some exceptions apply. Mediterranean countries. All films have English subtitles. support of the new Galway Art Cinema.

INTERVAL DRINKS 15 Sept POPULAIRE Avoid the rush by ordering your interval drinks Dir: Regis Roinsard · France · 2012 · 111 mins before the show. The bar is open before and after all 22 Sept COME AS YOU ARE performances. Dir: Geoffrey Enthoven · Belgium · 2011 · 115 mins SPECIAL ASSISTANCE 29 Sept KUMA Please let us know - when booking your tickets - of Dir: Umat Dag · Austria · 2012 · 93 mins any special requirements so we can make your visit 6 Oct THERESE DESQUEYROUX as enjoyable as possible. If you book online, you Dir: Claude Miller · France · 2012 · 110 mins should phone or email us to let us know of any special 20 Oct RENOIR requirements. Dir: Gilles Bourdos · France · 2012 · 111 mins *FILMS FROM THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN return to GFS again this year with the following three 27 Oct No Film CONDITIONS OF SALE films that aim to surprise and engage the audience. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded 3 Nov THE GREAT BEAUTY Sat 12 Oct 4pm Dir: Paolo Sorrentino · Italy · 2013 · 142 mins unless a performance is cancelled or abandoned. (matinee) * Zero WELCOME! Booking Is Easy! Your statutory rights are not affected. For full list of 10 Nov No Film conditions, see reverse of tickets. Dir: Nour-Eddine Lakhmari · Morocco · 2012 · 111 mins 17 Nov Hello and welcome to the October/ If you have not already done so, why not 1. Call to the box office at the Town Please note the management reserve the right to make 13 Oct (there will be two films screened on this date) WAJADA Dir: Haifaa Al-Mansour · Saudi Arabia · 2012 · 98 mins · Cert: PG November/December programme of events join our mailing list - or, better still, why not Hall Theatre at Courthouse Square, essential changes to the programme. 6pm * COMING FORTH BY DAY Galway, Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm Egypt, · 2012 · 95 mins for the Town Hall Theatre, the Town Hall sign up online through our website www.tht. 24 Nov SUN LI AND THE POET ie and have your season brochure e mailed 2. Phone 091 569777 during the above Dir: Andrea Segre · Italy · 2011 · 98 mins Studio and the Black Box Theatre in Galway. GIFT VOUCHERS - hours. Visa, Access, MasterCard and stalls seating Balcony seating 8.15pm * THE ATTACK to you 48 hours before it goes on general Dir: Ziad Doueiri · Lebanon · 2012 · 102 mins This season’s line up includes an eclectic IDEAL GIFTS! Laser are accepted. 1 Dec BLANCANIEVES mix of the best of drama, music, comedy, release. And find us on Facebook to receive Looking for the ideal *Telephone and personal bookings Dir: Pablo Berger · Spain, France · 2012 · 104 mins dance, children’s events, film and more. alerts about special events and offers. Christmas gift? One are subject to Refurbishment Charge to suit every taste? of 50 cent per ticket As ever, there really is something for We hope to see you soon and we hope you Christmas Film Language: English Then why not treat 3. Buy online at www.tht.ie everybody in the audience. enjoy the shows! Nominated for Five Academy Awards, incl. Best Picture. someone special to You can now choose your seat when IT’S A Sunday 8 Dec 3.30pm (Matinee) uncil a Town Hall Theatre you book online! Co ty Ci media sponsor y a lw WONDERFUL This film will be screened in a party atmosphere a G gift voucher, available | *Online bookings are subject to

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r i a C o h m 1946 · 130 mins Admission E7*/E5* Written & performed by SEPTEMBER 30th - OCTOBER 6th 2013 Are There Alison Skilbeck GALWAY THEATRE FESTIVAL is a not-for-profit, curated event committed to providing a platform for aspiring theatre companies with particular emphasis on Directed by local, independent theatre. Jeremy Stockwell Find out more at www.galwaytheatrefestival.com. For tickets to all shows, More If you lay yourself open, people will please contact Town Hall Theatre Box Office at www.tht.ie or phone 091 569777. jump in with both feet, won’t they? of You? In her own one-woman comedy EVENTS: SHOWS: drama Alison Skilbeck tells the linked tales of four women SKYBABIES COMEDY IMPROV BROKEN PROMISE LAND reaching out in the dark, revealing Wed 2nd @ 10pm Stone's Throw Theatre | Town Hall Studio | 30th @ 9pm & 1st @ 9pm what lies behind the brave faces STAGEWRITE (ENG & IR) SOME BAFFLING MONSTER of Claire, Sophia, Sara and Sam. Painful, scary and hilarious by Wed 2nd @ 5pm (IR) & Thurs 3rd @ 5pm (ENG) Dick Walsh | Nuns Island Theatre | 30th @ 8pm & 1st @ 8pm turns, with only a postcode in TECH TALKS DRADIN IN LOVE common, the stories chart each Wed 2nd 11-1pm & Fri 4th 11-1pm Tribe Theatre | An Taibhdhearc | 30th @ 7pm & 1st @ 7pm Thurs 3 October 8pm wildly different character’s search NUI GALWAY @ DRUID DECISION PROBLEM Tickets €15* in advance/€20* at the door for love and happiness. John Rogers | Town Hall Studio | 2nd @ 9pm & 3rd @ 9pm Fri 4th @ 6pm Tig Cóilí Presents WORKSHOP TASTER SERIES DORSET STREET TOYS Sat 5th 11am-5pm Fregoli Theatre | Nuns Island | 2nd @ 8pm & 3rd @ 2pm & 8pm CHERISH THE LADIES t ma n Fri 4 & Sat 5 October 8pm 24 HOUR THEATRE WAR OF ATTRITION Tickets €15*/€12* Sun 6th @ 6pm Devious Theatre | An Taibhdhearc | 2nd @ 7pm & 3rd @ 1pm & 7pm A GALWAY HOMECOMING An Evening of Irish Traditional Music, HHHHH HANG UP L ara Pla P h o t : Three Weeks BrokenCrow Theatre | Town Hall Studio | 4th @ 9pm & 5th @ 9pm Song and Dance HHHHH LOW LEVEL PANIC Broadwaybaby.com Anam Theatre | Nuns Island Theatre | 4th @ 8pm & 5th @ 2pm & 8pm “It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they BLACKBIRD do,” says the Boston Globe of Cherish the Ladies, the Irish-American super “Brilliantly observed, richly comic characters, Mephisto Theatre | An Taibhdhearc | 4th @ 7pm & 5th @ 1pm & 7pm group that for the past 28 years has toured the world, played the White House and the Olympics and recorded 15 outstanding albums. Led by All-Ireland all played to painful Champion Joanie Madden, these ladies create an immensely entertaining perfection. A wonderful show with a blend of virtuoso instrumentals, beautiful vocals and stunning evening!” step dancing. With guests Don Stiffe, Joe and Anne Burke, Mary Bergin, Johnny Alan Ayckbourn McDonagh, Matt Keane, Cathie Ryan, Nollaig Casey, Ronan O’Flaherty and dancers Declan McHale and Nathan Pilatzke. Wed 9 October 8pm Fri 11 October 8pm Sat 19 October 8pm Equinox is a collective of five like-minded musicians “Equinox play their Tickets €20* Tickets €22.50*/€20* Tickets €18*/€15* EQUINOX based in the Netherlands, co-lead by Guitarist Dan music in a style that Nicholas and bassist Johnny Daly. Joining Nicholas and is deeply respectful Daly are the soulful and powerful tenor saxophonist to its roots, but which Pat Egan Presents Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, the elegant and adventurous pianist is both entertaining Bob Wijnen and master drummer Marcel Serierse. and accessible to a JIMMY McCARTHY The band plays a mix of vivid original pieces, personal wide audience - a joy arrangements of standards and classic jazz repertoire to hear” Bright Blue Rose by the likes of Thelonious Monk, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Bill Whelan, Riverdance The Greatest Hits Tour Mingus and Horace Silver.

Mon 21 & Tues 22 October 8pm HHHH HHHHH Wed 23 October 8pm Tickets €20*/€16* “A terrific production” “Delightfully funny and Tickets €20*/€17* The Irish times poignant… enchanting” Examiner.com One of Ireland’s foremost GRETCHEN PETERS songwriters and writer of Red Kettle Theatre Company Since Martina McBride’s 1995 success songs such as Ride On, No in association with Garter Lane Arts Centre presents with Independence Day, Gretchen Peters Frontiers, Katie, The Bright Blue Abhann Productions presents has risen to the top of her craft, writing Rose, The Contender, Mystic songs that explore the deep corners of Lipstick, Missing you and many BEYOND THE BROOKLYN SKY Written by Michael Hilliard Mulcahy life with empathy and integrity. GAY BYRNE more, he has had his songs recorded by major Irish artists Directed by Peter Sheridan Rodney Crowell calls her 2012 CD including Christy Moore, Mary Hello Cruel World “beautiful, brave and LIVE ON STAGE They grew up together, dreamed together, emigrated together and Black, Mary Coughlan, Maura poetic”, while frequent collaborator when America didn’t quite fulfil their dreams they returned home, O’Connell and Westlife. Tom Russell calls it “the best record I’ve chastened but wiser. Things happened between them out foreign, An exclusive opportunity to enjoy Gay Byrne at his best in a live performance heard in many, many years.” things of the heart and things of the purse… things that were telling some of the greatest show-biz stories never told in an hilarious On this “Greatest Hits” tour never resolved. A recent review called her live evening’s entertainment, described as “a masterclass in comedy”. he will pay homage to old performance “glorious, uplifting favourites such as Neidin while And now they gather to welcome home Jack for what should be a In his five decade broadcasting career, Gay Byrne helped steer Ireland through and heart-renderingly beautiful... introducing more recent work celebration. But the ordinary can be extraordinary. Can Greg and its difficult formative years in the 70s and 80s on both his RTÉ morning radio an affirmation of positive human such as Andalucian Gray and Mags re-kindle their childhood love; can Brendy and Josie stop their show and the world record setting run of the Late Late Show (from 1962 to experience through endured pain.” Children of Mile. marriage from falling apart; will Jamesie find the truth about his son 1999). He introduced Ireland to modernity – and stood back to witness the lost on the streets of Brooklyn? The past is a powder keg waiting to brawl. Don’t miss this chance to hear the behind-the-scenes stories of the “Elegant, touching and articulate” explode… the only question is who will strike the first match. stars and the star-makers with Ireland’s foremost legendary broadcaster in his Bob Harris BBC Radio 2 first solo stage show. Produced by John McColgan.

Tickets: Performances €9* Groups of 10+ €7.50* per ticket (unless otherwise stated) For full programme details International Arts Festival for Children Galway 14th to 20th October 2013 Family Special (4 people) €30* Other events - see individual events for prices www.baboro.ie

“…heart rending and evocative… an impeccable production” The Herald “…the best family artist around…totally captivating” Billboard “…there’s no shortage of emotion, intricacy or craft in this beautifully- La Baracca - Testoni Ragazzi Italy told story. Welcome to where the wild things are” The Irish times USA Cappuccetto Rosso Lifeboat is the extraordinary true story of Thurs 17 & Fri 18 October Collapsing Horse Theatre Company Ireland “Come away, O human child! To the waters Red Riding Hood Tom Chapin and the wild. With a faery, hand in hand. For Bess Walker and Beth Cummings. It is a ACCOMPANIED BY MICHAEL MARK 10am & 12pm Human Child story of courage, a story of survival, a story Sat 19 October 6pm the world’s more full of weeping than you can of enduring friendship. On September 13, Due to popular demand, we bring back Tom Sun 20 October 5pm Thurs 17 October 11am & 7pm understand.” The Stolen Child, W.B. Yeats Bedtime is a time for stories. A brother 1940, a ship - The City of Benares - set Chapin, our most requested artist. This much- Catherine Wheels Theatre Ages 4+ Family Fri 18 October 10am & 12pm Inspired by W.B. Yeats’s The Stolen Child, and sister want to play Red Riding Hood sail from Liverpool for . On board loved singer, songwriter and 3-time Grammy Schools: All Primary Classes Ages 8+ Human Child borrows from Irish changeling but they both secretly aspire to be the Lifeboat were 90 evacuees escaping the relentless winner, has entertained audiences around the Durations 60 min Schools: 3rd to 6th Class mythology. It is the familiar story of a girl who menacing wolf. The pair take hilarious Written by Nicola McCartney bombing and dangers of war-torn Britain. world. His performances appeal to all ages, Durations 60 min struggles to be true to herself while being turns interpreting each role, Armed with Four days into the crossing, the ship was and his songs tell the stories of our times. pulled to be someone else. Fortunately she only a red pillow, a basket, and some torpedoed and sank. Only eleven of the These shows are always loaded with lots of Mon 14 October 10am & 12 pm discovers a world where she is celebrated for bushes, the characters retrace Red evacuees survived. Two fifteen year old girls, laughter, singing and footstomping fun. Tues 15 October 11am & 7pm Mon 14 October 11am just being herself. Riding Hood’s famous adventure from Wed 16 October 10am & 12pm Tues 15 October 9.30am & 12.30pm Bess Walder and Beth Cumming, spent 19 the woods to the wolf’s belly. But does Ages 3 to 7 Wed 16 October 11am & 7pm terrifying hours in the water on an upturned Collapsing Horse uses live music, puppetry, the story end here? lifeboat. They willed each other to survive. Schools: Pre-school to italian1st inst logos.ps - 5/20/2010Class 10:08 AM Ages 10+ and a magnificent set to present a beautiful In association with Duration Schools: 5th to 6th Class & Post Primary Now, over sixty years later, they remain firm and enchanting production that scoffs at Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Dublino 60 min Duration 70 min friends. Directed by Gill Robertson. becoming ‘more grown up’.

Theater Papilio Germany Talks and Discussions · Adults Abbey Theatre Ireland “…little ones meow and laugh while adults get carried away by the stories €6. FREE to registered delegates Durations 60 min they thought they knew as well as their own pockets” Ventilo Dot Me, Mollser Fri 18 October 10.30am & 12pm France A yellow square goes for a walk, little red Me, Mollser is the story of a strong-willed, Cie Jardins Insolites Spotlight On… Talking About… Ages 9 to 13 passionate young Dubliner coping with dots play hide and seek, and a blue circle SCOTLAND SHARING Schools: 4th to 6th Class C’est dans la Poche Sat 19 & Sun 20 October suddenly has a sound. This is a universe of consumption during the 1913 Lockout and & Post Primary 10.30am & 12pm Eight years ago, we started this series with Does it pay to share? There are many ways IT’S IN THE POCKET simple scenes and images using shapes Easter Rising of 1916. You may recognise her Durations 50 min incl. discussion Ages 18mo+ and lines. Accompanied by Eoin O’Brien on a discussion on the arts scene for young to share resources, time, and talent. This is from Sean O’Casey’s famous Irish play The Pockets are curious places that hold our keys, Schools: Pre-school to Junior Infants acoustic guitar, puppeteer Anna Rosenfelder audiences in Scotland. Since then there has an opportunity to hear the ups and downs of Plough and the Stars, which was first poems, secrets, confetti… contents that open Durations 30 min creates simple, engaging scenes and images been an explosion of Scottish productions opening the doors to sharing. Join our panel… performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1926. the door to the world of storytelling. But if our – sometimes poetical, sometimes witty and for babies, children, and youth that are in Gill Robertson, Artistic Director, pockets are empty, anything can sneak in and sometimes just so… high demand all over the world. Join us as Catherine Wheels Theatre, Scotland; Marc Curious and enthusiastic, Mollser guides you through cause a ruckus – even a white rabbit! Louise, we discuss this amazing phenomenon with MacLochlainn, Artistic Director, Branar the overcrowded tenement where she lives. Her keen living an ordinary life, finds her world suddenly Mon 14 & Tues 15 October 11am & 3pm Tony Reekie, CEO of Imaginate and Rhona Theatre, Ireland and Teenagh Cunningham, eye offers a view of daily life in turn of the century become magical and very strange because of Ages 2 to 4 Matheson, Director of Starcatchers. General Manager, Baboró, Ireland. Dublin. But today is not a normal day. She must what she discovers in her pocket. Schools: Pre-school to Junior Infants discover how she got transported to this strange Duration 45 min incl. activity Wed 16 October 4.30pm Thurs 17 October 4.30pm hall…will you help her learn how she got there? Co-directed by Vélo Théâtre Tues 29 October 8pm Thurs 31 October 8pm Fri 1 & Sat 2 November 8pm Tickets €20* Tickets €15* Tickets €18*/€15 *

Thurs 24 October Fri 25 October Glen Centre Stage Theatre Company presents 8pm 8pm Tickets €25* Tickets €25* Hansard with Special KENNEDY’S CHILDREN SOMETHING By Robert Patrick Russell Howard David O’Doherty Guest Mike Wilmot Lee Mack TO SING ABOUT A New York City bar on Valentine’s Day 1974 brings together a remarkable cast Since the release of his first solo record, of characters in Robert Patrick’s award-winning play Kennedy’s Children. Barry Murphy Joe Rooney Rhythm and Repose, Glen Hansard has been with busy touring the world with his 12 piece As their dreams dissolve, a disparate group of grown-up children of the sixties band. He comes home to Ireland in october Kiltullagh remember their more hopeful days. A frustrated model, a flamboyant actor and and is delighted to get the time to visit some a psychotic drug-addicted Vietnam veteran are some of those wading through a old haunts as a solo artist and play some Community Choir swamp of violence, greed and crooked politics to retrace their chaotic lives.

Tuesday 22 - songs from his repertoire, both old and new and embryonic. This powerful, funny and moving play marks the 50th anniversary of the Monday 28 Sat 26 October Sat 26 October For one night, you can join two Galway Choirs for assassination of President John F Kennedy. 8pm 8pm an uplifting inspirational celebration of life in song. Tickets €25* Tickets €25* October 2013 Something to Sing About is a Global Choir of Tues 29 Oct - Sat 2 Nov 8.30pm Cancer Survivors. Founded in 2012 by Galway Mon 4 November 8pm Neil Delamere Lee Mack Tickets €14*/€12* Consultant Oncologist Dr Paul Donnellan, there are Tickets €20* “Bulmers Galway Colin Murphy Andrew Maxwell now eighteen centres from Galway to Brisbane. Pat Egan presents Hourglass Theatre Company This special evening will be S.T.S.A.’s debut Comedy Festival. Pappy’s & Glenn Wool Barry Murphy concert to a Galway audience. RED HANDED DONAL SKEHAN - KITCHEN HERO An inspired Written and Directed by Kiltullagh Community Choir has existed for over selection of Ian Patterson fifty years and is based in Kiltullagh, Athenry. THE HOMECOOKED TOUR They derive real joy from sharing our repertoire You’ve seen Donal Skehan on RTÉ One’s Kitchen Hero, now come to comedy brilliance” A cheap hotel in an of contemporary and gospel music. They have his first live Irish HomeCooked Tour and see him cook up delicious The Irish Times autumnal Dublin city, performed in St Nicholas Collegiate Church, the HomeCooked meals live on stage, with lots of fun, loads of food and where the wife of an Augustinian Church, throughout the country and by Sun 27 October Sun 27 October ambitious politician lashings of audience participation! invitation in Lourdes and Rome. 8pm 8pm secretly meets her old lover € € His new book HomeCooked will be released in October 2013 to Tickets 25* Tickets 30* after fifteen years. She soon discovers how coincide with the tour, backed up by a series of online videos and dramatically their lives have changed, yet still full media campaign. Jason Byrne Sean Lock: determines to bridge the gulf between them and For full programme details Maeve Higgins Purple Van Man shape their future together, whatever it takes. His newly launched online quarterly magazine FEAST: A Dinner and updates visit Foil Arms & Hog Acompelling examination of self-deception, Journal, has been read by over 1 million people worldwide since the www.galwaycomedyfestival.com obsessionand the law of unintended effect from release of its first issue in May. Jarlath Regan Galway’s Hourglass Theatre Company. Wed 6 - Sun 10 November 8pm Matinee Sat 9 November 3pm Tickets €30*/€25*, Matinee €25*/€20* Mon 11 & Tues 12 November 8pm Tickets €25*/€20* Fifty One Shades of Maggie is the Number 1 best selling comedy Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet is universally recognised as one of the most prestigious ballet companies in send-up of 50 Shades of Grey. the world. Since their first visit to Galway in 1996, the company has wowed and charmed audiences here with stunning displays of classical Russian Ballet. Lovable Maggie is a working class girl who knows what she wants in a man, who however, like most women, has been let down by all the men in her life. On their 2013 visit, and exclusive to the Town Hall Theatre Galway, they present Giselle - the story of an innocent Attending an interview at the Social Security Maggie meets the handsome and Tchaikovsky peasant girl betrayed in love. Visually captivating and hauntingly beautiful, Giselle is one of the world’s favourite hunky Mr Big! Will he turn out to be the man of her dreams, or will his “Private romantic ballets. Room of Pain” put her off? In this hilarious new play full of naughty bits, join Perm State Ballet Maggie and her friends on this (slightly filthy) journey of love, booze and whips! Glorious costumes coupled with stunning sets and superb dancers guarantee a wonderful evening’s

entertainment. For all ages - and not to be missed! AGE SUITABILITY GISELLE Salthill Hotel are Official Accommodation Providers for the visit to Galway of Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet Please note due to the strong language and themes of an adult nature this show is deemed unsuitable for anyone under the age of 16.

Sat 16 November 8pm Tickets €20*/€16*

THE TOWER OF SONG: THE COHEN PROJECT , and are Sweeney’s Men and have often been described as Leonard Cohen explores the human condition a seminal influence on the revival of folk music in in all its facets. Jewish mysticism, wry political Ireland and abroad in the ‘60s, ‘70s and beyond. commentary, tender eroticism - all meet in the

potent lyricism of his songs, from Suzanne and One reason given is the interplay between mandolin Fri 15 November 8pm Hallelujah to First we take Manhattan. Tickets €25* and bouzouki. This had a lot to do with the Sweeney love of American Old-Time fiddle & five-string banjo Túr na nAmhrán features exquisite Irish language SWEENEY’S music. They went on to play in various combinations versions of Cohen’s songs, translated by poets and outfits such as , The Woods Band, Liam Ó Muirthile and Gabriel Rosenstock. They will MEN Planxty, De Dannan, The Pogues, Mosaic, Terry and be performed by Liam Ó Maonlaí and David Blake, Gay Woods, Last Night’s Fun, The Fleadh Cowboys, with support from The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra Moonshine, LAPD, etc. Come and see them while and Hilary Bow. Margaret Lonergan has created they’re still alive! stunning screen projections of the lyrics. Performing Arts School galway Tues 3 & Wed 4 December 8pm “Andrew Murray Tickets €18*/€16* plays Albom with absolute conviction 9 Arch Musical Society presents ranging through A dramatisation based on Tuesdays the emotions of documentary sources about irritation, guilt and the bank guarantee With Morrie sadness. And Terry Bet your bottom dollar… Byrne is almost Tuesdays with Morrie, written for the stage by Mitch startlingly excellent, Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher, is the autobiographical utterly believable, By story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist physically controlled Colin Murphy driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, to perfection” Directed by his former college professor. Sixteen years after Emer O’Kelly, Conall graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie’s Sunday Independent Morrison appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou “This is a play that Gehrig’s Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and might – incredibly, what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly just might – change pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life. It your life” Tomorrow there’ll be SUN! is a heartwarming exploration of friendship and life. John Simon, As Variety says “You’ll laugh. You’ll Cry”. New York Magazine Thurs 28 - Sat 30 November 7.30 Monday 18 November 8pm Director & Choreographer Peter Kennedy Matinee 2.30pm Saturday 30 November Tickets €15*/€12* Musical Director Shane Farrell Tickets €18*/€15* There will be a post-show discussion immediately after the performance. Wed 20 - Sat 23 November 8pm Grease is most definitely the word as PASG present this unforgettable musical featuring all the songs from the hit movie including You’re the A dramatisation based on documentary sources about Matinee Sat 23 November 2.30pm One That I Want and Grease Lightning. the bank guarantee. Tickets Wed (Preview) €15* € € € Thurs 17*, Fri & Sat Night 20*, Sat Matinee 15* Journey back to the 1950s when life was a fun filled rock’n’roll On the night of September 29, 2008, the Taoiseach and Group Discount - Book 10 seats or more, get 10% discount celebration and when dancing and putting grease in your hair were the Minister for Finance decided to guarantee Ireland’s only things that mattered. banks – to the tune of €440 billion. Guaranteed! tells the story of that night, and how they got there. This production will build on the success of PASG performances which is forging an unparalleled excellence in professional training for youth theatre. Written by journalist and documentary-maker Colin 19th Junior Galway Film Fleadh Murphy, and based on official documents and off-the- So why not hand jive the night away with the show that will make you want to record interviews, Guaranteed! reconstructs Ireland’s stand up and shout ‘Why It’s Grease Lightning’!!!! banking boom and bust – as it was seen from inside 13th - 16th November the corridors of power. Bookings 091 562 200 [email protected] – www.galwayfilmfleadh.com Fri 6 & Sat 7 December 8pm Mon 9 & Tues 10 December 8pm Tickets €20* Saturday 7 December 8.30pm Tickets €20*/€16* € Tickets €8/€5* Family Ticket (4 people) 60 Christmas SANDRA COFFEY by the Hearth and guests with Sean Keane Sandra Coffey has been wowing audiences with her soulful and powerful voice since releasing her debut and Friends album Morning Zoo earlier this year. In this intimate show, Sandra will be joined by special guests for what Sean Keane invites you to join him for an promises to be a night of memorable song from a truly evening of song, dance and music by the original and unique voice. hearth during this festive season.

Sean will share traditional songs and stories of Christmas as he brings his Sunday 8 December 8pm unique voice and interpretation of Tickets €30* traditional carols, hymns and classic HHHH Christmas songs to the Town Hall Theatre SEAN COSTELLO presents for two nights only. “Fresh, ingenious and enthralling” The Irish Times In addition to many Christmas favourites, A Viennese you will hear some new songs and some “A perfect seasonal offering” less well known that have been treated Christmas Galway Advertiser to the Sean Keane philosophy i.e. words The nationally acclaimed award- and music mean little unless they are One of Britain’s leading stage actors Clive winning tenor Seán Costello, who united with feeling. This is a show for all Francis returns after last year’s sell out run thrilled audiences with his sold out the family and an opportunity to introduce in Galway to reprise his acclaimed Royal Viennese Christmas concerts last year, some younger members of the family to Shakespeare performance as Ebenezer is delighted to welcome once again this master of song. Scrooge in a unique one man adaptation of the virtuoso violinist, Vladimir Jablokov the Dickens Classic. Inspired by Dicken’s first accompanied by last year’s very special reading and performance of A Christmas Carol guests from Bratislavia: the amazing on 27th December 1853 at the Birmingham Jablokov Family orchestra and the Town Hall, Francis re-enacts this festive wonderful soprano voice of Claudia masterpiece while playing every notable Boyle (RTÉs opera star of the future character in the story in a haunting, moving and and winner of the Maria Callas trophy). brilliantly entertaining performance. Probably Enjoy an evening of beautiful classical the most immersive and captivating seventy melodies, Christmas songs and carols minutes you will ever spend in the theatre. you will know and love. Mon 16 December 8pm Fri 20 December 8pm Sat 21 December 8pm Tickets €20*/€18* Tickets €20* Tickets €16*/€12*

Returning with a brand new show, “Christmas Crooners” is jam packed YOUTH BALLET WEST presents with festive favourites and the Christmas hits of Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. STRINGS & A fantastic cast of West-End Singers, backed by the superb The Jazz- All-Stars, perform over 30 well known Christmas hits including Chestnuts NUTCRACKER SUITE Roasting on an Open Fire, Little Drummer Boy, White Christmas and many other swing arrangements of Christmas hymns and songs including God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Deck the Halls, Silent Night and many more ‘Strings’ is a unique collaboration between festive favourites. choreographer Judith Sibley and cutting edge singer/songwriter Paddy Casey. Casey’s music is Staged in the warm and delightful style of the famous Andy Williams raw, brutally honest while Sibley harnesses the Thurs 12 - Sun 15 December 7.30pm Christmas Shows, this brilliant production comes complete with emotion in the music to create a modern dance Christmas Trees, a Rocking Chair - and of course a lovely warm fireplace! work that evokes beauty, passion and grace. Matinees Sat 14 & Sun 15 Dec 2.30pm Tickets €16*/€12* “Guaranteed to get you in the festive mood, come and sing along to great Sibley’s staging of Nutcracker Suite, the classic 29 December 2013 to 12 January 2014 songs from Christmas past”. MCD present Christmas family favourite,played to sold-out 7.30pm - Dec 29, 30, Jan 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Corrib Dance Academy presents audiences in Galway when it was last performed 2.30pm - Dec 29, 30, 31, Jan 1, 4, 11 THE HIGH KINGS in Galway in 2010. This is a wonderful opportunity for dance enthusiasts to see some of Ireland’s 12 noon & 4.30pm - Sundays Jan 5, 12 The Children of Lir € € Thurs 19 December 8pm most gifted young ballet dancers. Tickets 16*/ 14* Tickets €25*/€20* Ireland’s Folk Band of the year, The High Kings & Movie Magic Renmore 35th annual pantomime is a spectacular adventure of grew up in households soaked in the Irish Musical laughter, music and song. tradition and each member of the band witnessed This unique double bill presented by the students FRANK NAUGHTON first hand the power of well crafted Irish music on All is not well in Nottingham. The Wicked Sheriff is hatching a of Corrib Dance Academy begins with the well- an audience. range of evil plans to eliminate the Babes, who stand between him ‘Tis the season once again and that means only known Irish legend Children of Lir. One of Ireland’s and the throne of . He’s also out to capture the hero Robin one thing - Frank Naughton’s Christmas Carols. Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey and oldest tales, retold through classical ballet, is Hood, by holding the beautiful Maid Marian as hostage. But this is Under the baton of the nationally acclaimed Musical Darren Holden together create the most exciting performed to a combination of orchestrated Irish Pantomime, and with loveable folk like Nurse Polly Pampers, Simple Director Mark Keane, Frank will be joined by The Irish ballad group to emerge since The Clancy and Classical music and features an excerpt from Simon, Friar Tuck and Helen Hood looking out for them, the Babes Three Sopranos, Delia Boyce, Hildegard Naughton Brothers and Tommy Makem electrified the Act 2 Swan Lake. are really not in too much danger. and Sandra Schalks. The Tribal Chamber Choir will worldwide folk revival of the 1960s.

A medley of popular films, both old and new, also perform with Frank along with a ten piece live Specially scripted by Panto Dame, Peter Kennedy, this glittering In this concert, The High Kings will bring a rousing provides the theme for the second half. Modern orchestra playing such favourites as O Holy Night, production also features comical courtiers, a wild witch and many acoustic flavour to some old favourites as well as Theatre, Tap and Jazz Dance styles will entertain Silent Night, Time to Say Goodbye, Panis Angelicus, novel surprises as the story unfolds. Well known Galway performers, songs from their upcoming album, continuing to the audience in this upbeat and fast-moving tribute the Brindisi and many many more. This, coupled electrifying dance routines and the charming little Renmore Smurfs live up to their reputation as a phenomenal live to the silver screen. with a stunning stage setting, makes it a “must bring sparkle to this seasonal feast of family entertainment, directed band and serving up laughter, good times and even see”, for classical and festive music lovers alike! by award-winning twins Brian & Seán Power. the odd sing along. Don’t miss! Early booking is advised. Further details on www.renmorepantomime.com Culturefox.ie is the definitive online guide to Irish cultural events, giving you complete information about cultural activities both here and abroad.

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