BOOKING INFORMATION THEATRE ROYAL FRIENDS The Theatre Royal accepts bookings in person, by phone or online. All ticket prices include €1 transaction fee for 3rd party charges. The Theatre Royal greatly appreciates and wishes to thank the following businesses and Phone: 051 874 402 individuals for choosing to support our Friends Scheme. A rich and vibrant arts culture is at the In person: Payment is accepted by cash, cheque, laser, debit or credit card. heart of the development of our city and region and becoming involved in our Friends Scheme Online: You can book your tickets online at www.theatreroyal.ie – you can also select your enables you to support that cultural development while enjoying the benefits associated. seat from the seat map. BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS CORPORATE PARTNERS Monday to Friday: 10am – 4pm (10am – 8pm on performance days) Saturday: 12pm – 4pm (10am – 8pm on performance days) Sundays & Bank Holidays: Box Office opens one hour before the performance for ticket collection. CONCESSIONS Concessions for OAP’s, Students, Unwaged, and Children are available for some productions. The availability, amount discounted, and production applicable to is decided on by each individual producer and not the Theatre Royal. I.D. for all concessions will be requested at time of booking or at time of collection. WIT students are entitled to a special WIT price on most shows on presentation of their card. BABES IN ARMS POLICY Babes in Arms tickets for all performances permit under 2’s to sit on the lap of a parent/guardian. See www.theatreroyal.ie/boxoffice for further details DISCOUNTS FOR GROUPS Group bookings are available for shows at the Theatre Royal. Contact the Box Office for further information. Groups of 10 or more are entitled to at least 10% discount, depending on the production. ACCESS The Theatre Royal is an accessible venue with ramp access, loop induction, wheelchair seats and adapted toilets. We would ask wheelchair users to book directly with the box office rather than online to ensure that we accommodate you appropriately. Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance. REFUND POLICY A refund can be made no later than close of business, 4pm, on the day before the event. INDIVIDUAL FRIENDS A refund will be made in the form of credit for Theatre Royal events. Brazil, Ronan & Jeanne O’Brien, Tom No refund can be issued on the day of the event or following an event. Condon, Ann O’Donoghue, Redmond Dolphin, Frank & Adrienne Sheridan, Constance THE STAGE DOOR BAR Leech, Monica Taheny, Stephanie Why not relax and enjoy a pre-show drink. Select wines, soft drinks, bottled beers, tea and coffee are available from 7pm on performance evenings. Pre-order your interval drink before the performance. Our Front of House team will be on stand-by to take your order. SPONSORED SEATS Brazil, Donal & Clare Counihan, Eva SESSIONS Caulfield, John & Phyllis Waterford Chamber During a Session, the Stage Door Bar will remain open until 8pm; theatre customers have the option Caulfield, Thomas & Cait Widger, Nora & Jack to bring Stage Door Bar purchased beverages into the auditorium with them and enjoy from the comfort of their seat. The Stage Door Bar will reopen at the interval. Events that are deemed a session are clearly marked throughout our season brochure and website with the following icon. The Theatre Royal is supported by the Department of Social Protection and co-funded by the European Social Fund JANUARY MUSIC Hermitage Green TEL: 051-855640 Hailing from Limerick, Ireland, Hermitage Green have made a large impact in a short period of time. 53 High Street, Waterford City They released their first full length album via SONY Ireland and watching it climb the charts with tracks OPENING HOURS like Quicksand, Not Your Lover, and Save Your Soul, Mon–Thurs 12:30–22:00 the band has been touring internationally to sold out rooms across Ireland, the UK, Middle East, Australia Fri–Sun 12:00–22.30 Date: Friday 4th January and the US. Now the band is back having spent (Delivery service available ) Time: 8pm months in world renowned Rockfield Studios in Price: €24 Wales where their new recordings share company 3 COURSE MEAL €17 with the likes of Queen, Robert Plant and many others. Starter+Main+Soft drink / Tea, Coffee LUNCH BUFFET MUSIC Foster & Allen on every Fri, Sat, Sun: Adult €13.90 Foster & Allen are a musical duo from Ireland Kids €6.90 consisting of Mick Foster and Tony Allen. Copious amounts of Blarney charm and Celtic tunes from this everygreen Irish folk duo who celebrated their 25th Anniversary in Millennium year. They have an album PLAY sales in excess of 18 milllion copies. They have toured The Scourge Date: Saturday 5th January the world, performing for audiences of all ages and Time: 8pm cultures. Most recently they have teamed up with In association with Wexford Arts Centre. Written and Price: €31 Ireland’s No.1 Entertainer Nathan Carter to release performed by Michelle Dooley Mahon, directed by their new single and video ‘Burning Bridges’. Ben Barnes. The Scourge relives visits to her mother in a nursing home after she has been struck down by Alzheimer’s disease. Through her hilarious as well as th Date: Thursday 17 January moving memories we are introduced to a nostalgic SCHOOLS Shakespeare Review Time: 8pm archive of an ordinary Irish small-town family forced to Price: €16/€14 conc. become extraordinary in their attempt to cope. The Macbeth Review, which Theatre Royal has devised for second level students, stages key MUSIC scenes of the text with a group of experienced The Fureys Shakespearian actors directed by the Theatre Royal Artistic Director, Ben Barnes. The Review aims to give Legends of Irish music and song ‘The Fureys’, renowned students the experience of a live performance of the for their hit songs ‘I will love you’, ‘When you were play they are studying and the production choices sweet 16’, ‘The Green fields of France’, ‘The old man’, Date: Tuesday 15th – Thursday made by the actors and director. ‘Red rose café’, ‘From Clare to here’, ‘Leaving Nancy’ and 17th January This work is contextualised by facilitator, Edward ‘Steal away’ return to the Theatre Royal. Time: Tuesday: 10.30am & 12.30pm Denniston, who comments on the scenes. A booklet Date: Friday 18th January Responsible for some of the most stirring music ever to Wed/Thur: 10.30am of essays by WIT faculty is provided for all the Time: 8pm capture the public imagination, their emotive songs stir Price: €9 students who attend. Price: €31 many emotions….tears and laughter, sadness and joy. 4 5 JANUARY JANUARY/FEBRUARY COMEDY MUSIC Jack L David O’Doherty Northern Lights You Have To Laugh Jack L returns to the Theatre Royal with his smash Unhook your mindbras. David O’Doherty is back hit seasonal show of 4 years ago “Northern Lights at the Theatre Royal Waterford with a brand-new – Songs of the Winter Solstice”. He will sing songs show made up of talking and songs played on a which take him back to winters of long ago. He will crappy keyboard from 1986. also be dipping into his own repertoire and will be Date: Saturday 19th January giving a potted history of his stunning career to date Date: Saturday 26th January As seen on BBC2’s Live At The Apollo and Channel 4’s Time: 8pm and will be performing songs from all his recent Time: 8pm 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Price: €22/€20 conc. smash hit shows and a sample of his new songs Price: €19/€17 conc. thrown in! As with all Jack L shows it promises to surprise, excite, challenge and most of all, ENTERTAIN! MUSIC The High Kings MUSIC An Evening with 10 Year Anniversary Aonghus McAnally Ten years ago, four Irish singers, performers and Following on from his sold out tours in 2016 and 2017, songwriters decided to take a calculated risk. The Aonghus McAnally is back with a brand new show. constituent parts of The High Kings each had a Along with his musical director Ivan McKenna, he is wealth of history in the music business behind them, delighted to have the same team back on the road as he but knew that in order to maintain any level of shares the songs and stories that have been important creative interest they would have to boldly go where in his life and career in entertainment. From his teenage th st Date: Thursday 24 January no other Irish ballad group had gone before. In truth, Date: Friday 1 February years as lead guitarist in Celtic rock group Mushroom, to Time: 8pm back in the mid-late noughties, Ireland needed a Time: 8pm his television, radio and live performances as a singer, Price: €31 group like The High Kings. Price: €26/€23.50 conc. comedian, musician and broadcaster, audiences are in for an entertaining evening of favourites old and new. MUSIC Steeleye Span MUSIC The Legend of Luke Kelly The Folk Rock Pioneers 50th Anniversary Tour On 30th January 1984 it was said that the whole of Ireland grieved the death of Dubliner Luke Kelly. A vintage year for music and the end of a decade that He left an indelible mark as being the greatest folk changed the world, 1969 would also see the birth of artist of the 20th Century and is regarded as one of a band that would go on to become one of the most Ireland’s cultural treasures. When Dublin singer/ enduring stories in the folk world and beyond. Fifty songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist Chris Kavanagh years on and Steeleye Span, led as ever by the iconic performs, his talent captures the depth and passion Maddy Prior, are set to mark this incredible milestone th nd of the great man he is so heavily influenced by.