Programme of Events April

Programme of Events April - June 2016 What is the status of Galway’s Bid? Ireland will host the European Capital of Culture in 2020 and on 13th November 2015, Galway was shortlisted as one of three nal candidate cities in the competition. Galway is now competing against Limerick and the Three Sisters (Kilkenny, Waterford & Wexford) in the penultimate stage of the bid. In June of this year, Galway will submit its nal bid book to the European Union before presenting its proposed vision, concept and programme of events to a panel of 10 European judges in July. The winner of the European Capital of Culture 2020 designation will be announced towards the end of July 2016.

The Judges are coming to visit Galway This July, a selection of judges from the European Union will visit Galway. During their two night We’re Backing the Bid visit the judges will assess Galway’s ability to host a European Capital of Culture and will gauge the level of support that the bid has from the wider Galway community. We are calling on everyone in Let’s make Galway the Galway city and county to show their support for the bid to help strengthen Galway’s case to win this prestigious designation. European Capital of Culture 2020 Are you Backing the Bid? With just 3 months left until Galway submits its nal bid document to the European Union we need everyone in Galway to get involved and actively back the bid. Become a partner, download and use the campaign brand pack, organise your own event, become a volunteer or simply join the conversation online. Find out more about how to get involved by visiting galway2020.ie/en/get-involved/

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APRIL FRI 1 SWING - FISHAMBLE 8PM THT THEATRE 7 MAY SAT 14 REBECCA O’CONNOR AS TINA TURNER 8PM THT MUSIC 18 FRI 1 & SAT 2 CIRCOMICS - GALWAY COMMUNITY CIRCUS 7.30PM BB FAMILY 7 TUE 17 & WED 18 PLEASURE GROUND - FREGOLI 8PM THT THEATRE 19 SAT 2 & SUN 3 YOUTH BALLET WEST VARIOUS THT FAMILY 7 THUR 19 BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL 7.30PM THT CINEMA 19 WED 6 - SAT 9 BRANAR - MALONEY’S DREAM VARIOUS THT FAMILY 8 SAT 21 BRENDAN BALFE - SORRY, WE’RE OFF AIR 8PM THT TALK 20 FRI 8 GALWAY DANCE DAYS FESTIVAL - BREANDAN DE GALLAI/ERIU & OONA DOHERTY 8PM BB DANCE 8 SUN 22 GENEVIEVE RYAN DANCE ACADEMY 3PM THT FAMILY 30 SAT 9 GALWAY DANCE DAYS FESTIVAL - COMPAGNIE NACERA BELAZA 8PM BB DANCE 8 SUN 22 A WALK IN THE WOODS - BEALTAINE FESTIVAL 8PM THT CINEMA 20 TUE 12 - SAT 16 LEGALLY BLONDE - GALWAY MUSICAL SOCIETY VARIOUS THT MUSICAL 9 TUE 24 - SAT 28 THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS - ABBEY THEATRE VARIOUS THT THEATRE 21 SAT 16 REVOLUTION - DAVE JOYCE MARTIAL ARTS 6PM BB MARTIAL ARTS FRI 27 & SAT 28 CORNER BOYS - JOHN McKENNA 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 20 SUN 17 ZERO TO HERO - CLUB SHINE 3PM THT FAMILY 14 SAT 28 ULTRA-FLEX SCHOOL OF DANCE 4PM BB FAMILY 30 MON 18 DUO VOCIS - SEAN COSTELLO & FRANK NAUGHTON 8PM THT MUSIC 9 MON 30 CIRCUS OF HORRORS 8PM BB NEW AGE CIRCUS 22

WED 20 - SAT 23 CÚIRT VARIOUS VARIOUS FESTIVAL 10 & 11 JUNE WED 1 LA BOHÈME - OPERA THEATRE COMPANY 8PM THT OPERA 22 THUR 21 - SAT 23 GIFT GRUB - MARIO ROSENSTOCK LIVE 8PM BB COMEDY 14 FRI 3 & SAT 4 GOD BLESS THE CHILD 8PM THT THEATRE 23 MON 25 STARMAN - TUMBLE CIRCUS 8PM THT CIRCUS 14 SAT & SUN 5 SL DANCE TECHNICS VARIOUS BB FAMILY 30 MON 25 SECRETS OF 1916 - PADDY CULLIVAN 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 15 SUN 5 D-DANCE - PLEASE DON’T STOP THE MUSIC 3PM THT FAMILY 30 WED 27 THE BLUE BOY - BROKEN TALKERS 8PM THT THEATRE 12 TUE 7 - SAT 11 SMALL HALLS AND POTHOLES - LITTLE JOHN NEE 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 23 THUR 28 THE 1916 REBELLION - SONG, MUSIC & STORY 8PM THT MUSIC 15 WED 8 A NIGHT IN VENICE BY CANDLELIGHT 8PM THT MUSIC 23 THUR 28 - SAT 30 RIBBONS - LITTLE JOHN NEE 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 12 SAT 11 THE SPEKS 2PM THT FAMILY 24 FRI 29 SWING CATS 8PM THT MUSIC 15 SAT 11 CHRISTY DIGNAM 8PM THT MUSIC 24 SAT 30 KILFENORA CEILI BAND 8PM THT MUSIC 16 TUE 14 BREAKNECK HAMLET 8PM THT THEATRE 24 MAY TUE 3 WAITING FOR ELVIS - BLUE TEAPOT THEATRE CO 1PM & 8PM THT THEATRE 12 TUE 14 - FRI 17 FRIED EGGS 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 25 TUE 3 - THUR 5 ORPHEUS ROAD - WAKING THE FEMINISTS WEST 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 13 WED 15 & THUR 16 THEATRE FORUM ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2016 VARIOUS THT CONFERENCE THURS 5 ALL-STAR VARIETY SHOW - IN AID OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY 8PM THT VARIETY 16 WED 15 ÉAMONN CEANNT MEMORIAL CONCERT 8.30PM THT MUSIC 25 FRI 6 NEW PLAY SERIES - WAKING THE FEMINSTS WEST 6PM STUDIO READING 13 FRI 17 BRENDAN SHINE - THE LOBBY TOUR 8PM THT MUSIC 25 FRI 6 CARE - WILLFREDD THEATRE 8PM THT THEATRE 13 SAT 18 IQUE MALA ERES! - DRAMABLA 7PM STUDIO FAMILY 26 SAT 7 1916 SONG PROJECT - NUN’S ISLAND - TALK 6PM NUN’S ISLAND TALK 16 SAT 18 TALES OF THE UNSEEN - CIRCUS DOUBLE BILL - 10+ 8PM THT CIRCUS - 10+ 26 SAT 7 1916 SONG PROJECT - NUN’S ISLAND - CONCERT 8PM NUN’S ISLAND MUSIC 16 SUN 19 HESSION SCHOOL OF DANCING - REELING IN THE YEARS VARIOUS THT FAMILY 30 SAT 7 THE NUALAS 8PM THT COMEDY 17 MON 20 - SAT 25 THE WEIR - DECADENT THEATRE COMPANY 8PM THT THEATRE 28 & 29 SUN 8 MICK HANLY 8PM THT MUSIC 17 WED 22 CLUB TROPICANA 2016 8PM BB CLUB NIGHT 26

TUE 10 OMIG AWARDS 6PM THT AWARDS 17 JULY FRI 1 & SAT 2 THE SPINNER - COLOURS FRINGE FESTIVAL 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 26 THUR 12 HUBERT BUTLER - WITNESS TO THE FUTURE 8PM THT CINEMA 18 FR1 13 DAVID O’DOHERTY 8PM THT COMEDY 18 SEPT FRI 9 THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN 8PM THT MUSIC 30

THT Town Hall Theatre · BB Black Box Theatre · STUDIO Town Hall Studio 6 CULTUREFOX.IE 7 HOW TO BOOK? Fishamble: The New Play Company YOUTH BALLET WEST 1. CLICK SWING COPPELIA Buy online twenty-four hours at www.tht.ie. You can now choose your seat when you book online for both the Town Hall AND Black Box. Fri 1 April 8pm AND 2. CALL Tickets €18*/€15* ASPIRATIONS TO Phone 091 569777 Mon-Sat 10am -7.30pm. Visa, MasterCard and Visa Debit are accepted. Running time 60 mins

3. VISIT DREAM An international hit, fresh from New York, Paris, Call in to the box office at the Town Hall Theatre at Courthouse Square, Galway. We’re here Edinburgh and New Zealand. A comedy about Mon-Sat, 10am -7.30pm and one hour before performances on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Sat 2 April 7pm & Sun 3 April 5pm dancing and music and love and not settling Tickets €18*/€14* * Please note telephone and personal bookings are subject to the Town Hall Theatre Development Charge and feeling like an eejit and being brave and € of 50 cent per ticket and online bookings are subject to a 1 Booking & Development Charge per ticket. having doubts and trying your best and trying Youth Ballet West presents the unmissable family NEVER new things and thinking outside the box and classic, Coppelia. CONCESSIONS/GROUP RATES seeing things clearly and living as well as you We offer discounts on most shows - concessions apply to under 18 year olds, can and giving it a lash. With rock ‘n’ roll music. Immerse yourself in an enchanting and comical students, senior citizens and the unwaged. Proof of eligibility and ID required. It’ll make you want to dance. love-triangle between boy, girl & beautiful, 10% discount for groups of 10+. Some exceptions apply. Galway Community Circus presents clockwork doll! The magical toy maker Dr INTERVAL DRINKS MISS WINNER OF BEWLEY’S LITTLE GEM AWARD Coppelius can create many wonders but he cannot Avoid the rush by ordering your interval drinks before the show. The bar on AT DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2013 CirComics alter the path of true love.

the first floor is open before and after all performances. Gift This dynamic, talented young company also VOUCHER “Endearing visions of stalled lives in premier Aspirations to Dream with live cellist SPECIAL ASSISTANCE a whirl of possibility” Fri 1 & Sat 2 April 7.30pm Please let us know - when booking your tickets - of any special requirements Adrian Mantu. IRISH TIMES Tickets €12*/€8* so we can make your visit as enjoyable as possible. If you book online, you GIFT VOUCHERS - OUT Running time 100mins should phone or email us to let us know of any special requirements. IDEAL GIFTS! “there’s a real sweetness to this Looking for the ideal CONDITIONS OF SALE comedy. Give it a whirl” The ruffle of capes; the elaborate disguises; the gift? One to suit every We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded unless a performance SUNDAY TIMES power of flight and host of astounding super taste? Then why not is cancelled or abandoned. Your statutory rights are not affected. For full list powers. See the colour and drama of comic books treat someone special of conditions, see reverse of tickets. Please note the management reserve the be lifted from the pages and transformed into a to a Town Hall Theatre right to make essential changes to the programme. MARVELous circus show where Wonder Woman gift voucher, available meets Astro Boy in Sin City. LATECOMERS from the box office. Late Admission cannot be guaranteed and can only occur if there is a suitable Mentored by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre, break in the performance. Galway Community Circus young ensemble will

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r i a C o h m – and personalised for you. Never miss out again. 8 9 Branar Téatar do Pháistí Seán Costello & Frank Naughton MALONEY’S DREAM When one man’s dream of a new beginning collided with the BRIONGLÓID MALONEY birth of a nation Wed 6 - Sat 9 April To mark the centenary celebrations, Branar have created a new show set against the background of Wed 6 April 10am & 12 noon Easter week 1916. Thaddeus Maloney has a dream Galway Dance Artist in Residence Thurs 7 April 11am & 7pm to open a new hotel on Sackville St (now O’Connell Street) on the Easter Monday. It’s a bilingual show for Fri 8 April 10am & 12 noon all ages from 8 years plus that is jam packed with CORP_REAL Sat 9 April 3pm live music, physical theatre and puppetry - and fun! GALWAY DANCE DAYS FESTIVAL Lots of fun! Tickets Adults €10*, Child €8* Fri 8 - Sun 10 April Family (4 people) €30, Groups of 10 + €7* € € For further information visit Festival Ticket 40*/ 35* Running Time 60 mins € € www.maloneysdream.ie Individual Performances 16*/ 13*

Fri 8 April 8pm DOUBLEBILL WITH BREANDÁN DE Tues 12 - Sat 16 April, 8pm GALLAÍ/ÉRIÚ & OONA DOHERTY Matinee Saturday 16 April 3pm Tickets Tues Preview & Sat Matinee €18*/€16* Sat 9 April 8pm Tickets Wed 13 - Sat 16 April €20*/€18* Mon 18 April 8pm COMPAGNIE NACERA BELAZA Tickets €25*/€20* (France/Algeria) Legally Blonde tells the story of Elle Woods who has it all but wants nothing Running time 2hrs 20mins approx. more than to become Mrs Warner Huntingdon III. The only thing preventing Sat 9 - Sun 10 April Warner from proposing to Elle is that she is too blonde. Elle rallies all of her Back by popular demand, Sean Costello & Frank DANCE ARTIST SURVIVAL TOOLKIT resources and gets into Harvard Business School to win Warner back and this Naughton return with their wonderful tribute to the SYMPOSIUM/ELLA CLARKE DANCE is just the start of an hilarious journey of love, loss and the power of women, greatest Irish tenors, singing such beautiful songs NUI Galway especially when they work together! as I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen, Goodbye and The 5th Corp_Real | Galway Dance Days presents Audiences are guaranteed to be entertained by this highly energetic show right Danny Boy. a weekend of exciting new contemporary and Irish from the opening number O-mi-god You Guys. So, for a memorable evening filled with nostalgia and step dance performances from award-winning humour, this is the concert for you. With a superb live international & Irish choreographers, with Festival Book now to avoid disappointment! orchestra, and a cinematic presentation to enhance Headliner, Nacera Belaza (Chevalier de l’Ordre des your trip down memory lane, come and share in this Arts et des Lettres) Directors Brian & Seán Power. Musical Director: Shane Farrell, Choreographer: Claire Rigney and Chorus Director: Heather Shine. unique evening of Irish song. Full programme www.ciotog.ie 10 11 17-24 Alongside the headline readings featured here, Cúirt will present a packed APRIL programme featuring a diverse range of events for all ages. 2016 For full details or to get your copy of the festival brochure, visit www.cuirt.ie or www.tht.ie

Fri 22 April 8.30pm, Tickets €15*/€12* Sat 23 April 1.00pm, Tickets €10* Sat 23 April 8.30pm, Tickets €15*/€12* KEVIN BARRY & JOSHUA FERRIS & MIKE McCORMACK & PATRICK deWITT LISA McINERNEY JOHN BANVILLE Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City Joshua Ferris is the bestselling author of three novels, Then Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and Of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies The Island We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a short-story writer from Mayo. He has published three and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the Decent Hour, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker books, Getting it in the Head, 1996 - a collection of IMPAC Dublin City Literary Award, the Goldsmith’s Prize, Prize and won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. He has short stories – and two novels Crowe’s Requiem, 1998 and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize. been named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” writers. and Notes from a Coma, 2005. His new novel, Solar Bones, will be published by Tramp Press in May. Patrick deWitt’s first novel, Ablutions, was published by “This is fiction with the force of an avalanche” SAN Granta Books in 2009. His second novel, The Sisters FRANCISCO CHRONICLE John Banville has been both short-listed for the Booker Brothers won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Prize (1989) and awarded the Man Booker Prize (2005) Govenor General Literary Award and was shortlisted for as well as nominated for the Man Booker International Wed 20 April 8.30pm, Tickets €15*/€12* Thurs 21 April 8.30pm, Tickets €15*/€12* Lisa McInerney was born in 1981 and just about grew up to the 2011 Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel, Under be a writer of contemporary fiction. The Glorious Heresies, Prize (2007). His most recent novel The Blue Guitar, An Evening with Major Domo Minor is published by Granta. for which she was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish was published in 2015. ROBERT PINSKY & Book Awards, is her first novel. NATASHA TRETHEWEY TOBIAS WOLFF Chairperson for the event, Jim Carroll, is the producer and host of Banter, a series of well-travelled public discussions “McInerney has talent to burn” THE GUARDIAN Robert Pinsky’s first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by Tobias Wolff’s books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: and interviews. Jim is an arts and music journalist and such visible dynamism, and such national enthusiasm that the Library of Congress Memories of the Lost War; the short novel The Barracks Thief; the novel Old School, contributes regularly to The Irish Times. appointed him to an unprecedented third term. Elegant and tough, vividly imaginative, and four collections of short stories. His work has received numerous awards, Pinsky’s poems have earned praise for their wild musical energy and range. including the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

“His poems bubble up and dissolve like fireworks” LOS ANGELES TIMES “Gentle, reserved, graceful. . . . Wolff is a writer of the highest order: part Natasha Trethewey - 19th US Poet Laureate and Pullitzer Prize Winner - explores storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard what it is to be citizen, to be dweller, to be human, to be considered ‘of’ and/or questions.” LOS ANGELES TIMES ‘not of’ a place, to be liminal among the norms of identity. 12 13 FÉILE AMHARCLANNAÍOCHTA NA GAILLIMHE Waking the Feminists West For full details programme and booking, ORPHEUS ROAD visit www.galwaytheatrefestival.com & ...TOUCHED…

Little John Nee and Laura Sheeran Tues 3 May - Thurs 5 May 8.30pm Tickets €12*/ €10*, Early Bird rate €8* RIBBONS A double-bill of work by the internationally acclaimed Irish playwright Ursula Rani Sarma, Thurs 28 - Sat 30 April 8.30pm in a special staging that highlights the work of Tickets €12*/€10* leading Irish female voices in theatre. Orpheus Road riffs on the Romeo and Juliet story, setting Brokentalkers Ribbons is the latest collaboration between Little it in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. In … John Nee and Laura Sheeran. A lyrical story about touched… two teenagers flee a rural Irish town THE BLUE BOY a journey interwoven with a powerful score and for the promise of a better life in Dublin, only to delicious songs. This is their first new work together Blue Teapot Theatre Company experience a rude awakening when they arrive. Wed 27 April 8pm since the highly acclaimed The Mental; their WillFredd Theatre Tickets €18*/ €15* musical play Limavady My Hearts Delight won “Best WAITING FOR ELVIS New Play” at Project ’06 and Rural Electric was CARE Urgent and vital, the award-winning Blue Boy deals with the given a five star review in The Guardian. By EILEEN GIBBONS experiences of men and women who were incarcerated as children Directed by PETAL PILLEY Waking the Feminists West Fri 6 May 8pm in Catholic residential care institutions. The production combines Tickets €15*/€12* startling choreography with live music, multi-media, and film, Tues 3 May 1pm & 8pm NEW PLAY SERIES Tickets €15*/€12*, Groups of 10+ €10* alongside recorded testimony from men and women who resided On a hilltop in Galway, staff are working around the clock. They make tea. They paint nails. in those institutions. Don’t miss this compelling work, which gives Lisa Marie lives her life sitting on a park bench. They refill syringe drivers. Some pray. Some don’t. Everyone they care for is dying. intense physical expression to the anguish experienced by those Waiting for Elvis. She has always sat alone. One Fri 6 May 6pm Donation on the door. Pre-registration by email to Galway Theatre WillFredd Theatre’s CARE gives audiences an insight into the day-to-day world of Hospice who were silenced. Essential watching for our times. day, Elizabeth blusters into her life. Nothing will Festival advised [email protected] Staff. Developed over a year spent in consultation with Irish Hospices, CARE fuses ever be the same for either of them again. Brokentalkers are Project Artists, an initiative of Project Arts Centre. movement, live music and theatre, celebrating the people who help you live until you die. Featuring a range of exciting new voices, the #wakingthefeministswest Adapted for the award winning company of actors Every word, sound and image in CARE is drawn from daily Hospice life. Please Note: Contains material that some viewers New Play Series offers a selection of plays by emerging women writers with intellectual disabilities, Waiting for Elvis is a might find disturbing. from the West of Ireland. “Respective, intelligent and inventive…” THE IRISH TIMES poignant, sharp comedy about the delicacies of friendship and acceptance of human foibles. CARE will be captioned and audio described. 14 15 Tumble Circus Club Shine PADDY CULLIVAN Community Youth Variety Group The 10 Dark Secrets of 1916 (and how they shaped Ireland) ZERO TO HERO Paddy Cullivan of Callan’s Kicks and Kilkenomics brings you Mon 25 April 8.30pm an audiovisual spectacular on the Rising Centenary. Using Sun 17 April 3pm Tickets €15*/€12* Satire, Imagery, Historical Insight and Song, Paddy reveals Tickets €10* Adults/€5* Children the 10 strangest things that happened during our Rising, Revolution and Counter-Revolution. He parallels those events’ effects on modern Ireland, drawing out fundamental Club Shine are proud to present their latest variety show for 2016 Zero to Hero - changes that need to happen, no matter what Government an action packed hour of music, dance and comedy, ideal for all the family! we end up with. The show promises to be lively and entertaining with some well known tunes, a few original bits and a random mix of unlikely heroes thrown in for good measure! “Freewheeling political polemic that makes you laugh while making you think” THE IRISH TIMES Club Shine is a community youth variety club, run on a voluntary basis and situated in St. Joseph’s Community Centre Shantalla. It has 50 members from 9 - 18 years. “Paddy Cullivan is a National Treasure” DAVID McWILLIAMS

C DEW Promotions With DON STIFFE Award-winning Singer / Songwriter THE SWING CATS Mon 25 April 8pm THE 1916 REBELLION PAT COYNE Tickets €15*/€12* THE SONGS - THE MUSIC - THE STORY Ballad Singer, Multi-Instrumentalist and Recording Artist Fri 29 April 8pm Tickets €18* Have you ever looked to the heavens for inspiration or Thurs 28 April 8pm guidance? Star Man, the latest show from the award WILLIAM HENRY Tickets €20*/€15* A musical timeline of swing classics of the winning Tumble Circus, is an entertaining expedition Award-winning Historian and Author 1920s to the modern day. Featuring the music into what happens when dreams and destiny collide Don & Pat’s centenary souvenir album of 13 classic of Louis Armstrong, The Rat Pack, Michael and follows the journey of one man and his life as a ballads of 1916 will be launched on the night. Plus GUEST ARTISTS Buble, Paolo Nutini - and more - performed MCD presents circus artist, a dad, and a clown. Star Man promises by a swinging 6-piece band lead by former an energetic mix of stand-up, slapstick, sequins and Meteor Award-winner, Luke Thomas. MARIO ROSENSTOCK … cardboard. This new all ages show will be a firm favourite with anyone who has experienced the bitter Hear such classics as King of the Swingers, sweet chaos of life. Puttin' on the Ritz, When The Saints Go Marching In, Mack The Knife and I Can't Take Thurs 21, Fri 22 & Sat 23 April 8pm A One Man Circus, Comedy & Theatre show. My Eyes Off You. An absolute must for all Tickets €31.75* Written and performed by Ken Fanning. swing music fans. 16 17 “Staggeringly impressive three-part harmonies THE NUALAS & a savage, biting wit” METRO SCOTLAND

The Glitterbomb “They’re funny. Simple as” THE IRISH TIMES Tour Sat 7 May 8pm Tickets €20*/€18*

The Nualas are celebrating their 21st birthday! With scorchingly brilliant new songs, red hot new chat and blistering new shoes, they Expect an exciting and energetic performance from one of the world’s most are jetting in for one night only to leave you KILFENORA renowned trad bands – The Kilfenora Céilí Band. Nun’s Island Theatre helpless with laughter, delirious with pleasure, Three Special Guests, and a little disorientated if you can’t remember Six Awards and CÉILÍ BAND This expertly choreographed show of high-spirited traditional music, energetic THE 1916 which door you came in. & athletic dancing, melodious song and witty story-telling will get your hearts One Celebration. Open to all. Sat 30 April 8pm racing and your feet tapping in a way you never expected! This traditional SONG PROJECT Tickets €25* super group take their rich musical heritage into the future with a show that’s not only engaging and uplifting but utterly enjoyable. Tues 10 May 6pm Sat 7 May 8pm € € Tickets €12*/€10* Tickets 15 and 3 for 30 “Fantastic, feel-good, happy, lively music” Celtic Collections € Early Bird Rate first 100 only 12.50 SHARON SHANNON A Concert of Traditional Song featuring MICK HANLY new compositions based on the 1916 available via www.galwaymarketing.com/awards Easter Rising. Sun 8 May 8pm The 1916 Song Project is a national research and Tickets €22.50*/€18* SVP members continue to make in the region of performance project devised and produced by Mick Hanly returns with a new ALL-STAR VARIETY SHOW 18,000 visits a year to homes in the Galway area to Michael Fortune and Aileen Lambert for the 2016 show to mark the release of his In aid of St. Vincent de Paul Society provide assistance for a myriad of problems. SVP Commemoration Programme and features ten brand new album Homeland, in Galway spends well over €1m a year on direct traditional singers from throughout the country: his first new studio album in 11 assistance. The bulk of this goes to helping families Paul O’Reilly, Rosie Ní Ghallóglaigh, Sandra Joyce, years. Joined onstage by Donal Thurs 5 May 8pm with food, energy and education costs. We depend John Tunney, Jerry O’Reilly, Fergus Russell, Lunny, Liam Bradley & James Tickets €22.50 entirely on donations from the public and corporate Thérèse McIntyre, Paddy Berry, Aileen Lambert Delaney, it is a welcome return donors. We look forward to this great night of first and Larry Joy. for one of Ireland’s best loved SONG/MUSIC/DANCE/COMEDY class entertainment and to the continued and always This concert will be preceded by a Public Talk singer-songwriters. With top names from the world of entertainment. generous support of the people of Galway. (Admission Free) at 6pm, duration 60 mins. 18 19 Fregoli Theatre Company PLEASURE GROUND by JARLATH TIVNAN

Bandit Films Tues 17 & Wed 18 May 8pm Tickets €15*/€12*

Thurs 12 May 8pm “A wonderful, strong play that will ‘Back then I thought it was perfection. But things change. Oh yes, they do.’ Tickets €10* stay with you after the lights go down… REBECCA O’CONNOR Pleasure Ground is based on the decline of the rural Irish town exploring notions of home, belonging, community and change. Lelia Doolan will introduce the film pure magic” THE RED CURTAIN REVIEW Tivnan’s writing is witty and sharp, and captures the beauty of rural and small town life whilst exploring feelings of sadness and also facilitate a post-screening “SIMPLY THE BEST” and isolation. Pleasure Ground debuted in 2015 in the Town Hall Theatre and we are delighted to finish our national tour here. In association with the Irish Centre for Human Rights (NUIG) Q&A with director Johnny Gogan. “a name to look out for” NO MORE WORK HORSE Winner of the Michael Diskin Arts Bursary 2015, this is Fregoli's 20th production, for more info see www.fregolitheatre.com and Galway Film Society AS TINA Sat 14 May 8pm Tickets €20*/€17.50* Experience an evening of extraordinary short films Róisín Dubh Comedy Early Bird €17.50* for first 100 tickets sold BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL from the world’s most prestigious mountain film festival. DAVID O’DOHERTY In the words of Tina Turner… “Rebecca is so good, WORLD TOUR she’s scary… if I had her energy, I would still be Fri 13 May 8pm Follow the expeditions of some of today’s most touring today.” incredible adventurers, see amazing footage of Tickets €18* Thurs 19 May 7.30pm adrenaline packed action sports and be inspired by Be prepared to stand in your seats as Rebecca Tickets €14*/€12* thought-provoking pieces shot from the far flung We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of O’Connor delivers her flawless rendition of Tina corners of the globe. Us Are Looking at David O’Doherty Turner’s greatest hits including, Nutbush City Limits, Proud Mary, River Deep, Private Dancer, When the Ignite your passion for adventure, action and travel David O’Doherty, the Lidl Enya, the broken Heartache Is Over, Better Be Good To Me, and of through an exhilarating collection of the latest films Bublé, is delighted to present a new hour of course her anthem, Simply the Best. from the most talented adventure film makers of talking and songs played on a stupid keyboard today. An exciting event not to be missed with free from 1986. “Rebecca is way beyond a tribute act… prize giveaways! Life is like a box of chocolates, but one where she is an amazing singer and performer Visit for more details somebody else has eaten all the chocolates. in her own right, I was mesmerised… www.banff-uk.com Age Guidance: 12A And replaced them with mouse heads and a night you’ll never forget” dishwasher tablets. MICK FLEETWOOD 20 21 BEALTAINE FILM A WALK IN THE Galway Film Society WOODS with access>CINEMA DIR: KEN KWAPIS · USA · 2015 · 104 MINS CAST: ROBERT REDFORD, NICK NOLTE, Sun 22 May 8pm EMMA THOMPSON € € Tickets 8*/ 6* Based on Bill Bryson’s best-selling 1998 memoir, A Walk in the Woods is a gentle comedy that combines breath-taking scenery with the charming chemistry ABBEY THEATRE ON TOUR of its two veteran stars, who are clearly Tues 24 - Sat 28 May 8pm Pat Egan presents enjoying themselves. Matinees Thurs 26 May 11am Tea/coffee/soft drinks will be provided & Friday 27 May 1pm BRENDAN BALFE in the THT bar prior to film screening as Tickets €25*/€22.50*, Matinee €15* SORRY, WE’RE OFF AIR part of admission. THE PLOUGH Sat 21 May 8pm Th’ time is rotten ripe for revolution Tickets €20*/€18* Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough

and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart How did Terry Wogan inaugurate young announcers? Mend & Makedo Theatre Co. by the idealism of the time. Why did the newsreader fall off the chair? What caused Larry Gogan to collapse in giggles? CORNER BOYS AND THE The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through the city’s streets. In his 50 years in broadcasting, Brendan Balfe Written by JOHN MacKENNA A revolution that will shape the country’s future rages has worked with all the greats - Gay Byrne, Mike Directed by MARIAN BROPHY around them. What kind of Ireland awaits them? Murphy, Maurice O’Doherty, Dermot Morgan - and his memories and anecdotes add colour to the The Plough and the Stars was first performed at the history of Irish broadcasting. In his new one-man Fri 27 & Sat 28 May 8.30pm STARS Abbey Theatre in 1926. The audience rioted. Now show, he recalls some of the personalities and Tickets €15*/€12* regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is eccentrics who became household names in Ireland. an essential part of our understanding of 1916. Brendan not only tells hilarious stories, but also Following their successful tour with Lucinda Sly, SEAN O’CASEY plays some actual clips from programmes, as well Mend & Makedo Theatre Co return with Corner Olivier Award-winning director Sean Holmes will bring as the unintended mistakes - or ‘bloopers’ - that Boys. It’s 1963. For the young women working in a new perspective to Sean O’Casey’s absorbing play. every broadcaster is prone to. the local shop the visit of President Kennedy is all important. For the corner boys the concerns are Audio Described and Captioned Performance Thurs 26 “A natural storyteller - different. This play exposes the underbelly of Irish May, 8pm. Facilitated by Arts & Disability Ireland with and a national treasure!” life in the sixties. funding from the Arts Council. SUN INDEPENDENT “A wonderful piece of work” RTÉ RADIO 1

22 23 Patrick Talbot Productions A NIGHT IN VENICE BY CANDLELIGHT PUCCINI st! Wed 8 June re the harde Tickets €22.50*/€20* fessions a La First con A glittering Opera Extravaganza from the producers of The acclaimed play based on stories by Frank O’Connor Magical Mozart and A Viennese Strauss Gala.

bohème Adapted for the stage and directed by Patrick Talbot “The Circus of Capturing all of the romance and glamour of a Horrors completely Venetian soiree, the masked balls and society bustle Wed 1 June 8pm Three of the funniest of Frank O’Connor’s hilarious childhood encapsulates some of the great music of Verdi, Puccini WOWED the stories - First Confession, My Oedipus Complex and The Genius - Tickets €30*/€27* Fri 3 & Sat 4 June 8pm and Donizetti. Performed by the European Baroque audience” have been brought together within a single full-length play. Ensemble, the show features leading opera singers Tickets €18*/€15* THE DAILY MAIL Richly evocative of Ireland in the early decades of the performing arias from the Grand Operas of the day. 20th Century, funny yet moving, and featuring memorable Aida, Madam Butterfly, Turandot and many more. HHHH THE OBSERVER performances, God Bless the Child is a must see. Featuring Maria Kesselman (BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night The Circus Of Horrors 21st Anniversary Tour Is Music Night) and Jonathan Ansell (Of G4 Fame). WELCOME TO THE CARNEVIL Little John Nee “There are parts of Ireland that are less Mon 30 May 8pm A chance encounter in a freezing attic (Mimi), Argentinian tenor Pablo Bemsch SMALL HALLS AND POTHOLES explored than the € € Tickets 30*/ 25* results in a red-hot affair between (Rodolfo), Sinead Campbell-Wallace moon that’s where I If Quentin Tarantino had directed Cirque Du Soleil, then you would be only half penniless poet Rodolfo and innocent (Musetta), Charles Rice (Marcello), go to get my songs” way there! The show that stormed into the finals of Britain’s Got Talent and now seamstress Mimi. But will their love be Padraic Rowan (Colline) and Rory Tues 7 - Sat 11 June 8.30pm Tickets €12*/€10* a West End smash is back to mark its 21st Anniversary in spectacular style. strong enough to survive against the Musgrave (Schaunard), together with www.littlejohnnee.com odds? La bohème follows a group of a professional chorus of twelve and a Featuring some of the greatest and most bizarre circus acts on earth, performed friends as they struggle as artists in thirteen member chamber orchestra Small Halls and Potholes is an evening of by an almighty cast with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek and the devil 1930s Paris. Puccini’s timeless classic conducted by Andrew Greenwood. eccentric songs and strange stories, a show that driven rock ‘n’ roll of Dr Haze & The Interceptors from Hell. promises a breathtaking experience for Design is by Joe Vanek. La bohème will celebrates all that is weird and wonderful about newcomers and opera fans alike, with be sung in Italian with English surtitles. the summer in this part of the world. Little John Don’t miss the Killer Klowns, Sword Swallowers, Demon Drawfs, Death Deifying ravishing music and thrilling arias and Nee is widely regarded as one of Ireland’s leading Aerialists, fire limboing acrobats and lots, lots more, a show ruled by the undead ensembles. Ben Barnes directs a sterling La bohème celebrates Opera Theatre solo theatre performers, his songs have been and climaxing in an awesome flaming apocalypse. cast of Irish and international singers, Company’s 30th year touring opera praised by John Prine and his theatre shows www.circusofhorrors.co.uk including rising star soprano Máire Flavin throughout Ireland. have received critical acclaim internationally. 24 25 Pat Egan presents THE SPEKS Moonstone Productions in conjunction with Dodo Theatre Saturday 11 June 2pm Tickets €8* FRIED EGGS Ages 2 and up Performed by KAREN CONNELL The Speks present a lively show of nursery rhymes and sing-along songs set to acoustic Irish music which will have adults and kids jumping in their seats! Their Tues 14 - Fri 17 June 8.30pm hand-clapping, toe-tapping, hearty-laughing show is all Tickets €10*/€8* about life on Glasses Island – a magical island off the coast of Co. Clare where everybody wears glasses! Eloise spends her life being confronted by the men Galway Sessions 2016 Their music has been described as “Riverdance for her sister Lulu has slept with and dumped. If Lulu kids” and they encourage everyone to sing, scream, could only be a little more inhibited, that might ÉAMONN CEANNT clap and dance along during their performances. This make Eloise’s life a bit easier. When Eloise loses her Timothy Mooney will be a great, fun event for kids aged 2 to 92! job because of Lulu, the last thing she wants is to MEMORIAL CONCERT Repertory Theatre meet her sister’s latest conquest, Brendan. But then again, Brendan might be the one person who can THE LOBBY TOUR make everything right. Wed 15 June 8.30pm Tickets €20* Fri 17 June 8pm € € “Connell allows the story to flow without Tickets 27.50*/ 25* CHRISTY DIGNAM This tribute concert to Éamonn Ceannt - 1916 Rising being forceful in any way, strengthened leader, piper and founder member of Cummann Na To Celebrate The 37th Anniversary of Some Songs and Stories by Sedgwick’s direction” Píobaire - features two of Scotland’s most renowned Do You want Your Oul Lobby Washed Down TIMOTHY MOONEY THE REVIEWS HUB pipers and Gaelic singers Alan MacDonald and Sat 11 June 8pm Brendan Shine has released over 50 albums and Tickets €20* Griogair Laubhrie. Ireland’s most respected uilleann Tues 14 June 8pm piper Liam O’Flynn will also perform, accompanied by has had 45 hit singles in a glittering career that has taken him from his Co. Westmeath home to every Christy Dignam, Aslan’s extraordinary frontman joins Free Admission - but advance booking advised! two fiddling greats - Sean Keane of the Chieftains and major concert hall the world over. His hit singles with Joe Jewell, Aslan’s lead guitarist and songwriter Paddy Glackin. include: O’Brien Has No Place To Go, Where The - childhood pals, lifelong friends and the founding American actor Timothy Mooney recklessly slices There will also be a Three Counties Meet, Abbeyshrule, All My Roads members of Aslan - to bring their very special and Shakespeare’s four-hour masterpiece to a breathlessly performance of a newly Lead Back To You, How Much Time and, of course, intimate acoustic show Some Songs and Stories to inspiring and hilarious hour-long one-man romp! No composed piece by Dave Do You Want Your Oul Lobby Washed Down which Galway for one special night. This show features “melancholy Dane”, his breakneck performance reveals Flynn, commissioned by Brendan famously performed for Pope John Paul II many of Aslan’s best known songs plus some Hamlet as a complex, dangerous cat-and-mouse, as Galway City Council Arts on his visit to Ireland in that summer of ’79. classic covers and new material. There will be good two powerful players fight to the death over who gets to be king! Following a brief interval, Mooney (“the Office and performed banter with the audience, as the lads explain the by piper Mick O’Brien Even after all of these years Brendan shows no background of some of the songs, and tell stories of Shakespeare jukebox”) returns with Shakespeare on signs of slowing down and last year released a new Demand: One monologue from any Shakespeare play and the ConTempo 30+ years in Aslan. A must see show for all fans of string quartet. Best Of CD to coincide with his 50th Anniversary. this legendary Irish rock band. Early booking advised. you’d like to request! 26 27 Dramabla Galway’s only Language Through Drama school Oireachtas Chonradh na Gaeilge 1913 ¡QUE MALA Sat 18 June 7pm presents this unique end of term project for two performances only. Watch how three of the Gaelic League Oireachtas 1913 Tickets €7.50*/€5* ERES! city’s schools at primary/secondary level come AMHARCLANN CATHRACH NA GAILLIMHE together to show their acting skills. Estupendo! TOWN HALL THEATRE, GALWAY

Riuchi and Squarehead Productions COLOURS FRINGE FESTIVAL TALES OF THE UNSEEN James Fleming DOUBLE BILL THE SPINNER by RIUCHI and DARRAGH McLOUGHLIN

Sat 18 June 8pm Fri 1 - Sat 2 July 8.30pm € Tickets €15*/€12* Tickets 9.50* ADULTS ONLY Age 10+ years CLUB TROPICANA A one-man show by James Fleming about the This charming double bill brings together two of mystical adventures of a cockeyed cowboy Ireland’s award winning circus companies: two very seeking justice upon the streets of his urban different pieces, one immersing the audience in an old Wed 22 June 8pm - 11pm prairie. Premiered in March 2016 at the NUIG asian tale, the other creating quirky abstract narratives Muscailt Arts Festival. in a minimal setting. Tickets €12*/Carers €6*

While Riuchi uses classic magic techniques, body Club Tropicana, the amazing summer Club Night for people RE-ENACTMENT OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH TOWN HALL THEATRE, SATURDAY 18 JUNE effects and new technologies, Squarehead Productions with intellectual disability returns to the Black Box for its creates the illusion of time travel, déjà vus and stop 5th edition. That’s Life performers, DJs and VJs will rock An historic group photograph of delegates attending the Gaelic League Oireachtas The 1913 Ard Fheis marked an important juncture in the history of the Gaelic League as motion effects by making the audience open and close this magical night. Club Tropicana is produced by That’s (Ard Fheis/national convention) at the Town Hall Theatre in 1913 is tantamount to a internal divisions between the apolitical old guard of the movement and a republican/ their eyes. Life, an award-winning arts program of the Brothers of who’s who of the ‘coming revolution’ with as many as perhaps half the signatories of I.R.B. faction had come to the fore in the months preceding the convention, leading Charity Services, Galway. the 1916 proclamation (including Pádraig Pearse, Seán Mac Diarmada and Éamonn eventually to the 1915 decision by the Gaelic League to revoke its hitherto politically “An intriguing synthesis of technology Ceannt) as well three future Presidents of Ireland (Douglas Hyde, Seán T. O’Kelly and neutral stance and declare its support for separatism. and a skilled and imaginative performer” "A fantastic club night full of laughter, a lot Eamon de Valera) being present. On Saturday 18 June 2016, there will be a re-enactment of the taking of this historic THE IRISH TIMES of surprises and a great set. Don’t miss it and bring your friends Galway City Arts Office is The photograph was presented to the venue by members of the Curran family who photograph on the steps of the Town Hall, followed by a parade through the streets of found the photograph in the attic of their family home in Dublin. The photograph is Galway and ending in nearby Woodquay. “Funny, touching and performed with so delighted to be associated with this event" now on permanent display at the Theatre. consummate skill, irresistible” EXAMINER.COM JAMES HARROLD, GALWAY CITY ARTS OFFICER See www.tht.ie for times, route and information on how to participate HHHHH in this historic re-enactment. 28 29 The Weir CONOR McPHERSON WINNER OF THE OLIVIER, EVENING STANDARD & CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARDS FOR BEST NEW PLAY “A MODERN CLA SSIC” Ev ening Standard “PURE STORYTELLING” Telegraph “A MASTERPIECE” MonThe G u20ar d-i aSatn “A 25 HAI JuneR-RAI 8pmSING SC RIPT” The Times “BEAUTIFUL ATicketsND DEVIOU €20*/€18*S” New York Times

"There’s no dark like a winter night in the country. And there was a wind like this one, howling and whistling in off the sea. It was this type of night now. Am I setting the scene for you?”

On a stormy night in Brendan’s pub, isolated above a Leitrim town, the men are gathering for their daily pint. The arrival of a stranger in their midst – a beautiful woman – spurs them to impress her with stories. They are stories of souls past, spirits present and spectres unforeseen. One story, however, is more chilling, more sinister and more real than any of them could have foreseen. On its première in 1997, The Weir won the Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier award for Best New Play, and established McPherson’s eerie tale as a masterpiece of modern theatre. Quietly compelling and strangely chilling, The Weir is the perfect story for a summer’s night. Decadent’s production Tmarkshe a major Irish revival and nationalW tour of this undoubtede modernir classic. In associationCONOR with Town Hall Theatre Galway, M thec EverymanPH Cork,ERSO and Pavilion TheatreN Dun Laoghaire WINNER OF THE OLIVIER, EVENING STANDARD & CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARDS FOR BEST NEW PLAY “A MODERN CLA SSIC” Ev ening Standard “PURE STORYTELLING” Telegraph “A MASTERPIECE” The Gu ardian “A HAIR-RAISING SC RIPT” The Times “BEAUTIFUL AND DEVIOUS” New York Times 30 31 GENEVIEVE RYAN TOWN HALL THEATRE COMING THIS SEPTEMBER DANCE ACADEMY 10 PERFORMANCES ONLY Sunday 22 May 3pm, Tickets €10*/U-12s €5* GALLERY BAR EXHIBITIONS Tickets on sale May 2016

ULTRA-FLEX SCHOOL OF DANCE See druid.ie for details Annual Showcase 2016 MICHAEL LYONS printmaker 1-27 April Sat 28 May 4pm, Tickets €15* (Participants €5*) Michael is a print maker originally from county Clare who now lives and works in Dublin. He SL DANCE TECHNICS makes large woodblock prints and this exhibition is inspired by the Easter 1916 Rising. The exhibition School of Dance also includes some of his sculptural architectural buildings that stand over ten feet high. Michael will Sat 4 June 7pm, Sun 5 June 4pm, Tickets €10* Adult/€8* Child also exhibit his work in the Print Works Gallery on

Market Street in April. D-DANCE Please Don’t Stop the Music Sun 5 June 3pm, Tickets €12* Adult/€10* Child CIARA NOLAN animation HESSION SCHOOL OF DANCING 29 April - 25 May Reeling in the Years Ciara Nolan has just completed her MA in animation in Scotland. Before that, she studied in Limerick art € € Sun 19 June 2.30pm & 7pm, Tickets 14*/ 10* college where she recieved her degree in fine art sculpture. This will be Ciara’s first solo show and it will include stills from her animation pieces. THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN

THE UKULELE FRANK O’SULLIVAN painter ORCHESTRA 27 May - 15 June Frank is a painter from County Clare. His paintings OF GREAT BRITAIN are very lively and full of colour. Frank is now Fri 9 September 8pm, Tickets €32* retired and focusses most of his time on painting. cil Coun ty Ci y a lw a G

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