Programme of Events January - March 2015 1 HOW to BOOK? TOWN HALL CINEMA WINTER/SPRING PROGRAMME 1

Programme of Events January - March 2015 1 HOW TO BOOK? TOWN HALL CINEMA WINTER/SPRING PROGRAMME 1. CLICK Buy online twenty-four hours at www.tht.ie. You can now choose your seat when you book online for (with two exceptions: both the Town Hall AND Black Box. And soon you will be able to check the view from the seat you select! Sundays 8pm SUN 1 MAR PAPER SOULS Tues 13 January and Wed 18 March) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S Dir. Vincent Lannoo · France · 2013 · 100 mins DAY FILM SCREENING 2. CALL GALWAY FILM SOCIETY Membership/Season ticket for all ten films E45*/E42* Paul, once a successful novelist, unable to recover from the death of Phone 091 569777 Mon-Sat 10am -7.30pm. Visa, MasterCard and Visa Debit are accepted. (includes levy in support of new Galway Art Cinema) his wife, has become a funeral-speech writer. But when Emma, a pretty In association with Guest admission to single films E9*/E7* AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 3. VISIT WINTER/SPRING 2015 widow, asks Paul for a special piece of writing surprising events unfold. A gentle, charming and touching comedy on an unusual subject. Call in to the box office at the Town Hall Theatre at Courthouse Square, Galway. We’re here Sun 18 January - Wed 18 March Mon-Sat, 10am -7.30pm and one hour before performances on Sundays and Bank Holidays. * Please note telephone and personal bookings are subject to the Town Hall Theatre Development Charge of 50 cent per ticket and online bookings are subject to a €1 Booking & Development Charge per ticket. CONCESSIONS/GROUP RATES We offer discounts on most shows - concessions apply to under 18 year olds, students, senior citizens and the unwaged. Proof of eligibility and ID required. 10% discount for groups of 10+. Some exceptions apply. INTERVAL DRINKS Tues 13 Jan WINTER SLEEP/KIS UYKUSU Sun 8 Feb CHARLIE’S COUNTRY SUN 8 MAR LEVIATHAN ‘NO COUNTRY FOR Avoid the rush by ordering your interval drinks before the show. The bar on Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan · Turkey · 2014 · 196 mins Dir: Rolf de Heer · Australia · 2014 · 108 mins Dir. Andrey Zvyaginstev · Russian · 2014 · 140 mins the first floor is open before and after all performances. Inspired by short stories by Anton Chekhov. Charlie who lives in a remote Aboriginal community is forced to Kolya lives with his son and second wife in an idyllic harbour side home YOUNG WOMEN’: WINNER - PALM D’OR, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2014 GIFT VOUCHER struggle with cultural ties in a world dominated by white law. A which is coveted by the local mayor, a drunken and corrupt bureaucrat. SPECIAL ASSISTANCE deep indictment of the colonial relationships. A stunning examination of contempory Russian Society. Greeted with BLOOD RISING Please let us know - when booking your tickets - of any special requirements SUN 18 JAN VIOLETTE WINNER BEST ACTOR, UN CERTAIN REGARD, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2014. acclaim at Cannes Film Festival 2014. Dir. Mark McLoughlin so we can make your visit as enjoyable as possible. If you book online, you Dir. Martin Provost · France/Belgium · 2013 · 139 mins Ireland · 2012 · 80 mins WINNER: BEST SCREENPLAY, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 2014. should phone or email us to let us know of any special requirements. GIFT VOUCHERS - A masterful study of the life of trailblazing feminist writer SUN 15 FEB ME, MYSELF AND MUM IDEAL GIFTS! Violette Leduc and her often tumultuous friendship with SUN 15 MAR CONDITIONS OF SALE Dir. Guillaume Gallienne · France · 2013 · 85 mins WHIPLASH Huston School of Film Looking for the ideal Simone de Beauvoir. Dir: Damien Chazelle · USA · 2014 · 106 mins We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded unless a performance A clever adaptation of a hit one-man stage show into a NUI, Galway gift? One to suit every A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory Thurs 5 March 8pm is cancelled or abandoned. Your statutory rights are not affected. For full list SUN 25 JAN flamboyant, confessional and hilarious film about sexual anguish. taste? Then why not HUMAN CAPITAL where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will Free Admission of conditions, see reverse of tickets. Please note the management reserve the Dir. Paolo Virzi · Italy · 2014 · 110 mins TOP PRIZE THE DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT 2013 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL. treat someone special NOMINATED FOR TEN CÉSAR AWARDS AT THE 39TH CÉSAR AWARDS AND stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential. right to make essential changes to the programme. A cyclist is left unconscious on the side of the road. The WHIPLASH HAS WON NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING THE GRAND JURY PRIZE to a Town Hall Theatre WON THE AWARDS FOR BEST FILM AND BEST FIRST FILM. accident and aftermath is then seen from the viewpoint of three AND AUDIENCE AWARD AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2014. Mark McLoughlin’s powerful LATECOMERS gift voucher, available different characters revealing the complex relationships that documentary which examines Late Admission cannot be guaranteed and can only occur if there is a suitable from the box office. underlie the incident. WED 18 MAR SUN 22 FEB STATIONS OF THE CROSS THE CASE AGAINST 8 the phenomenon of femicide in break in the performance. Dir. Dietrich Bruggemann · Germany · 2014 · 107 mins Dirs. Ben Cotner, Ryan White · USA · 2014 · 109 mins the Mexican city of Juarez, was SUN 1 FEB DIPLOMACY A 14 year old girl’s commitment to the extreme tenets of a THE CASE AGAINST 8 is a powerful emotional account of the journey ncil Cou ity the closing gala of the Dublin C y MEDIA SPONSOR Dir. Volker Schlondorff · France/Germany · 2014 · 88 mins that took the fight for same sex marriage equality a w conservative catholic sect is traced with a mixture of compassion l a G

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Mon 12 January 8pm Tickets €9* /€7*

Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson star in this hilarious, offbeat comedy about wannabe musician, Jon (Gleeson), who escapes his boring normal life and joins an avant- garde pop band led by Frank (Fassbender), a mysterious musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Critically acclaimed, Frank poses a series of hard questions about mental illness. Layered within Lisa Richards presents its exploration of artistic expression, Lenny Abrahamson’s film examines our presumptions NEIL DELAMERE and prejudices about mental health issues. Wed 14 January 8pm Tickets €20* The Fresh Prince of Delamere!

And what a great present a Jack L ticket Thurs 15 January 8pm would make! Tickets €20* In this show, Songs of The Season – Directed by BRIAN & SEÁN POWER With a script specially written by Peter Kennedy, Renmore’s 36th annual Pantomime, Northern Lights Jack will sing songs which Top Irish stand-up and TV comic Neil Delamere is A new script by PETER KENNEDY Cinderella, promises to be a spectacular adventure of laughter, music and song. take him back to winters of long ago and back with a brand new show. Described by The The traditional story of Cinderella is brought to life with a few novel twists and plenty songs which conjure up the atmosphere of Scotsman as “a master”, Delamere is renowned of topical humour, intermingled with Panto favourites – The Ugly Sisters, Buttons, winters of his childhood! for his on-stage banter and quick-witted, Baron Stoneybroke and Prince Charming. There will also be a special guest appearance well-observed yarns and previous tours and Mon 29 December - Sun 11 January 2015 by the “Open” Champion, Uprorious McIlroy! He will also dip into his own repertoire, give a international appearances. Expect The Fresh Prince 7.30pm - Dec 29, 30, Jan 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 potted history of his stunning career to date, of Delamere to deliver the usual powerhouse 2.30pm - Dec 29, 30, 31, Jan 1, 3, 10 Well-known Galway performers, electrifying dance routines and the charming little and perform songs from his recent smash performance from the star of RTÉ’s The Panel, 2nd 12 noon & 4.30pm - Sundays Jan 4 & 11 Renmore Smurfs bring sparkle to this seasonal feast of family entertainment, directed hit shows “The 27Club” and “The Great Wall Republic, BBC’s The Blame Game, Fighting Talk and by award-winning twins Brian & Seán Power. e Sensory friendly performance 12 noon - Sun 4 Jan e of China”, with brand new material from his Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. Tickets €16*/€14* Further details on www.renmorepantomime.com upcoming album thrown in! For more, visit www.neildelamere.com 4 www.musicforgalway.ie For updatesvisit Festival Ticket (includesthree concerts)€55*/45* Students (fulltime)€6* MfG Friends&Concession€16* Concert Tickets Fri 16-Sun18January €20* SHOSTAKOVICH consider it’s my ownfault” succeed I and ifIdon’t understood aspossible, myself aswidely tomake “I alwaystry HAYDN become original” me, soIwasforcedto near toconfuseortorment world. There wasnoone “I wascutofffromthe ConTempo Quartet(Sundayconcert) Galway EnsembleinResidence: Helen Kearnssoprano Finghin Collinspiano Carducci Quartet SHOSTAKOVICH SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 1inCmajor, Op. 8 HAYDN Berenice che fai? SHOSTAKOVICH QuartetNo. 8inCminor, Op. 110 HAYDN QuartetOp. 74no. 3inGminor “Rider” Sunday 3pm SHOSTAKOVICH PianoQuintetinGminor, Op. 57 HAYDN AriannaaNaxos HAYDN PianoSonatainEflatHobXVI:49 Saturday 8pm Open rehearsals -Dropinandlistentotheartistsatwork Saturday 2pm-4pm Lecture by Dr. Wolfgang MarxoftheSchool ofMusic, UniversityCollegeDublin Saturday 11am Town HallStudio SHOSTAKOVICH QuartetNo. 12inDflat, Op. 133 HAYDN Songs SHOSTAKOVICH 7Romancesforsoprano andpianotrio(texts by Alexander Blok) HAYDN QuartetinEflatmajor, Op. 33no. 2 “Joke” Friday 8pm PROGRAMME SHOSTAKOVICH HAYDN: SUPERPOWERS SOUNDTRACKS FOR FESTIVAL MIDWINTER Two Piecesfor StringOctet, Op. 11

Tickets €15*/€12* Tues 8pm 20January DONAL O’KELLY Directed by by Written andperformed CULTURE COUNTER KATIE O’KELLY “Expertly performed” “Pitch-perfect” hours”… called “zero anyway? They’re What’s all thefussaboutnewcontracts feel asdisposabletheclothesthey sell. it isburstingattheseams, andtheworkers day ontheshopfloor. Adaysojam-packed where “the customerisalways right”. One world ofsequins, bunionsandsalestargets Welcome to Macken’s departmentstore, a Don’tmake melaugh! A fairretail fairytale? IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE NO MOREWORKHORSE D s howb a l T A ivng om R 4 T iz f N 0 O years h L m or t e IELS T eg L y & sh h Y end he p an e Jim of C ow It as d… Lor t on ’s B ’s e m y S qu to berepeated timeinIrishpopular music! you home withgreat memoriesofwonderful and never back intimetothismagicalmusicalperiod. Itwillsend songs fromtheunique Showband Years, bringingyou Showband Era -allof thestarsjoininforamedleyof The show’s exciting finaleisan AllCastSalutetothe stars Tommy andJimmySwarbrigg. McDonald, The ConquerorsShowband andEurovision featuring RolyDaniels, EileenReid, Paddy Cole, Lorraine With RTÉ’s RonanCollinsashostandcompere and It’s back, it’s biggerandit’s better! Tickets €30* Wed 8pm 21January xc it w e s arb r t r ing o JeDl ack. It or in ain C s g f s S his ig -Eu R O e and r in O McD an & enowd LIN h ale N mor ow Dick A r e! ovisn is an ban ’s B N on t ie Rock rib S ald ut d es . O

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Thurs 22 January 8pm € € Tickets 18 */ 15* Direct from National Concert Hall Ireland’s Greatest Voices With more 5 star reviews than David Hull Promotions you could ever wish for, sold-out THE THREE TENORS shows, and an ‘Acting Excellence’ With Star Violinist CHARLIE award, Beowulf: The Blockbuster & Special Guest School Choir emerged as the number one LANDSBOROUGH show to see at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Thurs 29 January 8pm Sat 24 January 8pm € world’s largest arts festival. Tickets €25* Tues 27 - Wed 28 January 8pm Tickets 30* Gripping, witty, poignant and Matinee Tues 27 January 11am This remarkable musician has played all over the world, Magical & Popular Hits from Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, The € vastly entertaining, this triumph Tickets 10* becoming one of the all-time biggest selling artists in Dubliners, and Pavarotti. € of a play reminds us that life is Gerry Barnes presents Matinee 3* Irish Music history! not about how we die, but about Karen Underwood and John O’Brien in Ireland’s Hottest trio - Declan Kelly, Ray O’Hare and Charlie’s reputation as a top class entertainer continues how we live. Dominic McGorian with their amazing voices - promise you to grow and he has won about every possible award in a night to remember! Country music including, the Best Male Vocalist at the An utterly compelling and OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND Inspired by and featuring the songs of charismatic performance from This thrilling concert is packed with the world’s most British Country Music Association Awards three years Elvis Presley. in a row. Most of his 25 albums achieved the No 1 spot multi award-winning actor, Fri 23 January 8 pm beautiful, magical feel-good, uplifting songs. Hear the hits I Believe, She and from Sinatra (My Way, New York New and he is well on his way to selling 2 million songs – “the supremely talented Bryan Tickets €20*/€18* It’s 1955, and into a square little town in Burroughs” (★★★★★ The York), Leonard Cohen (Hallelujah), Pavarotti (Nessun Dorma) resulting in him being inducted into The British Country a square little state rides a guitar-playing Music Hall of Fame. Scotsman). Of Ladies Lost and Found is an exploration of love and loss by and The Dubliners - a rousing selection of the greatest Irish roustabout who changes everything and Karen Underwood as witnessed in the songs of artists such as Ballads to include (Song for Ireland, The Wild Rover). Don’t everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, His successful songs have led to his work being covered A father’s final chance to connect miss - and early booking is advisable! with his son, this is a remarkable Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Whitney Houston, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have by several artists including Jack Jones, Pat Boone, Foster experience. Edith Piaf, and Amy Winehouse. It is directed and arranged by you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes and Allen, George Hamilton IV and Daniel O’Donnell and John O’Brien who was the inspiration behind Pagliacci (Irish Times “Knockout vocal performance’” with such classics as Heartbreak Hotel, he’s performed at Nashville’s Grand Ole Oprey to a full www.beowulftheblockbuster.com Theatre Award for Best Opera 2012), Orpheus, and Der Vampyr. NEW YORK TIMES Jailhouse Rock, and Don’t Be Cruel. house, unprecedented for a UK artiste. 8 9 Fri 30, Sat 31 January & Sun 1 February Tickets €8*/€7*, A Coffee in Berlin & Finsterworld €5* each See all 9 films for €50*/€45*

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 AND DRAMAS, WHICH WERE HUGE HITS IN THEIR GALWAY 30 JAN – 1 FEB 2015 OWN COUNTRIES – THEY JUST HAPPEN NOT TO BE IN ENGLISH!

FRI 6PM “WISH I’D SEEN THAT” SAT 12 NOON SAT 7.15PM FROZEN LAND THE INTOUCHABLES FINSTERWORLD FINLAND · 130 MINS · 2005 · DRAMA FRANCE · 113 MINS · 2011 · COMEDY DRAMA WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE GOETHE-INSTITUT IRLAND SCHEDULE Frozen Land starts off with a sacking and ends with a Back, by popular demand! A fabulously funny comedy GERMANY · 95 MINS · 2013 · DRAMA shooting… At times this brilliant tragicomedy plays like from France that plays brilliantly with stereotypes This superb multi-story picture explores the ideas of identity and guilt Friday 30 January a Finnish version of Magnolia or 21 Grams. Director Aku around race, unemployment and disability. If you (both individual and collective) and how it affects the different generations Louhimies makes us care about these people even as missed it last year, or during its theatrical release, then in modern Germany. The characters find it difficult to be themselves and 6pm FROZEN LAND (Finland) we laugh at their misfortune. give yourself a treat and head along. to admit who they are and what they want. Punctuated with plenty of 8.30pm A COFFEE IN BERLIN (Germany) comedy, it is a film delivered with real flair and intelligence. 10.30pm KLOWN (Denmark) FRI 8.30PM & SUN 2PM SAT 2.15PM “WISH I’D SEEN THAT” A COFFEE IN BERLIN THE GREAT BEAUTY SAT 9.30PM WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE GOETHE-INSTITUT IRLAND ITALY/FRANCE · 142 MINS · 2013 · COMEDY DRAMA Saturday 31 January GERMANY · 88 MINS · 2012 · COMEDY DRAMA For anyone who loves cinema and hasn’t yet watched INTIMATE PARTS 12 noon “WISH I’D SEEN THAT” RUSSIA · 80 MINS · 2013 · COMEDY DRAMA This is an absolute gem of a satire / comedy / this picture, The Great Beauty is a definite must-see. EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT THE INTOUCHABLES (France) tragicomedy from first-time German director Jan Ole The Telegraph called it “a shimmering coup de cinema This comedy drama was a surprise breakout hit for filmmakers Natasha 2.15pm “WISH I’D SEEN THAT” Gerster. Tom Schilling plays the role of Nico Fischer, to make your heart burst, your mind swim and your Merkulova and Alexey Chupov. The film is a sexual melodrama of dark THE GREAT BEAUTY (Italy) a college drop-out, trudging the streets of Berlin open soul roar.” This movie has critics comparing director secrets, that – at its root – seeks to show how similar we humans really 5pm WE ARE THE BEST! (Sweden) to any kind of distraction which might help him put off Paulo Sorrentino to Fellini. Come and see why. are, full of the same motivations and cravings, whatever our class. confronting big life issues that follow adolescence. 7.15pm FINSTERWORLD (Germany) SAT 5PM 9.30pm INTIMATE PARTS (Russia) FRI 10.30PM WE ARE THE BEST! SUN 4.30PM KLOWN SWEDEN/DENMARK · 102 MINS · 2012 · DRAMA SHORT STORIES DENMARK · 93 MINS · 2010 · COMEDY Swedish director Lukas Moodysson is back with a RUSSIA · 105 MINS · 2012 · COMEDY DRAMA Sunday 1 February The most watched film in Denmark in 2010 with close to bang with his latest morality tale, We Are The Best!, A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big publishing 2pm A COFFEE IN BERLIN (Germany) one million admissions, the Danes refer to the humour a terrific feel-good film set in the 1980s. Ignored by house in Moscow. The manuscript contains four stories and the lives of in Klown as ‘uncomfortable’, whereas the more popular their parents, three kids decide to set up a punk band, each of the four readers who encounters them are mysteriously changed. 4.30pm SHORT STORIES (Russia) description would be ‘offensive’, ‘politically incorrect’, despite not owning any instruments and being told The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich ‘gross’ or ‘badass’. Take your pick! Seriously funny. that ‘punk is dead’. portrait of life in contemporary Russia. 10 11

LITTLE JOHN NEE

Tickets €10*/€8*

Little John Nee is a writer, performer and musician based THE GALWAY YEARS THE GLASGOW YEARS THE DONEGAL YEARS THE LONDON YEARS THE DUBLIN YEARS in Co.Galway. His shows have received international critical Mon 2 - Sat 7 February 8.30pm Fri 13 & Sat 14 March 8.30pm Fri 10 & Sat 11 April 8.30pm Fri 1 & Sat 2 May 8.30pm Fri 15 & Sat 16 May 8.30pm acclaim and awards. During 2014, Little John Nee presented five ‘works in progress’ The Galway Years features stories from Little John Nee made his first As a child Little John Nee would spend In September 1977 Little John Nee left In 1982 Little John Nee, practically performances as part of his Little John Nee’s series of “memoir” appearance in Glasgow in his summer holidays in Donegal like his family home and a fridge full of food just off the boat from London, decided “Theatre Artist Residency” in performances lightly peppered with November1959, this show chronicles a large percentage of the kids in his to become a famous punk in London. to try out his poetry act on Dame St. the Town Hall Theatre funded original songs and beginning with a twelve years growing up in Glasgow in Glasgow school. At twelve his family These stories chronicle his adventures and from the encouragement of an by the Arts Council and Galway weekend that lasted over twenty years. a Donegal house. Stories of adventures returned to Donegal to live. Within from his first morning arriving in audience of one, a young traveller City Council. Based on different There are stories from the early days of during the sixties; stories of the streets, weeks of their arrival “Bloody Sunday” a Letterkenny squat in Islington, girl, his life was to change as if by periods in his life and the Macnas, training for the Connacht final, the schools, the sectarianism and the occurred twenty miles away and the labouring on building sites, opening magic, setting into sequence a series locations associated with those Gulliver and the invasion of Dublin; seven year old songwriter. effect was profound. Despairing at the “doors of perception” and the long of creative adventures far beyond times;a funny and poignant stories from a caravan in Barna; stories the world view offered by a church comic adventure before he finally made anything he’d ever imagined, from journey that is at times shocking and adventures as surreal as any of dominated education he chose it onto a stage in Dalston Junction. Charlie Chaplin to the Late Late in its revelations of despair and the fictional tales from his shows. A rock’n’roll as the way to a better life. Show, from a lock-in at a pensioners’ struggle yet inspiring in examples funny and poignant journey that is at Christmas party in Pearse St. Garda of synchronicity and serendipity. times shocking in its revelations of station, to a surreptitious debut on the struggle yet inspiring in examples of stage of the Abbey. synchronicity and serendipity.

12 13 THEATRECORP Benbo presents THE DUCHESS OF MALFI THE GIRL WHO FORGOT CATALPA by JOHN WEBSTER Written and performed by TO SING BADLY DONAL O’KELLY

Blood, Sex and Violence. Theatrecorp’s 8th Fri 6 February 10.30am & 3pm Sat 7 February 8pm

Tues 3 - Sat 7 February 8pm production, is a timely and violent play, Sat 7 February 11am & 2pm Tickets €16*/€15*, student groups €12* Tickets €8* Tickets €15*/€12* riddled with corruption and dysfunction in Family Ticket (4 people) €24*, School Groups €6* Tues 3 February All Tickets €12* high places, and how it fascinates and lures A classic of modern Irish theatre, Catalpa is the story us. When the young widowed Duchess Suitable for ages 7+ and adults of all ages. of the 1876 whaleship rescue of six Irish prisoners defies her brothers’ wishes and remarries from Fremantle penal colony in Western Australia - Peggy O’Hegarty and her parents are packers. They THEATREclub her servant in secret, she unleashes a all in a screenwriter’s vibrant imagination! An epic horrible revenge from her family which squeeze fruit into tins, foxes into boxes, even bikes into celebration of the power of live theatre. Live music “visually engaging and exposes the whole corrupt society in which brown paper bags. And all the while Peggy sings with by Trevor Knight. Edinburgh Fringe First. HEROIN thought provoking” she lives. Directed by Max Hafler. Design by JIMMY BUCKLEY the voice of an angel – a grossly unfortunate angel, who in concert with his daughter Claudia can’t sing at all. Mon 2 February 8pm THE IRISH TIMES Mary Doyle. Lights by Mike Byrne. Tickets €15*/€12* Ingenious performer Louis Lovett leads the audience on Wed 4 February 8pm an untamed adventure that crosses snowy lands and € € Heroin is the story you were never told about the Tickets 22*/ 20* wild seas. As Peggy desperately tries to save the day, we new republic, of the person you never saw, of what learn about love, loss, the reassurance of goats, and the you built and then demolished. It’s the big one, the ISLA GRANT Ireland’s No.1 country star, Jimmy Buckley brings his courage to sing gloriously on or off-key. bad one, the one you never thought you’d try. It’s critically acclaimed band to the Town Hall Theatre for ORIGINALLY PRODUCED BY THE ARK IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEATRE LOVETT everything that ever happened to us, the words that From the Heart Tour one night only. Joining him on stage will be his daughter were never spoken and how the ones we voted for, Claudia, just 15 years old but with a maturity that belies kicked us in the teeth. Tues 3 February 8pm her tender years and a voice that soars to equal any € Tickets 20* Nashville country star. THEATREclub’s award-winning show is an explosion of the social history of heroin in Ireland over the last Scotland’s most popular singer-songwriter, Isla Grant, makes a Jimmy currently has the No.1 country DVD Jimmy forty years. Heroin is a radical staging of how we welcome return visit to Ireland for the now traditional annual tour. Buckley Live In Concert sailing high in the charts. He has got here, and how much we care. been packing them in right around the country since his In the last year she has completed hugely successful Tours of great duet with legendary Nashville country star, George Created in 2010, Heroin has toured around Ireland New Zealand, Australia and the UK and once again received a Gold Jones and indeed since he first hit national prominence “Lyrical and passionate, and Europe and now it’s coming to you. Director, Disc for CD sales. Add this to six Platinum Discs already received with his first hit Rose Coloured Glasses. satirical and very funny” Grace Dyas will be working in Galway before the in Ireland and you can see why this ‘Scottish Lass’ is so popular. THE IRISH TIMES show to ‘Design the Audience’ for the production. Isla’s interaction with her audience is second to none and the Another special guest on the night will “It not only work, it wows” THE NEW YORK POST Get in touch on [email protected] if you have atmosphere at her live shows is a joy to behold. As always her be the great Patrick O’Sullivan, recent “An improbably a group who you would like to bring, Grace can genial husband Al will make his popular contribution to the show winner of Glór Tíre. A great treble bill, “The theatrical equivalent of going to bed on beautiful show” arrange a visit. featuring some of the all time favourite Jim Reeves songs. and a great night out! Christmas Eve” THE SUNDAY TIMES VARIETY USA

14 15 Mon 9 - Wed 11 February Eilish O’Carroll’s CYCLONE REP SESSIONS Standard Student Ticket €14 STORIES, POETRY Bullying Prevention Session Tickets Price €10 LIVE LOVE LAUGH Julius Caesar Price €10 AND DREAMS Teachers, SNAs & Home School Accompanying adults: Free Thurs 12 February 8pm an intimate evening with Tickets €18*/€16* Cyclone Rep Sessions are entertaining and engaging MICHAEL MURPHY student-centred performances. These daytime Best known as Winnie McGoogan in her brother and his friends including shows include a scholarly review clarifying the main Brendan’s successful BBC sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys, themes and topics as well as discussions with the Eilish comes into her own here with this reflective Emer O’Kelly, Eamonn students and opportunities for participation. look on an eventful life that includes a strict Catholic Lawlor and Eileen Dunne Mon 9 Othello Session 10am upbringing, two failed marriages (one of them Mon 9 Merchant of Venice Session 1pm abusive), and coming out as a lesbian at the age Tues 10 King Lear Session 10am of 50. While poignant and deeply moving it is also Sat 14 February 8pm HANGING WITH Tickets €20*/€17* Tues 10 King Lear Session 1pm “Laugh out loud funny” packed with humour. A huge hit at the Edinburgh Wed 11 King Lear Session 10am THE ELEPHANT: EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS Fringe in 2013 this is one show not to be missed! Wed 11 Romeo & Juliet Session 1pm Michael Murphy is a broadcaster, psychoanalyst An Evening with and author. In emotionally powerful readings MICHAEL HARDING from his three books At Five in the Afternoon, The David Hull Promotions House of Pure Being, and The Republic of Love, Michael and his guests share deeply insightful Tues 10 - Sat 14 February 8pm Wed 11 February 8pm reflections on love and sex, friendship and family, Tickets €12/€10* Tickets €15* FLASH HARRY as he makes the cancer journey with two inspiring Groups of 4 or more €8* THE MUSIC OF QUEEN women survivors in Spain. Thought-provoking and Following his hugely popular nationwide tour of eloquent, this truthful evening invites audience venues in Ireland in the autumn of 2013, Michael Fri 13 February 8pm participation. Galway University Musical Society is an amateur Harding, author, playwright and Irish Times Tickets €20* musical society that has grown immensely in previous columnist, is on his travels again to read from his years, being nominated for numerous AIMS awards and latest book Hanging with the Elephant. His best Flash Harry have been celebrating the music of Queen receiving fantastic reviews. selling memoir Staring at Lakes was enormously all over Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years and popular and brought him to nationwide attention. still fans come to pay homage to the greatest rock band Cabaret is Galway University Musical Society’s 15th of them all. Flash Harry brings a show that embraces the annual musical and is set in a Kit Kat Klub in Berlin Speaking with openness, honesty and great wit, very essence of live music, talent, energy, enthusiasm, just as the Nazis are rising to power in the 1930s. Michael regaled the nation with his stories of life, passion and pure showmanship. Audiences will see Following the experiences of an American writer, love and melancholy. His engaging style has a way the band rocking out Queen’s greatest hits from Radio the British singer he has a love affair with, and a of drawing audiences in. Hilarious yet poignant, Gaga, We Are the Champions, to Bohemian Rhapsody sexually ambiguous Emcee; Cabaret is exciting, witty, homespun yet profound, down-to-earth yet prone to and everything in between. Quite simply it’s live music provocative, and promises to stay with you long after amazing flights of fancy, there’s nothing quite like an entertainment at its best. For a night of good old you leave the theatre. evening with Michael Harding. fashioned rock Flash Harry is a show not to be missed!! 16 The Leenane TrilogyAuthor ofThe , TheCrippleofInishmaan Lieutenant ofInishmore and the adjoining cellwiththewriter’s brotherare revealed. personal responsibility ofthewriter. takingplace in The tensionmountswhen parallel interviews interrogators tease outtheresemblance betweenreal andfictional worlds while probingthe taleswhichtales hehaswritten –grim have inspired copycat killingsinthe streets outside. 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Music We Trust. the coveted ZaneLowes Hottest Record ontheInNew Record following inthe successof ‘Battles’ which held One playlist, the songhasbeenHuwStephensHottest Youtube. Inaddition tobeingaddedtheBBCRadio copies andtheyhave hadover sixmillionviewson The band’s EPshave now soldinexcess of30,000 million YouTube livefavourite. viewsandisafirm streamed over onemilliontimesonSpotify, hadone An acousticversionofChasingRubies hasbeen his UKtourwhich takes inninecities. have justbeenannouncedasmainsupportforBuggon a supportslotwithJake Bugglastyear, Hudson Taylor at Longitude, and Glastonbury T inthePark.Following entertain thecrowds withtheirstompingsingalongsets show todateatLondon’s ElectricBallroomand This year hasseenthemsellouttheirbiggestheadline and criticsalike. mainstream andcapture theattentionofnewfans their hugeunderground following intothe transform Hudson Taylor & -brothersHarry Alfie -have seen Tickets €16* 8pm Mon 23February & Southern HUDSON TAYLOR Róisín Dubhpresents IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE ONTIVNAN’STHESWEET SHOP, 2012 modest subject matter” revealing anability tofindimmensebeautywithin withhumorous vernacular… moving poetry “her dialogueis strikingly nuanced, blending by Tracy Bruen, Eimear KilmartinandEilisMcCarthy. Directed by KateMurray andMaria Tivnan. Performed experiencing. andheartthisisapieceworth with tenderness share intheirmostpoignantmoments.Performed and dutiesofthree women, invitingtheaudienceto offersglimpsesintotheloves lives Mary Mary Mary generations ofIrish women. Crafted infragments, A delicatelywoven poeticpieceaboutthree Tickets €10*/8* Tues 8.30pm 24-Fri27February By MARY MARY MARY Company Fregoli Theatre MARIA TIVNAN 17 18 UK & IRELAND TOUR 2015 19 (OVER 15’s) THE NUALAS Patrician Musical Society Lock Up Your Husbands Fri 13 March 8pm David Hull presents Tickets €18*/€15* COLIN FRY The Voices From Heaven Tour

Tues 10 March 8pm Tickets €20*

Being one of the World’s most recognised spiritualist mediums and healers, Colin’s TV series 6ixth Sense has now been broadcast worldwide for 12 years making his public performances in international demand. This year’s tour will once again see Thurs 5 - Sun 8 March 8pm Colin Fry bring his own unique form Tickets €34.70* of comfort and upliftment to ordinary people living ordinary lives, proving No stranger to yap Alan Carr will be yapping his way once again he is very much the In their most dangerous show ever The Nualas break the mould they made previously Tues 3 - Sat 7 March 8pm West Side Story is an energetic, widely-acclaimed, melodramatic around the UK & Ireland with his brand new stand up people’s medium. with a deluge of new songs, higher harmonies, different keys and slightly shorter Matinee Sat 7 March 2.30pm musical - a modern-day, loose re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and show Yap, Yap, Yap! The BAFTA and British Comedy dresses, if that’s possible! And there’s more – expect new Nuala revelations, harder Award winning comedian, author and chat show Evenings of mediumship are Tickets Tues 3 March & Matinee Juliet tragedy of feuding families, although the setting is the Upper laughs, slicker riffs, and even tighter foundation wear, if that’s possible! supremo returns to his stand up roots with his hilarious not scientifically proven and are €18*/€16* West Side of New York City in the late 1950s with conflict between take on life. Yap it up! presented for education and When this show pre-viewed in Dolan’s of Leitrim at least three Ga rdaí and a Wed 4 to Sat 7 March 8pm rival street gangs rather than families. entertainment purposes only. relationship counsellor had to be called. As part of their ensuing community service (six €20*/€18* A feast of Galway’s best singers and dancers will bring this amazing “An absolute natural on stage… a born weeks scooping out litter from the Shannon) the girls were obliged, as a warning, to musical to life on stage. storyteller, sheer entertainment” call this sweltering new show: LOCK UP YOUR HUSBANDS. You have been warned. LONDON EVENING STANDARD 20 21 GALWAY COMMUNITY CIRCUS MIKE DENVER and FIDGET FEET present a AND GUESTS CONCERT TOUR YOUTH CIRCUS DOUBLE BILL Fri 20 March 8pm Tickets €25*

Special Guests include legendary country singers Philomena Begley, Ray Lynam, John Hogan and former GRIMM’S CIRCUS Eurovision Star, Marc Roberts, with some John Denver hits. Fri 13 & Sat 14 March 7.30pm Tickets €12*/€8* Family ticket €32*

Run away with the circus and get lost in the deepest darkest forests of the Grimm Sean Costello & Frank Naughton Brother’s fairy tales. After five years of sell-out circus shows, Galway Community DUO VOCIS Circus and Fidget Feet return with a PRESENT collection of classic fairy tales mixed up A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT IRISH TENORS into a deliciously dark story of wolves, Idan Meir witches and the long way home. Marvel as the fairies take flight in this breath-taking Monday 16 March 8pm BASSAM Tickets €25*/€20* Sat 21 March 8pm display of aerial dance and circus arts in WRITTEN BY IDAN MEIR Tickets €12*/€10* this stunning youth circus spectacle. Tom Kelly Promotions Back by popular demand Sean Costello & Frank Naughton DOMINIC KIRWAN return to The Town Hall with their show, A Tribute to The Bassam is a powerful drama based on the true story of Bassam Aramin, Great Irish Tenors. co-founder of the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement Combatants for ONCE UPON A CIRCUS AND MARY DUFF Peace. Written by Sligo based Israeli Director, Idan Meir, and performed by Sat 14 March 3pm TOGETHER IN CONCERT Singing such beautiful songs as, The Town I Loved So Well, Donegal based Palestinian Actor, Fadl Mustapha, this performance gives an I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen, Goodbye and of course, authentic perspective on the ongoing conflict in the Middle-East. Tickets €8*/€5* Danny Boy, this will be a wonderful addition to your St. Family ticket €20* Sat 14 March 8pm Duration 55 minutes. A post show discussion € Patrick’s Festival entertainment. Tickets 25* with the writer and actor will bring the audience A sister show to Grimm’s Circus performed by the younger members of So, for an evening filled with nostalgia and humour from on an engaging journey to explore the themes Galway Community Circus. This family friendly fairy tale will amaze even a time not long past, this is the concert for you. With a of the play and to discuss how theatre can be the youngest in the audience. Dominic Kirwan is one of Ireland’s most respected and popular superb live orchestra, and a cinematic presentation to used as a tool for dialogue. performers. With his excellent backing band, Dominic’s concerts feature enhance your trip down memory lane, Frank & Sean are Combo ticket for both shows €15*/€10*. Family ticket €40* songs from his many hit albums and also many standard country and pop proud to invite you to share in this unique evening of Irish “An Israeli play makes link with Palestinians” www.galwaycommunitycircus.com hits. special guest Mary Duff. song, which is sure to live long in the memory. THE GUARDIAN 22 Choreographer Mary MacDonagh Choreographer Mary Chorus Master Paddy Daly Musical Director ShaneFarrell Directors BrianPower &SeánPower to beagreat nightout! stunning tapdancing. Itpromises singing, afabuloussetandsome wonderful orchestra, greatchoral musical societies, withtheir Ireland’s topandaward-winning This eventisproducedby oneof all thefamiliarsongs. audiences willbetappingalongto Gabriel Blow andFriendshipso De-Lovely’,It’s You’re TheTop,Blow A Kick Outof You, Anything Goes, fabulous ColePortersongslike IGet The show ispeppered withsome with lotsoflaughoutloudmoments. York toLondonandisfulloffun- an OceanLinerboundfromNew This madcapmusicalissetaboard Anything Goes. Porter classicmusicalcomedy, withtheCole their 30thanniversary Galway MusicalSocietycelebrate Sat 28Matinee€18*/16* Wed 25-Sat28€20*/18* Tickets Tues 24Preview €18* Saturday Matinee3pm Tues 24-Sat28March8pm PORTER COLE lyrics by Music and

Facebook: WalkingWisdomWoodquay See www.bernadettedivilly.com formore details. Choreographer. An outdooreventcreated by Divilly Bernadette the route. A dress codeofblack, red iswelcomed! andurbandesignalong Engage withperformance potency anddancedatingback tothe1800s. part ofacontemplativewalk toplacesofhistorical Drop intosilenceandthespiritof Woodquay. Be Meeting Place: The Black Box, Dyke Road, Galway Duration: 60mins Sunday 29March4pm-5pm Dance Days with Galway WISDOM WOODQUAY WALKING Film screening €7*/ €5* €16*/13* Individual Performances 1 DayFestival Ticket €20/18 3 DayFestival Ticket €50*/40* Fri 27-Sun29March FESTIVAL GALWAY DANCE DAYS Galway Dance Artist inResidence and humanities” can betheintellectualequalstosciences “Galway DanceDaysshowsthatdanceartists THE IRISHTIMES,2014 GDD mixedbill, site-specific Sun 29March GDD filmscreening Sat 28March GDD mixedbill, site-specific Sat 28March8pm Box Theatre Black Compagnie Nacera Belaza Fri 27March8pm Happy Ever After Happy offameobsessed studentsand fanaticallydriven coaches! story Fame issetinNew York’s ‘High School of Performing Arts’ inthe 80s. Tells the Sharks, two teenagegangs. With theamazing RomeoandJuliettwist. neighborhood. The musicalexplores betweentheJetsand therivalry West issetinNew SideStory York, in1950s, inanethnicblue-collared Tickets €15*/10* Mon 30March-Fri3 April 2pm&7pm HAPPILYEVER AFTER FAME WEST SIDESTORY Trading FacesStageSchool is amagical triptaken throughtheimagination oftinychildren. facebook:galwaydancedays Full programme www.ciotog.ie heart –andyourmindby surprise. crack throughthesurfacetotake your works whoseemotion andhumanity Provocative, diverse, mesmerising Middle East, Africa, EuropeandIreland. fromthe dance andperformance Galway DanceDaysbringstogether From localtoglobal, the4theditionof in conflict. Symposium exploring theroleofdance events -&Corp_RealInternational film screenings, workshops, street GDD15 -3daysofliveperformances, 23 24

100 YEARS OF CINEMA AT THE TOWN HALL extracts from an article by WILLIAM HENRY reproduced courtesy of GALWAY INDEPENDENT

Did you know that the Town Hall Theatre has been to ensure a good weekly attendance. The adults and showing films for more than 100 years? The Town Hall children made sure of their seats and arrived early so as began showing films as early as November 1912. This not to miss an episode. building had opened in 1825 as the town court house Tues 7 April 2.30pm & 5.30pm and served as such from many years. By the end of the One of the most prominent names associated with the Tickets €15*/€13* nineteenth century, it was also being utilised as a theatre Town Hall cinema is Fred Diviney, now living in Old Family Ticket (4 people) €48* and a venue for many other events, including boxing Mervue. Fred was born in Sickeen, Woodquay and as championships between the four provinces. However, a young boy became fascinated with films. He would the Town Hall became synonymous with the latest films help the staff in the local cinemas in order to see the among cinema enthusiasts from all over Galway. It is not latest films free. Fred was delighted in 1969, when he clear if the Town Hall was intended as a cinema primarily secured a position as a trainee projectionist under Paddy at that time, as it continued to act as a venue for other Cunningham in the Town Hall. He was also given other World on Stage and the team behind Disney on Ice, bring to the UK forms of entertainment. Nevertheless, its success responsibilities in the cinema during his career, including and Ireland for the very first time this wonderful show for all the ensured the venue a long history as a cinema. ejecting those who were misbehaving. They were literally family, from age 3+. under the spotlight of Fred’s torch. There was no shop KCP Presents By the end of 1913, it was showing films nightly. During within the cinema in the early days, but Kirwans’ across There is a magic place where Dinosaurs live and it’s right before this period the building was also being used for recruiting the road supplied all with sweets. your eyes. Jurassic Adventures - set on a magical island with a meetings and other events to support the Great War brave cast, superb scenery and, of course, DINOSAURS - allows you efforts in Europe. Throughout this period, it continued to By the 1970s, the Town Hall was in dire need of a facelift follow the footsteps of Doctor Grant’s team of explorers and laugh screen films nightly and afternoon matinees for children. and major renovations were also carried out inside the at their crazy antics as they search for proof that Dinosaurs still The patrons were mainly women and children as there cinema. When it reopened, it was almost unrecognisable, exist! This will leave you in “raptor raptures” and “pre-hysterics!”

were so many men away at war. with its new décor and comfortable seating. It had two Get transported to a prehistoric place full of fun, thrills and cinemas and it also began showing ‘late night’ films, screams, be amazed and awed by the birth of a baby Dinosaur - In the years following the war, the Town Hall continued which proved a great success. The redevelopment also but beware of the T. REX mother who wants her egg back! to entertain cinema goers, so much so that by the 1950s included a shop. many people were totally unaware of its original purpose Contains mild peril and HUGE DINOSAURS! as a court house. The Sunday matinees were a must The Town Hall finally closed as a cinema in 1993. It was A Dino-Mite show! Don’t miss. for children from all over Galway. Similar to the Victoria later completely renovated and was officially re-opened Cinema years earlier, a film series was introduced as the Town Hall Theatre on 1 February 1996. 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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