Programme of Events January - March 2017 Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture

Go Raibh Maith Agaibh! Thank You! Príomhchathair Ga lway2020.ie Chultúir na hEorpa Please stay in touch as we now move forward into the next phase - European Capital #IBackGalway for news and updates, visit www.galway2020.ie of Culture 4 5 TOWN HALL THEATRE · BLACK BOX THEATRE · TOWN HALL STUDIO JANUARY - MARCH PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

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DEC FRI 30-SUN 15 JAN LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD VARIOUS THT FAMILY 7 FEB SAT 25 THE THREE TENORS 8PM THT MUSIC 20

SUN 26 KAMIL BEDNAREK 8PM BB MUSIC 21 JAN TUE 17 FIRST FORTNIGHT - INFINITELY POLAR BEAR 8PM THT CINEMA 9 SUN 26 CINDERELLA AND BOSCO - LAMBERT PUPPET THEATRE 2PM THT FAMILY 21 WED 18 REELING IN THE SHOWBAND YEARS 8PM THT MUSIC 10 TUE 28 COIRM GAEL LINN 10AM THT VARIETY 21 THURS 19 NEIL DELAMERE 8PM THT COMEDY 10 FRI 20-SUN 22 MUSIC FOR GALWAY - MIDWINTER FESTIVAL VARIOUS THT MUSIC 11 MAR WED 1 COIRM GAEL LINN 10AM THT VARIETY 21 FRI 20-FRI 10 MARCH NUIG FRIDAY LECTURE SERIES 1.10PM STUDIO LECTURE 14 WED 1 WHISKEY FESTIVAL LAUNCH 8PM THT EVENT 22 THURS 26 MUSICAL LIFE OF MIKE ARRIGAN 8PM THT MUSIC 11 THURS 2-SAT 4 JOHN B KEANE’S THE SUCCESSFUL TD 8PM THT THEATRE 22 FRI 27-SUN 29 SUBTITLE FILM FESTIVAL VARIOUS THT CINEMA 12 MON 6 THIS LIME TREE BOWER BY CONOR McPHERSON 8PM THT THEATRE 23

TUE 7-SAT 11 FRANKEEN STEIN & SHAKESPEARE IN CONNEMARA 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 23 FEB WED 1 BIG BOBBY. LITTLE BOBBY - BRAZEN TALES PRODUCTIONS 8PM THT THEATRE 14 WED 8 NUIG DANCE SOC INTERVARSITIES 8PM BB DANCE 23 SAT 4 JASON BYRNE 8PM THT COMEDY 14 FRI 10 HANG ON - FIDGET FEET 8PM BB FAMILY 24 MON 6 & TUE 7 THE DEAD - THE PERFORMANCE CORPORATION 8PM THT THEATRE 15 FRI 10 & SAT 11 MY REAL LIFE BY EOIN COLFER 24 TUE 7-SAT 11 URINETOWN - GUMS 8PM BB MUSICAL 15 MON 13 SILENT - FISHAMBLE 8PM THT THEATRE 25 WED 8 TONY STOCKWELL 8PM THT PSYCHIC 16 TUE 14 UNDERNEATH - FISHAMBLE 8PM THT THEATRE 25 THURS 9 THE MAN IN BLACK - JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE 8PM THT MUSIC 16 WED 15 FORGOTTEN - FISHAMBLE 8PM THT THEATRE 25 FRI 10 DONNA TAGGART 8PM THT MUSIC 16 THURS 16 LÏNGER - WITH BREANDÁN DE GALLAÍ & NICK O’CONNELL 8PM THT DANCE 26 SAT 11 JACK L 8PM THT MUSIC 17 FRI 17 SOKALO REMIX (QUEBEC) 8PM THT TRADITIONAL 26 MON 13-FRI 17 THE WEIR - DECADENT THEATRE 8PM THT THEATRE 18 SAT 18 THE LEGEND OF LUKE KELLY 8PM THT MUSIC 26 TUE 14-SAT 18 THAT SAME OLD STORY 8.30PM STUDIO THEATRE 17 MON 20 MADE IN CHINA BY MARK O’ROWE 8PM THT THEATRE 27 TUE 14 EDDI READER 8PM THT MUSIC 17 TUE 21 DAVE AT LARGE - CELEBRATING DAVE ALLEN 8PM THT THEATRE 27 SAT 18 THE BEE GEES STORY 8PM THT MUSIC 19 THURS 23 & FRI 24 THE WOLF AND PETER - COISCÉIM & BABORÓ VARIOUS THT FAMILY 28 MON 20 THE BIG FELLOW - CO MOTION MEDIA 8PM THT THEATRE 19 FRI 24 DOOMDAH - FOIL ARMS & HOG 8PM THT COMEDY 29 TUE 21 THE COVE - ECHO ECHO DANCE 8PM BB DANCE 19 SAT 25 JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE BY JIM NOLAN 8PM THT THEATRE 29 WED 22 & THURS 23 DES BISHOP 8PM THT COMEDY 20 WED 27-SUN 2 APRIL SPAMALOT - TWIN PRODUCTIONS VARIOUS THT MUSICAL COMEDY 30 FRI 24 MIDGE URE 8PM THT MUSIC 20 THUR 30 OMID DJALILI 8PM BB COMEDY 31

For full cinema listings, see page 8 THT Town Hall Theatre · BB Black Box Theatre · STUDIO Town Hall Studio 6 7 TOWN HALL THEATRE HOW TO BOOK? Directed by 7.30pm BRIAN Dec 30, Jan 1, 4, 5, 1. CLICK Renmore Pantomime Buy online twenty-four hours at www.tht.ie. & SEÁN 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 & 14 You can now choose your seat when you book online for both the Town Hall AND Black Box. POWER 2.30pm 2. CALL Dec 30, 31, Phone 091 569777 Mon-Sat 10am -7.30pm. Visa, MasterCard and Visa Debit are accepted. Jan 1, 7 & 14 3. VISIT 12 noon & 4.30pm Call in to the box office at the Town Hall Theatre at Courthouse Square, Galway. We’re here Little Red Jan 2, 8 & 15 Mon-Sat, 10am -7.30pm and one hour before performances on Sundays and Bank Holidays. BALCONY LEVEL Tickets €17*/€15* * 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. **There will be a Sensory CONCESSIONS/GROUP RATES Riding Friendly performance of We offer discounts on most shows - concessions apply to under 18 year olds, Little Red Riding Hood on students, senior citizens and the unwaged. Proof of eligibility and ID required. Sun 8th January 12 noon 10% discount for groups of 10+. Some exceptions apply. INTERVAL DRINKS Avoid the rush by ordering your interval drinks before the show. Hood The bar on the first floor is open before and after all performances. SPECIAL ASSISTANCE Please let us know - when booking your tickets - of any special requirements so we can make your visit as enjoyable as possible. If you book online, you GROUND LEVEL should phone or email us to let us know of any special requirements. GIFT VOUCHERS - IDEAL GIFTS! CONDITIONS OF SALE Looking for the ideal If you go down to the woods today… you’re definitely in for a big surprise! We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded unless a performance gift? One to suit every is cancelled or abandoned. Your statutory rights are not affected. For full list taste? Then why not Not only is Little Red Riding Hood having to take care of her poor, dear old Granny, she’s also trying of conditions, see reverse of tickets. Please note the management reserve the treat someone special to protect the very silly Three Little Pigs from the Big Bad Wolf. And if that wasn’t enough, there is right to make essential changes to the programme. to a Town Hall Theatre the Wicked Witch to contend with, who wants nothing more than to bring our tale to an unhappy end! LATECOMERS gift voucher, available Luckily, Prince Hansel and Princess Gretl, the famous witch hunters, have been shipped in to lend a helping hand to the locals, and in true Panto spirit, good triumphs over evil. Late Admission cannot be guaranteed and can only occur if there is a suitable from the box office. break in the performance. Renmore’s 38th annual pantomime promises to be a spectacular adventure of laughter music and song, featuring a host of Galway performers, electrifying dance routines - and of course the charming little cil Coun ty Ci y MEDIA SPONSOR a lw a Renmore Smurfs who bring their unique sparkle to this seasonal feast of family entertainment. G

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SUN 22 THE FENCER SUN 5 LA LA LAND JAN Dir. Klaus Haro · Finland/Estonia · 2015 · 99 mins MAR Dir: Damien Chazelle · USA · 2016 · 128 mins A touching tale of redemption tells the true story of champion fencer Endel An ambitious jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) and an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) fall Nelis, who while on the run from the soviet police took up a teaching position in love while pursuing their dreams of stardom, in this dazzlingly stylized homage in a remote Estonian school. to the classic Hollywood musical from Whiplash director Damien Chazelle. WINNER ESTONIAN FILM AWARD, TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 2015 NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD TORONTO 2016 GALWAY FILM

SUN 29 THE INNOCENTS SUN 12 TONI ERDMANN SOCIETY JAN Dir. Anne Fontaine · France/Poland · 2016 · 115 mins MAR Dir. Maren Ade · German · 2016 · 160 mins First Fortnight Poland 1945: Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, comes to the aid of An almost unbearably intense comedy that was one of the most talked-about Sunday 22 January - in partnership with IFI National presents a group of Polish nuns, many of whom have been violated by Russian soldiers. films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Winfried, a divorcee, delights in Sunday 2 April 2017 ANDREAS AWARD, NORWEGIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 persistent pranks that alienate everyone in his German suburb. Ines, his INFINITELY daughter, is a high-ranking management consultant who is as controlled and 8pm SUN 5 PATERSON rigid as her father is impish. A cringe-inducing clash of opposites. FEB Dir. Jim Jarmusch · USA · 2016 · 113 mins POLAR BEAR NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING THE FIPRESCI PRIZE CANNES 2016 Jim Jarmusch returns with a lovely, characteristically episodic fable about the Membership/Season ticket €48*/€44* fragile, fruitful and just occasionally fraught relationship between creativity SUN 19 THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI Guest admission to single films €9*/€7* Tues 17 January 8pm € € and everyday life. MAR Dirs. David & Keith Farrell · Ireland · 2013 · 92 mins Tickets 9*/ 7* Winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes All films have English subtitles. Duration 90 mins SUN 12 FEB NO FILM Film Festival, and Finland’s submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Rating 16 category at the 2017 Oscars, this charming debut feature is a feel-good There will be a post-screening discussion SUN 19 THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER on the topics raised in the film FEB Dir. Brady Corbet · UK/FRANCE · 2015 · 115 mins comedy-drama inspired by the real-life attempt by Finnish boxer Olli Maki to win the 1962 World Featherweight boxing title. A film based on a short story by Jean Paul Sartre concerns a US Diplomat Boston in the late ‘70s; Cameron (Mark Ruffalo) is who is involved in the Treaty of Versailles negotiations. Brady Corbet’s ADULTING (Irish short film will be screened before above film) struggling with bipolar disorder; the future appears directorial debut is an ambitious and accomplished European drama. Dirs. Linda Bhreathnach and Justin Davey. uncertain for his wife Maggie (Zoe Saldana) and their WINNER VENICE HORIZONS AWARD, BEST DIRECTOR, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2015 Shot in Galway City and Connemara, Pól Ó Muirí in The Irish Times, described two daughters when a particularly difficult period sees it as ‘a poem of a film’. SUN 26 THINGS TO COME him both fired from his job and hospitalised. When she FEB Dir. Mia Hansen Love · France/Germany · 2016 · 102 mins is awarded a scholarship to attend Colombia University, SUN 26 THE OLIVE TREE Maggie convinces her reluctant husband – convalescing In one of Isabelle Huppert’s finest performances, Things To Come portrays the MAR Dir. Iciar Bollain · Spain · 2016 · 100mins sudden change in philosophy teacher Nathalie’s comfortable life. In her Lena set forth on a journey to recover her grandfather’s thousand year old at home on lithium treatment – to look after the girls for sixties, she must contend with the sudden crises of being alone and socially olive tree, which has been encased in the headquarters of a soulless German the eighteen months she’ll be in New York, a less than isolated. With enormous emotional clarity, Huppert crafts a performance of Multinational. Lena’s grandfather has withdrawn into himself after his olive ideal arrangement given his frequent manic behaviour. subtle brilliance. “a rich, beautiful, oblique drama” Donald Clarke, farm has been changed by progress into a battery chicken farm. The Irish Times. WON MAJOR AWARDS AT SANTA FE, SEATTLE AND LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVALS. A refreshingly positive depiction of living with mental WINNER BEST DIRECTOR - BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 illness. SUN 2 APRIL THE SEASON WILL CONCLUDE WITH A SURPRISE FILM

10 11 MUSIC FOR GALWAY presents ALMA DEUTSCHER (b. 2005) “When I try to get a melody it never The Ronan Collins Showband Show piano / violin / composer comes to me. It usually comes REELING IN THE ANNA DEVIN soprano to me either when I’m resting or CHRISTIAN CHAMOREL piano when I’m just sitting at the piano SHOWBAND YEARS MIDWINTER FESTIVAL CONTEMPO QUARTET improvising, or when I’m skipping ESPOSITO QUARTET with my skipping rope.” ALMA DEUTSCHER It’s the biggest and best yet! With RTÉ’s Ronan Collins as host and PRODIGY compere and featuring Red Hurley, Gina from The Champions, FRIDAY 20 - SUNDAY 22 JANUARY Gregory from The Cadets, Keith and Lorraine McDonald and The The 2017 Midwinter Festival takes child prodigies as its inspiration. Every work in the weekend programme will Conquerors Showband. have been written before or by the age of eighteen. An amazing range of music by incredibly talented prodigies from

down through the ages. We are also joined by the astounding prodigy Alma Deutscher for her Irish début in which The show’s exciting finale is an ALL Cast Salute to the Showband she performs many of her works on multiple instruments. Age of composer at time of composition in brackets. Era when all of the stars join in for a medley of songs from the Showband Years! Bringing you back in time to this magical All Proceeds to Wed 18 January 8pm musical period. It will send you home with great memories of a Fri 20 January Sun 22 January The Irish Guide Dogs Tickets €30* wonderful and never to be repeated time in Irish popular music! 8pm CONCERT 11am FILM (Galway Branch) ALMA DEUTSCHER (8) Variations in E flat major “Imagine… Do or Die: the Lang Lang Story SCHUBERT (15-18) Selected songs From child prodigy to global phenomenon, Alan Yentop MOZART (18) Piano Sonata in E flat K. 282 reveals the extraordinary life of Chinese superstar Lang Lang. THE MUSICAL MENDELSSOHN (14) Piano Quartet no. 2 in F minor Neil Delamere Op. 2 3.00pm CONCERT LIFE OF SCHUBERT (15) String Quartet No. 2 in C major D. 32 HANDSTAND Sat 21 January MAHLER (16) Piano Quartet movement in A minor MIKE ARRIGAN 2pm SPOTLIGHT ON ALMA KORNGOLD (14) Four Songs from Sechs Einfache Alma Deutscher is joined by Finghin Collins and members of Lieder Op. 9 Thurs 19 January 8pm MENDELSSOHN (16) Octet Op. 20 Tickets €23* the ConTempo Quartet for performances of a selection of her Thurs 26 January 8pm compositions. She will also perform early works by Beethoven Tickets: €20* Following sold out shows last year, the master of mirth is Illustration Róisín Coyle and Clara Schumann. Running Time 2hrs 15 mins incl. interval back with his own unique brand of his irreverent humour. 3.30pm - 5.30pm Open Rehearsals 2016 was another busy year for the perennially popular star Main concert Tickets: €22*/€18*/€6* This show tells the story of Mike Arrigan's musical of the Blame Game, which celebrates its 10th birthday on TV 8pm CONCERT Family ticket (two adults and two children): €44* life as a Drummer, Musician and Mentor. this year. With that, a science comedy series for RTÉ2 and ARRIAGA (17) String Quartet No. 1 in D minor Lunchtime €10*/€8*/€6* his radio show on Today FM under his belt, now he is back to MOZART (17) Viola Quintet in B flat K. 174 Family ticket (two adults and two children): €20* Narration by Paraic Breathnach and featuring: where it all started, talking to strangers in rooms for money. MENDELSSOHN (15-18) Six selected songs from Festival ticket: €70*/€58* The Fuze, Glamrock Scene, Oddity, The Elastic Twelve Songs Op. 8 Film screening: free (booking advised) Bank, Apache Scene, The Buzz, Macnas “Simply put, Delamere is a master” GLAZUNOV (16-17) String Quartet No. 1 Op. 1 Drummers, The Galway Contemporary School of THE SCOTSMAN For updates visit www.musicforgalway.ie PROKOFIEV (15) Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 1 Music, Wherestheone, Spotty Dog, Freebird.

12 13 Fri 27, Sat 28 & Sun 29 January Tickets €9*/€8* See all 10 films for €55*/€50*

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 FRI 27, SAT 28 & SUN 29 JAN OWN COUNTRIES – THEY JUST HAPPEN NOT TO BE IN ENGLISH!

FRI 6.45PM SAT 2PM SAT 8.30PM SUN 5.15PM LAYLA M ILLEGITIMATE THE HAPPIEST DAY THE CLOSET NETHERLANDS · 110 MINS · 2016 · DRAMA ROMANIA · 89 MINS · 2016 · DRAMA IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI FRANCE · 84 MINS · 2001 · *CLASSIC COMEDY An astonishing film which charts a young Dutch Winner of the coveted Jury Award at the Odessa FINLAND · 92 MINS · 2016 · DRAMA · B&W When an accountant for a rubber factory, is Muslim’s fierce determination to find her place Film Festival, Adrian Sitaru’s dysfunctional Juho Kuosmanen’s outstanding debut feature won about to lose his job, he spreads a rumour that in the world. Layla M’s search for acceptance family drama addresses different taboos in the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at this he’s gay so that the company will be afraid to encourages her to lose herself in the teachings society and how they are shaped. A superbly year’s Cannes Film Festival. Inspired by the true story fire him, lest they come under fire for sexual of Islam, and from there begins a story of constructed and brilliantly acted drama. of Finland’s most successful boxer from the 1960s, discrimination. A classic French comedy with a magnetic power. it is a beautiful and powerful film about love and brilliant cast that hits all the beats. SAT 4PM choice. Don’t miss this one. FRI 9PM JACK THE LAST FAMILY GERMANY · 103 MIN · 2014 · DRAMA SUN 1PM POLAND · 123 MINS · 2016 · DRAMA This is a beautifully made and conceived CORN ISLAND SCHEDULE The Last Family boasts three of the finest Polish picture from the director of Deutschland GEORGIA · 100 MINS · 2014 · DRAMA performances committed to screen in recent ’83, Edward Berger. Berger focuses on the Shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2014, this fable Friday 27 6.45pm LAYLA M (The Netherlands) years. The film is a portrayal of the intertwining gentle devastation that paternal rejection can of life and death set in the dreamy landscapes of January 9pm THE LAST FAMILY (Poland) lives of the Beksin´ski family. Zdzisław Beksin´ski generate, as we observe Jack evolve from a the fringes of far Eastern contemporary Europe. It was one of Poland’s most famous 20th century child with adult responsibility into a young adult is an exquisitely made and photographed picture Saturday 28 12 noon LOST IN MUNICH (Czech Republic) painters and his son a renowned translator and whose eyes have finally been opened. from Georgia that draws you into its elegant and January 2pm ILLEGITIMATE (Romania) radio journalist. betwitching world. SAT 6PM 4pm JACK (Germany) SAT 12 NOON ABOUT LOVE SUN 3.15PM 6pm ABOUT LOVE (Russia) LOST IN MUNICH RUSSIA · 115 MINS · 2015 · COMEDY, DRAMA LAND OF MINE 8.30pm THE HAPPIEST DAY IN Another extremely classy instalment from the CZECH REPUBLIC · 105 MINS · 2016 · COMEDY DENMARK · 100 MINS · DRAMA · COLOUR THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI (Finland) Peter Zelenka’s hilarious mockumentary terrific Russian director Anna Melikyan. The film This is a gripping story of a group of young German Lost in Munich offers new theories about is an almanac of contemporary romantic stories soldiers who are captured by the Danish forces at Sunday 29 1pm CORN ISLAND (Georgia) the 1938 Munich agreement, which forced set in a bustling Moscow, brought together by the end of WW2. The Allied forces give them a deadly January 3.15pm LAND OF MINE (Denmark) a university lecture about love. The cream of Czechoslovakia to cede much of its border task — removing their own mines that they had set 5.15pm THE CLOSET ( France) region to Germany and also reflects on the Russian acting talent is on display, including an along the coast of Denmark. One of the finest films to perils of filmmaking. A real Subtitle coup. hilarious cameo by Yuri Kolokolnikov. come out of Denmark in recent years. Don’t miss it.

14 15 The Performance Corporation An award-winning drama with music based on James Joyce’s best Galway University Musical Society Natural and Human Heritages JASON BYRNE and Breda Cashe Productions loved short story. SPRING LUNCHTIME IS PROPPED UP present Four singers accompanied by a string quartet conjure all the humour LECTURE SERIES THE DEAD and heartbreak of a family gathering on a snowy night in Dublin. Composer Ellen Cranitch and playwright Tom Swift have created a vivid Sat 4 February 8pm musical telling of one of the greatest short stories ever written. Fridays 1.10pm - 1.50pm Tickets €22* There is no support act. Mon 6 & Tues 7 February 8pm With a cast featuring Clare Barrett, Kate Gilmore, Ruth McGill and Rory Admission Free Brazen Tales Productions € € Jason Byrne on stage 8pm sharp. Tickets 20*/ 16* Musgrave, The Dead is skilfully directed by Jo Mangan, in a beautiful The School of Geography & Archaeology, NUI Galway BIG BOBBY. Strictly over 16’s. version of Joyce’s masterpiece. continues its successful run of public lectures “This handsome chamber opera exploring the relationship between archaeology, LITTLE BOBBY Jason Byrne’s brand new show adaptation sweetly honours geography and the natural world. has everything you’ve come The Dead” THE IRISH TIMES Fri 20 Jan Nature and Culture: the symbolisation of by Camille Lucy Ross to expect from ‘The Outright a primordial interdependence & Kelly Shatter King of Live Comedy’ “A blend of spoken word, Speaker: Dr. Fiona Gavin (The Times), plus Ducks, recitatives, popular songs and False Chins, Portable Fri 27 Jan Low Carbon Energy Communities in Irish Igloos, Bewildered Owls attractive arioso passages, Islands: A Transdisciplinary Approach Wed 1 February 8pm and much, much more. truly excellent’’ OPERA Speaker: Eimear Heaslip Tickets €18/€16* Running time 60 minutes, no interval The star of Wild Fri 3 Feb Back from the Stone Age: The place of Things (Sky 1) and Céide Fields in Irish prehistory Big Bobby. Little Bobby is a twisted tender comedy; a one The Snaptastic Show BLACK BOX THEATRE Speaker: Dr. Andrew Whitefield (TV3) has gone back to his woman tour-de-force about keeping your demons sweet. Tues 7 - Sat 11 February 8pm Fri 12 Feb Fishing for consensus on Ireland’s comedy roots, probably so Tickets €15*/€12* (€2 discount on Tues & Weds) salmon farms Bobby has shared a bed with Mammy who sleeps in her he can pull them up and use Speaker: Dr. Liam M. Carr tights, plays games in the night and guzzles bottles under them as a prop as well. the stairs. It’s time for Bobby to get out. Galway University Musical Society (GUMS) is an Fri 17 Feb Climate change, prehistoric farming, soil amateur musical society that has grown immensely loss and the development of a karst landscape in Alone in the silence of Granny’s old house, Little Bobby in previous years, been nominated for numerous western Ireland appears, filling Bobby’s head with self loathing, filthy urges AIMS awards and received fantastic reviews. Speaker: Dr. Carleton Jones and occasionally a push in the right direction. “Watching a new Urinetown is Galway University Musical Society’s Fri 24 Feb Irish Winter Climates: From storms to 17th annual musical and it’s an absolute piss-take! A deliciously dark tale about inner critics, awkward Jason Byrne Show frost and back again is like witnessing The Tony Award-winning musical is a satire on the romance and dealing with your dark side. legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, Speaker: Dr. Audrey Morley lightning in a bottle” populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, Fri 3 Mar To be announced EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS “a hugely entertaining piece of theatre… and the musical form itself. Speaker: Peter Casby hilarious and touching’ THE REVIEW HUB Fri 10 Mar What on Earth are Novel Ecosystems? “Unmissable” Urinetown keeps springing surprises to the very Speaker: Dr. Marcus J. Collier “funny and lovely” THE INDEPENDENT EVENING STANDARD end, it’s current, engaging and above all, hilarious! 16 17 An Evening of Mediumship with TV Psychic TONY STOCKWELL Wed 8 February 8pm Tommy Swarbrigg presents Tickets €25* JACK LUKEMAN For those with an interest in Mediumship, the In The King Of Soho… Saturday 11 February 8pm name of Tony Stockwell will certainly need no Tickets €25*/€22.50* introduction. Tony has been working tirelessly for and other stories over 25 years to demonstrate his belief that those Espresso Productions who have passed can communicate with their loved Direct from the USA ones. Tony’s insight into the lives of total strangers The No. 1 Johnny is inexplicable and remarkable as he attempts to Cash Tribute Act offer fascinating revelations from the other side. DONNA TAGGART Tony Stockwell is a Spiritualist Medium and spirit communication is part of his own religious belief, EDDI READER but we accept differing opinions exist regarding Fri 10 February 8pm The Best Of by GERRY CONNEELY mediumship. Any demonstration of mediumship is Thurs 9 February 8pm Tickets €25*/€23* an experiment and results are not guaranteed. Tickets €25* /€22.50* Donna Taggart, the Omagh-born viral sensation, recently Tues 14 February 8pm € Featuring Terry Lee Goffee and his band, this is one topped the charts when her single Jealous of the Angels Tickets 20* show you won’t want to miss! Terry Lee Goffee sings reached No.1 in the iTunes Easy Listening Chart in the Running time 2 hrs 30 mins incl. interval Tues 14 - Sat 18 February 8.30pm € € like Johnny, he looks like Johnny and he performs just USA along with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Tickets 15*/ 12* like the great man, with energy, charisma and vitality! Africa, Ireland and the UK. Her album subsequently went Scottish songstress, Eddi Reader celebrates her 30-year career with Acknowleged as the No. 1 interpreter of the great man’s straight to No. 1 on the Billboard World Music Catalogue the release of her first career spanning compilation Eddi Reader The That Same Old Story is a charming, poignant and music on the planet, he last visited Ireland five years Charts, with the ‘Angels’ video attracting a staggering 50 Best Of. She will be joined by her regular band members, John Douglas often hilarious tale of the state of love in contemporary ago and all shows were sell outs. million views on Youtube. (guitar & vocals), Boo Hewerdine (guitar & vocals), Alan Kelly (piano Ireland by Kinvara playwright, Gerry Conneely. accordion) and Kevin McGuire (double bass & vocals). With a career This vibrant comedy with stunning dialogue allows you Tommy Cash said, “The show is great, my brother would Donna began singing when she was 22. It started by spanning over 3 decades, Eddi Reader has effortlessly developed into to combine your celebration of St Valentines with a be proud”. Joanne Cash Yates said “It’s a wonderful accident when a friend asked her to sing at a funeral one of popular music’s most thrilling and affecting performers. Having satisfying theatrical presentation on the subject of love. show, I would recommend it to anyone.” Johnny’s and she has been singing and recording songs ever first hit the limelight in the 1980s with the group Fairground Attraction booking agent (Bonnie Sugarman) of 30 years and his since. Donna first came to prominence in 2011 when (who enjoyed huge chart success with their debut No.1 single Perfect manager, Lou Robin, have also attended Terry Lee’s her acclaimed debut album Celtic Lady Vol. 1 was picked and album First of a Million Kisses), Eddi went on to collaborate on “A show to delight the heart and a reminder shows. Sugarman said “Terry had it down, the moves, up by highly respected BBC Radio Ulster presenter Gerry many celebrated projects throughout the years, famously harmonizing that despite the gloom and uncertainty, the sound, the look, everything, but above all, he relates Anderson. A second album followed in 2013 (Celtic Lady with Annie Lennox while touring with the Eurythmics and paying her there is in fact something worth living for” to Johnny’s music like no other I have heard”. Vol.2) and the rest, as they say, is history! punk dues with a successful stint in the group Gang of Four. Alan Fry, scriptwriter

18 Back due to pu 19 ★★★★ Pat Egan Presents Perfectly measured IrIsh eXAMIner ★★★★ A first rate production of a play that B reaches powerfully into the understated lic demand! drama of ordinary lives The MAIL on sUnDAY Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company ★★★★ Celebrate the 40th Anniversary Sat 18 February 8pm THE COVE haunting Tickets €25* of Saturday Night Fever Duration 2 hours 20 minutes including interval The reVIeWs hUB Tues 21 February 8pm Tickets €18*/€16* On a stormy night in Brendan’s pub, Co-Motion Media isolated above a Leitrim town, the in association with VERDANT productions THE BIG FELLOW The Cove is a performance about the natural world, and the men are gathering for their daily pint. place of people in it. It reflects on the experience of the beauty by DECLAN GORMAN of the wild Irish coast and its embodiment in movement. The arrival of a stranger in their midst based on FRANK O’CONNOR’S biography – a beautiful woman – spurs them of Michael Collins Through a changing environment of large reflective blocks a woman travels. She climbs, sits, contemplates and is enfolded to impress her with stories. They are Mon 20 February 8pm by the spirit of the place. stories of souls past, spirits present Tickets €20*/€18* and spectres unforeseen. One story, Running time 2 hours incl. interval “…told with fable-like simplicity, the dance is Contains strong language and simulated gunfire. a multi-layered meditation on overcoming the however, is more chilling, more sinister Not recommended for children under 13 years. constant force of gravity and the fear of falling in and more real than any of them could The Weir Frank O’Connor (Gerard Adlum) brings to life the mythical hero Michael order to achieve the joyous freedom of the peak” have foreseen. Collins (Cillian Ó Gairbhí), as he graduates from masterminding dare- MICHAEL SEAVER, IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE Conor Mc Pherson devil raids, prison breaks and espionage in the War of Independence to Winner of the o livIer, e vening s tandard and Critics’ Circle for Best n ew Play commanding the army of a newly-formed but bitterly divided state. As The Weir is a classic McPherson tale a timid youth, O’Connor had fought against Collins in the Civil War. So and a masterpiece of modern theatre – Mon 13- Fri 17 February, excl Tues 14 February why does he divert from a glittering literary career just a few years later to write a book in praise of his dead enemy? don’t miss it. 8pm Tickets: Mon €15*, Wed to S at €20*/€18*

A5_Landscape2.indd 2 29/11/2016 08:50 20 21 THE THREE TENORS Lambert Puppet Theatre presents Ireland’s Greatest Voices & CINDERELLA Rafal Kowalczyk/Galaxy Events Entertainers with Star Violinist Special Guest: Direct from Carnegie Hall - AND BOSCO KAMIL BEDNAREK Galway’s Teenage Star Aimee Banks

Sun 26 February 8pm Sat 25 February 8pm Tickets €35* in advance, €40* on the door DES BISHOP Tickets €28*/€26* One Day You’ll Understand EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC! EXCITING NEW SHOW! THE PERFECT GIFT! Popular Classic Hits! Home from the Sea, Caledonia, One Moment in Time, My Way, Ireland’s Hottest trio - RTÉ award-winners Pat Egan presents Derek Moloney, Dominic McGorian and Shane MIDGE URE Morgan, promise you a night to remember! Favourites include Pavarotti (Nessun Dorma) and The Dubliners’ greatest ballads. Fri 24 February 8pm “Knockout vocal performance” Sun 26 February 2pm Tickets €35* NEW YORK TIMES Tickets €10*, Family Ticket (4 people) €35* Suitable for an age group up to ten years of age. Wed 22 and Thurs 23 February 8pm Tickets €25* Midge Ure has a career that spans over 40 years – from his ‘pop band’ The Lambert Puppet Theatre is internationally Des is old enough now to know that when his beginnings, almost joining The Sex renowned for its many fine productions in Mom used her favourite expression, “one day Pistols, the electronic groundbreaking theatres throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe. you will understand”, that she was often correct. work with Visage, via the mainstream From its earliest beginning the Lambert family However, sometimes she was just hiding from success of Ultravox to the twists has been involved with RTÉ TV, working the Primary schools from having to explain the complexities of life. and turns of his solo releases. This hugely popular series Wanderly Wagon. ‘Something From Everything…’ show will COIRM GAEL LINN all over Galway City and What a great metaphor for the confusing world cover at least one song from every album Bosco is still a firm favourite with the younger County present 20-minute we live in; from Trump to Isis, Facebook feeds to he has released – don’t miss! children and will make a nostalgic appearance Tues 28 Feb & Wed 1 March, 10am-4pm variety shows. conspiracy theories and the ever-confusing battle in the opening part of the show. Cinderella is a Free Admission For full details, visit of the sexes. Through laughter, Des attempts to beautifully produced show with large puppets, www.gael-linn.ie make sense of the world today and life in general. colourful sets and exquisite lighting.

22 23 World Premiere Starring Eoin Kilkenny Conor McPherson’s award-winning play Espresso Productions presents JON KENNY and MARY McEVOY is a poignant and funny tale told through Galway Whiskey Festival John B Keane’s THIS LIME three interlinking monologues. The play a Comedy Double Bill Directed by follows three young men from a small MEET THE THE SUCCESSFUL TD MICHAEL SCOTT TREE BOWER seaside town who tell of their inextricably FRANKEEN STEIN & Based on The Letters of A Successful TD and by Conor McPherson linked lives and the eventful week which MIDLETON was to change things for good. An Irish Minister of State by John B Keane SHAKESPEARE IN WHISKEY Adapted for the stage by Jon Kenny, Mon 6 March 8pm Thurs 2 - Sat 4 March 8pm Tickets €18*/€16* CONNEMARA Mary McEvoy and Michael Scott 80 mins no interval MAKERS Tickets €20*/€18* To celebrate the launch ONE OF YOUR OWN – A VOTE FOR TULL IS A of INTERNATIONAL VOTE FOR YOURSELF! IRISH WHISKEY DAY The Successful TD follows the trials, tribulations, and GALWAY misadventures and hilarious antics of Tull DanSoc NUIG WHISKEY FESTIVAL McAdoo as he seeks re-election to the Dáil in the "October Elections”. DANCE

Wed 1 March 8pm Written in 1967, John B Keane displays his edge for INTERVARSITIES Free Admission humour and satire that are uncomfortably close to the politics of today… peppered with Keane's gallery of 2017 madcap characters this show will have you laughing at politics (in a good way) from the start. NUI GALWAY Tull has roped in the help of his faithful daughter Kate Tues 7 - Sat 11 March 8.30pm while his wife nurses her various ailments in bed or Tickets €15*/€12* Wed 8 March 9am - 6pm Lisdoonvarna, but his arch enemy Flannery the local Tickets €10*/€5* school teacher plans to scupper the election for Tull. Two one-act plays representing the “A show about optimism “Zippy and evocative… its vivid most recent work of Gerry Conneely This competition brings colleges from and hope… brilliantly images and brisk rhythm generate whose Year of the Moving Statues caused across Ireland to compete in five delivered” RTÉ RADIO 1 an electric charge” THE IRISH TIMES such a stir in 2015. “Any man with a vote is a man to be categories of Dance. respected. I’ll play with them, lie to them, “Conneely has managed to capture The categories are Irish Dancing, sing dumb about them while I have a that anarchic vitality that so often Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary chance of a vote. That’s my livelihood. characterises Irish conversation but and Mixed Piece. Don’t give me no more stink about the for some reason is sadly lacking in Each category is judged by three judges truth. Christ told the truth and they Irish theatre. At least until now” and there is an award ceremony after crucified Him…” KEVIN MEADOWES, WRITER AND DIRECTOR the Mixed Piece category. 24 25 Tickets €20*/€18* € € Fidget Feet Theatre Royal Productions See two productions for 30* or all three for 40* Fri 10 March 8pm Fishamble is thrilled to present a special triple bill of www.fishamble.com Tickets €8*/Family (4 people) €25* MY REAL LIFE HANG ON Contemporary and aerial circus. by Eoin Colfer Choreographed and Suitable for all ages SILENT / UNDERNEATH / FORGOTTEN performed by Starring DON WYCHERLEY “kept me spellbound” CHANTAL McCORMICK Written and performed by PAT KINEVANE Directed by JIM CULLETON Produced by EVA SCANLAN Silent and Underneath Composed by DENIS CLOHESSY HOUSTON CHRONICLE, USA Directed by BEN BARNES and LEE CLAYDEN Film projection and music created and played live by Fri 10 & Sat 11 March 8pm € € JYM DALY Tickets 20*/ 18*

SILENT UNDERNEATH FORGOTTEN Mon 13 March 8pm Tues 14 March 8pm Wed 15 March 8pm

OLIVIER AWARD WINNER 2016 WINNER OF SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST AWARD 2015 ‘Has no one a skitter o’ dignity left?’ WINNER OF SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST AND HERALD THE BEST THEATRE OF 2015: BROADWAY AND Theatre Royal Productions presents Sing Street star Don Wycherley in the ANGEL AWARDS AT EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE BEYOND - FORBES MAGAZINE LIST Pat Kinevane’s captivating portrayal of four elderly

touching and entertaining My Real Life by Eoin Colfer. AND ARGUS ANGEL AT BRIGHTON FESTIVAL characters, living in retirement homes and care ‘You never know what’s around the corner, facilities around Ireland, is a unique collage of HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO FIGHT FOR IT? Wexford man Noel has advanced MS and decides to end it all. While waiting do ya?’ Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling. With vibrancy ‘Hopeless, helpless, in-the-way person’ Hang On brings the suited denizens of the business world into the sumo wrestlers’ for his overdose to take effect he records an increasingly rambling message and haunting honesty, Kinevane’s stylised circle of combat, mixing an aerial dance trapeze duet with a love musical for his best friend. Noel has apologies to make and messages to send. He has Sticks and stones didn’t break Her bones, but words and performance brings to life these sometimes love in his heart and he wants to declare it even if it’s already too late. Noel Homeless McGoldrig once had splendid things. But he pointing crushed Her. Is Beauty really only skin deep? Does forgotten voices of society. performance in a thrilling struggle between the sexes. Will everything be lost in the has lost it all - including his mind. He now dives into the battle - or can love be found? Can they HANG ON? spends what is possibly the last hour of his life re-living the highs and lows of Ugliness hide somewhere deeper? the past forty years and, surprisingly perhaps, it’s not all doom and gloom. A wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Forgotten has been performed in over 60 venues Fidget Feet is Ireland’s foremost Aerial Dance Theatre Company. Creating play that will make you laugh and make you cry. Rudolph Valentino, in this brave, bold, beautiful production. This stunning new play is a blackly comic, rich and vivid throughout Ireland, and has toured to England, spectacular contemporary circus and specialising in aerial dance. With Hang On, Silent has had huge international success from Los Angeles tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people Scotland, US, France, Czech Republic, Iceland, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as to the US to they are doing what they do best - mixing aerial skills with dance and performing to “Wycherley’s performance really is a tour de force” to Edinburgh, and from New York to Melbourne, wowing who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life. It New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. original live music and video art. Aerial dance at its finest. Don’t miss! THE IRISH EXAMINER audiences and critics alike. explores the surface, and what lies underneath. 26 27 St Patrick’s Festival 2017 at the Town Hall Theatre Buy tickets to any three events for just €40* The Corps Ensemble Zogma Dance, Quebec Mon 20 March 8pm MADE IN CHINA Tickets €18*/€16* SOKALO REMIX By Mark O’Rowe Running time 1hr 45 mins incl. interval Fri 17 March 8pm Tickets €20*/€18* In this working-class Dublin noir, Mark O’Rowe (writer of Intermission, Howie the Running time 80 minutes Rookie and Our Few and Evil Days) elevates his own unique brand of hard-core street vernacular to a high martial art form. Full of verbal pyrotechnics, spectacular An exciting show melding the sean-nós tradition with imagery and linguistic experiment, this darkly comic blood-and-guts crime story is high energy contemporary movement, lightening fast Shakespearean in its poetry and Jacobean in its arc of bloody revenge. footwork and dynamic music. HHHH When the urban rhythms in Sokalo meet and intermingle with the rural rhythms of traditional dance “Three stunning performances” “A powerful night of theatre, THE EXAMINER Directions Out Theatre Company Ériu and music in Ireland, the result is magical. Zogma’s one that crackles and bristles interest in Irish dance stems from the links between with a palpable energy” DAVE AT LARGE LÏNGER their form of percussive dance, and indeed Quebec “Wildly, outrageously, THE EXAMINER featuring BREANDÁN DE GALLAÍ folk dance, that specifically traces its roots back to THE LEGEND OF LUKE KELLY sickeningly funny.” by Brian McAvera traditional Irish and French-Canadian dancing. 33rd Anniversary Concert SUNDAY INDEPENDENT & NICK O’CONNELL Featuring Irish artists Laoise Kelly (harp). Caitlin Nic Sat 18 March 8pm Gabhainn (dance/concertina), Liam Scanlon (dance), Tue 21 March 8pm Thurs 16 March 8pm Tickets €20*/€18* € € Edwina Guckian (dance). Tickets €20*/€18* Tickets 18*/ 16* Running time 2 hrs 15 incl. interval Running time 1 hour, no Interval “Incredible! Loved every second” A brand new comedy that celebrates the work of Dave Allen, the iconic Over the past 15 years Dublin singer/songwriter/multi- Choreographed by ex-Riverdance principal MAIREAD NÍ MHAONAIGH, ALTAN Irish comedian who broke through internationally as one of the most funny, instrumentalist Chris Kavanagh has amazed audiences irreverent and challenging comedians of his day. Breandán de Gallaí, Lïnger is a provocative and following powerful sell-out performances contemporary Irish dance work involving two AN IRISH/ CANADIAN CO-PRODUCTION COMMISSIONED BY THE DOCK, LEITRIM WITH ZOGMA DANCE, QUEBEC. both in Ireland and abroad. In 2011 Chris stood in with folk This new play touches on aspects of his life but reinvents his comedy routines male dancers at opposite ends of their dancing legends The Dubliners on their German tour and also made about politics, sex, religion and family for a modern audience, as well as careers. This immersive theatrical experience is a guest appearance on their 50th anniversary concert DVD examining the nature of a comedian. “a powerfully tender and muscular exploration recorded in Vicar Street. of Irish gay masculinity”, and unfolds through Three actors play Dave as different aspects of his life and humour take centre a rich tapestry of photography, film, music, When Chris sings, his talents capture the depth and stage. Funny, irreverent and touching. A great night out. and movement. Ériu’s work is a 21st century passion of the great man that he was so heavily influenced reimagining of Irish dance, exploring the poetic by. He is joined on stage by one of Ireland’s leading Cast includes: With Bryan Murray (Fair City, Brad, Irish R.M), Michael Batres potential of the genre and examining topics rarely guitarist/composers, Michael Howard and traditional (Fair City); Tara Breathnach (Ros na Rún, A Nightingale Falling). Directed by dealt with through traditional dance. musician Joe Finn on uilleann pipes, whistle, flute & fiddle. the award-winning team of Joe Devlin & Brian McAvera. 28 29

CoisCéim Dance Theatre Foil Arms & Hog THE WOLF AND PETER DOOMDAH

“reassuringly traditional and Thursday 23 March 7pm Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf startlingly modern… funny, Friday 24 March 10am & 12.15pm is one of the most well known Fri 24 March 8pm pieces of music ever written. In imaginative and very moving” Tickets €8*, Family Ticket (4 people) €24*, School Groups €6* Tickets €20* this energetic new work, David THE IRISH TIMES Suitable For All Ages 6+ Running time 55 mins, no interval Bolger has taken this timeless Foil Arms and Hog are Ireland’s top comedy sketch group. story of courage and imagination ‘’Playful, funny, moving,The Wolf Called ‘Pure Brilliant’ by Tommy Tiernan, they have over as inspiration, and here… the and Peter stirs the spirit and four million hits on YouTube and have sold out five shows story is told through the eyes at Dublin’s Vicar Street. With regular sketches on RTÉ, viral ignites the imagination, no matter of a Wolf! Filled with dance and comedy hits like How to Speak Dublin and over 70,000 what age you might happen to be” live music, this fun and richly online followers, Foil Arms and Hog have established EXAMINER.COM theatrical production will take themselves amongst the new breed of Irish comedy stars. children and their families on a thrilling adventure to explore and “Jim Nolan has an unapologetic affection “the play, essentially a meditation on the discover contemporary dance and performance at its best. for small-town life. But it never blinds shape of the nation as it celebrates the Rising, him to its dangers and its faults” is lightly metaphorical and stealthily topical” SUNDAY INDEPENDENT THE IRISH TIMES

Sat 25 March 8pm Tickets €20*/€18*

‘Pearse, Connolly, McDermott and the rest of their merry men; they died for a Republic. But we don't live in a Republic. We live in an economy.’ Following its world première in 2016, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye tours nationwide in Spring 2017 produced by Garter Lane Theatre with funding from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Set in a provincial newspaper office in the Irish Midlands in the run up to Easter 2016, the privately owned Inishshannon Chronicle has just been acquired by a media conglomerate and the new brush is about to sweep clean. As the newspaper’s staff adjust to radical changes in its structure and ethos, the town it serves prepares to celebrate a tenuous connection to the Easter Rising. The revelation that this connection is not quite what it seems puts the Chronicle’s editor on a collision course with both his new bosses and the local business and political community. 30 NEXT SEASON includes… 31 By kind permission from Theatrical Rights Worldwide The Stage Musical Comedy with Book and Lyrics by Eric Idle OMID DJALILI Pat Egan Presents Music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle Schmuck For a Night MARY KEVIN “BLOODY” WILSON BLACK Plus Guest Jenny Talia Wed 27 March - Sun 2 April 8pm Thurs 20 April 8pm Matinee Sat 1 April 3pm Thurs 30 March Tickets €35* € € € Tickets 21*/ 19* Tickets 27* Sat 8 April 8pm Tickets €35* Mary has chosen some of Award-winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili known her favourite venues for for his legendary stand-up performances, is back on a The Kevin Bloody Wilson show is not just a concert this tour and is bringing Find your grail… nationwide tour! Intelligent, sometimes provocative and performance; for most, it’s a full on event and an her world famous band always entertaining, his stand-up is a hugely energetic Lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot opportunity to tick from your bucket-list, a chance of musicians: Bill Shanley and captivating comedy masterclass. His credits range is the fresh Broadway hit and irreverent parody of the Arthurian legend. It was to see Australia’s most unique international comedy (guitar), Pat Crowley (piano from Hollywood to television and the West End stage. nominated for 14 Tony Awards, winning three including Best New Musical for 2005. legend. In the more than 30 years since his first and accordion), Nick Scott Earning praise across the world for his performances album (Hey Santa Claus, Living Next Door to Alan) (double bass) and Richie Spamalot features a shameless parade of puns, a posse of knights in tights (also Omid recently starred in Dickensian (BBC1), Lucky Man Kev’s concerts continue to sell-out around the globe. Buckley (saxophone). shameless), a bevy of beautiful showgirls, a ‘dazzling diva’, hilarious dance numbers, (Sky1) and Going Forward (BBC4) with Jo Brand. Selling upward of 4 million units and being nominated not to mention cows, killer rabbits some really terrible fake French accents and the for Australian of the Year have helped cemen t his somewhat odd Knights who say “ni” are just part of the adventures and dangers place as, in the words of Billy Connolly, ‘the world’s awaiting King Arthur and his knights of the very very very round table in their quest for ‘Belly laughs with a funniest Australian’. the holy grail. subtle blend of Aiken Promotions mainstream gags and Leading the quest is King Arthur with his trusty servant Patsy rounds up his gallant ANDY IRVINE & PAUL BRADY subversive twinkle’ knights - and a broad assortment of other characters - Sir Lancelot the Homicidally 40th Anniversary Tour Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir-Lancelot, Sir Galahad and the SUNDAY TIMES Strangely Flatulent Sir Bedevere. “Grab your coconuts… I mean your tickets now as it’s expected to Sat 27 May 8pm Tickets €44*. Fully seated concert. sell very very very well” Disclaimer: Spamalot pokes fun at almost everyone and everything, even Broadway musicals. It is most appropriate for children 12 and older who can appreciate the unique Pythonesque sense of humour that – without apology – can appear cheeky, impertinent, irreverent, disrespectful, and sometimes just plain rude… but to the sophisticated and discerning eye, it is silliness raised to an art form and all good fun. But, please, if you are easily offended, take King Arthur’s advice and ‘Run away!’ CULTUREFOX.IE NEVER MISS OUT

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