January/June 2020 www.craicartscentre.com Craic Youth Theatre Presents The Annual Panto Rapunzel The Craic Theatre Panto is one of the highlights of our year. Since the first Pantomime, Oh Yes It Is in 2007 Craic has staged a string of spectacular shows including Beauty & The Beast, Foundered, Cinderfella, Puss in Boots, Robbin’ Hood and last year Aladdin. The 2020 show will be RAPUNZEL This classic will be brought to life by the Craic Youth Theatre in this masterpiece of dazzling production numbers and captivating music. Rapunzel promises to be bigger and better than ever featuring the talents of over 150 “Craicers” from our re- nowned Youth Theatre. Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th January Friday 24th - Sunday 26thth January @ 7.30pm Sunday Matinee 3pm Admission £12 adult £6 Children (under 16) tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Jump The Ditch Theatre Company STOPPED INTERRUPTING Jump The Ditch theatre company return to Craic Theatre with this hilarious comedy- Stopped Interrupting by Nick Broadhead The actors in a play are just getting into their stride in Act One when ‘complications’ arise. The cast are already one actor down due to an accident, and, by sheer coincidence, the author has stepped in to read his lines (even though he is visibly too old for the part). What could possibly go wrong. This is the second visit to The Craic Theatre for Jump The Ditch, a group of local theatre enthusiasts aiming to allow anyone with an interest in acting or production to get involved. Friday 7th & Saturday 8th February @ 8pm Admission tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Garth Brooks Tribute with Jason Hughes Ireland’s top Garth Brooks tribute show starring Jason Hughes and his brand new 6 piece live band is taking bookings now. Known to some for his country music show on Downtown Country, Jason Hughes delivers all the Garth Brooks classics including Friends in Low Places, If Tomorrow Never Comes, Callin’ Baton Rouge and What She’s Doing Now in this popular show which is selling out throughout Ireland. Jason’s Show is the longest running Garth Brooks tribute show, over 20 years on the road, and receiving several awards along the way, one of which was CMI male artist of the year. Jason has toured Ireland, UK, Europe and the USA, filling venues from halls to festivals to theatres. This show is the most exciting, energetic show on the circuit! At over 2 hours, this show sees Jason performing all the best loved songs, in a fabulously entertaining evening of music, singing & dancing. The audiences love Jason’s engaging per- sonality, interaction and fun, and will go home having experienced something that bit extra special! .. Friday 21st February @ 8pm Admission £16 tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Big Guerilla Productions present An Ogeous Brose by John McManus An Ogeous Brose with Seamus O’Rourke & Charlie McGuinness = Seamus O’Rourke has teamed up with John McManus before to bring us – ‘The Quare Land’, ‘Danger Money’ and ‘The Cavan Course’. This promises to be another McManus classic ‘An Ogeous Brose’. A grumpy builder, (Seamus O’Rourke) and his young Shakira loving labourer (Charlie McGuinness) arrive on Mogue’s Island to dig a grave in the depths of winter. It’s cold and eerie and full of myth. The more they dig, the more they realise that this was not such a good idea. Has Barney Bellew and Hector Hoctor really got something in common? – Well, it just might be that they are both entangled in an ancient curse An Ogeous Brose is scary and funny in equal measure where you can expect the unexpect- ed... A great night out! Seamus O’Rourke teams up with Charlie McGuinness in this rib-tickling, spine-chilling adventure as two men dig a grave on a remote Island in Cavan. It’s Fierce Dark – It’s Horrid Quiet – It’s an Ogeous Brose! Friday 28th February @ 8pm Admission £12 tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Dream World Promotions presents Adventures on Old MacDonalds Farm Join us down on Old MacDonald’s Farm for fun, songs and excitement. Friendly Scarecrow is enjoying his first day on Old MacDonald’s Farm and loves meeting all of the colourful characters that live there. When a mystery unfolds on the farm, can you help Scarecrow find out what’s going on? With an original script and brand new songs written for this production, along with many singalong favourites, this professionally produced show is a thrill for younger children. Aged 2 - 7 Sunday 1st March @ 3pm Admission £8 or Family of 6 £40 tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Friends of Zambia Fund-raiser A Night at The Movies This event is a fund raiser for Friends of Zambia, a voluntary organisation aiming to improve the standards of education, health care and living conditions among our brothers and sisters in Zambia. Saturday 7th March @ 8pm Admission £5 donations welcome tickets online www.craicartscentre.com JOLLY PROMOTIONS presents The Baby Shark Show (featuring The Little Mermaid & Friends) Dive deep down under the sea in this all new mystical, magical adventure of Baby Shark & The Little Mermaid! Baby Shark is feeling adventurous and wonders what life is like away from her family, but as she wanders deeper into the ocean, things don’t go exactly as planned. On her travels she meets Eugene the rock & roll singing crab, two swashbuckling, trouble- some pirates Calypso & Caspian, &The Owl & the Pussycat, – all who either try to help her or dare to lead him astray. Can Baby Shark find her way back to his family before she swims too far? Only you and The Little Mermaid can help her! Packed with singalong songs, nursery rhymes and lots of audience interaction, this brand new colourful tale from Jolly Promotions promises to be lots of fun for little ones and their adults. Sunday 8th March @ 3pm Admission £8 or Family of 6 £40 tickets online www.craicartscentre.com LDN Wrestling Brand new to town, the bone-crunching superstars of LDN Wrestling, bringing a host of top American wrestling stars to the ring to face the very best of home-grown talent and fans’ favourites, in a two-hour rip-roaring entertainment for all the family to enjoy.Brand new to town, the stars of LDN Wrestling are coming for an afternoon of rip roaring professional wrestling. This show is the ideal place to celebrate a birthday with the opportunity of VIP back stage passes to meet the stars at the end of the show. If you’ve been before you know how good its gets if you haven’t then give it a try as we guar- antee that the kids will be talking about it for weeks afterwards Sunday 15th March @ 3pm Admission £12 Adults £10 Children Family of 4 £40 tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Footlights Theatre Group Present Bitta Broadway 2 Join the cast of Footlights for a spectacular evening of hit songs from Broadway musicals both old and new. Following the success of Bitta Broadway 1 in 2017, this talented cast is back with an entertaining collection of song and dance with something for everyone in the audience. Featuring your favourite songs from Les Misérables, All Shook Up, Hairspray, Annie, Shrek and more and introducing new Broadway sensations like Newsies, Ghost The Musical, Ham- ilton, Come from Away and Dear Evan Hansen this show is guaranteed to blow the roof off and have you singing into the night. Three performances Thursday 26th - Saturday 28th March @ 7.30pm Admission £10 adults £7 children tickets online www.craicartscentre.com The Bardic Theatre Donaghmore Present The Field The Field is set in rural Ireland during the mid nineteen sixties.... “As a patriotic tenant farmer with a fearsome temper and an obsession with the field he has toiled for most of his life, the Bull McCabe epitomises the last stand in the protection of the old order, denying permission of entry to the impending industrial change which threatens the ‘status quo’.” Based on a true story, this dark and at times, hilariously funny tale, by John B Keane is a work which went on to inspire one of Ireland’s most successful films.....Directed by Sean Faloon Not to be missed !! Friday 3rd April @ 8pm Admission £15 tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Craic Theatre Players Present The Perfect Murder Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly two decades, but each barely recognises the person they wake up next to every morning. Victor is so fed up with his job at the local factory –as well as distracted by his visits to his favourite prostitute, Kamila– that he hardly notices his wife’s constant ridicule. Joan has resigned herself to the fact that Victor will never see beyond her double-chin to a new hair cut or outfit. She even puts up with his constant snoring which keeps her up night after night, but only just. For unbeknownst to Victor, Joan is taking her sweet revenge: spending large amounts of money on his credit card, kitting herself out in a sexy new ward- robe to impress her secret lover, Don. But then, as the bills mount, Victor loses his job. Soon he realises that the only way he can achieve his dream of setting up home with Kamila is to get Joan out of the picture, once and for all. But Victor is about to get a nasty surprise, for he’s not the only one with murder on his mind . Four performances Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th April Admission £12 tickets online www.craicartscentre.com Wake in The West by Michael J Ginnelly The famous side-splitting comedy farce.