1 Box office www.angrianan.com T +353 74 91 20777 AN GRIANÁN THEATRE Winter/Spring An Grianán Port Rd, Letterkenny, 2017/18 Co Donegal, Ireland, F92 RV1F AT A GLANCE December Music Fri 8 Celebrating Christie Hennessy: Aonghus McAnally Comedy Sat 9 PJ Gallagher Family Tues 12 to Sat 16 The Nutcracker: An Grianán Theatre Productions in association with ZoNa Dance Comedy Thur 14 Tommy Tiernan Music Fri 15 The High Kings Music Sun 17 DMEP Family Christmas Concert: Donegal Music Education Partnership Music Thur 21 Phil Coulter: Pat Egan Promotions Music Wed 27 The Fureys Music Thur 28 Little Hours Music Fri 29 In Their Thousands January Comedy Fri 5 & Sat 6 Foil Arms & Hog Family Sat 13 to Sat 20 The Snow Queen: Letterkenny Pantomime Society Music Sun 21 String Sisters Comedy Fri 26 Conal Gallen Music Sat 27 Sharon Shannon Theatre Wed 31 Swan Lake / Loch na hEala: Teac Damsa/Nomad Theatre Network February Theatre Thur 1 Swan Lake / Loch na hEala: Teac Damsa/Nomad Theatre Network Comedy Fri 2 Neil Delamere Family Sat 3 Red Riding Hood & the Silly Billy Wolf Variety Thur 8 Royal and Prior College Concert Theatre Fri 9 & Sat 10 One Night Stands: PlayStation Theatre Co Theatre Tues 13 Beneath An Irish Sky: Letterkenny Music & Drama Group Theatre Fri 16 & Sat 17 The Successful TD Family Sat 17 Little Folk on Tour: Kyle Reilly Schools Mon 19 & Tues 20 The Shakespeare Sessions: Cyclone Rep Comedy Sat 24 Colin Murphy Musical Tues 27 to Wed 28 9 to 5: The Musical: Letterkenny Musical Society March Musical Thur 1 to Sat 3 9 to 5: The Musical: Letterkenny Musical Society Theatre/ Tues 6 Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful: Schools Verdant & Pemberley Productions Comedy Thur 8 Jason Byrne Music Sat 10 Rhys Meirion Theatre Tues 13 to Thur 15 Waiting for Godot: Druid Theatre Co Music Sun 18 Vincent Kennedy & the Donegal Youth Orchestra Comedy Sat 24 Pat Shortt Music Sun 25 Michael English Theatre Wed 28 & Thur 29 Dancing at Lughnasa: Lifford Players April Festival Wed 4 to Fri 6 The Pan Celtic Festival Theatre Sat 7 The Good Father: Rise Productions Family Thur 12 & Fri 13 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase: An Grianán Youth Theatre Musical Tues 24 to Sat 28 Footloose: Loreto Convent & St Eunan’s College Exhibitions Thur 26 Oct 2017 Johnny Boyle to Sat 6 Jan 2018 Exhibitions Wed 17 Jan 2018 Gareth Nee to Fri 16 Mar 2018 Exhibitions Thur 29 Mar 2018 Linda Lafferty to Sat 28 Apr 2018 THEATRE 1 Swan Lake/ Loch na hEala Wed 31st January & Thur 1st February at 8pm Directed by Michael Keegan-Dolan – Teac Damsa Presented by Nomad Theatre Network Tickets: €25/€20 A stunning show. “Swan Lake / Loch na hEala, rolls drama, dance and music Following a critically acclaimed international tour. together to create a haunted and haunting piece…It’s a show can that be both ugly and extraordinarily beautiful, Featuring a cast of thirteen, including Mikel Murfi, as it shifts through darkness to an eruption of light and this Swan Lake is rooted in a place where ancient Irish joy at the end.” - The Financial Times ***** mythology and modern Ireland meet. Slow Moving Clouds have created a new score that combines The Observer***** Nordic and Irish traditional music with minimalist and The Evening Standard***** experimental influences. The result is a Swan Lake for ȣ Winner Best Production Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017. our time and a stunning debut for Keegan-Dolan’s new ȣ Winner Best Costume Design Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017. company, Teac Damsa. NB: Not suitable for under 16s. Please note latecomers will not be admitted to this show. 2 THEATRE Fri 9th & Sat 10th February at 8pm One Night Stands PlayStation Theatre Co Tickets: €18/€15 From the writer who brought you Packie’s Wake, Eddie Kerr. One Night Stands transports the audience to a dancehall on the West Coast of Ireland. The year is 1961 and it is St. Valentine’s Night. Derry showband the Barracudas are playing their first gig in a syndicated ballroom; a real big deal for the band on the cusp of greatness, if they do ‘it’ tonight celebrity status is within their reach. There has never been a more important night for the band and their innovative leader ‘Flash Harry’ McCann. Can they pull it off? .....You’ll just have come along and see when the play hits the stage! Suitable ages 15+. Tues 13th February at 8pm Beneath an Irish Sky Letterkenny Music and Drama Group Tickets: €15/€12 Inspired by archive reports and eyewitness testimonies, a new play by Kieran Kelly that looks at the events of the ‘decade of change’ from a Donegal perspective. Set in Letterkenny between the years 1914–1924, it tells the fictionalised account of one man Brendan McDevitt, questioning what made him pick up a gun to fight for his country and how he was affected by the seismic events unfolding around him - from World War 1, through the War of Independence and up to the Civil War, and shows how these events convinced him to move from the peaceful Nationalism of the Ancient Order of Hibernians into the more militant Republicanism of Sinn Féin. This life altering decision will have far reaching implications for both himself and his family. First performed in the theatre as a rehearsed reading in 2016, this updated version will tour the National Drama Festival Circuit for the LMDG. THEATRE 3 Fri 16th & Sat 17th February at 8pm The Successful TD by John B Keane Tickets: €25, 4 for €90 Starring Jon Kenny and Mary McEvoy and peppered with Keane’s gallery of madcap characters this show will have you laughing from the start! The Successful TD follows the trials, tribulations, misadventures and hilarious antics of Tull McAdoo as he seeks re-election to the Dail in the October Elections. Tull has roped in the help of his faithful daughter Kate while his wife nurses her various ailments in bed or Lisdoonvarna, but his arch enemy Flannery the local school teacher plans to scupper the election for Tull… Tues 6th March at 7pm (also schools show at 11am) Private Peaceful Verdant and Pemberley Productions Tickets: €18/16 and for the schools show €8 Following on from the worldwide success of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, Simon Reade adapts and directs this stage version of Morpurgo’s award winning book Private Peaceful. A reminder of the sacrifices that were made by those involved in World War 1, the story charts the life of a young soldier, Tommo Peaceful, a private who faces the firing squad for cowardice. As he sits in his cell awaiting for sunrise, Tommo thinks back to some of his fondest memories and reflects on the events that made him the person he is today. When the lines of heroism and cowardice collide, what can one man do to fight the injustices of it all?. “Shane O’Regan gives a truly astonishing performance” - The Irish Mail on Sunday 4 THEATRE Waiting For Godot Tues 13th to Thur 15th March at 8pm Druid Theatre Co Tickets: €25/€20 “The freshest, funniest and most affecting production of Directed by Garry Hynes the play in at least a quarter of a century” Starring Garrett Lombard, Aaron Monaghan, – The Irish times Rory Nolan and Marty Rea On a bare road in the middle of nowhere, two “Superb re-imagining of an iconic play”- The Guardian world-weary friends await the arrival of the mysterious Godot. While waiting, they speculate, bicker, joke and ponder life’s greater questions. As dusk begins to fall, two figures appear on the horizon. Regarded as one of the most significant plays of the twentieth century, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a masterpiece that draws endless interpretations. THEATRE 5 Wed 28th & Thur 29th March at 8pm Dancing at Lughnasa Lifford Players Tickets: €15/€12 It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, sent home from Africa by his superiors after twenty five years, and the seven-year-old child of Chris, the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the lives of this family, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape of which they are a part. Sat 7th April at 8pm The Good Father Rise Productions Tickets: €15/€12 After the international success of Fight Night and The Games People Play, the multi award-winning Rise Productions returns with this touching story celebrating the triumph of hope. New Year’s Eve. A house party like any other, in a suburb like any other. Two very different strangers meet, each looking for a new start and to shake off the disappointments of the past. But champagne, cheap lager and their chance encounter leads this unlikely couple to an unplanned pregnancy. Against all odds, can they make their newfound family a success?. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award, this heartfelt, moving drama charts their journey of love, loss, and redemption. Writer Christian O’Reilly, 2017 Pavilion Bursary Award Winner, also wrote the film Sanctuary. Suitable ages 15+ 6 MUSICALS Tues 27th February to Sat 3rd March at 8pm 9 to 5: The Musical Letterkenny Musical Society Tickets: €20/€18 Tues to Thurs, €20 Fri/Sat This is a fun and fast paced stage show based on the much loved 1980 film written by and starring Dolly Parton.