|

Click on Map above
|
|
-
A comedy about love, murder and ........tennis!
Wednesday 23rd May 8.30pm €16/€14
-
Three of the best in trad for one night only!
Wednesday 30th May 8.30pm €15/€12
|
|
The Parting Glass by Dermot Bolger |
|
Tuesday 05th July - Saturday 30th July 8.30pm €17/€15
The boom and bust story of the nation
Shot through with caustic wit and sharp home truths, ‘The Parting Glass’ is an examination of Ireland over the past two decades, and Thierry Henry’s left hand!
In 1990 Dermot Bolger’s play ‘In High Germany’ astutely and angrily captured the moo...
|
|
Litle Gem |
|
Wednesday 20th April - Thursday 21st April 8.30pm & 2pm €18/€16
Smash hit, multi award winning show by Elaine Murphy
Little Gem has sold out theatres in New York, London, Dublin and Paris, the Edinburgh Festival and is just back from a major tour of Australia, winning the hearts of audiences and the admiration of critics. Kay’s got an itch that G...
|
|
LYTC Carrick-on-Shannon presents Red Red Shoes by Charles Way |
|
Friday 15th April - Saturday 16th April 8.30pm €10/€8
Red Red Shoes is based on the well known tale by Hans Christian Andersen using various theatrical devices and art forms. It explores the inner world of a traumatised child fleeing from war in Eastern Europe and powerfully dramatises a life and death conflict. The story is told through soul-searc...
|
|
The Quare Land SOLD OUT! |
|
Thursday 31st March 8.30pm €18/€16
A parable of the Celtic Tiger, The Quare Land examines motivation, greed and money in a humourous, caustic and incisive way. Set in a house in Bawnboy, Cavan, The Quare Land centres on the character Hugh Pugh (Des Keogh), who is about to take his first bath in four years. His bathing is disturbed b...
|
|
Breffni Players present Blithe Spirit |
|
Wednesday 16th March - Saturday 19th March 8.30pm €15/€12
A classic comic play from the pen of Noel Coward
Blithe Spirit concerns the trials and tribulations of socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites an eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. T...
|
|
THE DERRY BOAT |
|
Thursday 17th February 8.30pm €16/€14
The funny but poignant story of the four generations of migration between Ireland and Scotland.
" I don't think I've seen something this funny in years." Sunday Independent
Little John Nee is an unlikely gangster as he makes his entrance in The Derry Boat. Cued by a dissonant crunc...
|
|
THE BLANCH |
|
Thursday 20th January 8.30PM €16/€14
An outrageously hilarious escalator ride into the dark heart of shopping, Bouffon-style
Outsize Orlagh is trying a designer fit and Enda is looking for the latest phone, but their kids are driving them mad. Jacintha and Dijon are shopping for free, the schoolboys are looking for girls, and ...
|
|
Blue Raincoat Theatre Company presents SANCTUARY & THE CAT AND THE MOON |
|
Friday 26th November 8.30pm €16/€14
Blue Raincoat Theatre Company bring two of their celebrated repertoire pieces to The Dock as part of their annual Mobile Theatre Project - a celebration of the old and the new from two Sligo writers. The Cat and the Moon is one of W.B Yeats most evocative and haunting works. Two beggars mutually dep...
|
|
|
BREFFNI PLAYERS presents TWO ONE ACT PLAYS MELODY by Deirdre Kinahan |
|
Wednesday 03rd November - Thursday 04th November 8.30pm €15/€12
Melody is a beautiful, funny and heart-warming play about two people who meet over lunch in a park, together learning to accept the blessings and face the challenges of love. Directed by Therese Hackett. A second play will also be performed by the Breffni Players, directed by Valerie Traynor.
|
|
TOWN HALL THEATRE GALWAY presents BURN THE BAD LAMP |
|
Friday 08th October 8.30pm €16/€14
Adapted by Kevin Barry and Rod Goodall Burn The Bad Lamp is an adaptation of a short story by Kevin Barry from his award-winning collection There Are Little Kingdoms. An aging owner of an antique shop sits astride the tumble down remains of a life’s work.... Into this “rag and bone shop of the h...
|
|
THE FIVE LAMPS THEATRE COMPANY presents DEAR FRANKIE by Niamh Gleeson |
|
Wednesday 06th October 2pm €16/€14
Who does an agony aunt turn to for advice? Dear Frankie is the story of Frankie Byrne, Ireland’s iconic agony aunt. For over twenty years, Ireland tunes in as Frankie solves the problems of a nation at lunchtime on Radio Éireann. In an era without internet, without dedicated self-help book sections ...
|
|
|
KURDISH FILM FESTIVAL |
|
Friday 01st October - Sunday 03rd October For times of showings see: www.kffcarrickonshannon Admission
Ireland’s 1st KURDISH FILM FESTIVAL Co-ordinator of London and New York Kurdish Film Festivals, Mustafa Gundogdu, curates this exciting and diverse programme of feature films, shorts, documentaries and animations from Iraq, Belgium, Turkey, Germany, Norway, UK and Ireland...
|
|
‘Wish I Were Here’ at SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE, DUBLIN FRINGE |
|
Wednesday 15th September - Saturday 18th September 6pm €12/€10
After 2 sellout preview shows at The Dock this week, ‘Wish I Were Here’ plays at Smock Alley Theatre from Wednesday 15 – Saturday 18 September (preview Tuesday 14th September) as part of ABSOLUT Fringe, Dublin. Show times 6pm. Admission to preview is €9 and to all other shows €12 and €10 concessi...
|
|
|
WISH I WERE HERE |
|
Thursday 09th September - Friday 10th September 8.30pm €12/€10
THE DOCK / IT SLIGO presents WISH I WERE HERE Where am I? What is this place? Hitch a ride on our journey to anywhere in a show of extraordinary voyages, spaces and characters. Loaded with bags and baggage we trip along the road of landscape and memory. What have we bundled up? If we...
|
|
Ten 42 Productions presents EAMON MORRISSEY in THE BROTHER |
|
Thursday 27th May 8.30pm €19/€17
Based on the writings of Myles Na gCopaleen
The hilarious writing of Myles na Gopaleen and the comic talents of Eamon Morrissey combine to provide a piece of entertainment that has endured through the 35 years since his show opened in the Peacock Theatre. Learn at source about the atom...
|
|
BREFFNI PLAYERS presents SEE HOW THEY RUN by Philip King |
|
Wednesday 21st April - Saturday 24th April 8.30pm €15 / €12 (Pick & Mix option)
See How They Run is a blissful hilarious evergreen farce, set in an English Village during the second world war.
The action takes place in the vicarage of Reverend Lionel Toop who lives there with his new ‘ex actress’ wife Penelope, and their ‘mums the word’ cockney maid, Ida. Life is peac...
|
|
BEEZNEEZ THEATRE COMPANY presents TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE |
|
Wednesday 24th March - Saturday 27th March 8.30pm €17
Based on the multimillion best selling book, this beautiful play tells the story of a professor and a student who meet after sixteen years when the student, Mitch, discovers that his much loved tutor, Morrie, is suffering from a terminal illness. They begin to spend Tuesdays together and Mitch learn...
|
|
THE IRISH CANON (Abridged) by Laura Harte |
|
Thursday 18th March 8.30pm €16/€14 (pick & mix option)
*ST PATRICKS WEEK SPECIAL*
Three actors hurtle through 10 of the most famous Irish plays ever written, whipping through more than 70 characters in a show that’s crammed with culture, comedy, hilarious antics and wonderful parody.
In a jam-packed hour the stage w...
|
|
BREFFNI PLAYERS presents BY THE BOG OF CATS by Marina Carr |
|
Thursday 25th February - Sunday 28th February 8.30pm €15 / €12
Directed by Rhona Trench, this play predominantly explores the conditions surrounding the outsider, Hester Swane, a member of the travelling community, in terms of the cultural forces that impinge upon her identity. Hester responds to the settled community through resistance and defiance. Her relati...
|
|
BEEZIE |
|
Wednesday 17th February 1pm *Afternoon Show* €16/€14
Written and performed by Sheila Flitton Nominated for ‘Best Actress’ in Irish Times Theatre Awards 2004, award winning actor and playwright Sheila Flitton does a lunchtime performance of her one-woman show, co-written and directed by Dave Flitton. Based on the story of Beezie Gallagher, born in the ...
|
|
THE TINKERS CURSE Written and performed by Michael Harding |
|
Tuesday 09th February - Wednesday 03rd February 11.30am €16/€14
BACK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!
*EARLY SHOW*
After the success of The Tinkers Curse in 2007 (Nominated for Best New Play in Irish Theatre Awards), award winning actor, playwright and Irish Times columnist Michael Harding is back on the road with a moving story about a travelling man wh...
|
|
SLIABH AN IARAINN PLAYERS presents SIVE by John B. Keane |
|
Friday 27th November 8.30pm €15/€12
Described by John B. Keane as one of his best plays, ‘Sive’ is now an established classic and is being staged at The Dock exactly fifty years after its first performance. The play is set in a remote rural area and tells the story of the promise in marriage of the beautiful and young Sive to an old m...
|
|
RAIN, ROCKS AND REEKS THEATRE COMPANY present EDEN by Eugene O Brien |
|
Wednesday 04th November 8.30pm €16/€14
First produced in The Peacock in 2001 and later performed at The Abbey, this award winning play by the writer of RTE’s hugely popular ‘Pure Mule’, is brought to us by Mayo’s newest professional theatre company.
Set in a small town in the midlands in pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, it centres on ...
|
|
BREFFNI PLAYERS presents FADED FOOTSTEPS by Maura Williamson |
|
Wednesday 21st October - Thursday 22nd October 8.30pm €15 / €12
Memories of a time gone by; of love and coming of age in rural Ireland. A mixture of looking back and looking forward told through the words of two actors. Directed by Valerie Traynor.
|
|
DECADENT THEATRE presents COUNTRY MUSIC by Simon Stephens |
|
Friday 09th October 8.30pm €16/€14
Country Music by Olivier award winning writer Simon Stephens, is a story of crime and redemption. Spanning more than twenty years and covering the length of England from Gravesend to Sunderland, this is the life story of Jamie Carris, a troubled eighteen year old whose recklessness leaves him facing...
|
|
CITY THEATRE DUBLIN & MCD presents MRS WHIPPY by Cecilia Ahern
|
|
Wednesday 16th September 8.30pm €18/€16
This play, by world acclaimed ‘chicklit’ novelist Cecelia Ahern, stars Mary McEvoy and focuses on a 46 year old woman dealing with five difficult sons, a broken marriage and a new job. The soothing sounds of a Mr. Whippy van arrive at just the right time for Emelda, only now it’s not just the ice-cr...
|
|
Carrick Water Music Festival presents Breffni Players Variety Performance |
|
Tuesday 04th August - Thursday 06th August 8.30pm €15/€12
Established over 65 years ago Carrick on Shannon’s very own Breffni Players present a special variety performance in The Dock.
The following is the programme
Tuesday August 4th
Deasun Lyons and Gene Anderson - a wonderful combination of talent to perform a selection of po...
|
|
Interactive Theatre Australia presents FAULTY TOWERS – THE DINING EXPERIENCE |
|
Friday 17th July 8.30pm €45
The Dock goes offsite to THE RAMADA HOTEL, Drumshanbo
Ever wondered what it would be like to dine at Faulty Towers? Well now you can find out.
Enter the snobbish world of manic Basil; his domineering wife, Sybil; and their hopeless language-challenged waiter, Manuel. Be one o...
|
|
CONFESSIONS OF AN IRISH PUBLICAN starring Des Keogh |
|
Tuesday 02nd June 8.30pm €18/€16
The man who brought you ‘The Love Hungry Farmer’ is back!
Des Keogh returns to The Dock with a new comedy based on the work of one of Ireland’s best known storytellers, John B. Keane’s ‘Confessions of an Irish Publican’ in which the lives of the inhabitants of Knockanee are brilliantly evo...
|
|
Breffni Players presents BY THE BOG OF CATS...by Marina Carr |
|
Wednesday 20th May - Sunday 24th May 8.30pm €15/€12
Directed by Rhona Trench is a play which predominantly explores the conditions surrounding the outsider, Hester Swane, a member of the traveling community, in terms of the cultural forces that impinge upon her identity. Hester responds to the settled community through resistance and defiance. Her re...
|
|
LYTC present THE DEVIL IN DRAG by Dario Fo |
|
Friday 01st May 8.30pm
Alive with trickery and poking serious fun at the establishment, this adaptation of The Devil in Drag by controversial Noble Prize winner Dario Fo, was commissioned by the National Theatre in the UK in 1999 for the Connections Project and since then has been performed by Youth Theatres and School Gr...
|
|
BeezNeez presents LOVE IS |
|
Thursday 23rd April - Saturday 25th April 8.30pm €17
Director and author, John McDwyer describes Love Is... as a complete departure from his previous funfilled work. While there remain many humorous touches in this new play, the writer is taking a very serious approach to two aspects of modern life and death and how events impact on people’s commitmen...
|
|
Chrysalis Dance presents WAYS YOU WANDER |
|
Wednesday 15th April 6.30pm €15/€12
Chrysalis Dance specialise in creating new works of ballet, which are performed to contemporary popular music. They have worked with a number of well known Irish musicians including Paddy Casey, Bell X1 and Mundy and have built a reputation for bringing accessible dance to a wide aud...
|
|
Splodar present THE HOME PLACE by Brian Friel |
|
Friday 03rd April - Saturday 04th April 8.30pm €15/€12
This award-winning drama by Ireland’s foremost playwright probes the dilemma of a benevolent landlord as social and political forces close in around him. The author sets his play in 1878, the year of the assassination of Lord Leitrim, an event which marked the beginning of the end of landlordism...
|
|
Livin Dred presents The Good Father |
|
Wednesday 18th March 8.30pm €17/€15
Brought to us by the company who recently toured the hugely successful Dead School by Pat McCabe, The Good Father is a love story of how two people starting at the end try to reach a new beginning. Tim and Jane are from different sides of the class divide, but after a random meeting at a new yea...
|
|
Breffni Players presents BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE by Leonard Gershe |
|
Wednesday 04th March - Saturday 07th March 8.30pm €15/€12
The Breffni Players are back with an evocative production of Leonard Gershe’s smash hit broadway play ‘Butterflies are Free’. Set in downtown New York in the hippy days of the 1970s, a romantic heartwarming comedy about a crucial day in the life of an aspiring young musician/songwriter who moved fro...
|
|
Yew Tree Productions present THE MAGIC BOY |
|
Wednesday 04th February 8.30pm
From John Breen, the author of smash hit comedy Alone it Stands, Yew Theatre Productions Present The Magic Boy
".......and then Gay Byrne would hear that we turned down Mike Murphy and he would pick up the telephone himself and ring us and sure who can say no to Gay Byrne , and then we’d be...
|
|
Mephisto Theatre Company presents THE WORLD’S WIFE by Carol Anne Duffy |
|
Wednesday 14th January 8.30pm €15/€12
Female figures from the worlds of historical myths and fairy-tales finally get a word in with The World’s Wife; a playful stage show by Galway based Mephisto, based on the poetry collection by Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy reveals the foibles of the great, the ghastly and the ordinary bloke and the suf...
|
|
|
SLIABH AN IARANN PLAYERS presents MANY YOUNG MEN OF TWENTY by John B. Keane |
|
Friday 05th December 8.30pm €15/€12
One of John B.Keane’s best known and best loved stage works, ‘Many Young Men of Twenty’ takes a simultaneously serious, sad and side-splittingly funny look at the forces of smugness, greed and low-grade local corruption in small-town Ireland in the sixties. It also looks at the public and priva...
|
|
BEEZNEEZ THEATRE COMPANY presents YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE by John McDwyer |
|
Wednesday 05th November - Saturday 08th November 8.30pm €17
Rovers have reached the cup final for the first time in ten years. Tonto and Dusty are overjoyed with this success while their partners, Trish and Mags look on in bemusement. Holding a watching brief are friends Luke and Numbers, both with their own regrets and sorrows. When Dusty’s brother, To...
|
|
IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE (IMDT) presents IT IS BETTER TO |
|
Wednesday 22nd October 8.30pm €15/€12
Following acclaimed sell out performances in New York and Dublin Fringe Festival, John Scott’s IMDT presents their most exciting and hilarious show ‘It is better to...’ by Berlin Dance innovator Thomas Lehmen for one performance only. Nominated for both “Best Production” and “Sexiest Show at Du...
|
|
LITTLE JOHN NEE presents DEAD ROOSTER BLUES |
|
Wednesday 17th September 8.30pm €15/€12
Premiered in Killargue this summer as part of the ‘Flights of Fancy’ series, Little John Nee invites us to travel with him up into the wild hills for the grand re-opening of an isolated singing lounge ‘The Mothers Arms’. For a long time it has sat desolate among the scotch pines quiet as a temple, t...
|
|
THE BREFFNI PLAYERS - 65th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS |
|
Wednesday 03rd September - Saturday 06th September 8.30pm €15/€12
To celebrate their 65th anniversary, the Breffni Players present a special variety night, comprising three one act plays and musical highlights from the Breffni Players productions over the past 15 years. On Tuesday 2nd September at 8.30pm, the Breffni Players launch their 65th anniversary exhib...
|
|
|
Breffni Players - Nocturn & Bar and Ger |
|
Tuesday 12th August - Wednesday 13th August 8.30pm €15/€12
BREFFNI PLAYERS in association with Carrick Water Music Festival presents
Two One Act Plays
NOCTURN by Miriam Gallagher A one act theatrical/musical interlude focusing on the life and music of John Field, the Dublin-born composer and renowned pianist of the 1800’s. Directed by ...
|
|
Splódar Productions present ANTIGONE |
|
Wednesday 18th June - Friday 20th June 8.30pm €15/€12
In this celebrated work based on the enduring Greek classic of Sophocles, a tale of individual versus state and duty versus conscience, Splódar Productions (formerly The Glens Players) achieve something very rare in theatre - a play not only of deep passion and emotion but also a play of ideas ...
|
|
Meridian Theatre Company presents THE LOST FIELD |
|
Wednesday 11th June 7.30pm €35
*Dinner Theatre*
Pull up a seat and join us at the table for a unique theatre experience. Meridian Theatre Company will provide ‘guests’ with the evening’s entertainment by presenting two of their short plays, both dealing with families torn apart and re-united in bizarre circumstances.
|
|
|
...it is the wave that cracks the wax...an organisation of the memory, 2008 |
|
Saturday 24th May 8.30pm €10
Performing artist Ursula Mawson-Raffalt and visual artist Anthony Faulder-Mawson present a new multi-layered compositional work, created during an eight-week residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. “The Poetry of Silence in the spoken word, dance, music, sound, symbol, number, sign, spatial and te...
|
|
From the Shoulders down by Richard Lynch |
|
Thursday 01st May 8.30pm €15/€12
P.J. Mulpeter now sixty-five years of age begins his final working day as a builder’s labourer having ‘soldiered’ for fifty years with the same ‘outfit’ Murray & Sons Construction. In a reflective mood, he casts a backward glance at the highlights of his ignominious ‘career’ on the ‘pick and shovel...
|
|
ROSE by Martin Sherman |
|
Saturday 26th April 8.30pm €15 / €12
Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw’s ghettos and a ship called ‘The Exodus’ and finally to the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavoured nights in Miami Beach. The play is both a sharply drawn portrait of a feisty Je...
|
|
LIFE SHOP TILL YOU DROP! |
|
Thursday 03rd April - Friday 04th April 8.30pm €15 / €12
There are no easy answers to getting your dream partner, dream job or dream life: it takes a life time's study of self help books. Join Ailish McGovern's smart girls’ self help solution as she goes speed dating, re-imagines her childhood and aims to take over her boss' job using "The work secrets a...
|
|
Gare St. Lazare Players present FIRST LOVE by Samuel Beckett
|
|
Wednesday 12th March 8.30pm €17/€15
Acclaimed Beckett actor Conor Lovett returns to The Dock with his performance of Samuel Beckett’s hilarious novella First Love presented by internationally renowned Beckett specialists Gare St. Lazare Players. It tells the story of a young man expelled from the family home who takes refuge on a ben...
|
|
|
Morwax Productions present WHAT MEN WANT by Peadar de Burca
|
|
Wednesday 20th February 8.30pm €15/€12
As with his previous smash hit comedy, the similarly titled, Why Men Cheat, de Burca travelled the length and breath of the country, interviewing over 150 Irish Men trying to solve the puzzle that has baffled many female minds. What Men Want starts off with audience members receiving glasses of ...
|
|
|
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST |
|
Wednesday 06th February - Saturday 09th February 8.30pm €15/€12
Back by popular demand, a play in two acts by Dale Wasserman, directed by Rhona Trench. Power, conformity and anti-authority… a criminal serving a prison sentence for statutory rape gets himself transferred to a mental institution to escape the drudgery of work at the prison. Fuelled by his disg...
|
|
UNITED, by John McDwyer |
|
Friday 01st February - Sunday 03rd February 8.30pm €15
The premiere of McDwyer’s new play United. Set against the background of the 50th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster which decimated the Manchester United team of Busby babes, United traces the fate of an Irish family over fifty years, through hope, conflict and sorrow to a final resolution of ...
|
|
Irish Modern Dance Theatre presents NEXT TO SKIN
|
|
Sunday 27th January 8.30pm €15/€12
John Scott creates a lively and stimulating new work for six dancers. An amusing and compelling study in observation, viewing the world from inside and outside, Next to Skin, contains dancing of astonishing beauty and power. The dancers attempt to create the space using their bodies and voices with...
|
|
|
Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company presents Invoke & I can't handle Me
|
|
Sunday 25th November 8.30pm €15/€12
The acclaimed Chantal McCormack and Fidget Feet stretches boundaries between a range of art forms, combining aerial circus skills, theatre, dance, music and video art. Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival 2007 ‘Invoke’ is a ‘breathtaking example of poetry and athleticism’, while’I Can’t Handle Me...
|
|
|
FLIGHT OF THE EARLS -A STORY OF MODERN DAY IRELAND by Phil MacGiollabhain |
|
Wednesday 21st November 8.30pm €15/€12
Flight of the Earls is a play about men in modern Ireland. Set in Donegal, it charts the lives of two childhood friends. One of the young men, Peadar O’Donnell, has just become a father. His lifelong buddy, Daragh Gallagher , looks on with a mixture of awe, jealousy and concern as Peadar’s life is c...
|
|
|
Love Is, by John McDwyer |
|
Wednesday 07th November - Sunday 11th November 8.30pm €17
Beezneez Theatre Company presents LOVE IS, by John McDwyer This new John McDwyer play examines the turbulent and passionate story of two people who come face to face with all the joys and sorrow that love and life have to offer. Captured in two stunning performances from Mary Morris and G...
|
|
|
Unforgiven, by John Mc Dwyer |
|
Wednesday 24th October - Saturday 27th October 8.30pm €17
Written and directed by John McDwyer Back by popular demand! Described by the author as a mad play about mad people who live in their own madness, Unforgiven completes McDwyer’s Leitrim Trilogy. Whereas the previous plays were serious with a few funny moments, Unforgiven is an all out comedy wi...
|
|
|
The Leitrim Trilogy |
|
Wednesday 10th October 7.30pm FREE ADMISSION
The publication of John McDwyer's Leitrim Trilogy of plays, consisting of Lovely Leitrim, Callaghan's Place and Unforgiven will be launched by award winning author Brian Leyden. There will be a reception from 7.30pm, followed by the official launch, and Beezneez Theatre Company will present excerpt...
|
|
|
8 VARIATIONS ON A DIAGONAL_KNIT 1 PURL 2 |
|
Saturday 06th October 8.30pm €10
Newly Composed Work- Sketches in Situ “Inspired by the traditional craft of knitting, a poetic symmetry in rhythm and texture evokes memories of the past which echo into the future.” The second in a series of performance and installation works created by the artists and artistic directors Ur...
|
|
|
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest |
|
Thursday 27th September - Sunday 30th September 8.30pm €15/€12
A Play in Two Acts by Dale Wasserman, directed by Rhona Trench. Power, confirmity and anti-authority..a criminal serving a prison sentence for statutory rape gets himself transferred to a mental institution to escape the drudgery of work at the prison. However, life there is not as comforting an...
|
|
|
The Good Thief |
|
Wednesday 19th September 8.30pm €17/€15
Performed by Conor Lovett Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett Produced in association with Rubicon Theatre, Ventura, California. This powerful monologue tells of a Dublin thug's last job for his boss. The job goes terribly wrong, resulting in a chase across the country. The 'thief' appe...
|
|
|
Breffni Players present NOCTURNE by Miriam Gallagher
|
|
Wednesday 15th August - Thursday 16th August 8.30pm €15/€12
A one-act theatrical/musical interlude to celebrate the music of John Field, the Dublin born composer and renowned pianist of the 1800s, creator of the ‘Nocturne’ and a legend in his own lifetime throughout Europe and Russia.
The play is set in Moscow where John Field spent most of his life...
|
|
|
Beezneez Theatre Company presents FUNNY MONEY by Ray Cooney
|
|
Thursday 26th July - Sunday 29th July 8.30pm €17
When mild mannered accountant, Henry Perkins, picks up the wrong case on the London underground, he finds himself in possession of a fortune in used bank notes. But if getting the money was easy, keeping it proves harder, as not one but two police officers call and Henry, bemused wife, Jean and conf...
|
|
The Matchmaker by J B Keane |
|
Wednesday 13th June - Thursday 14th June 8.30pm €15/12
Mick Lally and Anne Charleston (Madge Bishop in Neighbours)are back together again in John B. Keane ’s hilarious hit play. The Matchmaker follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O Connor to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn from all parts of the country. At the centre of the production is Joh...
|
|
|
THE TINKERS CURSE by Michael Harding |
|
Wednesday 23rd May 8.30pm €15/12
Written by award winning playwright Michael Harding, The Tinkers Curse is set in the world of Ireland’s Travellers; an imaginative world, rooted in myth and superstition. The power and sometimes destructive and inhibiting effects of the Traveller ’s world on ordinary lives is explored through the mo...
|
|
|
HOW THE WEST WAS WON! by Peadar de Búrca |
|
Friday 11th May 8.30pm €15/12
Riots! Protests! Secret Agents! Assassins! This was Galway,June 2nd 1984,when U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited Galway to be made a Freeman of the City and receive an honorary Doctorate of Law from the city’s University. Now, that momentous day is relived again in a new comedy by Peadar d...
|
|
|
The Breffni Players present
JUNO & THE PAYCOCK by Seán O’ Casey
|
|
Wednesday 18th April - Saturday 21st April 8.30pm 15 euro / 12 euro concession
A tragi-comedy set in the Dublin Tenements in the years of the Irish Civil War, 1922/23, Juno & The Paycock centres on the Boyle family. Many of the characters in the play are tragic victims of war and poverty. A subtle sense of the futility and harsh consequences of war runs throughout, highlightin...
|
|
|
TALKING THROUGH HIS HAT
Written and performed by Michael Harding
|
|
Wednesday 04th April 8.30pm 15 euro / 12 euro concession
Talking Through His Hat is an hour long encounter with Jonathan Swift, as he discusses a dinner-party that went wrong, and reflects on his friendship with the famous musician Turlough O’ Carolan.
A major hit at the Dublin Fringe, this is an entertaining, funny, sometimes sad view of the life of one...
|
|
|
Carrick-on-Shannon Community School presents
OUR DAY OUT by Willie Russell
|
|
Wednesday 21st March - Friday 23rd March 8pm 10 euro / 8 euro concession
Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed from school to go on a rather interesting school trip. The play is an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. But this is more than a ‘romp’ - it points out the depressing present and emp...
|
|
|
Aughawillan Drama Troupe presents SHARON'S GRAVE by John B. Keane |
|
Friday 09th March 8.30pm 12 euro/10 euro concession
Sharon’s Grave is set on an Atlantic headland at the mercy of wind and rain and the harsh realities of rural Irish life in the 1930’s. Trassie Conlee tends her dying father and battles to protect herself and her brother Neelus, while her cousin Dinzie ruthlessly attempts to manipulate and disposses...
|
|
|
John & Tommy McArdle present
OUT OF THAT CHILDHOOD COUNTRY
|
|
Thursday 01st March 8.30pm 15 euro/12 euro concession
The Castleblayney twins John and Tommy Mc Ardle perform their critically acclaimed adaptation of the life and times of Patrick Kavanagh for one night only. “Their comic characters are those of Kavanagh’s prose and they inhabit a world similar to that of “The Third Policeman”, a world of numbing stas...
|
| |
|