Upcoming Theatre Events

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Ballina Comedy Club presents Bob Hennigan theatre

Ballina Comedy Club presents Bob Hennigan. Described as “Mayo’s most charming ball of misery”, Ballina-native Bob Hennigan is a veteran of the Irish comedy scene and Resident MC of the highly-acclaimed Galway venue "Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club." A past winner of the Tedfest Toilet Duck Award and 2015 Galway Fringe Festival Best Comedian, Bob has shared a stage with everybody who's anybody in the Irish and British comedy scene, including Tommy Tiernan, Kevin Bridges, Reginald D. Hunter, Jimmy Carr and John Bishop. Described by the Irish Times as “the most criminally underrated comedian in the country”, this will be the first time Bob has performed his solo show ...

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Joxer Daly Esq theatre

Sean O’Casey’s playful scrounger from the classic, Juno and the Paycock, takes centre stage in this intriguing new play from the pen of Eddie Naughton (Inishfallen Fare the Well). With events that were to alter the course of Irish history as a backdrop, Joxer Daly Esq. charts an everyman journey from respectable member of The Foresters Association to a vagabond scraping by with only his wit to use as collateral. From the 1913 Lock Out, to the Rising – and the events of O’Casey’s classic The Plough and the Stars – to the birth of a new divided Nationalism, in Juno and the Paycock, we ...

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The Lyngo Theatre Company Presents Tom Thumb theatre finished

Tom shows everybody that even though he is ‘mini’, he is still mighty as he saves his brothers from Mum, Dad and the ogre. Performed entirely on a kitchen table this wee wonder of a show is full of Lyngo magic with feathery spinning birds, a flying fiery house and a portable forest. Patrick Lynch from Cbeebies, who has been performing this show for more than a decade, brings the story wonderfully to life in an intimate and fascinating show. This show is for Primary Schools and booking is through schools only. Tickets: €8. Early booking essential.

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Pumpgirl theatre finished

The Decadent Theatre Present Pumpgirl. By Abbie Spallen and Directed by Andrew Flynn There's one in every town, and they call her the Pumpgirl. She works in the garage, changes the oil and thinks she's one of the lads. She's sweet on 'No-Helmet' Hammy, but he loves no one but himself. He's out all night with his racing boys, whilst wife Sinead's off on a joyride of her own, with an ache that's about to be cured. It’s a turbo-charged race through the diesel fumes and country music of the Armagh badlands. Newry playwright Abbie Spallen's explosively comic play takes us deep into ...

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Smallone theatre finished

***CANCELLED*** The Bottom Dog Theatre Company present Smallone: Mingey loves her cats, Peru and Club Milks. She hates Sunday mass-ones, blackmange mutts and papery sausages. She is feisty and mischievous and has a heart full of love. She guards her privacy like a treasure. She refuses to be cowed by other people’s view of her or surrender to the sadness she sometimes feels. Moving and tender, Smallone is inspired by people who live lives of quiet privacy, examining the struggles and joys that all of us might feel. Starring Michelle O’Flanagan. Bottom Dog mark their 11th season with this “small ...

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Shooting Stars Academy: Peter Pan theatre finished

Ballina's Shooting Stars Academy presents their new production of the classic tale of the boy who never grew up!! See the wonderful cast of characters including Wendy, the Lost Boys and thew irascible Captain Hook in this musical version of the timeless tale... Tickets: Family Ticket: €28 / Adults: €10 / Children: €8 Early booking advised.

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Shooting Stars Academy: Peter Pan theatre finished

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Crowman theatre finished

Crowman Friday 26th April, 8pm A dark comedy starring Jon Kenny (D’Unbelievables), written and directed by Katie Holly (Marion, Sharon), about one man’s loneliness – and his pathological hatred of crows. Dan is a man on a mission; to scatter, maim or kill every crow that has ever blighted his land and his life. However he gets distracted easily by flights of the imagination and memories of events from his past and a weekly schedule of funerals and masses he must attend, imagined conversations with his beloved sheepdog, and a stream of racing commentators, TV chefs and David Attenborough - ...

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Welcome to the Stranger theatre finished

WELCOME TO THE STRANGER Written by Rua Breathnach Directed by REMI BEELPREZ Ballina Dramatic Society in association with Keepsake Theatre Thursday 11th, Friday 12th & Saturday 13th April, 8pm. Ballina Dramatic Society in association with Keepsake Theatre presents Welcome to the Stranger – a new play inspired by the eye-witness accounts of an extraordinary American woman, Asenath Nicholson, who travelled through Ireland during the Great Famine. For this unique production, playwright Rua Breathnach has teamed up with critically-acclaimed Belgian director, Rémi Beelprez. Using a cast of 16 non-professional actors, they have created an epic play that offers new perspectives on the most traumatic event in modern Irish history. "Rua Breathnach's epic ...

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