Upcoming Theatre Events

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TWO theatre

TWO Loose Tea Company Saturday 7th September, 8pm Written by Jim Cartwright in 1989 but still astonishingly real today, much loved two-hander Two waltzes the audience through a spectrum of human emotion, weaving a rich tapestry of life through intimate insights into the lives of the colourful pub regulars. Taking place over the course of one evening in the local pub and featuring fourteen diverse characters brought to life by just two actors, Two is funny, poignant and incredibly human. Each character or couple acts like a fragment of shattered glass reflecting back at us as the play mines the depths of the human experience. Performed by Niamh ...

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My Dad’s Blind theatre

My Dad’s Blind Written by Anna Sheils-McNamee Wednesday 18th September, 8pm Centring on a dysfunctional relationship between a blind father and his sighted daughter, My Dad’s Blind uses audio recordings, irreverent comedy and real-life memories to explore a father-daughter relationship and all the awkward, embarrassing and ridiculous ways the two of them struggle to navigate a sighted world... with the help of a guide dog which has just had a stroke. Starring Steve Blount and Anna Sheils-McNamee. Directed by Gemma Aked-Priestley. Winner “Best Production” - Dublin Fringe Festival 2018. Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland. "At its core lies ...

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3 Hail Mary’s theatre

3 Hail Mary’s Written by Tommy Marren Crokey Hill Players Friday 25th & Saturday 26th October, 8pm Set in an Irish nursing home in 2016, ‘3 Hail Mary’s' is a rip-roaring comedy with dozens of hilarious one-liners that will have you in tears of laughter. The three Marys have lived together for over ten years but are now being moved to separate nursing homes. Mary O’Toole is devoted to Our Lady of Knock. Mary O’Neill is a Londoner who met and subsequently married a Kerry man. Mary O’Brien is a retired nurse. The play is set around their last few hours together, as they laugh, ...

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Shackleton theatre

Shackleton Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Tuesday 29th October, 8pm "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold . . . safe return doubtful." Ireland's longest running theatre ensemble, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, perform Shackleton, the story of County Kildare-born explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's failed voyage to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. It's a visually spectacular re-telling of perhaps the greatest survival story ever, and features an ensemble cast, supported by original footage and clever puppetry. Director Niall Henry says that in almost thirty years of making theatre with Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, 'Shackleton' has been the show with ...

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Mayo Youth Theatre: The Crucible theatre finished

The Crucible By Arthur Miller Mayo Youth Theatre Friday 19th & Saturday 20th July, 8pm Mayo Youth Theatre, present Arthur Miller’s timeless classic. The Crucible is set in the year 1692, a dark period of American history, during which time the Salem Witch Trials took place, creating widespread paranoia and creating tensions amongst locals and family alike of those accused of being involved with the dark arts of witchcraft, and acting against Christian God’s law. Starring the members of Mayo Youth Theatre, in roles both on and back stage. Directed by Head Facilitator Ronan Colhoun. Mayo Youth Theatre is an ...

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Mayo Youth Theatre: The Crucible theatre finished

By Arthur Miller Mayo Youth Theatre Friday 19th & Saturday 20th July, 8pm Mayo Youth Theatre, present Arthur Miller’s timeless classic. The Crucible is set in the year 1692, a dark period of American history, during which time the Salem Witch Trials took place, creating widespread paranoia and creating tensions amongst locals and family alike of those accused of being involved with the dark arts of witchcraft, and acting against Christian God’s law. Starring the members of Mayo Youth Theatre, in roles both on and back stage. Directed by Head Facilitator Ronan Colhoun. Mayo Youth Theatre is an initiative of ...

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Touch and Go theatre finished

Touch and Go By Derek Benfield Beezneez Theatre Company It’s been a while now since Beezneez produced a farce and audiences will be well aware that nobody does it better!! John McDwyer directs Pat Feeley, Karen Gordon, Jacinta Gormley, Noel O’Callaghan and Valerie Traynor in Derek Benfield’s Touch and Go, an avalanche of mix ups and mistaken identities. While George’s wife is in America, he lends his flat to his friend, Brian, who entertains his lover there, unaware that, at the same time, George is over at his flat, being entertained by Brian’s wife. When George’s wife comes home a ...

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears singalong theatre finished

(as part of Ballina Street Festival) The much loved fairy-tale Goldilocks and The Three Bears comes to life on stage in an unforgettable live stage production of song and laughter that the children will love. Goldilocks, the Three Bears and Ruff the Dog perform live in this exciting and fun-filled musical production which takes a few twists and turns along the way with other new puppet characters and hopefully a happy ever after. Kids will learn that music can be found everywhere as they sing and dance to all their favourite songs. Throughout the show there are interactive moments that ...

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Conal Gallen: Back to Front theatre finished

Conal Gallen (as part of Ballina Street Festival) When it comes to comedians, there is none better or funnier than the King himself, CONAL GALLEN!!! Conal is bringing his brand new stand-up comedy show, “BACK TO FRONT” to the stage this summer! Packed full of hilarious jokes, songs and a few surprises for good measure! It is guaranteed to have his audiences in fits of laughter from the very start right through to the very end! And, as always, audiences can expect the unexpected, because as usual, no one knows what he is going to come out with next (not even ...

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Joxer Daly Esq theatre finished

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 ...