Be prepared to be dazzled as one of Europe’s most exciting outdoor theatre companies, the world famous Sarruga from Barcelona, invade the city streets. Fire-breathing dragons, accompanied by pulsating electronic music, travel from Eyre Square through the heart of the city to the Spanish Arch. Boldly inventive and hugely thrilling, Sarruga bring excitement and terror in equal measure!
Spectacle
France
Les Pepones is a breathtaking comic tale with astonishing acrobatics, swings, catches, hangs and somersaults – all choreographed to a fantastic musical score inspired by the silent movies of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. With jaw-dropping skill, this cast of nine performing on a huge circus rig thirty-five feet above the audience has become one of the most talked about trapeze shows in Europe.
Spectacle
England
Creating the illusion of flying, an enormous, light-filled, helium balloon rises, falls and glides through the sky, suspending a stunning balletic aerialist below who tumbles and turns from ground level to twenty metres above the audience.
An enchanting and beautiful spectacle, which has wowed audiences all over the world.
Spectacle
Spain
Using clowning and acrobatics Any Day is a beautiful circus show that leaves audiences dazzled.
A traveller arrives in Galway, looking for a place to plant his nomadic home. But this traveller’s home is a little different; it’s a trampoline. Catalan trampoline master Max Calaf Seve, mixes extreme physical theatre and touching humour as he flies high into the sky.
Spectacle
England
Mesmerizing audiences with their simple and beautiful imagery, The Wrong Size use technology and circus skills to create stunning, visual spectacle. Highly visual and utterly unique Lightwalkers is a multi-colour swirl of movement, costume and light.
ARDAL O’HANLON
Comedy
Ireland
the legend who play father dougal mcguire, Father Ted star, Ardal O’Hanlon is delighted to present his latest stand-up show for 2013. The style is observational, the subject matter is life itself, and the default expression is one of utter disbelief!
Lurking beneath Ardal’s mild-mannered demeanour resides a sharp and probing comic brain. Here, he explores the world within and around him demonstrating why the peddling of jokes was not only his fate, but probably the only sensible way to live life.
Anndrew maxwell
Comedy
Ireland
One of Ireland’s best know comics, Andrew Maxwell continues to dominate the live and festival comedy circuits with sold-out shows around the world including the Edinburgh Festival and Montreal’s Just for Laughs. His TV appearances include One Night Stand, Wall of Fame, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You?, Argumental, Celebrity Juice, Mock the Week, Sky Atlantic’s new comedy series Don’t Sit in the Front Row and Morgan Spurlock’s New Britannia.
David O’Doherty
Comedy
Ireland
A truly original and unique voice in Irish comedy, David O’Doherty’s shows are a gentle rollercoaster ride through the general absurdities of life, love and erm…. pandas. Quite simply, one of the best stand-ups in the world, with a slew of awards, sold out tours and TV appearances; David is an unmissable, late night Festival treat.
– See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/comedy/david-o-rsquo-doherty/#sthash.h5PngXbX.dpuf
Five brave performers arrive with no script and not the faintest idea of what will happen. Willed on by a supportive crowd, they improvise whole sketches and comic dramas that are amazingly inventive, blossoming into flights of surreal brilliance. This show features the improvisational talents of Stephen Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen, Ian Coppinger and Greg Proop – See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/comedy/whose-line-is-it-anyway_1/#sthash.mrKjacYr.dpuf
Laughter Loft: a GAf insituation at this stage! 🙂
Venue every day:The Ruby Room, The King’s Head 1pm
Comedy
Ireland
Early afternoon mayhem with a big side helping of mirth and madness as local lad made good Gerry Mallon, hosts and introduces some of the biggest names on the comedy circuit. With a different line up every day, the best and brightest new talent will be joined by stalwarts like Kevin Gildea, Fred Cooke, Eleanor Tiernan, Eric Lalor, Foil Arms and Hog and Jarlath Regan.
Before I kick of the theate and dance highlights I have to acknowledge Enda walsh getting an honorary degree in NUI Galway as well as Tom Murphy, Conor McPherson, Patrick Mason, Sineád Cusack and Bob Crowley at UCD which i have blogged about on July 1st and tody
Enda Walsh will be conferred with a Degree of Doctor of Literature (honoris causa). Enda Walsh is a multi-award winning Irish playwright. His work has been translated into over 20 languages and has been performed internationally since 1998.
His recent plays include Misterman, performed in Ireland, America and Britain, 2010 – 2011; The New Electric Ballroom, which toured Ireland, Australia, Edinburgh, London, New York and LA 2008-2009; and The Walworth Farce, which played Ireland, Edinburgh, London and New York, as well as an American and Australian tour 2007-2010. All of these plays were produced by Druid Theatre. His other plays include Delirium; Chatroom, The Small Thing, Bedbound and Disco Pigs.
He has written the Tony Award-winning book for the musical Once, which is currently playing on Broadway. His film work includes Disco Pigs (Temple Films/Renaissance) and Hunger (Blast/FILM4) and the forthcoming, Weightless (Smuggler Films, New York).
others conferred on that day were :
Dr Rita Colwell will be conferred with a Degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa). She is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Chairperson of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.
Dr Colwell has served as Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998-2004. During her term she oversaw a budget increase and a consolidation of the support levels provided to scientists and engineers with NSF grants. In addition she broadened the NSF range of programmes with special interaction in K-12 science and mathematics education, graduate science and engineering education and the increased participation of women and minorities in science and engineering.
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Dr Colwell holds a B.S. in Bacteriology and an M.S. in Genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and serves on science advisory boards worldwide. She received the National Medal of Science from the US President in 2006.
Mr Leonard Moran will be conferred with a Degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa). Leonard Moran is a biomedical industry entrepreneur based in Ballina, Co. Mayo. He is the founder and CEO of Ovagen, the world’s first economically sustainable producers of germ-free eggs and antibodies.
Prior to establishing Ovagen, Leonard founded Biological Laboratories Europe Limited (Biolabs) which was acquired in 2002 by Charles River Laboratories. Previously he spent 8 years with the British Medical Research Council (MRC) from 1968-76 where he focused on clinical research. In addition he has a wealth of practical operational and construction experience associated with biological facilities.
These three graduands join the ranks of previous honorary alumni which include, among many others, Nelson Mandela, Hilary Clinton, Christy O’Connor Snr and Jnr, Enya, Anjelica Huston, Fionnuala Flanagan and Margaret Atwood.
in terms of theate and dance, GAF has added many backstage events across sphere of the festival but especially theate and dance
MIES JULIE
THEATRE · Irish PREMIERE
SOUTH AFRICA
THE BAXTER THEATRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE THEATRE PRESENT
MIES JULIE
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY YAEL FARBER
BASED ON AUGUST STRINDBERG’S MISS JULIE
MUSIC BY DANIEL AND MATTHEW PENCER
Following sensational reviews in Edinburgh, New York and London the multi-award winning, international hit Mies Julie comes to Galway for just eight performances.
In the smouldering kitchen of a remote South African farmhouse 18 years after the end of apartheid, a single night of tenderness and brutality unfolds between a black farm labourer, his white master’s daughter and the woman who raised them both. The visceral struggles of contemporary South Africa are laid bare as John and Julie battle over power, sexuality, memory, mothers and land.
This explosive new adaptation of Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie from the internationally acclaimed director Yael Farber and Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre gets straight to the drama’s dark and steamy heart.
Contains Strong Adult Themes and Nudity. Suitable for age 16+
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL
Post-show talk with director Yael Farber and the cast, 23 July
jULY 22 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 23 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 24 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 25 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 26 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 27 14.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 27 20.00 Town Hall Theatre JULY 28 20.00 Town Hall Theatre
PRICE : €20-€29
***
LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS presents
HOWIE THE ROOKIE
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MARK O’ROWE
STARRING TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR
Three hearts poundin’ loud, three lungs, pairs of lungs, suckin’ louder, suckin’ hard.
Then softer, then calmer, then quieter.
Then quiet.
Howie tells a story. Then Rookie takes it up. Mark O’Rowe’s electrifying epic tale is a wild, urban odyssey through a nightmare landscape – hilarious and grotesque by turns.
Meet the enormous Avalanche, monstrous on the bar stool in her white ski pants. Meet Ladyboy, a dangerous gangland thug with Siamese fighting fish and (it is rumoured) three sets of teeth. Meet Mouse, Howie’s younger brother. Meet the Howie. Meet the Rookie.
Mark O’Rowe’s ‘thrilling new play’ (The New York Times) has been re-imagined for a single actor.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, star of RTÉ’s Love/Hate, will play both Howie and Rookie. Brace yourself for an adrenaline-filled theatrical odyssey.
Containing strong language and sexual references. Suitable for age 16+
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL POST-SHOW TALK WITH TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR AND MARK O’ROWE 23 JULY
After thephenomenal sucessful The Outgoing Tide Northlight Theatre return to Galway with Stella and Lou.
THEATRE · European PREMIERE
U.S.A
NORTHLIGHT THEATRE PRESENT
STELLA AND LOU
BY BRUCE GRAHAM
DIRECTED BY BJ JONES
FEATURING PENNY SLUSHER, FRANCIS GUINAN AND ED FLYNN
On a quiet night at a Philadelphia bar, three kindred spirits find themselves on the cusp of change. Loneliness haunts Lou, a kind bartender set in his ways. He finds company with Stella, a feisty nurse with two grown kids and a failed marriage, and Donnie, a young barfly teetering between excitement and uncertainty about his upcoming wedding.
All three must face up to changing times and relationships past as they struggle to embrace the future in this funny and compassionate new play. From the author of The Outgoing Tide, a huge hit at Galway Arts Festival 2012, Stella & Lou is an intimate exploration of friendship, forgiveness, and the longing for companionship.
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL POST -SHOW TALK WITH PLAYWRIGHT BRUCE GRAHAM, DIRECTOR BJ JONES AND THE CAST 17 JULY
Theatre · NEW WORK FROM GALWA Y
Ireland
BLUE TEAPOT THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT
SANCTUARY
BY CHRISTIAN O’REILLY
DIRECTED BY PETAL PILLEY
An ordinary trip to the cinema and a welcome break from their training centre provides an opportunity for Larry and Sophie to steal away and be together at last. But now that they’re alone, what will they do?
Beautifully bittersweet, this warm comedy keeps you laughing and crying. Sex and disability are explored in this captivating story that shows what happens in those rare moments alone.
Not suitable for Children.
JULY 17 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 18 19.00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 19 19.00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 20 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 24 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 25 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 26 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre JULY 27 19:00 Blue Teapot Theatre
PRICE : €12 – €15
– See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/theatre-amp-dance/sanctuary/#sthash.5cho2gCv.dpuf
****
E EMERGENCY ROOM AND GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENT
RIVERRUN
ADAPTED, PERFORMED AND DIRECTED BY OLWEN FOUÉRÉ
SOUND DESIGN/COMPOSTION BY ALMA KELLEHER
SCENEOGRAPHY BY MONICA FRAWLEY
LIGHTING DESIGN BY STEPHEN DODD
CO DIRECTED BY KELLIE HUGHES
…Soft morning, city! Lsp! I am leafy speafing. Lpf!
Folty and folty all the nights have being falling on to long my hair…
Fouéré’s work in creating this world premiere began by listening for the voice of ALP (Anna Livia Plurabelle) in her guise as the river ‘Life’, whose never-ending course through Finnegans Wake emits a powerful transformative energy as she dissolves into the great ocean of time.
Fouéré, one of Ireland leading theatre makers, in collaboration with an exciting creative team, takes a unique approach to Joyce’s extraordinary ‘sound-dance’. A performance not to be missed.
Riverrun is made possible with the support of the Arts Council. Production support provided by Rough Magic.
Previews 18,19,20
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL POST -SHOW TALK WITH OLWEN FOUÉRÉ AND THE CREATIVE TEAM 24 JULY
JULY 18 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 19 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 20 20.00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 22 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 23 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 24 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 25 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 26 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 27 14:00 Druid Lane Theatre JULY 27 20:00 Druid Lane Theatre
PRICE : €20-€25
– See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/theatre-amp-dance/riverrun_1/#sthash.BjTFUpSU.dpuf
WITH JOE HANLEY AND CLARE BARRETT
The story of an Irish marriage.
Maisie and Dermot are the perfect picture of incompatibility. Married in 1950, they tell us about their life together from early disillusion to late acceptance.
By turns poignant and hilarious, A Galway Girl shows us the ups and downs of a shared life that was a touching mixture of humour and tragedy, held together by a love that endured.
First produced in 1979, A Galway Girl was a hit in England, Ireland and South Africa and remains a beautifully observed play and a fascinating social document.
Geraldine Aron was born in Galway but spent most of her adult life in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Her other writing credits include My Brilliant Divorce, Same Old Moon, The Donahue Sisters and The Stanley Parkers. She is also the author of numerous plays produced for television and radio, and Toscanini, a screenplay directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
ULY 16 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 17 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 18 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 19 14.00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 19 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 20 14:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 20 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 22 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 23 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 24 18.00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 25 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 26 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 27 14.00 Bank of Ireland Theatre JULY 27 18:00 Bank of Ireland Theatre
PRICE : €12 – €15
*****
Tom Murphy’s THE LAST DAYS OF A RELUCTANT TYRANT in Irish
A powerful epic depicting ARINA, a mother consumed by greed who triumphs during the boom, but the bust comes and Arina’s fortunes fail. She is thrown onto the charity of her favourite son, then left destitute by his amoral greed and hypocrisy. This satire is a savage look at boom and bust with keen resonances for our time. – See more at: http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/programme/theatre-amp-dance/an-tioranach-drogallach/#sthash.IoPdhXML.dpuf
JULY 16 to 20th 20:00An Taibhdhearc
***
Dance shows
The Rite of Spring and Petrushka
Dance Theatre · Irish Premiere
Ireland
A FABULOUS BEAST DANCE THEATRE PRODUCTION IN COLLABORATION WITH SADLER’S WELLS, CO-PRODUCED WITH GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL , MOVIMENTOS FESTWOCHEN DER AUTOSADT IN WOLFSBURG, BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PRESENT
THE RITE OF SPRING & PETRUSHKA
CHOREOGRAPHER & DIRECTOR MICHAEL KEEGAN-DOLAN
With music by Igor Stravinsky.
Michael Keegan-Dolan re-imagines his Olivier-nominated version of The Rite of Spring, which premiered at the London Coliseum in 2009 to great critical acclaim. Described both as ‘inspired’ and ‘exhilarating’ by The Times of London, The Rite of Spring draws on the same ancient, savage forces that inspired the Russian composer 100 years ago.
The evening is completed by Keegan-Dolan’s new interpretation of Petrushka. Performed by the exquisite dancers of Fabulous Beast, both pieces together create an intoxicating double bill of dance theatre that honours the searing modernity of Stravinsky’s music. The celebrated concert pianists Lidija and Sanja Bizjak will accompany both pieces.
Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre is supported by the Arts Council.
Contains Nudity and Scenes of a Sexual Nature, suitable for age 16+
013 PROGRAMME –
Knee Deep
PHYSICAL THEATRE · Circus
Australia
CASUS PRESENTS
KNEE DEEP
CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY CASUS
Australia’s hottest new circus company takes the art form to a whole new level.
Using traditional and contemporary circus techniques, Knee Deep is a spectacular display of choreography, acrobatics, trapeze and aerial stunts, full of incredible physical skill, brute strength and exquisite beauty.
Galway Arts Festival has a tradition of introducing young Australian companies to the European stage including the world-renowned Circa. Casus, with their breathtaking and fragile display of skills and performers who test the very limits of the human body, are the next generation about to take the world by storm.
BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL
POST -SHOW TALK WITH THE CAST 23 JULY
JOHN SCOTT/IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE PRESENT
HYPERACTIVE
CHOREOGRAPHY BY JOHN SCOTT
MUSIC BY MEREDITH MONK
DANCERS: MARCUS BELLAMY, ASHLEY CHEN, PHILLIP CONNAUGHTON, KEVIN COQUILLARD, WINSTON DYNAMITE BROWN
Hot on the heels of John Scott’s internationally successful Actions and Body Duet, comes Hyperactive, an explosive and thrilling new work for five virtuoso male dancers. Hyperactive is wonderfully enjoyable, using frenetic falls, athletic jumps and physical extensions.
A development from Scott’s hit Actions – Hyperactive, a live human architecture installation has the finest cast of male dance talent from Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, the Broadway musical Spiderman and the TV musical series, Smash.
Text of the inroductory address delivered by Profesor Tony Roche on 15 June 2013, on the occasion of the presentation of the Ulysses Medal on Sinead Cusack
Deputy-President, Honoured Guests, Ladies and Gentleman.
Sinead Cusack is the eldest daughter of two renowned Irish theatre actors, Cyril and Maureen. After acting at the Abbey Theatre in the 1960s as one of the brightest of a rising generation of Irish actors, she went to England in the 1970s and debuted with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-on-Avon. Sinead Cusack says that initially she was intimidated by the greatness of Shakespeare, thinking she should just stand stock still and deliver the lines. But she persevered and learned to make the lines her own by concentrating on Shakespeare’s profound understanding of human nature rather than on his intimidating greatness. Since then, she has played a great many of the dominant, independent but embattled heroines of those wise Shakespearean comedies, receiving a Tony Award nomination in New York for her performance as Beatrice in Much AdoAbout Nothing. But she has gone further in her characteristically intrepid Shakespearean journey, tackling the most substantial of the female roles in the tragedies, Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, one of her greatest achievements. Most recently, she has played Paulina in that great late Shakespearean romance, The Winter’s Tale, directed by Sam Mendes in the Bridge Project that was shared between the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Old Vic in London.
Sinead Cusack has not neglected the Irish side of her theatrical lineage and instead has kept a consistent and core strand of Irish work running through her career. In the 1970s, she was the best Pegeen Mike I have ever seen, in a TV production of Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World with John Hurt as Christy Mahon. Fiery, spirited, beautiful, independent, she brought a fine contemporary edge to the part. Two years ago, in an important first production between the two National Theatres of these islands, she played one of the most iconic roles in the Irish theatrical canon, Juno in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and thePaycock. Again, she made sure that the play was not just discussed for the male double act of Captain Boyle and Joxer Daley but for the interplay between her character and her husband, played by Ciaran Hinds. We were more aware than usual that this was a woman who was slaving in manual labour to put sausages in the pan for a disabled son, a striking daughter and a shiftless, chronically work-shy and alcoholic husband. Before our eyes, this ordinary woman grew in tragic depth until she commanded the increasingly bare stage with her courage and fortitude.
Sinead Cusack has made a no less major and garlanded contribution to the work of contemporary writers. In 2006, she pulled off an utterly convincing double role of a younger and older woman in Tom Stoppard’s Rock and Roll for which she received a Tony nomination for Featured Actress and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress. But it is her electrifying performances in plays by Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Sebastian Barry and Conor McPherson that we should particularly celebrate today. The most difficult role of her career, she says, was Mai O’Hara in Sebastian Barry’s Our Lady of Sligo in 1998. The play is primarily centred on an old Irish woman, lying in bed, dying of cancer; there are occasionally other characters and flashbacks but in the main it is a series of long, demanding monologues. The degree of her success in bringing this neglected old woman to unforgettable life can be measured not only by the audiences worldwide who flocked to see the play but by the prestigious theatre awards it garnered: an Olivier nomination and the Evening Standard award and the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress. Sinead Cusack has reminded us forcefully that Brian Friel was writing major roles for women before Dancing at Lughnasa in her performances as Alice in Aristocrats and Grace in Faith Healer. I cannot imagine a better Grace: beautiful, bearing the loss of her child by a husband who describes her as ‘barren’, exercising all the forensic skill of her legal training the better to understand but not cure her passionate attachment to the faith healer. Her recent performance in Conor McPherson’s stage version of The Birds at the Gate brought a strong female role to the fore as the playwright moved into new and exciting territory. And there is Frank McGuinness, with whom she has collaborated memorably over the years. He wrote the version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in which she starred with her father and her own two sisters, Sorcha and Niamh, at the Gate in 1990. McGuinness has also written screen roles for her, most recently a savage, tender, searing two-hander for Sky Arts, Crocodile. In it, Sinead Cusack plays a white lawyer approaching an imprisoned black woman she has been hired to defend. The white woman says she has gone to London to study law, from another country (it is implied from Ireland). In the imperial centre she has listened and she has learned, but she has retained her own personality, her own independence and her own imagination.
Frank McGuinness scripted these lines and the part with Sinead Cusack in mind, and they describe what she herself has achieved. She has gone from Ireland to an extraordinary career worldwide on stage and screen – rising in particular to the challenges of the poetic theatre of Shakespeare and Chekhov – but she has brought all of this home not only with frequent appearances on the Irish stage and in Irish film but with her award-winning and definitive work in the very greatest of our native playwrights.
Praehonorabilis Pro-Praeses, totaque Universitas,
Praesento vobis hanc meam filiam, quam scio tam moribus quam doctrina habilem et idoneam esse quae admittatur, honoris causa, ad gradum Doctoratus in Litteris; idque tibi fide mea testor ac spondeo, totique Academiae.
I know a few good talks at the 2nd History Festival of Ireland Duckett’s Grove, County Carlow.were on the American Civl war so i thought i’d stick up this up here
I recently saw Little John Nees sparkplug post irish times theatre awards it was v good. it was apdapted for radio and can been listined to here
I also saw The Real McCoy by Tommy Marren presented by Crokey Hill Player in the latter weeks of June before it hit Cork and Dublin It started Tommy Marren and Ireland West Music TVs Gerry Glennon in main roles . It was a great show very funny. but Crokey Hill Players are money making machines €2 for a sheet they called a programme, €5 for raffle and €15 for a DVD or more if people were buying mupile copies to to relatives in the Irish diaspora abroad. I have to to congratulate the Crokey Hill Players on reaching 100th shows though
Patrick Talbot Productions presents
The Love Hungry Farmer
Adapted and Performed by Des Keogh
From Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer by John B. Keane
Direct from a sell-out run at Gaiety Theatre Dublin! . It is going on an Irish tour to venues across the country
Des Keogh,, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, returns with his hugely successful and award winning show.
It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, a bachelor of ‘indeterminate’ age and according to his own assessment, ‘past his best’ and evidently still a virgin. McLane’s amorous adventures range from the hilarious to the pitiful.
John B. Keane ranks among the great Irish writers. His plays include Sive,The Field and Big Maggie. His ‘Letters’ series of books were a spectacular success, with The Love Hungry Farmer being particularly outstanding.
‘Des Keogh is superb. A consummate actor wedded to a skilled raconteur, the wine he offers is vintage’ Irish Times
Fiercely serious and bruisingly hilarious’ New York Times
‘Keogh is a wonder. A master-storyteller’ Associated Press
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