An Evening with Wee Daniel Local writer and actor Aoife Sweeney O’Connor presents a work-in-progress performance of their uproariously funny new play, An Evening with Wee Daniel. This one-person show explores growing up queer in Dungloe, grief, and an unironic love of Daniel O’Donnell. A stalwart of the Irish comedy scene, Aoife has performed at …
Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends, charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern situationship. As they swing through four million one hundred and ninety one thousand possibilities of what they might mean to one another, through time, sex, Madonna songs, nightclubs, period dramas and calorie counting, Boyfriends asks …
Ballyshannon Drama Society present Margaret, their festival play for 2024 which has qualified for both the Ulster Finals and All Ireland Finals in Athlone. Margaret is in her 80s. At times she is her old self, sharp, lucid, clear; other times confused, frightened and frustrated. She talks to an imagined Denis, to herself, to the …
A stage adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders Step into the tumultuous world of 1960s Oklahoma with this electrifying stage adaptation of The Outsiders from St Eunan’s College. Experience the gripping tale of Ponyboy Curtis and his gang of Greasers as they navigate the harsh realities of social divides and the bonds of brotherhood. From …
Comes to Donegal following sell-out runs at The Olympia Theatre and around the country. Imagine being stranded with the legendary Joe Dolan in a rural pub in Cavan on the night his car breaks down? That’s just the sort of fantasy scenario that’s imagined in The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down, written and directed …
Little John Nee’s magical new musical comedy is inhabited by characters you wish you’d met years ago, including Dandilion Ní Houlihan the mysterious 103 year old Boston benefactor who is about to make a change. Hundreds of dispossessed families travel west after winning a lottery orchestrated by an unscrupulous local councilor at the behest of …
GBL Productions present Chronicles of Long Kesh by Martin Lynch The hilarious, painful and shocking story of Northern Ireland’s infamous prison — Long Kesh — is told through the eyes of prison officers, Republicans and Loyalists, a rich assortment of patriots, chancers, leaders, wives, escapers and hypochondriacs! A huge crowd-pleaser, full of 1960’s Mo-Town songs …
GBL Productions present a Northern Ireland Comedy Classic Women On The Verge of HRT. Women on the Verge of HRT is the story of two middle-aged Belfast women, Vera and Anna who head off to Donegal on a weekend away for the annual concert by their super-star idol, Daniel O’Donnell. They get more than they …
Letterkenny Music and Drama Group Written by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney What if Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom? What if Home Rule had passed? What if there was no War of Independence? No Civil War? No partition? What if the island had only one soccer team? The year is 2024 and …
The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey is a new one man show written and performed by Mikel Murfi. Following on from The Man In the Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice, the new piece, the third in the series, takes us on a very unusual and otherworldly journey. Having married Kitsy Rainey late …
by Gemma Walker-Farren & Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company for First Fortnight Festival 2024 ‘Sometimes the scariest stories are the ones we tell ourselves’ Ghosts is a one-person storytelling theatre piece for adults. Several different stories spanning childhood fears to the anxieties of adulthood are woven together with Greek myths and ghostly tales to create …
High Rock Productions and An Grianán present Caith Amach É, a smash hit comedy based on the Leaving Cert Irish Oral picture sequences. It’s a fast-paced, physical, comic sketch show covering each of the 20 sraith pictiúir for the 2024 Leaving Cert Irish Oral Examination. It’s accessible to students of all levels. Since 2011, Caith …
Over the weekend the Letterkenny One Act Festival will host some of the best amateur theatre companies from around the country. The plays will last from 30 mins to 50 mins each. Friday at 7.30pm Clarity at Last by Charlie McGuiness, Cornmill Theatre Group (Open)The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna, Cloonacool Players (Confined) Heiligenstadt by …
In Rogliano, a small village in Corsica perched above the sea, each year Annie, a housekeeper, Osvaldo, a sailor, Laetitia, a postwoman, Sandrine, a bartender and some other villagers become actors… They have created an amateur company called Cap in Scena and for the past 10 years, over the seasons, against all odds, these men …
SOLD OUT Directed by Cathal Cleary (Druid’s Furniture), Padraic Walsh’s Blue Thunder is an immersive, site-specific show, staged entirely within an actual minibus for just 12 audience members per performance. It’s 3am in small-town Ireland. The nightclub is closed. The chipper is chaotic. And down a dark, quiet side-street, exhausted taxi-driver Brian is sitting in …
