ROSCOMMON Drama Festival will be launched on Thursday February 23 in Roscommon County Library. There has already been an unprecedented demand for tickets with some nights already close to selling out. The festival runs from Friday March 2 to Saturday 10. The festival showcases nine nights of award-winning performances by amateur groups from all over [...]
MINDFULNESS By Mark Williams and Danny Penman Piaktus €18 WAY BACK when voracious predators roamed the earth, and the choices Stone Age Man chewed over at breakfast were no-brainers of the hunt-or-be-hunted and eat-or-be-eaten variety, a racing pulse, sky-high blood pressure and sweaty palms were the natural consequences of his short-term response to an [...]
FOR theatre with a difference, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company continue with their acclaimed catalogue of travels through the realms of the absurd. The Sligo-based ensemble, who Tommy Tiernan, no less, said were “too strange for Galway” return to the Town Hall Theatre from February 27 to 29 with their production of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. [...]
In TV 50, see history unfold COURTESY of the RTE Player on RTE.ie, I have been enjoying vintage fare of high quality on TV50 since RTE launched its year-long celebration of 50 years of television at the beginning of January; watching and saying nothing. That’s not like me as I’ve a name for having [...]
THE LEWIS MAN By Peter May Quercus LIKE A demented bloodhound, I’m constantly on the trail of new thrillers. Sometimes I can sniff out something worthwhile, but all too often I follow a false scent, lured by a pretty cover or a glowing review. With Peter May’s The Lewis Man I think I’ve tracked down [...]
THE female version of Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy The Odd Couple is Glenamaddy Players production for the Drama Festival circuit. Neil Simon wrote the male version of the play in 1965 and it had many successful theatre runs. He then decided to write the female version in 1985. Best friends Olive Madison (Patricia Comer) and [...]
WITH LITTLE or nothing to tickle my fancy on the home channels over recent days I had to resort to my favourite BBC2 and weasn’t disappointed. The jewel in the crown was the 3-part drama documentary Versailles, of which the final part is being screened this Wednesday evening at 9 pm and it is my [...]
Love has conquered Bob THE FIRST TIME I ever saw or heard of Bob Geldof was about thirty years ago when he appeared on the Late Late Show to push his ego and promote his newly formed punk rock band The Boomtown Rats, God help us! As he swivelled on the studio chair sneering [...]
Early Music Festival is back in May THE Galway Early Music festival returns to the medieval streets of Galway again this year from May 17 to 20. Voted among the top six international festivals in Classical Music Magazine 2011, the Galway Early Music Festival celebrates its 17th year of historical music and dance in the [...]
THE END By Ian Kershaw Allen Lane ON April 18, 1945, a 19-year-old German theology student, Robert Limpert, made a feeble attempt to prevent his hometown, Ansbach, being levelled by the US forces massing on the town’s outskirts. The war was effectively over. The local Nazi bigwigs and most troops had fled so Limpert [...]
