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Upcoming
events:
Upcoming events will be posted
here as they are scheduled.
Garrymore Drama
Group
Beauty Queen of
Leenane
Thurs 10th
February - 8.30p.m.
Adm: €12.
Students and OAPs: €5.
Show not
suitable for under 16's
More Information here
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Laighne Films
The 3.10 to
Claremorris
Fri 11th February
@ 8.00 p.m.
Adm: €10
More Information here
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Cloonacool Players
Philadelphia,
Here I Come
Wed 23rd / Thurs
24th Feb @ 8.30
Adm: €10
More Information here
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Boystown Players
Love in the Title
Sat 5th March
@ 8.30
Adm: €10
Students/OAPs: €8
More Information here
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Some past events in the Town Hall Theatre:
Ferguson,
Holmes & Henry
Saturday 24th July 2010 @ 9.00 p.m.
MEDIA RELEASE
9th June 2010
Ferguson,
Holmes & Henry in Town Hall Theatre.
Ferguson, Holmes and Henry
undertake their Sixth Tour of Ireland this Summer and as part of that tour,
play the Town Hall Theatre, Kiltimagh on Saturday Night, July 24th
at 9.00p.m.
Gary Ferguson is an award
winning singer songwriter from Pennsylvania, USA. He returns to Ireland in
July for what is his sixth consecutive tour of the country. On his Irish
tour three years ago, Gary met singer songwriter Janet Holmes and
musician Colin Henry, both from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Janet is
known throughout Ireland as a beautiful singer and a talented songwriter and
currently has two albums on release. Colin is a well known
multi-instrumentalist with his main instrument being the resonator guitar of
Dobro. Colin toured with Gary for the last two years and on some gigs Janet
joined them on stage. This year they have decided to make it permanent and
all three will perform as the trio Ferguson, Holmes & Henry on
Saturday, 24th July. The singing and songwriting is exceptional
and the musicianship is of the highest standard. This is original acoustic
music at its best.
See and hear them at
www.myspace.com/fergusonholmesandhenry
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Open
Voices Theatre Company
presents
"We
are for the Dark"
Thursday
27th May 2010 @ 8.30 p.m.
MEDIA RELEASE
Other Voices Theatre
Company in Town Hall
Other
Voices Theatre Company presents a stunning, unique evening of dramatic
entertainment: We are for the Dark, three one-act plays
encompassing a gamut of emotions from joy to despair, experienced by three
very different women with one shared trajectory, the are heading into ‘the
dark’. The Bright Day is Done: a new play by internationally
acclaimed screenwriter Gerald Wilson: a young journalist comes to interview
an ageing actress and inveigles her into recreating some of her most
acclaimed roles – but he is not what he seems. Baglady by
Frank McGuinness: an old woman is trapped in a surrealist nightmare of the
past as she confronts – and is confronted by – the abused child she once
was; an innovative interpretation of a work by one of Ireland’s leading
playwrights. The Jewish Wife by Bertolt Brecht: It is Germany,
1935 - a Jewish wife packs her bags as a nightmare of the future looms. It
is a recurrent motif of tragedy; every day someone, somewhere, harassed by
prejudice and fanaticism, is packing a bag or making a bundle. It adds up to
a programme that is emotionally evocative, thought-provoking and always,
always entertaining.
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Gráda
Thursday
13th May 2010 @ 8.30 p.m.
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MEDIA RELEASE
Trad Group GRÁDA in Town
Hall Theatre.
Gráda is one of Ireland's most
successful touring bands, performing over 150 concerts across the globe
annually at major festivals and venues such as The National Geographic
Headquarters in Washington DC, The Royal Glasgow Concert Hall and the Sydney
Opera House.
Their sound is deeply rooted in the Irish tradition, but also layered with
fresh, jazzy tones and strong rhythmic grooves. Gráda have released
three critically acclaimed CDs to date and have just finished recording
their fourth CD in Nashville.
Gráda are: Nicola Joyce (vocals, bodhrán) from Galway; Gerry
Paul (guitar, banjo, vocals); Andrew Laking (double bass, vocals,
guitar); David Doocey (fiddle, concertina, whistle) from Mayo. David
is at the forefront of the younger generation of Irish traditional
musicians, having won several All Ireland awards on concertina and fiddle
and last but by no means least, Stephen Doherty also from Mayo,
(flute, whistle, melodeon, piano, bodhrán). Stephen is an All Ireland senior
flute champion and award winning accordion and bodhrán player.
New Album ‘Natural Angle’
On their new CD, ‘Natural Angle’, Irish band Gráda launches headlong
into the cross-genre world of new acoustic music, bridging traditional Irish
and Appalachian tunes and songs with Americana songwriting. Gráda, whose
name means "gradient" in Irish, have always drawn on their melting pot of
influences from New Zealand and Ireland.
On this CD the American edge and bluegrass twang set their Irish melodies
and styles in sharp relief. Four of the twelve tracks are American
songs—although some of those have older Irish roots—and there are three
original songs from the band, including, for the first time, an original
song by vocalist Nicola Joyce. Gráda sought out famed bluegrass musician
and singer Tim O'Brien, whom they had met at the Tonder Festival in Denmark
in 2005, to produce the CD in Nashville. Capturing the explosive energy of
the band in the discipline of a Nashville studio was a challenge and a
revelation.
Gráda's improvisatory relish may seem at an angle to how people think about
Irish traditional music, but it's natural for this quintet. With an
acoustic, contemporary sound, Natural Angle’s free, loose feeling focuses on
melodies both new and old, Irish and Appalachian. Supported by the band’s
unrivaled instrumental prowess and emotive vocals, Natural Angle captures
the tangible excitement and explosive energy Gráda brings to over 150 stages
in 20 countries year after year.
Gráda is appearing @ the
Town Hall Theatre, Kiltimagh on Thurs. 13th
May 2010 at 9.00 p.m
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Garrymore Drama Group
-
'Pull the Other One' -
Fri
16th April 2010 @ 8.30 p.m.
MEDIA RELEASE
Garrymore Drama Group, is proud to present “Pull the
Other One”, a comedy by well known Playwright, Norman Robbins.
In the
play, Albert Perkins is blessed with a loving wife Muriel and cursed with a
fearsome mother in-law, Boadicea. When his good friend Hilary Armitage
writes to him reminiscing about good times they used to have, Boadicea reads
the letter and determines to remove her daughter instantly from the clutches
of this sex-fiend. Albert has a hard time explaining that the letter is
perfectly innocent, and anyway Hilary is a man. It isn't helped when he
turns up wearing a blonde wig and a glamorous dress. By the time Hilary
manages to explain that he has just come straight from doing his drag act at
the local pub, it's late and Boadicea has bashed Albert with the poker and
even when he comes round, Albert's troubles are far from over. In a weak
moment, he agrees to model for a girl student wearing mainly a potted plant
and Hilary, anxious to make amends for the misunderstanding he has caused,
offers to deputise for Albert at bell ringing practice at St Humphrey's.
Both these acts of kindness bring disaster in their wake.
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Balla
Drama Group
- 'A
Wake in the West' -
Fri
9th April 2010 @ 8.00 p.m.
MEDIA RELEASE
Balla Drama Group, recently returned from Luton in England, is proud to
present “A WAKE IN THE WEST”, a comedy by well known Mayo Playwright,
Michael Joe Ginnelly. This play is set in a small village in Co. Mayo
where all the neighbours and family are involved in the hilarity that
occurs from the very start of the play. The play will be staged in the
Town Hall Theatre, Kiltimagh on Friday April 9th at 8pm.
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The
Confessions, the Truth and
the Lies of and old Reprobate
Friday, March 19th. 2010 @
8.30 p.m.
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Disappearance
of the Railway Hostel
A video
documentary on the closure of the Railway hostel in Kiltimagh, and its
impact on Kiltimagh and the residents there has been produced by Vukasin
Nedeljkovic.
The
participants in the documentary include: Kate Donelly, Ailish Irvine, Joe
Kelly, Therese Ruane, Fr. Paddy Kilcoyne, Ruth McNeely, Garda James Malone,
Willie Maughan, Mary Corless, Rita Hopkins, Jane O’ Sullivan, Carmel Balfe,
Joe Waldron, Mary Mulderrig, Vanessa Ohiwerci, Dr. Mary Divilly-Sheehy,
Geraldine Folliard.
The premiere
of this documentary will be in the Town Hall
Theatre, Kiltimagh on Thursday 4th of March, 8pm
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The Banshee of Crokey Hill
Friday, February 26th. 2010
and Saturday, February 27th 2010
8.30 p.m.
Tickets are €12 and
available at the door. Special group rates available. More information
on 087 9674674
MEDIA RELEASE
After a hugely successful two-year run "The
Banshee of Crokey Hill" written and directed by Midwest Radio's Tommy
Marren hits the stage again with two performances scheduled for Kiltimagh
Town Hall Theatre on Friday February 26th and Saturday February 27th at
8.30 nightly.
The play is gearing up for a number of
performances around the country as part of the Amateur Drama Leagues All
Ireland 3-act Festivals in March so theatre lovers will have another
opportunity to see this much acclaimed production which travelled to
Birmingham, Manchester, New York, Chicago and Boston to huge crowds. Set
in rural Ireland in the mid-70's the play has a very interesting storyline
that will keep audiences in suspense right to the final curtain. It has
lots of music and comedy thrown in for good measure and promises to be a
great nights entertainment.
The Banshee of Crokey Hill at Kiltimagh's
Town Hall Theatre runs on Friday February 26th and Saturday February 27th
at 8.30 pm nightly. Tickets are €12 and available at the door. Special
group rates available.
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Jon Kenny
Friday, December 18th. 2009 @ 8p.m.
Jon Kenny for Town Hall
Theatre, Kiltimagh
Jon Kenny,
the internationally renowned comedian, will perform his new show in the
recently refurbished Town Hall Theatre in Kiltimagh on Friday Night December
18th.
I’m not says I …I’m Fine’
heralds a return for
Jon to the type of work that made his reputation as one of the most talented
comedians in Ireland. Jon uses the changing face of contemporary Ireland as
the scaffold on which to build his hilarious observations and characters.
Running through such contrasting experiences as supporting Munster rugby to
visiting a health spa, Kenny takes no prisoners and delights in emphasizing
the humour in everyday life.
We can all look at Jon’s
characters and see a bit of ourselves or someone we know well in them or
their antics.
This is a thrilling experience
for lovers of comedy everywhere and it comes to the Town Hall Theatre,
Kiltimagh on December 18th at 8p.m.
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