Coming up in the Galway Arts Festival

Shows still to come in the Galway Arts Festival:

Mark Thomas, Saturday 18th July 9pm (€22.00):

Acclaimed comic and activist, Mark Thomas creates a manifesto - a policy paddle to help steer our way out of the current economic crisis. The economy’s bust, the environment broken and governments have run out of ideas, the only people who can save the day is us! Every audience gets to vote on the policies they like, Mark road tests them and then sets off to make them happen. It is somewhere between Jim’ll Fix It for anarchists and White Collar Crimewatch, with a passing nod at Bill Drummond, the Fluxus art movement and Anneka Rice. Join Mark as he creates a People’s Manifesto to light our way through the gloom at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Saturday, 18th July at 9pm. Described by The Guardian as “Moving and inspiring…as gripping as any live performance you will see.”

Merchant of Venice, 23 July 8pm, 24 July 2pm, 25 July 8pm (€25.00):

William Shakespeare would delight in the compelling, audaciously cheeky theatre of Edward Hall and his award-winning company Propeller. Their adherence to a men-only policy onstage—a fact of the Bard’s day—along with Hall’s mischievous, highly physical approach, sends up Shakespeare’s intricate tangling between the sexes. Propeller’s staging of The Merchant of Venice, is a work that poses still-incendiary questions about truth, morality, and prejudice.

Druid Debuts, 22 July, 24 July 2pm (€5.00):

Also worth seeing are the rehearsed readings of new plays in the Druid Lane theatre. Cheap tickets and the visceral thrill of seeing a play’s guts thrust on the table and divined by the actors. The 22 July is Sunday Morning Coming Down by Micheal Donnellan and 24 July is The Home Front by John O’Donovan.

The Galway Arts Festival are currently offering deals on certain ticket combos to Facebook group members but I doubt they’ll be checking your credentials in the box office! The offers are as follows:

Any Palace of the End matinee + Penguin Cafe orchestra = €35( a saving of €18)

OR

Any Palace of the End matinee +Mark Thomas =€35(a saving of €10).

Call into the box office or phone (091) 566577. Mention ‘Something for the Weekend.

I should get around to see the visual arts during the weekend and review them here early next week. Watch this space. Well, not this one. One a bit higher up. That I haven’t written in yet.

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