Following a sell-out run at Galway International Arts Festival in 2018, Druid returns with Sonya Kelly’s Furniture; a humorous, insightful, touching and often philosophical look at who we are and how we’d like to be perceived.
Young audiences can expect magic, music and mischief in this delightful adventure from the multi-award winning Cahoots NI (Penguins), based on the book by Jon Agee.
★★★★★ The Telegraph
★★★★ The Guardian
A South Korean mystery thriller about obsession, unrequited love and alienation starring The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeung.
Rathdown School Gala Concert will be a showcase event highlighting the talent and tradition of performing arts the school has to offer.
★★★★ Mail on Sunday
A brilliant spin on the character of Joxer Daly from Seán O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, this new one-man play stars Pheilim Drew as an ordinary man living in extraordinary times.
The act of storytelling is an act of profound generosity and in 2019 Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival is thrilled to welcome some truly gifted storytellers as they gather to celebrate the transformative power of words.
Schools Event
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Who doesn’t love ponies? Especially roly-poly ponies who can fly? Come meet Kevin, the four-legged, two-winged hero of The Legend of Kevin.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world―from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media?
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Perched between mountains and sea, we’re delighted to welcome Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry as we explore nature and the natural world in his writing in the company of Evelyn O Rourke.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Meet Complete Aislings Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght whose entirely authentic voices elicit a proper snort on every page in the sequel to their best-selling Oh My God What a Complete Aisling.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
In this unmissable event, Conor O’Clery, former Russian correspondent with The Irish Times, discusses Riot Days with Maria Alyokhina which tells the story of her iconoclastic balaclava-clad performance in a Moscow cathedral after which she and two of her collaborators were arrested and sentenced to two years in a prison in the Urals.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
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Venue: Pavilion Theatre
As an ex-Marine Girl, singer in Everything But the Girl and intermittent solo artist, Thorn has enjoyed a long and successful career though her fear of performing live means she hasn’t stepped on stage in 15 years.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Seamus Heaney’s last great project was his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI, which tells the haunting story of Aeneas’ descent into the Underworld to look for his father.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Sally Rooney in conversation about her Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel Normal People, an exquisite love story about how one person can change another person’s life and how difficult it can be to talk about how we feel.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
The border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland has been a topic of dispute for over a century, first in Dublin, Belfast and Westminster and now, post Brexit referendum, in Brussels.
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
From one of our best loved and most admired literary journalists and broadcasters, Constellations is Sinéad Gleeson’s first collection of essays. For our closing event in 2019, we celebrate Sinéad’s writing.
★★★★★ The Financial Times
★★★★★ BBC
An outrageous 18th-Century period comedy with an all-star ensemble cast - nominated for ten awards at Oscars 2019.
One of Ireland’s most recognisable folk musicians, having played as part of The Dubliners for nearly 50 years, John Sheahan celebrates his 80th Birthday with two very special concerts featuring some very special guests.
★★★★ The Guardian
A hilarious, absurd and poignant tale of a 100-year-old Irishman… and his father! Written by Mark Doherty and directed by award-winning actor Aaron Monaghan.
