Rehearsed reading
Neil O Mara is an Irish exile living in the UK, he lives in fear because he was set up for murder nineteen years ago and he absconded rather than face trial. He lives a dormant life.
Neil sends a letter to his son Eoin seeking closure on his past. From the start someone else is looking for Neil for their own motivations.
The past and the present will come face to face and Neil’s letter is only the beginning.

A Body of Water is David Joyce’s debut play. A Mentoring Bursary from Galway County Council and a Mentoring Award from Arts &Disability Ireland enabled this play to be developed with mentoring from Eileen Gibbons, Galway Theatre Practitioner.

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May 7th, 1pm
30 mins + QA - Free admission
O’Donoghue Centre, NUIG - Studio 1

Welcome to Diffused Theatre’s first ever Choose Your Own Adventure play, meaning the audience gets to play God with our poor protagonist, Claire. Claire is a twenty something year old woman, dissatisfied with her life and its utter lack of direction (sound familiar? Us too...). She has become so apathetic that when she hears of a mysterious quick fix ‘life guide’ service, she signs up without hesitation. Little does she know that, not only has she signed up, but signed away a year of her life. What happens during this year? Our esteemed panel of experts (that’s you!) gets to decide! Come join us for a whimsical hour of immersive theatre. Making massive life decisions has never been so fun!

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May 7th, 5pm
30 mins + QA - Donation on the Door
O’Donoghue Centre, NUIG

The Irish harp, a powerful symbol of Irish culture, was silenced by Cromwell who hanged the harpers and silenced their voice. This voice re-emerges through storytelling and the oral arts, in contemporary dance, music and poetry.
Tógann an dráma idir láimhe seo foirm na cruite Gaelach mar mheafar, agus ansin stroiceann as a chéile í trí mheáin seanchais, na filíochta, damhsa comhaimseartha agus an cheoil.

Léirithe ag na Giorria, comhcoiteann Gaelach,/ Presented by Giorria, a collective of artists working in Irish.

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May 8th, 4pm
30 mins + QA -Donation on the Door
Mick Lally Theatre

Also for Roaring is nonsense and notional. It is inspired by Tristan Tzara’s Dadaist play The Gas Heart but it doesn’t identify as Dadaist; like many good contemporary creations, it is confused. It is trying things out, playing around, dipping its toe in the waters of sense and nonsense, of coping and caving, of mundane and catastrophic. Maybe it is going through a phase. Maybe you can help. ‘What we are celebrating is both buffoonery and a requiem mass’ - Hugo Ball Director: Róisín Stack Cast: Daniel Guinnane, Johanne Webb & Conor Kennedy-Burke Design: Orla Clogher Lighting: Pete Ashton Supported by the Arts Council & Galway City Council Book now! May 6th, 7pm 40 mins -Donation on the Door - Nun’s Island theatre

`Between Language and Limb` is a work-in-progress where Galway director, choreographer and dancer Patricia Glynn, poet Geraldine Mills, and contemporary dancer Celina Jaffe, explore some creative and performance possibilities that can emerge between the two separate art forms of poetry and movement/dance. Dancers respond to the poet`s words, while the language of movement, shape and dynamics of the dancer can inspire poetic images. Each artist translates from the language of the other, listening for a common rhythm that may inspire, enrich or embellish the outcome. This work in progress is being supported by the Galway Dance Project. Book Now! May 7th, 7pm 30 mins + QA - Donation on the Door Nun’s Island theatre

Rise Productions present
SPOTLESS by Gary Dugg

World Premiere

Gripping new suburban thriller from award winning writer Gary Duggan. Two very different women find themselves involved with a mysterious young man. Genevieve is clinging to her final chance at having children, while Jenny is doing her best to avoid any distraction from the opposite sex as she sits her Leaving Cert. Neither woman’s life will ever be the same again.

Featuring Ciara O’Callaghan and Emma Willis.

May 2nd 8pm
Town Hall Theatre (90 mins)
€20/18 - Book Ticket

Fishamble’s Haughey|Gregory by Colin Murphy, directed by Conall Morrison, follows the deal made between Tony Gregory and Charles Haughey in 1982, when Gregory took a surprise Dáil seat - and suddenly found himself holding the balance of power. Can Gregory use his vote to achieve something for his constituents? To do so, he will have to face off against the dominant personality of Irish politics - Charles J Haughey.

‘Irresistible… Thoughtful and thoroughly enjoyable, Haughey|Gregory is a tale worth telling, and one most certainly worth hearing.★★★★ The Arts Review

May 9th 8pm
Town Hall Theatre (80 mins)
€20/€18 - Book Ticket

For the first time, GTF is delighted to offer a series of training opportunities & technical workshops. Join us to learn the key elements of sound and lighting design, costume design, set painting and more!

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Dance Workshop with Oona Doherty
Oona Doherty is a Dance Artist based in Northern Ireland. Oona studied at The London School of Contemporary Dance, University of Ulster and LABAN London. She has been performing Dance Theatre internationally since 2010 with companies such as TRASH, Abattoir Fermé, Veronika Riz, Emma Martin/United Fall, Enda Walsh & Landmark Productions. Oona is a Prime Cut REVEAL Artist, Maison de la Danse Associate Artist 2017 and was the MAC Theatre Belfast HATCH artist 2016.

This workshops explores the metaphysical states of Honey, Concrete, Lazarus,Chaos. We will work inside to develop the strength of our intention and to re connect the humanity integral in body.A welcome home to the sci-fi world of the flesh. See you on the dance floor.

Open to dancers, performers and movers. Supported by Galway Dance Project.

May 4 - 10am (4 hours) - €15/€10
To book your spot, email contact@galwaydanceproject.com

"I like to think of the vocabulary of the mixed techniques in my work as a metaphor for our thought process. I absolutely love the Cyanotype technique, a photosensitive iron-salt based process that allows one to create impressions of objects or negatives with a beautiful cyan-blue outcome. I find its randomness endearing, I feel that the sun, the clouds, and the time, are participants in my artwork. My cyanotypes, layered with old photographs, and mixed media illustrations, aim to depict the way our memory works, selecting details of our experiences, and leaving shadows and undefined areas. Our perception is also imprecise, our eyes take in two-dimensional signals and our brain transforms them into a complex reality, through codes we are not fully aware of. So our memories are imprecise too, built with layers of clues and stored information, and keep changing. This uncertainty can be daunting for our survival instinct, but I believe there is poetry in it. It's a matter of finding a subjective coherency in the raw materials. This is what I seek in my art, I feel the need to find a process, a technique, a project that feels like me, and embrace the risk of abandoning myself to it." Lara Luxardi

May 4 - May 11 - Mick Lally Theatre Foyer

One year on from its inaugural meeting, Theatre57 invites you to be part of a wider conversation about how a city supports its creative community, and vice versa. We will look at models of creative hubs, future developments in the city and county, and international initiatives that have benefited both artists and communities.

Theatre57 was founded in summer 2018. It is a collective of over 60 independent theatre artists making work in Galway city and county. We advocate for sustainability in the arts and investment in local infrastructure to enable the creative professional development of artists.

All welcome. Free of charge. Find out more about Theatre 57.

May 11th, 1pm
O’Donoghue Centre - NUIG
Admission Free

Donnacha Cahill, is an experienced, professional artist from Athenry, County Galway who works mainly in steel. His art practice revolves around observations and his pieces aim to spark the imagination and create conversation. He has been commissioned to make large works for– The Department of Education, Galway County Council, and Antrim County Council. He has has also created large installations for Trinity College Dublin, RTE, The Electric Picnic, The European Recycling Platform, and Dublin Airport. Donnacha has exhibited at many arts festivals in Ireland and throughout the UK. He is known for his large mobile sculpture called 'the Gramophone' which made its debut at The Galway International Arts Festival.

'Inquisitive Hares' will be Donnacha’s first solo exhibition and will run from the 7th to the 18th of May as part of the Galway Theatre Festival in the O'Donoghue Centre, NUI Galway. Find out more abour Donnacha Cahill's work.

May 7th - May 18th
O'Donoghue Centre, NUI Galway