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Wednesday 3 &Thursday 4 September 8pm
With a top-notch cast of local talent,The Tragedy of Dunkeer House is a riveting study of obsession that will stay with you long after the curtain has fallen. Tickets: £12.50, £14.50 concessions available.
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The fastest growing comedy festival in Ireland is back with a vengeance. With more than twenty comedians over ten days, this is the biggest, brightest and funniest Big Tickle yet. This year's line-up includes: For more information contact the Magners Big Tickle on 028 7126 8027 or online at www.thebigtickle.com
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"Sad, funny and sardonic,with wonderful melodies interweaved, Eamon Friel is just about the best songwriter I know." John RoederWDSD Philadelphia Eamon Friel plays The Chandelier Room for a relaxed and intimate performance of the best of his songs.A regular concert performer at The Playhouse he has just finished his sixth album. It will be issued early next year.Eamon will be featuring songs from it but also singing some old favourites like Farewell Mayo, The Western Wind, The Waltz Of The Years and Here Is The River.Well known as the presenter of two radio music programmes,BBC Foyle's Saturday Show and BBC Ulster's Thursday Late Show Friel says, " Songwriting and radio are allied crafts.Both require diligence and a strong sense of humour" Tickets: £10/ £7
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"You are my life, Runt" Disco Pigs is the story of Pig and Runt: two inseparable violent creatures. Needing no one else, they reign over their own world, creating their own language and rules and carving their way through 'Pork City' in a reckless pursuit of pleasure. But on the eve of their 17th birthday, their world begins to disintegrate. Runt begins to see there might be more to life, but Pig's unpredictable nature begins to spiral out of control in a trail of violence and destruction. The inseparable are about to separate with devastating consequences... A modern Irish classic, Disco Pigs was EdnaWalsh's breakthrough play, winning both the Stewart Parker Award and George Devine Award. Tickets: £10/ £7
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Eddi Reader is a unique and powerful figure in contemporary British music. One of popular music's most thrilling and affecting performers she provides the perfect finale to the City of Song Festival. Joined by Alan Kelly on accordion and Boo Hewerdine and John Douglas on guitars this is a special evening of song. Every since the single 'Perfect' with Fairground Attraction topped the British charts Eddi has created her own space in the musical landscape with albums such as Mirmama, Candyfloss & Medicine and Simple Soul. Tonight’s concert will also feature the City of Song Festival Chorus. Tickets: £14/ £10 |
A new Irish language production of Marie Jones' Stones in His Pockets presented by Aisling Ghear Theatre Company, Ireland's only full-time professional theatre company delivering all its shows in the Irish language. Winner of the prestigious Olivier and Evening Standard Awards, Stones in His Pockets has been a global phenomenon, this hilarious and sometimes poignant tale of a quiet Irish community disrupted by the arrival of a Hollywood movie shoot has been produced to massive acclaim all over the world from London to Tokyo. This Irish language version comes with simultaneous translation and scene notes to allow non-Irish speakers to enjoy this wonderful and energetic new production. Tickets: £10 / £7
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Following its hugely successful, sell-out run at The Playhouse, Stan McGowan's The Tragedy Of Dunkeer House transfers to the Millennium Forum for two nights only. Based upon actual events that took place in 1938 on the outskirts of the quiet Donegal village of Carrigans,The Tragedy of Dunkeer House tells the story of a mother's obsessive love for her only son and the shocking lengths to which she is prepared to go to prevent his marriage.
Friday 5 - Sunday 14 September
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