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Looking to enhance your Festival Big Top experience?
Date Added: May 13, 2010
Looking to enhance your Festival Big Top experience? Why not buy one of our premium or VIP tickets to make sure you have a faboulous night at the Festival Big Top! Available for the exciting triple bill or Josh Ritter, Damien Dempsey and Cathy Davey. Check out your options... [more information]
LATEST REVIEW OF "TRAD" AT ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL
Date Added: Mar 16, 2006
Trad *****
Thank you, APA, for bringing this delicate morsel of eloquent Irish culture to our Fringe. It's Waiting for Godot meets Dancing at Lughnasa insofar as it is an absurdist meditation on static society.
Trad stands for the Irish family tradition that cantankerous old Da holds... [more information]
Galway Arts Festival's production of Mark Doherty's Trad makes Australian Premiere
Date Added: Mar 7, 2006
Trad by Mark Doherty directed by Mikel Murfi Australian Premiereat Union Hall, Adelaide University for Adelaide Fringe Festival Supported by Culture Ireland March 9th - 19th
A fable about tradition in a mad place, Trad is 'as deeply funny as might be expected from a former comedian's take on... [more information]
Galway Arts Festival's production of Mark Doherty's Trad makes UK Premiere
Date Added: Jul 27, 2005
Trad by Mark Doherty directed by Mikel Murfi UK Premiereat Assembly Rooms for Edinburgh Festival Fringe Supported by Culture Ireland August 5th - 29th (not 8th, 15th and 22nd) [more information]
Latest reviews of "Trad" at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Date Added: Aug 22, 2005
Trad *****
Surreal comedy about tradition
How much of who you are, your values, your opinions, your character is determined by the past? Not only your past but that of your family, your culture, your heritage.
An ancient and cantankerous father known as Da (Frankie McCafferty), and his aged... [more information]
Latest Review of Trad in London - "London Theatre Review"
Date Added: Apr 13, 2006
Trad
A mad fable set in a surreal universe, Mark Doherty turns years of stereotyping and Anglo-Irish mockery on its head in Trad, his new play showing at the Bush.
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One-hundred-year-old Thomas leads an uneventful life in rural Ireland with his improbably ancient Da until the... [more information]
Latest Review of Trad in London - "Evening Standard"
Date Added: Apr 13, 2006
Trad
A craic at the Irish in true Beckett style
If, at some point in his long Parisian exile, Samuel Beckett had fancied a look back in comic fondness at his native Ireland, he might have come up with Trad. With its Beckettian repetitions and out-of-time setting, Mark Doherty's wonderfully... [more information]
World Premiere of Stuart Carolan
Date Added: Sep 6, 2006
Druid by arrangement with Galway Arts Festival present Empress of India, a new play by one of Ireland [more information]
Latest Review of Trad in London -- "The Times"
Date Added: Apr 13, 2006
TRAD
By Mark Doherty
Bush Theatre
Running until 29 April 2006
THE days when the English could make fun of the Irish are, let [more information]
Galway Arts Festival and National Irish Bank nominated for Business2Arts Best Collaboration in the Community award
Date Added: May 2, 2007
The Allianz Business2Arts Arts Awards celebrate imaginative and effective business partnership with the arts. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Wednesday 30 May in the Mansion House, Dublin. President Mary McAleese, Patron of Business2Arts, will be in attendance to present... [more information]
Galway one of its top 10 places to visit in 2007
Date Added: Feb 17, 2007
The UK MSN website has listed Galway as one of its top 10 places to visit in 2007. The piece on the site (shown below) highlights the role of Galways' Festivals in making Galway the great place it is to visit. The Cuirt International Festival of Literature (24-29 April), the Film Fleadh... [more information]
Irish Times Review: Stephen Petronio
Date Added: Aug 1, 2007
Stephen Petronio and Rufus Wainwright, what a combination they make. The first half of Stephen Petronio's triple bill- developed both with existing Wainwright music (Bud Suite) then in collaboration with him (Bloom)- presents an energetic programme with a mercurial and undualting sheen... [more information]
30th Festival Celebration Video now online
Date Added: Oct 23, 2007
A special video celebrating 30 years of Galway Arts Festival, featuring many of the artists who have appeared at the Festival, is now available in our Screening Room (see link below) http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/video.php [more information]
Galway Arts Festival’s Trad to tour Australia
Date Added: Feb 19, 2008
Galway Arts Festival's award-winning production of Mark Doherty's play, Trad, has been invited to one of Australia's premier festivals, the Perth International Arts Festival which takes place later this month. Trad, was first produced at Galway Arts Festival 2004 going on to play at... [more information]
Trad receives rave reviews down under
Date Added: Feb 29, 2008
Galway Arts Festival's production of Mark Doherty's play Trad has received rave reviews at the Perth International Arts Festival. In her review Victoria Laurie of The Australian called the play " The surprising hit of this years Festival" and stated "Mark Doherty has... [more information]
Galway Arts Festival: Small but perfectly formed - Michael Billington, The Guardian, Wednesday July 30th 2008
Date Added: Aug 13, 2008
“But the peculiar joy of Galway is that it covers the artistic waterfront without, like its famous Scottish sister, offering us a deluge. I've rarely encountered a better curated festival or one that more exhilaratingly mixed the local and the international.” Michael... [more information]
Festival 2009 - What it said in the Press
Date Added: Nov 4, 2009
Galway Arts Festival 2009 was subject to widespread coverage in the local, national and international press. Some examples of what was said are " The Festival's broad canvas reminds us to cherish the Arts" - Galway Independent 12th August "Hundreds of jobs saved... [more information]
Galway Arts Festival 2010 Calendar on Sale Now
Date Added: Oct 21, 2009
Galway Arts Festival has just launched its 2010 Calendar featuring a stunning selection of photographs of artists, actors and musicians from the wide and diverse programme of Irish and international events staged in Galway in July taken during this year's Festival. Enjoy many of this... [more information]
2010 Galway Arts Festival Gift Vouchers now on Sale
Date Added: Dec 3, 2009
Get true value from your gift this Christmas. They'll still be thanking you in August! Galway Arts Festival Vouchers now available. Click on the link below to go to our shop. http://www.galwayartsfestival.com/shop.php [more information]
Galway Arts Festival 2009 Highlights Video now online
Date Added: Mar 19, 2010
Our highlights video from Festival 2009 is now available for viewing in our screening room here Relive memorable moments from last year's festival including performances by Michael Clark Company, Propeller, Kronos Quartet and Bon Iver. [more information]
The Human League, Heaven 17, Josh Ritter, Damien Dempsey and Cathy Davey for Festival Big Top
Date Added: May 13, 2010
The first shows of the Galway Arts Festival 2010 line up have been announced Eighties electro-pop at Festival Big Top Galway Arts Festival will host a night to remember with an exciting double bill featuring electro-pop icons Human League and Heaven 17 performing... [more information]
Submissions for Festival 2011 deadline 31st December 31st 2010.
Date Added: Aug 30, 2010
Submission Guidelines - Galway Arts Festival 2011
Galway Arts Festival 11th-24th July, 2011
Companies and artists wishing to be considered for presentation in the 2011 Galway Arts Festival are welcome to submit proposals and ideas to the Festival.
Please include alongside your proposal... [more information]
Galway Arts Festival wins at Irish Festival Awards
Date Added: Feb 11, 2011
Galway Arts Festival was delighted to win the "Best Street Spirit" Award at the 2010 Irish Festival Awards. MD John Crumlish accepted the award on behalf of the Festival at the ceremony which took place in Dublin on Wednesday 11th February. [more information]
Galway Arts Festival cited as one of the great symbols of modern Ireland
Date Added: Mar 24, 2011
In a recent Irish Diaspora Survey Galway Arts Festival was cited as one of the great symbols of modern Ireland. The survey of Irish Americans and Irish people living in the US was carried out by Amárach Research in conjunction with Irishcentral.com. 23% of the 1,000 people surveyed... [more information]
LIVE AT THE FESTIVAL BIG TOP - BLONDIE AND BELL X1 ANNOUNCED AS FIRST FESTIVAL ACTS OF 2011
Date Added: Mar 24, 2011
Blondie and Bell X1 will be amongst the top attractions at this year's Galway Arts Festival Big Top. The iconic Festival Big Top will once again be located in the heart of Galway city centre at the Fisheries Field with this year's Festival running from July 11th-24th.
Pop icons Blondie make a... [more information]
