EntertainingSligo
WINDMILL PLAYERS
AFTER playing to a full house in Dromore West for 3 nights in November, the Windmill Players are now returning to Sligo and making their debut in the Art Deco Theatre in Ballymote with the hilarious Ray & Michael Cooney farce, “Tom, Dick and Harry”.
Tom, Dick & Harry tells the story of Thomas Kerwood (Jason Kilgannon) and his wife Linda (Deirdre Kilgannon) who are adopting a baby. It should have been the happiest day of their lives, that was until Tom’s brothers, Dick (Sean Kilgannon) and Harry (Richard Morissey) decided to help make a good impression on Mrs. Potter (Jacinta Gormley) the lady from the Adoption Agency. With the arrival of Mrs. Potter, Garda Downs (Kenny Sheridan) and two illegal immigrants from Kosovo (Maria Connolly and Henry Judge) Tom’s ingenuity is stretched to the limit. But things couldn’t get worse...or could they? The ever-helpful plans of Dick and Harry continue to go haywire and they further lumber Tom with Boris (Michael Kilgannon) a Russian Mafia mobster looking for the Kosovans and a reality TV programme. That is when it starts to get complicated! The adoption agency representative is aghast, the Garda is starting to suspect there is something funny going on and the illegal immigrants, who do not speak English, are no help at all!
Directed by Joe Burns and ably assisted by Teresa Dunne. Tom, Dick & Harry is showing in the Art Deco Theatre, Ballymote Friday, 23rd & Saturday, 24 th February. The proceeds from Friday night’s show will be going towards St. Joseph’s Special School, Ballytivnan. This is the second time that Windmill Players have performed a charity event to help St. Joseph’s Special School. The members of Windmill Players are delighted to once again be working with the school’s principal, Carmel Wynne, and the parents and children of St. Joseph’s School.
Doors open at 7:30pm nightly and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets are €12/€10 concession. Tickets for Friday night’s show are available through St. Joseph’s School – 071 9142453 and tickets for both nights are also available in Lavins of Ballymote – 071 9183354, or at the door of the Art Deco Theatre nightly. For inquiries, contact Katie at 087 7908173. **Please note that the performance contains adult content and may not be suitable for young children. Don’t miss out on the last chance for a night of side splitting comedy! Tickets are selling out very fast so get them before they’re gone!
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF IRISH TRAD MUSIC
Drumshanbo Irish Music Course is holding its Annual Charity Concert Friday 9 th March, 2018 Mayflower Centre, Drumshanbo. 8pm
This years concert is named ‘Ceol ón nGaoth’, inspired by the words of Seamus Heaney...’whether he calls it spirit music or not...he took it out of wind off mid-Atlantic...it comes off the bow gravely, rephrases itself into the air.’ The event is a celebration of 20 years of Drumshanbo’s Irish Traditional Music course which started in 1997/8.
We have a mixture of traditional tune types, interspersed with song & dance (+guest dancer) & poetry and a light exploration of the folklore of fairy music.
POWDER HER FACE
Thomas Adès’s “astonishing masterpiece” (The New York Times) tours to Wexford, Kilkenny, Navan, Sligo, Dublin and Tralee
Irish National Opera (INO) opens its inaugural programme with leading English composer Thomas Ades’ darkly comic opera, Powder Her Face.
This pioneering work is based on the exploits of a notorious socialite, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. She lived the high life from the 1930s onwards — the era is one of the many nostalgically evoked in Adès’s score — and in the 1960s became embroiled in one of the first sex scandals of modern tabloid journalism. As the Judge in the opera puts it, “She is a Don Juan among women.”
The work has been hailed as “a modern classic” by The Times and The Observer. INO’s tour takes director and designer ANTONY McDONALD’s highly-acclaimed production to Wexford, Kilkenny, Navan, Sligo, Dublin and Tralee between Saturday 24 February and Friday 9 March. The co-production with NI Opera was first staged last year at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
The four singers bring a staggering 16 roles to life while the 15-member Irish National Opera Orchestra, under conductor Timothy Redmond, swarms through the style-shifting world of Thomas Adès in a work that features the world’s most notoriously explicit aria.
Irish National Opera’s tour of Powder Her Face comes to the Hawk’s Well, Sligo on Saturday 3rd March.
Tickets start at €27, see irishnationalopera.ie