February/March/April

Wednesday 1st February @ 8pm

Film - Senna
Dir: Asif Kapadia                   UK                  2010                105 mins         Cert: 12A
The precocious, handsome, religious and thoughtful Brazilian Ayrton Senna was one of boldest and most exciting race car champions of all time. He was also the last Formula One driver to be killed on the track, in 1994 at age 34, and his dramatic life story merits the attention it receives in this unexpected and very good documentary. Presented in association with Access Cinema.  Tickets €7

Wednesday 8th February @ 8pm

The Godot Company, London and Richard Ryan Promotions present Beckett x 3 (2012) – three short plays that look at human destiny in terms of poignancy, compassion and the necessity of dignity in facing the inevitable:
1.         Rough for Theatre
2.         That Time
3.         Rockabye
Starring - Jim McManus, Aonghus McNamara and Colette Kelly. 
John Calder (84) founder of the Godot Company, Beckett’s publisher and publisher of twenty three Nobel Prize winners for Literature will be in attendance and there will be a Q/A session after the performance.
Tickets €12/€10     Friends 2 for 1

Thursday 9th February @ 8pm
An evening of Traditional Irish, Ballads, Country and Contemporary.
Featuring Mike Fitzpatrick, Mike Casey and John O’ Halloran (trad), Joe O’Callaghan (Elvis in the Building, John Madden (Country/Ballads), Sean Lynch (Nightfall) and special guests Danny Moloney and Zara.
Tickets €12

Wednesday 21st March @ 8pm   (original date Feb 11th)

A set in a County Limerick dating agency, "Finding Mr Wright" charts the lives, loves and libidos of six older women who turn to Lucinda Love’s Agency in the hope of second chances and a new lease of life.  Not to be missed, a night at the Cupid Cares Dating Agency will have you rolling in the aisles, invigorated with the knowledge that, 'there’s one for everyone’!
Directed by Fiona Quinn.  Featuring Margaret Barry, Bernie Burchill, Ina Brazill, Nancy Connery, Josie Deegan, Mary Nolan, Margaret Lynch, Mareya Coloma, Roberta Tinotti, Laurence Kirby and  Pat O’Donoghue.
Tickets €12/€10        

Friday 17th February @ 8pm

Truman Town Theatre presents The Velvet Revolution by Mick Donnellan.
Fyodor and Shelly are a young couple living in an undisclosed town in the rural Ireland. We enter the play at a point where Fyodor has lost an incredible amount of money and is now in the dangerous debt of loan shark, Kevin. Shelly has just returned home to announce that she met the same Kevin by chance and took the opportunity to invite him over for dinner! Fyodor is in turmoil over this, sure that it's a plot to kill him. At times dark, others hilarious, and often touching, the Velvet Revolution is a feast of tension, humour, suspense and ultimately a delightful illustration of the bizarre Irish psyche.
Tickets €12/€10                      Friends 2 for 1

Saturday 18th February – 10.00 – 5pm

A Workshop with Catherine McGeachy
'Transforming Your Inner Self and Outer Life through Compassion: further lessons from Quantum Physics'?  This one-day workshop will be very practical in nature and will introduce participants to discoveries in Quantum Physics and other scientific stables that point to simple adjustments we can make if we want to live a happier, healthier and more enriched life.
€65 including light lunch

Thursday 23rd – Sunday 26th February – Thursday 1st – Sunday 4th March @ 8pm
Friars’ Gate Theatre presents The Odd Couple by Neil Simon

First produced in New York in 1965, Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple has had many successful theatre runs internationally, garnered Tony awards and spawned a much loved film and TV series.  Oscar Madison is a disorganised, incurable slob who has been divorced for years and hosts a regular poker game with the guys. He lets his despondent, recently divorced friend Felix Unger into his apartment, and comes face-to-face with a neat freak who turns Oscar’s apartment, and his life, upside down. Featuring - Eleanor Bennett, John Condon, Colin Earlie, John English , Robert Lee, Glen Light, Joe Mullins and Maria Ryan Sheehy.
Directed by Mandy Donworth
Tickets €12/€10

Sunday 4th March @ 1.30pm
       

Film – Sherlock Jr (1924)

Dir: Buster Keaton   Running Time   45 minutes - Silent movie with live music performed by pianist Morgan Cooke.

Keaton plays a movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on the screen. While dreaming he is Conan Doyle’s master detective, he snoops out brilliant discoveries.  Presented in association with Access Cinema and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.  Tickets €6

Friday 9th March @ 8pm

An evening with Johnny Duhan

Johnny Duhan’s songs like The Voyage and Don’t Give up till it’s Over have become modern day classics, sung all over the world in a variety of languages, thanks to the focus put on them by Christy Moore, The Dubliners, The Irish Tenors, Mary Black and hosts of other Irish and international singers.

  “One of our great songwriters.”   Christy Moore

  “One of my favourite songwriters.”  Ronnie Drew

Tickets €18/€15   

Sunday 11th March @ 8pm

Brassneck Theatre Company presents 1981 written and performed by Tony Devlin
The 1981 Hunger Strike, in which ten men gave their lives in the struggle for political status, irreversibly shaped the political developments for decades to come. In this unique piece of theatre, we are given a deep insight into the lives of each of the ten men. Through music, song, visuals and performance, this one person show takes us on an extraordinary journey, of how ten very ordinary men shook the world from their prison cells.
Tickets €12/€10     Friends 2 for 1

Monday 12th March @ 8pm

Open Mic Night - Friar’s Gate Theatre presents Chapter and Verse a night of prose and poetry.
Join us for an eclectic mix of writings. Budding and established writers are invited to share their work in a relaxed atmosphere. Just want to listen?  Sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy an evening with a difference. Pieces should be no longer than 5-7mins.  All are welcome.  Admission Free

Thursday 15th March @ 8pm

Torch Players, Limerick present Moonshine by Jim Nolan.  Directed by Maurice O’Sullivan.
Starring: Peter Hayes, Pat Kelly, Gerard Liston, Joanne O’Brien, Jeanne O’Connor, Micheal O Dubhghaill.
Moonshine is a haunting and hilarious play set in a seaside village in the South of Ireland where the local undertaker, McKeever and Church of Ireland Rector, Rev Langton are both struggling with professional and personal crisis. Langton’s Church and wife are dying and McKeever’s amateur production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is disintegrating before his eyes.
Tickets €15/€12

Wednesday 21st March @ 8pm

A set in a County Limerick dating agency, "Finding Mr Wright" charts the lives, loves and libidos of six older women who turn to Lucinda Love’s Agency in the hope of second chances and a new lease of life.  Not to be missed, a night at the Cupid Cares Dating Agency will have you rolling in the aisles, invigorated with the knowledge that, 'there’s one for everyone’!
Directed by Fiona Quinn.  Featuring Margaret Barry, Bernie Burchill, Ina Brazill, Nancy Connery, Josie Deegan, Mary Nolan, Margaret Lynch, Mareya Coloma, Roberta Tinotti, Laurence Kirby and  Pat O’Donoghue.
Tickets €12/€10      

Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th March @ 8pm

CallBack Theatre presents the world premiere of Fred and Alice, written and directed by John Sheehy writer of the hugely successful Set in Stone.  Starring Cora Fenton and Myles Horgan.  
Love in the OCD.  Fred and Alice is a quirky love story played at a blistering pace. Fred hasn’t a note in his head but that’s not going to stop him having a music career.  Alice likes words because without words we would have nothing to talk about.  It’s not easy to get buy in this crazy old world.  But Fred and Alice have discovered that all you really need are 2 tennis rackets, a freezer full of ready meals and an immature coping strategy.  From their days in care, to independent living, they negotiate the perils and pitfalls of home cooking, responsible pet care and boiler maintenance.
Tickets €12/€10

Friday 30th & Saturday 31st March @ 8pm

St. Patrick Players, Cloverfield present All the King's Horses by John McDonnell.
A farce centred on a bitter row between two cousins left a house by a benevolent aunt on condition they live together in harmony for one month.  However, their political backgrounds do not bode well for good relations - one is a Republican while the other is an Orangeman.
Tickets €12/€10

Wednesday 4th April @ 8pm

Film – Pilgrim Hill written and directed by Gerard Barrett
Featuring: Joe Mullins, Kevin McCormack and Corina Gough.
The story of Jimmy Walshe, a bachelor Farmer living in rural Ireland and caring for his sick Father.  Shot on location in West Limerick and North Kerry.
Tickets €10

Wednesday 11th April @ 8pm
Footsteps Theatre Company presents The Acme Thunderer by Lin Coghlan.
A funny, moving family drama of pigeons and siblings, set amid the Blitz.  Presented in association with Foroige, Kilmallock.
Tickets €10/€5

Friday 13th April @ 8pm

Jazz and Sonnets 
Performed by: Rob Clare and Liam O’Brien.   
Jazz and Sonnets features Rob Clare - a distinguished Shakespearean actor and scholar from the UK who has tread the boards with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre.  He works internationally as a director and is one of the world’s authorities on the Bard. Having worked with Anthony Hopkins, Patrick Stewart and other luminaries of the British stage and screen Rob is collaborating with Limerick theatre maker Liam O'Brien on a new version of King Lear at Kilmallock’s beautiful Dominican Abbey. To celebrate their time here and raise funds to support the development of the project Rob and Liam present a night of jazz and sonnets. Liam - no stranger to jazz fans with his Crooning at Christmas concerts at Friars' Gate - has toured the USA, UK and Europe playing Dean Martin in the West End hit The Rat Pack. So don’t miss this unique presentation of Shakespeare's beautiful poetry set against glorious standards such as The Shadow of Your Smile, All or Nothing at All and I'm a Fool to Love You.   Backed by a wonderful jazz quarter, this is going to be a one off special event not to be missed.
Tickets €15

Saturday 21st April @ 8pm

On Q Theatre Company’s present The Last Apache Reunion by Bernard Farrell.
A powerful and memorable play that deals with a group of men and their school reunion. We witness the men trying to relive their past and, to the dismay of their wives, cover up what they would prefer to hide.  Directed by Carol Ryan.  Cast: Paul Cullen, Lisa Neville, Hugh Magee, Kevin Carroll, Patrick Sheridan, Jean Ryan,  Brian O’Rourke and Peter Cummins.
Tickets €15/€12

Friday 27th April @ 8pm

An Evening with Tommy Fleming
Multi-Platinum winning artist Tommy Fleming has many times been described as the "Voice of Ireland" and is one of Ireland's top entertainers.  Tommy turns each song into his own with his own unique and powerful style.   Tommy is famous for his own arrangement of "Danny Boy", "Isle of Innisfree" and "Hard Times" all songs that you know and love but you have never heard them until you hear Tommy Fleming's versions. A Tommy Fleming concert is a musical experience not to be missed. He has a universal appeal to all ages and backgrounds with a fan base that is growing stronger worldwide year by year.  Don't miss your opportunity to enjoy the experience of a Tommy Fleming concert.
Tickets €27.50

Workshops

Memoir Writing Course with Sheila Quealey (7 weeks) - Wednesday 25th Jan – 7 – 9pm  
Advanced Writing Course with Sheila Quealey
Arts and Crafts for Children with Jane Howe – Free introductory workshop - Thursday 12th January/Class commences Thursday 19th January.   
Irish Traditional Music with Brian FitzGerald – Monday 9th January
Drama for Children with Maria O'Neill – Tuesday 17th January
Angelina Ballerina - Ballet for Children aged 3 to 6 years – Wednesday 11th January
Youth Theatre Workshops with Maeve McGrath - Friday 13th January
Art Classes for Adults with Robert Ryan – Tuesday 24th January