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A cherished dream is finally becoming a reality with the imminent re-opening of Druid’s newly refurbished home on Druid Lane in Galway. The theatre will be unveiled with a production of The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy as part of Galway Arts Festival (July 14-25). The production will then transfer to the Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork (July 28 – August 1) before returning to Galway to the Town Hall Theatre (August 4th – 8th). Widely regarded as Tom Murphy’s masterpiece, The Gigli Concert will embark on an extensive tour of Ireland in November and December.
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Woman and Scarecrow, one of Irish playwright Marina Carr’s most recent plays, despite not being set anywhere in particular, addresses issues that are familiar to the Irish stage. While she takes a step away from the midlands of Ireland of previous plays like By the Bog of Cats and Portia Coughlan, she revisits themes and issues from these plays and develops them in a new way. Woman and Scarecrow, like numerous of Carr’s other plays, deals with issues and ideas surrounding death and the realm of the dead, the play revolving around the central character of ‘Woman’ who lingers precariously between the realms of the living and the dead, assessing and commenting upon her life from her sick bed. It plays with the boundaries of reality and fantasy or myth, the mythic realm of the dead and the undead, of ghosts and spirits.
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‘How little things can make a big difference’: that’s what this book is all about. Malcolm Gladwell, although irritatingly smug and sure of himself, is a man with the answers to questions we never thought to ask but to which we would quite like to hear the answers. Why were hush puppies so huge in the nineties? Why have we never heard of a band one minute and the next minute they’re everywhere?
While this book might reside predominantly in the technology sections of book shops, rest assured it is not just for the tech geeks amongst us. You have my word as someone who doesn’t know the difference between a URL and an SMS and couldn’t care less.
J.D. Robb is actually a very assertive looking woman by the name of Nora Roberts. Why people still use pen names I don’t know, maybe she thinks her own somewhat underwhelming. Nora Roberts however, is a fantastic storyteller.
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