DRUID Theatre Company's production of Mc Donagh's The Queen Of Leenane, which has been such a massive hit both, here and in London (it has just won the 1996 Writers Guild Award for Best New Fringe, Play there), is back to the Town Hall Theatre, Galway until next Saturday. (Too late to book now, this leg of the tour sold out before it opened last Tuesday).

It will then embark on a remarkable five week tour of the western seaboard, including seven island venues, and yes, Leenane itself, home of McDonagh's sad and savage spinster. It then transfers to the Duke of York theatre in's London.

Druid, inventors of the URT, (Unusual Rural Tours) were pioneers in bringing drama productions to the western islands. They made a landmark visit to the Aran Islands with Playboy of the Western World in 1985, a trail re blazed for opera recently with great success by OTC's Kaiya Kabanova, but seven islands should make for some unique encounters between the dramas of theatre and meteorology, in the course of providing welcome opportunities for island dwellers to see theatre on their own turf. Other companies, please copy.