Galway International Arts Festival

The Guide: Galway International Arts Festival, Pillow Queens and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

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Stewart Copeland of The Police: ‘You can’t beat an old song, but I bang the sh*t out of them’

The composer and drummer’s show, Police Deranged, at Galway International Arts Festival, recalibrates Police songs for a full orchestra

Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say

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Galway International Arts Festival 2023: 12 moments we’ll remember

Including The Pulse, Colm Meaney’s Galway tribute, David Mach’s exploding installation, Luke Murphy’s explosive dance, and the epic DruidO’Casey

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You’ll See...: Ulysses for kids, with a star turn from the charming, funny, knowing Helen Gregg

Theatre: Branar’s take on James Joyce is surprisingly simple for such a complicated novel – and a great introduction to its appeal

Life & Times of Michael K: A magical staging of JM Coetzee’s sweeping, epic tale

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Handspring’s astonishing puppetry brings Michael K and his mother to life

DruidO’Casey: A brilliant ensemble cast brings Garry Hynes’ vision to life in back-to-back productions

Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles

Volcano review: Edge-of-your-seat entertainment – you won’t have seen anything like this before

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Luke Murphy’s dance-theatre piece about two men going slowly crazy in deep space is tense, troubling and touching

Every Brilliant Thing: An enjoyable, interactive and life-affirming monologue about mental health

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Clare Barrett is vulnerable and utterly charming in managing the vagaries of improvised audience participation

Not a Word: An evocative, heartrending play about yearning and forgotten lives

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: In the hour-long show there is physicality, mask and music, but there’s not a word

Bedbound: Colm and Brenda Meaney shine as Father and Daughter in Enda Walsh’s most Beckettian play

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: The acting is excellent, but this early play has moments that now strike a crude, adolescent note

Cloakroom: A gorgeous slice of adolescence about to blossom into new possibilities

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Zara Devlin provides the voice for a ballroom attendant in Enda Walsh’s latest Rooms installation

The Pulse: Jaw-dropping acrobatics, exquisite singing, ferocious skill

Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Gravity & Other Myths’ outstanding show stretches the limits of what a human body can do

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