What can we learn from one another? In letters and postcards, fleeting feels are permanently expressed in handwritten pages. Stories and secrets have been gifted from one person to another. Arnold Cashew’s letters have been found. Through reading them, we discover what happened. What will we learn about Arnold, and what will we learn about love? Aoife Delany Reade [war/war/war Theatre] and Muireann Doheny [Cult Theatre] collaborate on an original story of Arnold Cashew, as apart of an ongoing investigation of love, and a continuation of our emotional education.

Booking: (086) 109 1696 Or via email: warwarwartheatre@gmail.com Tickets €6 each

This multicultural event consists of 4 acts of 20 minutes exploring the culture, travails, and the integration of the Polish Community and the African community of South Sudan. The Irish input is a specially written one act play focusing on the Workhouse. Under the auspices of the Twilight Group, the overall production and direction of the project is in the capable hands of Ger Cody who has almost 30 years experience in staging successful theatrical productions. Ger will be assisted by Emily Kelly who is a local actress and director of note.

Tickets €10. Book by e mailing info@twilight.ie

A live script reading of a new comedy feature film Heist 101 written by Cian McGarrigle. Heist 101 won the pitching award at the Galway Film Fleadh.
The film centres around a disgruntled bank employee on the verge of financial ruin who teams up with a talentless actor to rob her own bank during the filming of a Crimecall reconstruction.
Cian McGarrigle is a comedy writer who has written for Callan’s Kicks, Nowhere Fast, Red Rock and Republic of Telly. This event is free but tickets must be booked in advance at www.eventbrite.ie

The hit comedy night Insecure & Dangereux comes to Ireland for the very first time! Established in Brussels, Belgium in October 2018, this show has become an over night success selling out in Europe’s Capital! Bringing you a mix of Irish & International comedians for one night only, this show promises to have you falling out of your chair with laughter (and possibly a dash of despair.) Bring in your hands to clap while you look, listen, laugh, and maybe even lunge at some brand new up & coming comedy talent. Tickets on eventbrite.ie and also on the door. Entry €5, sure jaysus where would ya be going?

A re-telling in words and music of the extraordinary love story of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, two nineteenth century women of Kilkenny.
This event was inspired by the Herstory 2019 workshops.
Directed by Angela Keogh. Pay at the door. €5

Do you want to laugh? Do you want to seize your power, seize the day?

Stand up or be Pushed Aside – the new production from Tattooed Baby
Challenge perceptions. See expensive coffee being drunk. The answers to those hard to answer questions will be explored.
Is Christmas really all its cracked up to be?
How to plan a really good funeral?
Can mass cards really get you to heaven?

Laughter, disability, effective funeral planning and expensive coffee. It’s feckin brilliant.

Written by Eithne Reilly and performed Sinead Goggins and Eithne Reilly.

Suitable for ages 16+

Tickets booked through www.eventbrite.ie

Barn Owl Players presents Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, a one act comedy about marriage, divorce, and the fine line between love and hate. Tickets 15 euro includes tasty treats. Bookings through www.eventbrite.ie

When Kitty’s boyfriend isn’t showing up to escort her out the lane to a local beauty pageant, we jump into her isolated existence on a rural farm in the south of Ireland.
The play is a dark drama, unlocking Kitty’s perspective of life as a young woman in a lonesome environment, but showered in comedy too through Kitty’s witty observations and anecdotes of her own reckless activity in the past.
‘An intense, poetic study of loneliness, cruelty and rural isolation, Kitty in the Lane is a mesmeric continuation of the Irish literary tradition.’ ★★★★★ (Broadway Baby)
‘An extraordinary accomplishment as both playwright and actress.’ ★★★★★ ( Charles Kruger, TheatreStorm) This event is part of TRASNA – a networking event for Irish playwrights to be held in the HRC on the morning of August 17th.

Tickets €12 at www.eventbrite.ie or on the door at the event.

Playwrights from all over Ireland & further afield are invited to come together to think, talk, and network together at the Home Rule Club on the morning of August 17th. Facilitated by Aine Ryan & Niamh Moroney, TRASNA aims to bring playwrights together in the hope of creating an online platform for playwrights to connect through, and gain peer to peer feedback and critique of their new work. As playwrights we struggle to find a wide berth of readers for our work, we want to investigate why, and how we can create a more efficient feedback and support group for playwrights across Ireland and abroad. Come join us for some talks, tea, and idea sharing. This event is free but places must be booked through www.eventbrite.ie. Niamh will present a read through of a work in progress piece at 3pm, and Aine will present her one woman show Kitty in the Lane at 8pm. These events are ticketed and must be booked separately.

Margaret; the beauty of her townland, a rebellious soul, a “floozy”, a close family friend, a personal hero, a criminal; sentenced to death by the Irish State in 1937.
This story has been passed down from hand to mouth, from mouth to hand. In her new play, Niamh Moroney pieces back together Margaret’s story, and her struggle to keep control over her own life in 1930’s Ireland. This story follows a hundred year struggle of women’s rights, and female reproductive rights on the island of Ireland.
Margaret, will be shared at work-in-progress stage for feedback in association with Devious Theatre, and as part of TRASNA – a networking event for Irish playwrights to be held in the HRC on the morning of August 17th. Margaret is proudly supported the ArtLinks Theatre Bursary Award.

Tickets €5 at www.eventbrite.ie or at the door on the day.

Come join us to celebrate the end of our wonderful festival! For our finale event, we will have to local bands entertain you, followed by the amazing INFERNO with their brand new show FIRESTORM. Three of Ireland’s most skilled fire performers present their most popular production, a show of enchanting light and shadow, skill and choreography. Family event. All ages welcome.