On Being Earnest
IT’S a brave move to take on Wilde’s wordy wit as expressed in “The Importance of Being Earnest’. This is a big play for rehearsed reading and we can hear it played out in the genteel salons of No. 1 Pery Square Hotel on Sunday 29, 8pm.
Liam Halligan directs for Bottom Dog Theatre Company, the fourth and final play in the successful Four Places, Four Plays series. He joins fellow directors Myles Breen, Richie Ryan and Mai O’Halloran in this successful series located in venues novel for theatre.
The coup landed by Bottom Dog for this show is actress/ commentator Carrie Crowley, cast as that magnificent bray, Lady Bracknell.
On The Nail
ON The Nail literary get-together in The Locke Bar falls on Tuesday October 1 from 8pm on. Organised by Limerick Writers’ Centre’s Dominic Taylor, he reports of two guest readers and the launch of Issue 27 of Revival Literary Journal.
The invited are Peter Mulllineaux, from Bristol who is now based in Galway. He has three published collections to his catalogue and much activity in the arts.
Patrick Stack was born in Limerick and raised in Kerry; he has worked a lot overseas and is now in IT in Clare and teaching. His first collection of poetry, ‘The Parting’ was published this year.
LCGA Conference
LIMERICK City Gallery of Art is collaborating with The Future State, of Goldsmith’s College London, in a joint conference from Thursday 26 to Saturday 28.
Called LAND LABOUR CAPITAL, it is part of the work marking the centenary of the Great Lockout 1913 and consequent to the exhibition current at Pery Square.
Admission is free but you need to reserve your place by emailing helen.carey@limerickcity.ie who can forward the diverse programme of speakers. The conference takes place the Pery Square gallery, in the Hub there and at 69 O’Connell Street.
Comic Storytime
LIMERICK artist Hugh McMahon will host his ‘Storytime’ show at Faber Studios, Henry Street this Thursday 26 at 7pm. He is also launching a self-penned comic book called ‘Limerick Folktales’ which has a witty, graphic, grown up take on “local folklore, ghost stories and fairy tales from Limerick City.”
A percentage of the sales will be going to Blue Box Creative Arts Psychotherapies for Children, a charity working with children in Limerick City.
Cathedral music
WEDNESDAY sessions of free recitals at lunch hour 1.15pm-2pm at St Mary’s Cathedral continue with two dates in October and another planned for November.
On October 2, Peter Barley (organ) plays music by J.S.Bach and Cesar Franck. Move forward a week to the 9th and Susan O’Leary on flute, Michael Dooley, bassoon and pianist Colette Davis come together for music by Beethoven and Lalliet.
