The Manchester Irish Festival: 4th - 19th March 2006
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Monday 13th March
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Beat the Frog Irish Special
The Frog & Bucket
0161 236 9805
Doors 7.30pm Show starts 8.30pm.
Free entry.
MC Dan Nightingale presents 10 up and coming acts with
an Irish theme.
Magners promotions all night!
Manchester
Irish Festival Parade photo exhibition
by Ged Noonan, Dave Brunton & Tony Hennigan
Union Inn
Stockport Road, Levenshulme, 0161 224 1271
7pm
Free
The Manchester Irish Festival Arts collection of photographers ‘Ged
Noonan’, ‘Dave Brunton’ and ‘Tony Hennigan’ exhibit
their work featuring the annual Irish festival parade with photographs from
the last five years. Prints are on sale with all proceeds going to St Anne’s
Hospice.
Sponsored by Levenshulme Pub Company
The
Flags
by Bridget O’Connor
The Studio, Royal Exchange Theatre
Box Office 0161 833 9833 www.royalexchange.co.uk
JJ and Howie are lifeguards on the second worst beach in Ireland. They dream of Banna Strand, the perfect beach with ‘tits and ass as far as the eye can see’. The jobs at Banna are unexpectedly vacant, presenting and opportunity for the lads. But somking, losing the lifeguard manual, and the dead birds on the beach mean their chances are slim. Until a young woman comes to the beach with surprising intentions and Aonter is offered up to JJ as a way out. Bridget O’ Connor’s comedy about ambition, dreams and the taste of Pot Noodles answers the question: what is the real reason for The Flags. With Francis Magee and Kieran Cunningham
Whistle
in the Dark
by Tom Murphy
Royal Exchange Theatre
Box Office 0161 833 9833 www.royalexchange.co.uk
England, the early 1960s, somewhere in Coventry; into the home of Michael Carney and his English wife come his brawling family of brothers and their father, the fire-breathing Dada. Michael came to England for a better life but as the Carney brothers gear up to confront a rival gang for control of the area, Michael is forced to take a stand as age old resentments and tensions begin to explode. Written when he was 25, A Whistle in the Dark launched Tom Murphy onto the stage in London and Dublin to a storm of shock, controversy and applause. Now regarded as a classic of Irish drama it remains a devastating portrait of the pull of tribalism and violence in men and the desperate need to stand against it. The show features Gary Whelan as Dada, with Patrick O’Kane as Michael.
Ballroom Dancing
The Irish Association Club
Chorlton
0161 881 2898