The Manchester Irish Festival: 4th - 19th March 2006
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Monday 6th March
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I, Keano
The Lowry
Salford Quays
7.30pm
0870 787 5790 www.thelowry.com
The Manchester Irish Festival are proud to bring the UK premier of ‘I, Keano’ described as Up Pompeii meets Father Ted (with a hint of Spitting Image).
“Unmercifully Funny”
The Irish Times,
“A masterfully
executed musical comedy”
The Times.
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 Ester Hall as Betty.
Ballroom Dancing
The Irish Association Club
Chorlton
0161 881 2898
8pm
Come along all welcome