Film - Military Wives – Wednesday 18th May 2022 @ 7:30pm

in association with Access Cinema - Bealtaine Festival

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3vic3gN

**FREE ENTRY**

Film - Belfast – Thursday 16th June 2022 @ 7:30pm

UK  2021       98mins     Cert:  12A     Language: English

Starring: Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Judy Dench

Director:              Kenneth Branagh

"No matter how far you go, you never forget where you came from"

Buddy, a nine-year-old boy sees his stable,loving life and community turned upside as violence breaks out on his close knit road in Northern Ireland, 1969. Despite the turmoil he and his family still find joy and laughter in music and the magic of the movies. Belfast is Kenneth Branagh’s uplifting deeply personal ode to childhood.

Winner - Best Original Screenplay: American Academy Awards 2022

Winner - Outstanding British Film of the Year: BAFTA 2022

Winner - Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: Golden Globes 2022

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3JBRGRc

Tickets €8

Friday 24th June @ 8pm

Strolling Through Ulysses – Celebrating 100 Years of Ulysses

JAMES JOYCE AND ULYSSES COMES TO KILMALLOCK!

This year Ulysses celebrates its 100th birthday! It was first published on February 2nd, 1922.

But how many people have ever read it? Very few have made it beyond the first few episodes.

But Robert Gogan, the writer, actor and Joycean enthusiast is here to help - and he’s on a mission to make Ulysses accessible to anyone who wants to read, and enjoy, Joyce’s masterpiece.

Reviews

Given the burnished Victorian interior of the pub, and Gogan’s pitch-perfect balancing of narrator, actor, and observer, it turned out to be a wonderfully bawdy experience – and one that certainly enlivened our dinner conversation afterwards. – The Irish Independent

Gogan is an engaging and well-rehearsed raconteur. His edited selection of excerpts cut right to the heart of Ulysses ..... succeeds in making Joyce accessible even to those who have only the sketchiest context for the work - The Sunday Business Post

Tickets: €15

Kids Summer DAY TIME Movie Screenings

14th July @ 2.30pm - Clifford the Big Red Dog

16th August @ 2.30pm - Luca

Tickets: €5.00

*Children under 10 years old must be accompanied by an adult*

John B. Keane's THE MATCHMAKER

Directed by Michael Scott - Starring Jon Kenny & Norma Sheahan

Friday 2nd September @ 8pm

For ONE NIGHT ONLY as they are enroute to the Gaiety Theatre

Tickets €20.00

Film - Spencer – Thursday 15th September 2022 @ 7:30pm

2019  Germany, Chile, UK, USA     117 minutes    Cert: 12A

Director:          Pablo Larraín

Starring:          Kristen Stewart, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins, Jack Farthing, Timothy Spall

Language:        English

Every fairy-tale ends.

Christmas 1991 - Sandringham Estate. The Royal Family gathers for their annual celebrations. Diana, Princess of Wales(Kirsten Stewart; mesmerising) arrives late. Her marriage to Prince Charles crumbling due to his now very public affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. Cold-shouldered by the family, quietly admired by the staff, Diana struggles and stumbles through her final Christmas of expectation, tradition and hypocrisy.

Tickets €8.00

Friday 23rd September 2022 @ 8pm

"Well" by Pat and Faye Shortt

Since collaborating, this comic Father and Daughter duo have written and performed two hilarious online shows ‘’ The Wellness hour with Paaah and Sile’’ and ‘’Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads’’. Now the pair bring their madcap characters to the stage in ‘’Well”. The show follows the unfortunate demise of Dad and Daughter Country and Irish music duo as they attempt to ascend the heights of their local music scene by playing a gig in the town’s hotel. ‘’Well’’ showcases the extraordinary comedy talents of this funny pairing and their exceptional ability to bring humour to the most everyday situation with an array of superbly funny characters.

Tickets: €30.00

Saturday 8^th October 2022 @ 8pm

Dolly & Mick

A musical double act, a relationship in crisis, is it time to face the final curtain?

Dolly and Mick are returning from a gig.  He’s a widower from Limerick, she’s a divorcee from

Arkansas. They both know their relationship is in trouble. Mick thinks they just need a break.

Dolly knows the only way to save their relationship is to give up the act. A funny, engaging story with a

poignant denouement and several live songs that echo the love and hope, disillusion and despair, passion and perseverance that colours their story.                  

Tickets: €18.00/€16.00

*Kindly supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media through the Local Live Performance Scheme (#LocalLive) and the Limerick City and County Council Arts Office*

Thursday 13th October 2022 @ 7.30pm

FILM - TOP GUN (1986)

Director: Tony Scott     USA   1986     110 mins    Cert: 12

Language: English

Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt

A daring yet reckless pilot who shuns teamwork and the rules of engagement eventually learns the importance of cooperation and discipline. Along the way he has a fiery affair, does some spectacular flying and causes the death of his best friend. 

Tickets €8.00

Thursday 20^th October 2022 @ 8pm

Grainne Hunt - Songs and Music from the heart of an authentic Irish songwriter        

Gráinne is a contemporary nu-folk singer/songwriter with a rich background in performance and songwriting.  She has shared stages with Glen Hansard and U2, and has opened for Gladys Knight, Eagle Eye Cherry and The Bay City Rollers. Gráinne has toured extensively throughout Europe and the US. .  

Joining Gráinne on the night will be multi-instrumentalist and singer Ger O'Donnell.   Hailing from Limerick/Clare, Ger has been genre hopping since childhood and he is relatively new to the international folk scene, but has become widely known for his solo works and collaborations. His first releases, 'Talk about the Heroes', 'Turquoise Ink' and 'I Found Strength' have been chart topping in Ireland thanks to his growing and loyal online following.

Ger will open the night with a set of his own songs and join Gráinne for some of her songs also.  

Tickets: €15.00

*Kindly supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media through the Local Live Performance Scheme (#LocalLive) and the Limerick City and County Council Arts Office*

Friday 21st October 2022 @ 8pm 

**BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND** Hubcap Theatre present The Parish

The Parish is a hilarious comedy play where actors bring to life a range of characters that can be found in every community. Through this chorus of colourful characters, the story unfolds of a dastardly deed that has ripped the parish apart. 

But despite this scandal, this delightful comedy highlights and celebrates the power of friendship and community. 

"The Parish is absolutely hilarious and makes for a great night out!" 

"These two are an amazing combination, a night of fun & laughter. Don't miss it!" 

Tickets €18.00/€15.00

*Kindly supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media through the Local Live Performance Scheme (#LocalLive) and the Limerick City and County Council Arts Office*

Sunday 23rd October 2022 @ 5.30pm            

Children’s Halloween Film – The Addams Family (1991)                         

When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after 25 years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plan a celebration to wake the dead. But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester’s uncharacteristically “normal” behaviour. Could this Fester be a fake, part of a diabolical scheme to raid the Addams fortune?

Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld     US      1991      96 mins      Cert:PG    Language: English

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Judith Malina, Elizabeth Wilson, Jimmy Workman

Trailer: https://youtu.be/A6X4VAHdDVg

Tickets €6.00

www.annegildea.com 

Friday 11^th November 2022 @ 8pm

Anne Gildea's How to Get Menopause and Enjoy It!

Join Anne on this fabulous, informative, laugh-out-loud, trip through all things Menopause. Anne brings her keen comedic skills to this topic that affects 51% of the population yet is still treated like a mystery.

What is it? Why does it happen? How come it barely bothers some women and shakes others to the core? Why is it named after men? Why didn’t our mammies warn us about it? Is there anything you can do about it? And why oh why is so little known about this inevitable phase of lady-life?

Anne answers all these questions and more, as she brings TMI to a whole new level.

“Never has the female body been put under such an hilarious microscope…captures perfectly the dilemma of Irish women of her generation, hobbled by the micro-oppressions of conservative Catholicism, and engaging in a lifetime of micro-battles against this force. I am definitely the target audience for this show, and it spoke directly to me. But if any young people want to know what’s really going on in their mams’ and aunties’ secret lives, this funny and taboo-busting work blasts the lid right off.” – Katy Hayes, Irish Independent

'Amazingly funny and really accurate menopause show – I loved it!' - Dr. Deirdre Lundy, menopause specialist.

“Anne Gildea’s show is one woman genius. Hilarious and educational in equal parts. A must see! I laughed out loud so much my face hurt.”- Loretta Dignam, Founder, Menopause Hub.

Tickets: €20.00

Friday 18^th November 2022 @ 8pm

Jon Kenny's Tales of D'Unexpected

A show created from Jon’s memoir which he began to work on during lock down.

“There are two sides to every story or in my case two voices in the one head”

Comic sketches and stories(Voice one) are paired off against the writings(Second Voice).... in this hilarious madcap journey only stopping off for a quick rendition of one of his “greatest hits” - definitely in his head.

Review: 

"I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Thank you for the perfect night! a bit of laughter was needed and Jon delivered!"

Tickets: €20.00

Saturday 26th November 2022 @ 7.30pm            

Film - Top Gun - Maverick (2022) (Running Time 130mins)

Dir: Joseph Kosinski USA 2022  Cert: 12A

Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm

Language: English

Trailer:https://bit.ly/3x0exRT

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete“Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.” Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

Tickets: €8.00

www.songsofthedrifters.com

Sunday 27th November 2022 @ 8pm

The Songs of the American DRIFTERS - Official No.1 Tribute

Special Guest Desi Egan

This fabulous vocal group relives the magic of that splendid era breathing new life into those fabulous songs such 'Saturday Night at the  Movies'-Under the Boardwalk-Save the last dance-My Girl etc etc. The lineup includes the legendary Richie Sampson who was frontman for the fantastic British band, The Foundations. The vocal group is completed by Paul Anthony,Roy Bailey and Victor Alexander all renowned vocalists in their own right. This Drifters Tribute Band performances have been recognised worldwide and the following are some relevant quotes.......

'Their performance and star quality is the nearest to the real thing
that I have seen'.... Alan Warner,Chairman of Agency's Association'

'These guys are truly remarkable.....simply outstanding.....Joe Loughnane MBE

Tickets €27.50

Elvis Friday 9th December @ 7.30pm

Dir: Baz Luhrmann Australia, USA  2022  159mins  Cert:12A

Starring: Austin Butler; Olivia DeJonge; Tom Hanks

Language: English

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3zwbrIc

ELVIS is an epic, big-screen spectacle from Warner Bros. Pictures and visionary,Oscar-nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann that explores the life and music of Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler and Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A thoroughly cinematic drama, Elvis’s (Butler) story is seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks). As told by Parker, the film delves into the complex dynamic between the two spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America. Central to that journey is one of the significant and influential people in Elvis’s life, Priscilla Presley (OliviaDeJonge)

Tickets: €8.00

OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S CRAZY CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME

12th, 13th & 14th December (10:00am & 11:30am per day)

Mother Hubbard, with her faithful dog Growler, and her willing helper Little Jack Horner, runs a very posh B & B - Old King Cole is an annual visitor - and Mother Hubbard bakes Santa’s Christmas Pudding as well! All the food, and Growler’s bone, is stored in her magic cupboard...until a sneaky Witch with a passion for sugar turns up and suddenly the cupboard is bare.

Disaster!! Poor Santa - no Christmas Pudding! Poor Growler - no bone! Then a mysterious guest - who might be a bird-watcher, or a spy or even a Prince - turns up, and maybe, just maybe, with a little help from the children in the audience, Growler will get his bone, Santa will get his Christmas pudding, the Witch will get what she deserves and Mother Hubbard’s crazy Christmas might be happy after all. Don’t miss this hilarious version of an all-time children’s favourite.

Tickets: €10.00

Sunday 18th December 2022 @ 5.30pm            

Film - Home Alone (Running Time 103mins)

Dir: Chris Columbus        USA 1990      Cert: PG     Language: English            

Starring: Macauley Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern       

Family comedy starring Macaulay Culkin as ten-year-old Kevin McCallister who is inadvertently left home alone by his family when they go on vacation. On the evening before his family leave for their Christmas break to Paris, Kevin is banished to his room for misbehaving by his mother Kate (Catherine O'Hara). When he wakes the following morning he discovers he is alone in an empty house. Kevin must cope not only with life on his own but also with the threat of two persistent, albeit incompetent, burglars Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci). Meanwhile, Kate vainly tries to find a way to get back home

Tickets: €6.00

Friday 3rd February 2023 8pm 

Demented by Deirdre O'Kane

There's a point beyond burnout where all you can do is laugh, and funny woman Deirdre O'Kane has well and truly reached it.

One of Ireland’s favourite comedians, Deirdre never strays too far from her live stand-up roots; the new show, Demented, a box-fresh hour of side splitting laughs,Catch her brilliant new stand-up show, Demented, at venues in Ireland and the UK in 2023.  "Unique star quality." – The Guardian 

Tickets: €22.00 Plus Booking Fee

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Friday 24^th March 2023 8pm

Shakespeare in the Glen Present Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia Here I Come”

Gar O’Donnell, on the eve of his departure for the grand ol’ USA, is now, standing on the precipice of abandoning an old life and starting afresh.  Philadelphia, Here I Come is first and foremost, a remarkable portrait of Gar’s inner life. To that end, the play features two versions of Gar, the public and the private. Public Gar is his persona, the person he presents to the world, whilst his much more assured private self- offers a glimpse into private musings, fanciful imaginations, and the thoughts he is too afraid to share. The audience observes these two and is treated to a fascinating dramatic representation of the way in which we conceal (and, sometimes disastrously, fail to conceal) what we truly think or feel.

Tickets €15.00 + booking fee

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For Student Rate call 063-98727

County Limerick Youth Theatre Presents Model Behaviour by Jon Brittain

Sunday 26th March 3pm & 6pm

Monday 27th March 7pm 

This is CoLYT’s second year participating in NT Connections, an initiative of the National Theatre, London that produces 10 new plays by up-and-coming playwrights written specifically for young people. Over 300 youth theatres and youth groups take part in NT Connections annually and this year CoLYT will perform Model Behaviour by Jon Brittain.

Model Behaviour is a political comedy that imagines what would happen if an ordinary group of secondary school students (with varying interest in politics!) were told by their teacher that they had to participate in Model United Nations. Each student is assigned a country to represent and must decide what issues they want to fight for! Pandemonium ensues with rivalries, personal ambitions, and revenge plots threatening to tear the group apart. Can the students learn to work together or will they become just like the politicians that represent them?

An hilarious new satire, Model Behaviour will be performed in Friar’s Gate Theatre, Kilmallock on Sunday 26^th March & Monday 27^th March (World Theatre Day). It features an ensemble made up of 10 young Limerick actors and a large creative team from across the county.

Supported by Limerick Arts Office, Youth Theatre Ireland, & Arts Council England. 

Directed by Shane Hickey-O’Mara. Designed by Marcella Byrnes. Stage Managed by Eloise Hickey. Photography by Keith Wiseman.

Cast: Caolan Davern, Raya Davern, Séan Joyce, Lynn Maloney, Áine Mitchell, Ava O’Connell, Rue Patterson, Luca Rosenthal, Emma Ryan, & Erin Wolfe.

Creative Team: Grace Barrie, Elliemae Barrie, Ruby Byrne, Terri Byrnes, Clara Mae Clogan, Isabel Davern-Wiseman, Izzy Galvin, Eoin Gleeson, Adam O’Mara, Néidín Ryan, Robin Walsh, Jasmine Walsh

Tickets €10.00/€5.00

Call 063-98727 or email friarsgatetheatre@gmail.com

Thursday 6th April 2023 8pm

Trevor Sexton & Ger O'Donnell in concert

Trevor Sexton and Ger O Donnell, Limerick natives, are two vocal powerhouses and one of the most exciting duos to hit the folk scene in Ireland. Their voices, harmonies and their instrumental styles complement each other beautifully. Their mix of traditional and original material with sprinklings of witty banter is keeping audiences transfixed. 

This duo is even greater than the sum of its parts and its exciting times for these two. Although relatively new to the scene as a duo, they have become a sensation and have been selling out shows due to their online popularity. 
 

They are embarking on several international tours in 2023 but will be performing some Irish shows and are very excited to come back to the Friar’s Gate on the 6th of April.

Tickets €20.00 + booking fee

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Saturday 22nd April 2023 8pm

Michael Scott’s iconic production of JOHN B. KEANE’S hilarious dramatic comedy THE MATCHMAKER opened in Spirit in January 2001 starring Anna Managhan and Des Keogh.

The Production went on to tour Ireland, sell-out at the Edinburgh Festival, become a Video and DVD with Sony, a BBC Radio Series, and play ‘off Broadway’.

Many of Ireland’s leading actors have joined the production over the years, including, Mary McEvoy, Ann Charleston (Madge in Neighbours), Geraldine Plunkett, Des Nealon and the late Mick Lally one of our most loved actors. 

Now for its 22nd year, one of Ireland's leading dramatic actresses Norma Sheahan joins JON KENNY (who was part of the Irish comic duo d’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt) in this iconic production.  Together they play a myriad of characters in this hilarious and earthy dramatic comedy.

The play follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O Connor to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn. Using his inimitable way with words and his one sense of “devilment” and wit, Keane delves into the longings, hungers, fears and foibles of this collection of lonely country people and creates a marvelously colorful world, taking us back to a simpler time, when phones were few and far between and the only web was one left behind by spiders.

Tickets: €20.00 Plus Booking Fee

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Friday 12th May 2023 @ 8pm 

Demented by Deirdre O'Kane

There's a point beyond burnout where all you can do is laugh, and funny woman Deirdre O'Kane has well and truly reached it.

One of Ireland’s favourite comedians, Deirdre never strays too far from her live stand-up roots; the new show, Demented, a box-fresh hour of side splitting laughs,Catch her brilliant new stand-up show, Demented, at venues in Ireland and the UK in 2023.  "Unique star quality." – The Guardian 

Tickets: €24.00 Plus Booking Fee

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Saturday 20th May 2023 @ 8pm

Makem & Clancy in Concert 

Rory Makem and Donal Clancy carry on the musical legacy, stories and songs of their legendary fathers, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy.

They have played in 19 Irish venues with this Makem & Clancy show, to enthusiastic crowds. 

In 2022 they toured Ireland from Donegal to Cork, playing sold-out shows with great audience sing-alongs.

Rory and Donal - the sons of, respectively, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy - are justifiably proud of their families' storied place in Irish music, and both had the opportunity to perform with their famous fathers over the years.

Tickets: €20.00 Plus Booking Fee

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Friday 2nd June 2023 8pm

Mojo Mickybo

Mojo Mickybo is an unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred. The play follows two friends growing up in Belfast – a friendship that at first is immune to the sectarian violence taking place around them, but which nonetheless is ultimately destroyed by it. Set in Belfast over the summer of 1970, Mojo and his mate Mickybo are two nine-year-old boys from opposing sides of the sectarian divide. They are as 'thick as two small thieves'; playing headers, being mouthy, building huts, spitting from cinema balconies and re-enacting their favourite movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They are young cowboys in the making, with the violence of The Troubles only obliquely impacting on them – until finally their friendship is destroyed in a way that they only later come to understand.

This is pure storytelling with Bruiser’s dynamic physicality, providing opportunity for theatre-goers to experience Belfast’s most treasured, living playwright, and to consider that Mojo and Mickybo represent the division of a benighted country that has spent a century at war with itself.

Duration 70 mins. No interval. 18+

The production contains strong language and mature themes; strobe lighting in use

Tickets: €18.00 Plus Booking Fee

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Saturday 10th June 2023 8pm

Luka Bloom in Concert

Luka has been writing, recording, and performing his songs for 50 years.

On this tour he will perform a wide range of songs from across 5 decades.

Iarla O’Lionaird:

‘This recording illustrates amply Luka’s innate and deep love of music-rendered as it is with equal measures of magic and masterly execution.’

Steve Cooney:

‘I’m delighted that Luka has finally placed his immense guitar-playing skills front and centre on this new offering….A thing of magic and beauty created by a fully committed heart’.

Tickets: €20.00 Plus Booking Fee

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Thursday 22nd June 2023 8pm

Sense and Sensibility

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” Unfairly compelled to leave their family home and left almost destitute by their brother and his spiteful wife, the Dashwood sisters and their mother must make a new beginning. Despite their very different personalities, both the prudent, sensible Elinor and the impulsive, open-hearted Marianne suffer great sorrows in their affairs of the heart, yet they finally find contentment and peace in their new lives. With dazzling wit, humour and sharp characterisations, Austen’s captivating story is brought to vivid life by Hotbuckle, in this new version by Adrian Preater

Tickets: €15.00 Plus Booking Fee

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