The Distilled Non Stop Connolly Show

galway | arts and media | event notice Monday March 20, 2006 18:10 by Margaretta D'Arcy - Shell to Sea,Global Womens Strike, Women in Media & Entertainment margaretta at iol dot ie 10 St. Brigid's Place Lower, Woodquay (behind Lidl and Argus) Galway 091 565430

The Life & Times of James Connolly

THE (distilled) NON-STOP CONNOLLY SHOW
by
Margaretta D’Arcy & John Arden

A “Come-All-Ye” Day-Long Event

Come and Go as you please
ADMISSION FREE

Breaks for Refreshments

Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Sunday 2nd April 2006
12 noon – 6 pm

A cast of well-known faces and personalities, including singers, poets, actors, musicians, workers (waged & unwaged), activists, dossers, buskers and orators, who combine in these readings to bring to light the Life and Times of JAMES CONNOLLY and his relevance today: --
BOYHOOD, APPRENTICESHIP, PROFESSIONAL, THE NEW WORLD,
THE GREAT LOCKOUT, WORLD WAR & THE RISING.

The original version of the show – a 26-hour Marathon, which made the Guinness Book of Records – was first staged at Easter 1975 in Liberty Hall, Dublin, and was sponsored by the ITGWU, with Jim Sheridan as co-director and chief co-ordinator. The text was published by Pluto Press and then by Methuen.

The show was subsequently put on – in various forms – in Belfast, Galway, London, New York, and Downpatrick.

The part of Connolly will be read by John Quinn, who has worked closely with D’Arcy and Arden on stage and radio. He has acted in plays by Synge and Beckett. He took the part of Andrey in Friel’s “translation” of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, which played Galway. He will be familiar to TV audiences for many appearances in – e.g. Father Ted, Draíocht (Magic) for TG4, The Knock. He is also a playwright – Shems Progress: James Joyce and the writing of Finnegans Wake for BBC Radio 3 in Joyce’s centenary year.