NUI Galway's Drama Courses are run by the English Department. Drama students are welcome to attend events run by English - please see their homepage for details. 

Forthcoming Events

Monday 25 February: Mark O'Rowe in Conversation. 5 p.m. Moore Institute. All Welcome.

Friday 1 March: A rehearsed reading of Synge's When The Moon Has Set, Town Hall Theatre Studio, 3-5

DRUID WORKSHOPS - for MA in Drama and BA in Drama Theatre and Performance Students only

Theatre Visits for semester 2 for BA DTP and MADT students are listed on individual course webpages.

Productions 

Drama teacher Max Hafler is directing Measure for Measure at the Black Box Theatre in late January 2013. http://tht.ie/1571/Measure-For-Measure NUI Galway students may attend the production at a special price of 10 euro per person, upon production of a valid NUI Galway student card. Tickets are available from the Town Hall box office or on the door at the Black Box. The production also features Drama teacher Sarah O'Toole, recent graduate Emmet Byrne, and currently BA Connect student Darragh O'Brien. Students from the BA Connect in Theatre and the MA in Drama are also supporting the production. Read the press release here - Measure for Measure - National University of Ireland, Galway

This is our Constitution! Invite to reading
 
On Wednesday, the 13th of February, activists from the National Women's Council of Ireland are inviting women's groups and activists to The Cottage pub in Salthill at 7.30pm for a reading of Kathy D'Arcy's play This is My Constitution. This staged reading is being performed and directed by MA Drama students from NUIG. Finger food will be provided.
 
The play is being read to coincide with the Constitutional Convention which is meeting in Dublin on the 16th of February to discuss the issue of "women in the home."
 
Article 41 of the Constitution sought to define the role that women could play in Irish society by confining them to staying it home.
Even in 1937 it did not reflect the complexity and variety of women's lives.  Today, in 2013, it is even more outdated and outmoded.
 
The Constitutional Convention is empowered to recommend changes to the government.  The NWCI is calling on the Convention to amend the
clause so that it recognizes the value of care work done by women and men at home and in the wider community.
 
The play is written by feminist poet and playwright Kathy D'Arcy and is based entirely on original archive material from the formulation process of the 1937 Constitution. It shows the shocking and sexist attitudes of the government of the day but also the complaints by women at the time.
 
The reading of the play, followed by an open floor discussion with the NWCI, is a chance for activists to gather and discuss how to remove this outdated clause from our Constitution.
 
Readings of the play are also happening in Cork and Monaghan throughout the week.
 
Further information about the NWCI's work on the Constitution is available at www.nwci.ie.

Special Announcements 

January 2013: This year's Irish Times Theatre Awards feature 14 nominations for Galway-based companies. Our partners Druid Theatre have received seven nominations for DRUIDMURPHY (which was co-produced by NUI Galway). Andrew Flynn, who directs our third year drama production every year, has been nominated for Best Director and his company Decadent have received two further nominations. Mephisto - formed by graduates of the MA in Drama - has received one nomination, as have Galway Arts Festival, Blue Teapot, and Little John Nee. Congratulations also to Conor Hanratty, who is teaching on the third year of our BA Connect programme. Conor's production of FLATPACK was nominated Best Opera.  Congratulations to all the nominees! http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2013/0112/1224328720644.html 

October 2012 - NUI Galway announced Abbey Theatre Digitization Project. ‌Click here for more details and see our video below!  NUI Galway staff and students will be able to access the Abbey Theatre Digital Archive from September 2013. 

Our Graduates    

8 January 2013. Congratulations to Liz Quinn (MADT 2012), who has been included in Fishamble's TINY PLAYS FOR IRELAND for 2013. The show runs at Project Arts Centre in March 2013. Full details from the Fishamble websiteThe show also features new work from NUI Galway graduate Henry Martin. 

7 January 2013. Please support THEATREClub's THE THEATRE MACHINE TURNS YOU ON VOL. 3 at Project Arts Centre in Dublin. Two of the shows are from MA in Drama Graduates. Find out about MADONNA by Meadhbh Haicéid here.  Martin Sharry's new showLOOKING FOR WORK is also part of the programme, as is Mary Conroy's show GLOWSTICK.

3 January 2013. The new season at the Town Hall Theatre has been announced, and we are delighted to see so many contributions from NUI Galway staff and alumni, including Max Hafler's production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Mephisto's GRENADES, new work from Fregoli, and I AM MARTIN SHARRY. The full programme may be viewed on www.tht.ie/