Galway play a big hit in Australia

A PLAY produced by Galway Arts Festival which opened at the Perth International Festival last week, has been described by Australia’s most influential newspaper as “the surprising highlight of this year’s festival”.Trad, which was first produced at the 2004 Galway Arts Festival is a surreal comedy written by former stand up comic Mark Doherty and it received a fantastic response from audiences and critics on its first outing in Galway. The play subsequently won several awards at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including a prestigious Fringe First, and also had success at the Dublin Theatre Festival and London’s Bush Theatre.It played at the Adelaide Fringe in 2006, winning a Fringe First at that event. The Australian, which is the country’s main quality daily broadsheet described the latest production of Trad, which is being performed in a 600 seater theatre in Perth, as “a small masterpiece”.Trad features a…..