Commitment-phobe and troll in Arts Centre plays
The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance NUI Galway and Galway Arts Centre will present two productions next week for the Cúirt Festival of Literature.
The first is the Irish premiere of Our Teacher’s a Troll by Dennis Kelly, award-winning writer of the West End show, Mathilda the Musical.
Holly and Sean, terrible twins with a talent for turmoil, rule their school with terror and tyranny in Our Teacher’s a Troll. That is, until the arrival of a new head teacher with green scaly skin, sharp gnarly fangs, and a long spiky tail – a troll.
Holly and Sean must act and stop the head troll from eating their classmates and teachers. And they must try to get Brussels sprouts in peanut butter taken off the lunch menu. Most importantly they have to try and ensure that naughtiness prevails.
Our Teacher’s a Troll will play at Nuns Island Theatre for special schools’ performances next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 19 and 20, and on Friday, April 22, at 10am and 12 noon. It’s on Thursday April 21, at 9.30am, also for schools There are two performances for the general public on Saturday, April 23 at 10am and 3pm. Tickets €10.
The second play is Some Girls by Neil La Bute, in which a character known simply as Man, decides to check in with his ex-girlfriends in advance of marrying his beautiful young fiancée.
Thus begins an odyssey through five hotel rooms as travels countrywide in search of ‘the perfect woman’. Some Girls is outrageously funny and yet a deadly serious portrait of the artist as a young seducer as he wanders through his own heart of darkness.
The show will be at Galway Arts Centre from next Monday, April 18, to Saturday, April 23 at 8pm. Tickets €15/ €12. Both plays are being directed by Andrew Flynn, artistic director of Decadent Theatre and Galway Youth Theatre.
■ Information and booking at cuirt.ie, tht.ie, 091-569777 and the Town Hall Theatre box office.