Galway Theatre Festival

Galway celebrates the finest work of its established and emerging independent theatre artists this week at the Galway Theatre Festival, which was established to provide a local counterpoint to the international emphasis of the Galway Arts Festival.

Programme highlights include Niamh Ryan’s fantastical two-hander, Eternal Youth, which brings the heightened language of street poetry to a coming-of-age story of two teenagers (Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUIG, until May 6); This Was Never Going ...