.. Who’s the fastest? Who’s the winner? Excitable, energetic Hare, or patient, peaceful Tortoise? Ready? Steady? GO!…
Barnstorm is delighted to present Hare & Tortoise in our accessible venue The Bank on the Parade in Kilkenny R95 Y672 from Mon 24 February – Fri 14 March 2025.
Hare & Tortoise by Brendan Murray will ignite imaginations in this charming, award-winning adaptation of Aesop’s fable about friendship, opposites, and growing up.
Beginning in the first bright bloom of spring, journeying through the sunny, spirited summer, the cosy crisp autumn, and ending in the sparkling snow of winter, this enchanting story bursts to life with fun, music and captivating characters.
Booking is now open – Barnstorm Theatre Company (056) 7751266
Mon 24 Feb 2025 – Fri 14 March 2025 Weekdays 10 am & 12pm
Tickets: €10 (One/two teachers free per class) Running time: 40 minutes approx.
Two elderly farmers, Eamon and Nashee, meet at a gate on a remote hillside. These men are old friends, old rivals, old neighbours. They are men of heart, of humour, of hardness. Their conversation is a throwback to a gentler time, when silence was as telling as declaration, and meaning was more often found between the lines than on them. But there’s nothing gentle about today’s conversation. In facing the bitter reality of their remote defiance, they have grown fearful and desperate. Now they are forced to confront each other with some heartbreaking truths that test their friendship to its limit.
The Quiet Land is a celebration of the humour, resilience and endearing innocence of an exiled generation as it struggles to survive in the isolated rural Ireland of today. It is Malachy McKenna’s heartfelt tribute to a rare breed of forgotten men who live a long way in off the road. Winner of the PJ O’Connor Award 2014.
Tickets €17 are available to book on eventbrite HERE
DATES: 30 Jan – 2 Feb 2025 7 PM
Venue: Barnstorm Studio
3 Johns Quay, Kilkenny, R95 T382