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Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company

Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company

Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company

Address:

Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich
216 Falls Road
Belfast
BT12 6AH

Description:

Aisling Ghéar is Irelands' only professional theatre company working full-time to deliver great shows through the medium of Irish language and it's based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the resident theatre company in the Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich - an Irish language arts and cultural centre on the Falls Road in West Belfast and home to the Siobhan McKenna Theatre.

Established in 1997, the company has produced and toured work of consistently high quality from playwrights as diverse as - Machiavelli, WB Yeats, Tom Murphy, Rosemary Jenkinson, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, Brian Friel, Dario Fo, Willy Russell and Marie Jones. We provide a simultaneous translation service from Irish into English for each and every performance by personal headset.

Our highly regarded schools' production of 'An Triail' by Máiréad Ní Ghráda is now firmly set on the schools' calendar, and provides support for teaching staff while offering A-level students the opportunity to experience a quality theatrical production of a timeless Irish language drama.

http://www.aislingghear.com