This July, following a 2 week sold out run at the Galway International Arts Festival (GIAF), we will take Waiting for Godot on an unusual rural tour to some of Ireland’s most remote areas of significant beauty and heritage. This continues our commitment to touring as we strongly believe that people have the right to see world-class theatre in their own communities.

‘The tour not only makes this modern Irish classic accessible to people in their own communities, it continues Druid’s conversation with the Irish landscape. The locations provide bleak but beautiful settings for a play that has drawn endless interpretations. This production is a very special one for Druid as it was initiated by members of the Druid Ensemble. This shared ownership of the artistic programme marks a new and very welcome departure for the company’ said Artistic Director Garry Hynes.

Druid has long recognised and embraced the culture of the Aran Islands and seen the value in maintaining connections with more remote parts of the country. We performed DruidSynge outdoors in Inis Méain in 2005 and last year’s triumphant DruidShakespeare played to audiences in Kilkenny’s Castle Yard as well as other stages throughout the country, many steeped in peat moss for the occasion. The tour also features a special event on Inis Méain on the afternoon of Tuesday 26th July.

Our new production of this seminal work will feature members of the acclaimed Druid Ensemble: Garrett Lombard, Aaron Monaghan, Rory Nolan and Marty Rea in the intimate surroundings of the Mick Lally Theatre 7th – 23rd July. Tony award winner Garry Hynes will direct the production.

The tour is a unique event on the Irish cultural calendar as it presents a simple, stand-alone production befitting its text: a meditation of sorts on Beckett and what it means to be Irish.

TOUR DATES
The Mick Lally Theatre, Galway – part of Galway International Arts Festival – 7th – 23rd July
Inis Méain, Co. Galway – 25th & 26th July
Céide Fields, Co. Mayo – 28th July
Glencree, Military Road, Co. Wicklow – 30th July

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