The Stage Bar At The Market Place Theatre Presents
 'Belts & Boots' Night
Saddle up partner and dust off those spurs and join us at The Stage Bar|Bistro for a whip-cracking, high stepping Wild West Hoedown. A night of entertainment not to be missed which includes line dancing, rodeo bull, beer promotions, live music and western BBQ. So hold on to your horses because tonight will be a wild one! More Performances: Saturday 4th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 7.30pm.
Ticket Prices: £15.00 
Eglish Theatre Company
Eglish Theatre Drama Summer Scheme Performance
Eglish Theatre Company is holding its annual drama summer scheme from Monday 6th – Saturday 11th July 2008, in the Brantry Bard Centre, Eglish and The Market Place Theatre, Armagh. One of our main aims is to encourage the enjoyment of theatre and drama among young people. The scheme is aimed at 4 – 14 year olds. During the week of the scheme we intend to cover many aspects of theatre – dancing, singing, acting, make-up and costume design.
Parents and friends will have the opportunity to see what everyone has been up to at the end of the week, when we stage a show of the work we've all done in The Market Place Theatre, Armagh on Saturday 11th July. For further details contact Mary on 07899 952 805 or go to www.etc-theatre.com. Tickets for the final performance can be booked through The Market Place Theatre Box Office.
More Performances: Saturday 11th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 3.00pm.
Ticket Prices: £5.00 | £3.00 [Children]
Adults Only Comedy Night
Jarlath Regan [RTE's 'The Panel'] presents his new show 'Man Of Very Little Mystery' just weeks before taking it to the biggest comedy festival in the world, 'The Edinburgh Fringe'.
After two months of touring Australia his new show is ready to go. Be one of the first Irish audiences to see it and find out why Australia's DB Magazine described it as 'an unstoppable, relentless, never ending flow of fantastic tales and over the top mind blowing observations making the audience laugh so much that trying to stop was as impossible as dealing with the hiccups'.
Earlier this year Andrew Stanley tried to buy a laptop on Ebay and it turned out to be far harder than he originally thought. Join the star of RTE's 'I Dare Ya' as he brings you through the wonderful world of the largest internet auction site around, showing you all its glorious uses and abuses. MorePerformances: Saturday 18th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 9.30pm.
Ticket Prices: All seats £12.70 Performers: Andrew Stanley & Jarlath Regan
22nd John Hewitt International Summer School
Claire Kilroy Lunchtime Reading
Claire Kilroy is regarded by many as one of the most exciting talents among new Irish prose writers. Her debut novel, 'All Summer', was published to great critical acclaim in 2003 and won the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Her second novel, 'Tenderwire', also critically acclaimed, was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of The Year award and her eagerly-awaited third book, 'All Names Have Been Changed', was published in May 2009. More Performances: Monday 27th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 1.05pm.
Ticket Prices: £5
The Sands Family in Concert
The Sands Family of four extremely talented siblings - Anne, Ben, Colum and Tommy – have, individually and collectively, played a significant part in the creation of the phenomenal worldwide interest in Irish folk and traditional music since the early 1970s.
They are still singing and playing to an ever expanding audience, with their unique blend of traditional material and selfpenned songs which swing from whimsical to politically serious, from sad to hilarious, from traditional to contemporary – all cemented together with well-crafted and delivered anecdotes and stories and presented with apparently effortless ease. MorePerformances: Monday 27th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 8pm.
Ticket Prices: £10
22nd John Hewitt International Summer School
Helen Dunmore Lunchtime Reading
Helen Dunmore is a multi-award-winning novelist, short story writer and poet. She has written ten adult novels, including 'A Spell of Winter', which won the first Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996, 'Zennor in Darkness' (1993), winner fo the McKitterick Prize, and 'The Siege' (2001), shortlisted for both the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize. Helen's latest novel, 'Counting the Stars', was published in 2008. More Performances: Tuesday 28th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 1.05pm.
Ticket Prices: £5
22nd John Hewitt International Summer School
Ian Sansom Lunchtime Reading
Born in Essex, but now based in County Down, Ian Sansom is the celebrated author of the novels 'Cortex' and 'Ring Road', and the popular non-fiction work 'The Truth About Babies: From A-Z'. His recent work 'The Mobile Library' detective series of comic novels is set in Northern Ireland and features a Jewish librarian. Ian's fourth in the series, 'The Bad Book Affair' is to be published in July. More Performances: Wednesday 29th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 1.00pm.
Ticket Prices: All seats £5.00
22nd John Hewitt International Summer School
'Jimmy Joyced!'
Donal O’Kelly’s acclaimed one-man show, in which he was nominated for an Irish Times/ESB Best Actor Award, looks back at 1904 through the eyes of JJ Staines, a stallholder in Dublin’s Rathmines Market with a dangerous obsession for all things Joycean.
JJ drives like a man possessed through the full gamut of 1904 James Joyce, from his 22nd birthday on 2nd February to his departure with Nora Barnacle on 9th October. More Performances: Wednesday 29th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 8pm.
Ticket Prices: £12 & £10 [concession] Performers: Written and performed by Donal O'Kelly. Directed by Sorcha Fox
The 22nd John Hewitt International Summer School
Eugene McCabe Lunchtime Reading
Eugene McCabe, one of Ireland's best-known prose writers and playwrights, received the American Ireland Literary Fund Award in 2006. His most successful stage play was 'King Of The Castle' and his highly regarded fiction includes 'Victims', 'Heritage' and 'Cancer', all of which he adapted for television, and his acclaimed 1992 novel 'Death And Nightingales'. Eugene will read from his recently published novella 'The Love Of Sisters'. More Performances: Thursday 30th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 1.00pm.
Ticket Prices: All seats £5.00
22nd John Hewitt International Summer School
Buille with Strings
The hugely successful traditional group Buille, formed in 2004 by Armagh born brothers Niall and Caoimhín Vallely, along with Paul Meehan and Brian Morrissey, has toured extensively across Ireland, the UK, Europe, USA and Canada.
Their first CD, Buille, greeted by rave reviews, featured new music by Niall and members of the band based on traditional
forms but freely borrowing from jazz, blues, Eastern European music and contemporary classical music.
Appearing on stage with the band to launch their new CD, Buille with Strings, will be a guest quartet of top Irish string players. More Performances: Thursday 30th Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 8pm.
Ticket Prices: £12
22nd John Hewitt International Summer School
Claire Keegan Lunchtime Reading
Claire Keegan was born in Wexford and is the widely acclaimed author of the 1998 short story collection 'Antartica' which announced her as an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer of contemporary fiction. Her second collection 'Walk The Blue Fields' was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for the finest book of Short Stories published in the British Isles. More Performances: Friday 31st Jul 2009 - One Night Only at 1.00pm.
Ticket Prices: All seats £5.00
The Market Place Theatre Presents
Showstoppers
Fifty talented young people who will have acted, sung and danced their socks off for a week, will perform a finale of musical numbers from some of the best-known musicals. So come along and support our up-and-coming talent in this musical extravaganza. More Performances: Friday 7th Aug 2009 - One Night Only at 7.30pm.
Ticket Prices: All seats £4.90
Belvoir Players
Sam Cree's 'Strictly For The Birds'
Muriel and Herbie Glover and their daughter Susan enjoy life in the domestic setting of a wee terraced house somewhere in Belfast. Their neighbour, Lilly Dodds, calls in quite frequently for the loan of a wee cup of sugar or a wee drop of tea to keep her going. Herbie keeps pigeons in his loft in the back yard and has collected quite a few cups from racing his birds across the Continent. All is bliss except for the ‘lady next door, who insists on putting out her washing just as the pigeons are returning from their exploits.
When Muriel and Lily learn that they share a sweepstake that has drawn the favourite in an impending horse race and are likely to win a considerable sum of money, Muriel’s mother, who lives in Cherryvalley, descends on the household with the threat that life will never be the same again for the hapless Herbie. Hilarious comedy and mayhem that are the hallmarks of Sam Cree’s writing.
More Performances: Friday 14th Aug 2009 to Saturday 15th Aug 2009 at 8.00pm.
Ticket Prices: £10.00 | £8.00 [concession]
GBL Productions Presents
Lay Up Your Ends
Starring Marie Jones [reprising her original role as ‘Belle’]
From the producer of ‘The History Of The Troubles Accordin’ To My Da’, ‘Chronicles Of Long Kesh’ and ‘The Interrogation Of Ambrose Fogarty’, all of which played to packed houses here at The Market Place, comes Charabanc’s first play, ‘Lay Up Your Ends’, twenty-five years after it first packed Irish theatres.
The play tells the extraordinary story of the 1911 Belfast Linen Mill girls strike. With all roles, both male and female, played by five actresses, the story takes audiences on a roller-coaster ride through working-class Belfast life one hundred years ago. There is biting Belfast humour, songs, back-street moneylenders, Mill bosses, romantic Mary, poverty-stricken Eithne, dramatic strike action and loads of laughter and tears along the way.
More Performances: Monday 17th Aug 2009 - One Night Only at 8.00pm.
Ticket Prices: £13.70 | £11.75 [concession]
Celtic Thunder
Back by popular demand, this is a celebration of dance, music and song incorporating the talents of young musicians, singers and dancers from the Armagh area, including dancers and musicians who have toured with ‘Riverdance’ and ‘Lord Of The Dance’.
The show is being produced, directed and choreographed by local world-class dancers from Armagh city. MorePerformances: Friday 21st Aug 2009 to Saturday 22nd Aug 2009 at 8pm.
Ticket Prices: £15
The Stage Bar At The Market Place Theatre Presents
Beach Party
Bringing a touch of The Caribbean to Armagh! Stretch out your summer and be transported to a tropical oasis at The Stage Bar|Bistro with an evening of Caribbean fun, capturing the unmistakable spirit of exotic shores. Cocktails on arrival, summer BBQ, live music and late bar. Join us and let's get this party started. More Performances: Saturday 22nd Aug 2009 - One Night Only at 7.30pm.
Ticket Prices: £15.00
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