Broad programme as Galway Arts Festival turns 30

Date Published: 06-Jun-2007

A special 60th birthday concert tribute to Donal Lunny, featuring his former band Moving Hearts as well as a new play from Pulitzerwriter Cormac McCarthy are among the highlights of the 30th Galway Arts Festival which runs from July 16 to 29.

Steppenwolf Theatre from Chicago make a return visit to the festival to present The Sunset Road Limited by Cormac McCarthy, author of All the Pretty Horses and The Road.

It centres around two men — strangers whose lives come
together when one of them saves the other from jumping
in front of a train. Their encounter leads to a discussion
on the nature of life and what it means to be human in
a play that is, according to Festival Artistic Director Paul
Fahy, “a philosophical piece of theatre”.

Australia’s Circa Theatre will stage The Space Between a physical show in the Black Box which, according to one Australian critic “redraws the limit to which the human body can aspire”. This show, which features artists performing gravity defying feats while suspended horizontally in mid air, is accompanied by a Jacques Brel score.
Stephen Petronio from the US, a choreographer who
mixes music, visual arts and fashion will bring his company
to the festival to perform a show which will feature an
original, specially commissioned score from Rufus
Wainwright.