Category Archives: Shows

Christmas Country Showtime with the Stars

Tues 29 Dec | 8pm | £25 

The highly acclaimed ‘Christmas Country Showtime with the Stars’ makes a welcome return to the Market Place Theatre and promises another action-packed night of entertainment featuring a galaxy of Ireland’s top recording artists!
 Returning by overwhelming demand following her first appearance last year is Ireland’s new singing sensation from County Cork, Effie Neill, who has taken the country scene by storm this year and will take to the stage with her new brilliant band.
 This year’s Glor Tire winner Jordan McPolin from Hilltown is on the bill and yes, he will definitely do his current big hit ‘The Auctioneer’. Last year’s winner Banjo Paddy Treacy is also coming. Certainly, the Glor Tire platform has paved the way.
 The one and only Damien Davis from ‘Blaney is living the dream, backed by a super fan base that have helped him climb the ladder to a very suc cessful career. When one of our top recording artists, Barry Doyle, takes the microphone he will have everyone singing along! Making her first visit to the Market Place Theatre all the way from Cork, is the amazing talent of Fiddlin’ Mags McCarthy, a superb entertainer, singer and dancer direct from the recent ‘Hot Country TV Awards’.

The Human Voice

Thurs 12 Nov | 8pm | £16 | £14 (conc) 

Prime Cut Productions, Ireland’s leading independent and award-winning theatre company, return with their critically acclaimed new version of Jean Cocteau’s ‘The Human Voice’, by Darren Murphy. Directed by award-winning Emma Jordan (Little Brother, The Pillowman, The Beauty Queen of Leenane) and starring Nicky Harley, (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Dancing at Lughnasa), in a performance described as “fabulous” and “riveting” this new version is a radical reimagining of Cocteau’s work, “an impeccable piece of theatre”

It is a contemporary Belfast story of a woman juggling love and work, as emotional and psychological demands on her time from a desperate client interrupts the devastation of her final call with the lover who abandons her. Pushed to her limits, she must negotiate a treacherous path between her private and public worlds. Heartache is not the aching, luxurious business it used to be.

This performance contains some strong language and adult themes. Suitable for age 16+.

“Nicky Harley is fearless…supreme, instinctive”: The Stage 

“A hard-hitting raw and powerful drama that examines human will and reality”: View Digital

This event will take place in our studio theatre with an unreserved, tiered seating layout.