Arts & Culture

CORK playwright and actor Stefanie Preissner is bringing her one-woman show Solpadeine is my Boyfriend to Cultúrlann Sweeney in Kilkee on June 29.

HAILING from Ennis, Laura Mulcahy, artistic director of Dhá Lámh Theatre, which presents two plays at this year’s Ennis Street Festival, is offering words of encouragement to artists in the current economic downturn not to give up and continue doing what they love.

MARY Immaculate College (MIC) is taking the development of music education to a new level. The college will host the inaugural Music Generation Limerick City PhD Scholarship, to the value of €42,000 over a three-year period, representing the first doctoral research-study into any such programme in the country.

A TALENTED singer with strong Shannon links has fallen at the final hurdle in The Voice UK and will not sing in the final next week.

GIFTED Clare drama student Laura Bugler joined fellow graduates of the Leinster School of Music and Drama in a performance at the Griffith College Creative Week closing ceremony recently.

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton performed the official opening last weekend of a new visitor centre in Miltown Malbay, which celebrates the music makers of West Clare.

Man of SteelDIRECTED BY: Zack Snyder STARRING: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon CERT: 12A