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CLARE actor Gerard Howard is appearing in a new play entitled ‘A Personal Prism’, which will receive its world première at the Black Box Theatre in Galway later this month. The play is an unflinching, universal, truthful tale of friendship, laced with heart-warming humour. It tackles issues including mental health and disability and it débuts at the Black Box Theatre, Galway on Tuesday,November 26 at 8 pm, with a second performance the following night. The show, which is accessible to persons with and without a disability, then tours to local audiences in Portumna on November 28 before closing in Tuam on November 29. Increased seating for wheelchair users and their companions is provided for all shows. It was written by David Joyce, an MA graduate of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway. Inspired by his own experiences, the Galway writer has created a moving, funny and deeply affecting story of life in a West of Ireland town …

SCARIFF GAA Hall will be the venue for a dramatic ‘court’ case on Saturday night, November 19. The newly refurbished and extended hall will host Gerard Howard performing Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court in an exciting one-man show, directed by Paul Brennan.  Written around 1780, Brian Merriman’s comic poem is set on the shores of Lough Graney. A classic of early modern Irish poetry, its themes include sex, gender roles and the manifestation of a God.  In The Midnight Court, the bachelor poet Merriman is put on trial for the crime of never getting married. The women of Ireland have him up before a court in Feakle, presided over by the Goddess Aoibheal, who demands him to account for this outrageous oversight. Gerard Howard, a Clare native will switch roles from Merriman to maiden, from old codger to goddess, from harridan to 18-foot tall bailiff, exposing the shortcomings of the men of Ireland. Not even the clergy escape Merriman’s scabrous …