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An Audience with Garry Hynes

Where: Aula Maxima, Quadrangle, NUI Galway

Garry Hynes

When: Thursday 11th March

Time: 19:00 – 21:30

 

On Thursday the 11th of March, the Literary and Debating Society will be hosting an Audience with Garry Hynes, founder and artistic director of the Druid Theatre Company. This event will take place in the Aula Maxima in the main Quadrangle of NUI Galway and will commence at 7pm.

 

Born in Ballaghadereen in 1953, Garry Hynes is a graduate of NUI Galway who has gone on to become one of the most accomplished and well respected individuals in Irish theatre. From her beginnings as a member of the NUIG Drama Society, Ms. Hynes went on to found the Druid Theatre and currently serves as its artistic director. Over the last 30 years, Ms. Hynes has directed plays for the Abbey Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange, Manchester, the Kennedy Center and the Royal Court Theatre, London. She was also the first female director to receive a Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane in 1998 and was awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway in 2006.

 

Ms. Hynes will be interviewed by Professor Adrian Frazier – an English Lecturer in NUIG and Director of the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, and will deal with topics such as theatre in Galway and in Ireland, as well as discussing the role and influence of Irish theatre on the global stage. After the interview, there will be a questions and answer session, where members of the audience will have the opportunity to put questions to Ms. Hynes and Professor Frazier.

 



 
Internal Mace Final

Where: IT 250

When: Tuesday 9th March

Time: 19:00 – 21:00

 

The teams are:

Conor Kelly & Ronan Fitzpatrick

Timothy Morrow & Fánchea Daly

Oisín Robbins & Ciaran Garrett

Sean Kearns & Neasa O'Callaghan

 

The motion and positions will be announced only 15 minutes before the debate, with each speaker having 7 minutes to make their case.

With the quality of the speakers this year, this promises to be an excellent debate. Everyone is welcome and there will a post debate reception in the Skeff bar on Eyre Square.