John Gay

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Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) runs until Saturday. Photograph: Steve Tanner
Dead Dog in a Suitcase review: An abrasive, ragged comic opera

DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS) Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway ★★★★☆ “Who’d shoot a dog?” somebody wails early in Kneehigh’s splenetic(...)

Dead Dog in a Suitcase is a musical, theatrical extravaganza of wit, wonder and weirdness. Photograph: Steve Tanner
Galway International Arts Festival: The must-see events

All eyes are on the City of the Tribes, as the Galway International Arts Festival takes over the parks, rivers, bars and venues of the western capital(...)

Kneehigh Theatre perform Dead Dog in a Suitcase at Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, July 16th-20th. Photograph: Steve Tanner
Epiphany and Dead Dog in a Suitcase: theatre shows to catch this week

Epiphany Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Previews Jul 17 Opens Jul 18-27 8pm (Sat mat 2.30pm) druid.ie You may find our host familiar, in a modest, uncer(...)

The city was a magnet for the talented and desperate from all over the country and for enterprising immigrants like George Frideric Handel. Artwork: Painting by Thom; Photograph by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images
London Letter: 18th century resistance to foreign voices

Dwarfing every other town and city in Britain, it was the greatest metropolis in Europe, richer and more populous than Paris, Naples or Amsterdam. The(...)