The Mick Lally Theatre
Intimate playhouse in a converted tea storehouse, home stage of a pioneering theatre company.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mick Lally Theatre on Druid Lane in Galway follows a Mayo schoolteacher, two fellow students from the university drama society, and the company they started in nineteen seventy-five. It touches a merchant family's tea store, a peppercorn rent, and the television farmer who made one founder a household name. Stand in the lane facing the door to listen.
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