Town Hall Theatre
Neoclassical former courthouse turned municipal theatre, home to premieres and festival stages.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Town Hall Theatre in Galway turns on one winter night in nineteen ninety-six, when a Galway company raised the curtain on an untried play in a Connemara kitchen, written by a London-born son of Irish parents. It touches the building's earlier lives as a courthouse, a town hall and a fading cinema. Best heard standing under the stone portico on Courthouse Square.
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