Great drama and dance make up the fabric of new Theatre at The Mill

After taking Edinburgh Festival audiences by storm, the award-winning 2FacedDance will make their Northern Ireland debut on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 February. Performing a highly charged, gritty new work, the show ‘Still Breathing’ is a fusion of street dancing and acrobatics featuring stunning athleticism, explosive abstract breaking and seemingly impossible movement.

Martin McDonagh’s multi award-winning play ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ performed by London Classic Theatre Company will start the yarns spinning on Friday, February 26 at the new venue. A gripping blend of dark comedy, melodrama, horror and tragedy, this play is set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway and tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain, lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative, ageing mother. When Mag interferes in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship, a train of events is set in motion that leads inexorably towards the play’s terrifying finale.

And the drama doesn’t end there, with local theatre companies also staging their plays at the new theatre for the first time in March.

Theatre manager, Bernard Clarkson explains: “Bruiser Theatre Company brings their hilarious allegory of Hitler’s rise to power in ‘The Resistible Rise of Atruro Ui’ on Thursday, March 11 and Martin Lynch will stage his highly acclaimed ‘Chronicles of Long Kesh’ on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March. Given the setting of Theatre at The Mill, we are also excited to have Big Telly’s ‘The Haunting of Helena Blunden’, a love story set in a linen mill performed at Mossley Mill on Monday, March 22.”

For more information and tickets log on to www.theatreatthemill.com or telephone the Box Office on 9034 0202.