Solstice announces autumn seasonlineup

The new season at Solstice Arts Centre is chock-a-block with entertaining shows. Music features strongly this season with renowned vocalist Honor Heffernan in ‘The Whistling Girl’ on September 18th. This new show, by composer Trevor Knight, features music inspired by the poetry of the great Dorothy Parker. Canadian Orpheus Male Voice Choir will be joined by the Navan Male Voice Choir with featured guests, soloist Louise Martyn and the Tara Ladies Choir on 20th September. Pat Coldrick will grace the stage with his dynamics classical guitar playing on 26th September.
There will also be performances from Redmond O’Toole, Irish Baroque group ‘Tonos’, ‘The New Triangle’ featuring John Sheahan, Damien Dempsey and Declan O’Rourke, and a return visit from ‘Two Brothers’, Vladimir and Anton Jablokov with their contagiously rhythmic violins.
It is a mission of Solstice to provide the very best of professional theatre, with ‘The Gruffalo’ ariving direct from the West End on 23rd and 24th September. The official hit stage adaptation of the award winning picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is the perfect family treat with plenty of songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged three plus and their grown-ups.
In October, Rough Magic Theatre Company presents the award winning ‘How to Keep an Alien’, while Interactive Theatre Australia brings ‘Faulty Towers Dining Experience’, a five star production which takes place in The Box Café while you dine, on 22nd and 23rd October.  Don’t miss this unique experience of being served by the snobbish manic Basil; his domineering wife, Sybil; and their hopeless language-challenged waiter, Manuel.
For a more thought-provoking piece of theatre, ‘Star of The Sea’ on 24th October is freely adapted from the novel by Joseph O’Connor. Aimed at audiences of age 15 and upwards, it is a bi-lingual production which is accessible to non-Irish speakers also.
On 12th and 13th November, Solstice Arts Centre presents ‘Couplings’, two short plays by Richard Ball, directed by Padraic McIntyre. The evenings will also feature Ball’s award winning short story ‘The Chamber Pot’, which Tommy Tiernan will perform on the opening night, 12th November.
For a more detailed list of events sign up to the e-zine or visit www.solsticeartscentre.ie