The Frogs NUIG

20/09/2022

A last glimpse view of the beautiful Aran Islands & South Connemara on a plane heading for New York... two very different worlds! ✈️😍💙🇮🇪

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📍 Aran Islands, Galway

02/09/2022

12/03/2022

Another great night with ‘The Frogs’!

12/03/2022

What a fantastic opening night! The Frogs by Aristophanes, translated by Kenneth McLeish is a raucous and irreverent comedy. I couldn’t be more proud of these amazing students for their artistry. I feel very privileged to get to welcome audiences to the O’Donoghue Centre to experience some ‘live performance’. Very limited availability on:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/289452138137

12/03/2022

What a fantastic opening night! The Frogs by Aristophanes, translated by Kenneth McLeish is a raucous and irreverent comedy. I couldn’t be more proud of these amazing students for their artistry. I feel very privileged to get to welcome audiences to the O’Donoghue Centre to experience some ‘live performance’. Very limited availability on:

The Frogs presented and produced by the third year students of NUIGalway under the direction of Marianne Kennedy.

11/03/2022

🐸 Opening night!!

Wishing the very best of luck to the cast and crew on opening night tonight and a reminder to purchase your tickets before they're sold put as there is limited availability!! 🎟

Break legs! 🎭

The Frogs presented and produced by the third year students of NUIGalway under the direction of Marianne Kennedy.

08/03/2022

Some behind the scenes pictures from tech week!
Tickets for ‘The Frogs’ : https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-frogs-tickets-289452138137?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

08/03/2022

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-frogs-tickets-289452138137?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

08/03/2022

Thanks to The Advertiser for their article about 'The Frogs' this week! 🐸

Make sure you book your tickets 🎭

ATHENS IS at war and it is not winning. The best playwrights in Greece are dead. Morale in the city is low. The time is right for a hero to step forward.

07/03/2022

A note from our Director, Marianne Ní Chinnéide:
“The student ensemble has reinvigorated this ancient Greek text, designing all aspects of the show themselves. At the heart of this play are the questions: What is the function of Art? Can it uplift? Should it inspire? Should it speak to the everyday experience? What is the worth of art in times of crisis? We are also mindful of the contemporary context of the effects of war as we explore this play set at the end of a 30-year conflict between Athens and Sparta. It has been an inspirational process.”

07/03/2022

Third Year Drama and Theatre Studies students will perform the adaptation of Aristophanes classic The Frogs by Kenneth McLeish, from March 11th – 16th (excluding March 13th) at NUI Galway’s O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance.
Drama and Theatre Studies staff and students, working alongside artists and scholars such as Ella Daly (Freelance producer and costume designer) who helped with costume design, James Riordan (Artistic Director of Brú Theatre Company) advising them on physical theatre and Dr. Peter Kelly from the Classics department of NUIG offering some dramaturgical advice to give us a contemporary take on the hugely successful Ancient Greek comedy The Frogs by Aristophanes. This translations of The Frogs is by Kenneth McLeish, Scottish born writer, playwright, and translator.
It is presented by the third year Drama students of NUI Galway under the direction of Marianne Ní Chinnéide accompanied by the production and technical management expertise of Mike O'Halloran and is designed by the students themselves.
The Frogs follows Dionysus (God of wine vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness, and art), who is despairing at the state of the playwrights on Earth, travels to the underworld to bring back Euripides from the dead. When he gets there, however, he questions whether Euripides, with his wit and bold talk, is indeed the brave artist he seeks or is there another artist best placed to boost the morale of the Athenians and their war-torn city?
This comedic and epic adventure transposes the action of this ancient play to the social and political context of Ireland today.