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theatre · Tuesday 14 July 2026 · 8:00pm 
For Dolores
At The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane · Druid Lane, Galway City, Co. Galway
At The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane · Druid Lane, Galway City, Co. Galway
Eva O’Connor’s new play arrives in Galway as a world premiere, and it is the kind of theatre that earns its festival slot - sharp, darkly comic and emotionally honest. Written by O’Connor and directed by Jim Culleton of Fishamble: The New Play Company, For Dolores centres on two friends, Mo (the Scottish one) and Réaltín (the Irish one), bound together in an obsessive orbit of friendship, rivalry and shared history. The play is set in Glasgow and turns on the cost of the choices people make - about motherhood, loyalty and what we owe each other. It suits anyone who likes new Irish writing with teeth.
Fishamble has a strong track record of launching plays that go on to long touring lives, and For Dolores looks built the same way. The running time is one hour fifteen minutes - tight and propulsive. O’Connor’s writing leans into energy and risk rather than conventional structure, and the production is described as bursting with a darkly comic heart. That tonal mix - raw emotion wrapped in sharp humour - is a signature of Fishamble’s output.
This Galway run is part of a co-production between Fishamble, Lime Tree Theatre, Belltable, Galway International Arts Festival and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. After Galway the show travels to Dún Laoghaire and then Edinburgh Fringe, so catching it here is catching it early. A post-show talk with the company is scheduled for the opening night, Tuesday 14 July - a good chance to hear the creative team while the questions are still fresh.
The Mick Lally Theatre sits on Druid Lane, a short lane running between Quay Street and Flood Street in the older part of the city. It is walkable from any point in the city centre and a short stroll from the main bus stops on Eyre Square. If you are coming by car, paid parking is available at Jurys Inn car park on Quay Street and at the Corrib car park off Merchants Road - both a few minutes on foot. Galway is well served by Bus Éireann and the train from Heuston Station in Dublin (roughly two and a half hours direct).
The Mick Lally Theatre is the home of Druid Theatre Company, founded here in 1975, and the lane it sits on is part of a quarter that has been the core of Galway’s arts life for decades - pubs, galleries and restaurants all within a short walk. There is more to see in Galway and across Co. Galway.
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