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comedy · Saturday 5 September 2026 · 8:00pm 
Anne Gildea - Further Adventures in WOMANING
At Hawk's Well Theatre · Temple Street, Sligo, Co. Sligo F91 CFY7
At Hawk's Well Theatre · Temple Street, Sligo, Co. Sligo F91 CFY7
Anne Gildea is one of Ireland’s sharpest comic voices, and her solo show Further Adventures in WOMANING is a proper night out - the kind that has audiences in tears of laughter by the interval. Gildea grew up on a farm in Sligo before going on to co-found The Nualas, the musical comedy trio who played the Royal Albert Hall and sold out the Edinburgh Fringe. She’s been on Father Ted, published two books, and toured a previous solo show for three solid years. This is a comedian at the height of her powers, returning to the county she comes from with a show about Irish womanhood that spans decades and leaves nothing sacred.
The show picks up where Gildea’s smash hit How to Get the Menopause and Enjoy It left off. She weaves through half a century of “womany stuff” - from 18-hour girdles and Housewives of the Year to ripped influencer grannies pumping iron on Instagram. The Sunday drive gets the same treatment as the spa break. Angel Delight sits alongside the mystery of the chiffon scarf test. It’s observational comedy rooted in real Irish life: funny because it’s true, and funnier still if you lived through any of it. The show is billed as a “pant-wetting” journey through the world of the feminine, the mammy, and the twerky dancer - Gildea’s phrase, and she earns it.
Hawk’s Well Theatre is an intimate, 340-seat venue that suits stand-up well. Named after W. B. Yeats’s play At the Hawk’s Well, it opened in 1982 as the first purpose-built theatre in rural Ireland and was renovated in the 1990s to give it a larger stage and comfortable auditorium. The room is the right size for a solo performer - close enough that you don’t miss a beat.
Sligo town is served by Bus Eireann express coaches from Dublin (Expressway route, roughly 3.5 hours), and by train from Dublin Connolly via Irish Rail’s Sligo line (around 3 hours, with several services daily). Hawk’s Well is on Temple Street right in the town centre, a short walk from both the bus station on Lord Edward Street and Sligo train station on Lord Edward Street. If you’re driving, Sligo is on the N4 from Dublin or the N17 from Galway. Street parking is available in the town centre on Saturday evenings, and there are several car parks nearby including the Abbey Street multi-storey.
Sligo is Yeats country - the Benbulben mountain and Drumcliffe churchyard where the poet is buried are a short drive north of town, and the Model gallery holds one of Ireland’s finest collections of modern art. There is more to see in Sligo and across Co. Sligo.
Heading to Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo? Sligo has plenty more to see. Read the Sligo area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.