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theatre · Saturday 19 September 2026 · 8:00pm 
The Wildwood Flower
At Garage Theatre · Monaghan Education Campus, Armagh Road, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
At Garage Theatre · Monaghan Education Campus, Armagh Road, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Writer Pat McCabe and singer-songwriter Grainne Duffy team up for The Wildwood Flower, a performance built from storytelling and live guitar music, at the Garage Theatre on Saturday, 19 September 2026. The show had its first outing the night before as Monaghan’s Culture Night contribution, and this ticketed performance is the full version of that piece.
McCabe describes the show as a journey toward home across a landscape he pictures with pale blue fog hanging over the valley, and the piece moves between spoken storytelling and songs, drawing on material from classic artists including Jim Reeves and Etta James alongside the 1960s showband The Viscounts. It sits somewhere between a gig and a theatre piece, built around McCabe’s writing and Duffy’s guitar and vocals rather than a fixed script, and is billed as a celebration of local talent and artistic collaboration. A free preview of the piece was staged on Friday, 18 September as part of Culture Night Monaghan; this Saturday show is the main ticketed performance in the Garage Theatre’s own autumn programme, with a longer set and the full staging.
The Garage Theatre is on the Monaghan Education Campus, just off the Armagh Road on the edge of Monaghan town, a short walk from the town centre. Parking is available on site, and the box office is open weekdays from 10am to 2pm.
The show is a rare chance to see two well-known Monaghan-connected artists share a stage in their home county. There is more to see in Monaghan and across Co. Monaghan.
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