DOM MARTIN: virtuoso blues musician

Rory Gallagher, Van Morrison and now Dom Martin, a virtuoso Belfast blues guitarist, whose life story fuels his powerful songs.

IMPASSE & the gate house

Two impressive dance initiatives, based on personal experiences, light up the second week of the Belfast International Arts Festival.

THE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD III

Art imitates life in this courageous reshaping of Shakespeare’s great history play, with a newly-diagnosed disabled actor in the title role.

YERMA

A dramatically revised version of Lorca’s rural tragedy removes it from the steamy heat of 1930s southern Spain to the chill and gloom of the Irish borderlands in the modern day.

SHIFT

Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. Some 70 young dancers from across Ireland stage their own epic-scale protest.

CELTIC SEA – carlos nuñez & company

The charismatic Galician piper Carlos Nuñez is one of the world’s great artists. Along with a company of gifted musicians, he performs his new album Celtic Sea at the 2024 Festival Interceltique de Lorient.

YES FESTIVAL

Joyce’s Molly Bloom has her own weekend of festivities at the climax of the two-year Ulysses: European Odyssey.

RIOT SYMPHONY

A symphony built around protest and activism makes for a thrilling new adventure for the Ulster Orchestra.

BECKETT : unbound

A multi-faceted celebration of the work of Samuel Beckett connects two great cities – Paris and Liverpool .

BOTH SIDES IN PARIS

A play, inspired by life on the Paris streets and the Côte d’Azur, receives its European premiere in the city where it all began.