PUBLIC INTERVIEW
Viv Albertine
Black Box, Belfast, 3pm, £4
cqaf.com
One-time member of The Slits, and author of last year's wonderful memoir, Clothes Clothes Clothes, Music Music Music, Boys Boys Boys. This public interview with Viv Albertine arrives as part of the 10th Out to Lunch Festival. Sunday afternoon? £4? A class act? You'll be there, right?
ART
Gareth Kennedy: Invented Tradition
Galway Arts Centre Until Feb 7
galwayartscentre.ie
This show features three projects from the past two years by Gareth Kennedy exploring aspects and echoes of the handcrafted in a 21st- century context (above). All are in a collaborative and communal format, from charcoal burning in Co Kerry to wooden houses in Saint Petersburg to the creation of a pavilion – a public space – in Headford, Co Galway, using skills associated with the manufacture of the Galway Hooker.
THEATRE
Mary Massacre
Viking Theatre. Jan 19-31, 8pm, €12
vikingtheatredublin.com
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned – particularly if that woman has recently checked her husband’s internet history. A recent play by Scottish dark comedy writer Johnny McKnight here provides a vehicle for performers Jenn McGuirk and Caroline O’Boyle as two Ayrshire women involved in a love triangle.
Told through alternating monologues of irreverent humour, their stories turn darker with each rotation. Aoife Spillane-Hinks is credited as “consultant director”, suggesting a curious arrangement. Then again, given the circumstances, who would want to get too close?
