TRAD
Danny Diamond, Eoin Ó Beaglaoích and Micheál Ó Catháin
O'Flaherty's bar, Crown Alley 6pm €15 087-2547574
These Gael Linn monthly tea-time sessions have become a must-hear over recent years, and this performance is the final in the current season. Diamond takes the fiddle to the outer reaches of the tradition, as does Eoin Ó Beaglaoích with his concertina. Ó Catháin’s harp and vocals will bring further layers to what promises to be a rich tapestry.
KILLER
Brandon Flowers
Olympia Theatre, Dublin 8pm €30
olympia.ie
With The Killers once again on hiatus, frontman Brandon Flowers plugs solo album The Desired Effect, released this weekend. Expect a few choice Killers' songs to keep everyone happy.
THEATRE
The Shadow of a Gunman
Lyric Theatre, Belfast Until June 6 £20
lyrictheatre.co.uk
“I have no connection with the politics of the day,” insists Donal Davoren, the poet and aesthete who has been mistaken for a gunman in ’Casey’s early play, the first of his Dublin Trilogy. (He wishes.) But what is Wayne Jordan’s clean and swift production’s connection with the politics of our day? This Abbey and Lyric co-production isn’t entirely sure. It’s another time of division, certainly, but not violent rhetoric, mercifully. Instead, this staging seems more inclined to side with the aesthete, through pleasingly artificial visuals and wry, age-oriented comment. It’s a light undertaking for a play that casts a long shadow.
