ART

Water Conversations
The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim Until Sep 12
thedock.ie

Anna Macleod has been making works about water since 2007, and this survey show gathers together many of them. They are articulated as a series of actions, small sculptures, posters, drawings, sound works, interdisciplinary collaborations, public interventions and site-specific works in a variety of locations, from Ghana to Mongolia, from Alberta, Canada to Almeria, Spain.

THEATRE

The Producers
Bord Gais Energy Theatre, July 6-11, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm) €20-€60
bordgaisenergytheatre.ie

There is a seemingly endless irony about The Producers, Mel Brooks' finest work, in which a Broadway show deliberately designed to flop ends up becoming a hit. Brooks's original 1968 film about the efforts to stage a musical called Springtime For Hitler was considered so tasteless it was almost never released – then bombed when it was.

Fuelled by the film’s cult, the 2001 Broadway musical adaptation became a staggering success. Spurred by that, a new 2005 film adaptation didn’t make its money back . . . Nervously aware, perhaps, that there is neither a recipe for success or a menu for failure, this touring version packs in celebrity performances from Jason Manford (left), Ross Noble and Louie Spence, a hopeful assurance for a musical that has never offered guarantees.