SOME people are saying if hasn't been the most thrilling of Belfast Festivals, but there may be a lot of excitement packed into the last week yet. Tonight the flavour of the last few months traditional group, Arcady, perform with stunning singer Niamh Parsons. From Tuesday to next Saturday, the Royal Shakespeare Company performs its superb version of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Opera Circus, well known for knocking the starch out of opera, performs a fairy tale opera, King Stag, from Wednesday to Friday.
The renowned French pianist Cecile Oussetis the guest soloist with the Ulster Orchestra for a programme of Mendelssohn, Brahms and Schumann on Friday. Make a choice between this and the cult, low budget, irreverent Armagh gangster movie, The Eliminator.
The festival's big extravaganza, Return To The Forbidden Planet The Final Frontier, a West End musical described as "a fun filled family adventure through the stars", plays from Monday to Saturday, complete with classic songs from the 1950s and 1960s, to get those Mums and Dads rocking in the aisles, if not through the galaxies.