Five things to do this week
It’s being billed as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final film, but Mickey Scarpato’s gritty thriller also has Christina Hendricks and John Turturro.
GO: Cinemas nationwide.
2|theatre|MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
One of the highlights of the Kilkenny Arts Festival is this ongoing production by Shakespeare’s Globe at a recreated Elizabethan ‘Booth Stage’. Until August 17.
GO: www.kilkennyarts.ie
3|theatre|HEARTBREAK HOUSE
George Bernard Shaw’s zany period drama opens at the Abbey. Set in a madcap weekend just before the First World War.
GO: abbeytheatre.ie.
4|art|KENNETH KING — IRISH MARITIME PAINTER
The Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Co Cork, hosts an exhibition of work from the Donegal-based
maritime painter.
GO: siriusartscentre.ie
5|poetry|BILLY COLLINS
The humorous American poet reads from his work at Kilkenny Arts Festival.
GO: www.kilkennyarts.ie
