FOR the first time in seventeen months the Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable are in a position to launch a new Autumn Season Programme this week. They are back open for business with a programme of both online and in-person live events across both venues.
The season opens with the Music Network collaboration of vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird, harpist and sound artist Úna Monaghan, and cellist Kevin Murphy, and promises to be an exciting season ahead. The IFI@Belltable cinema club is back every Monday evening, kicking off with the critically acclaimed Summer of Soul (…or when the revolution could not be televised). Torch Players and Bottom Dog Theatre Company return to Belltable, and have a host of festivals in store including the Polish Arts Festival, Limerick Jazz Festival and Light Moves Festival of Screendance. Irish National Opera, Fishamble and Decadent Theatre Company return to Limerick once again – all in all they are gearing up for an unmissable season.
Due to government restrictions the seating capacity is still at 50 for both venues. The hope is for this number to increase in the coming days, they shall continue to monitor the situation and will update their website and social media when numbers are confirmed. For this reason the main focus is currently on events in September and October which includes Bualadh Bos Children’s Festival. The festival runs from 3rd until the 16th October this year with an exciting programme of in person and online events for families and schools. The full programme will be announced in the coming week.
Louise Donlon, Executive Director of the Lime Tree Theatre |Belltable said “We still have some way to go to be back to a full programme with full capacities allowed in our venues, but hopefully that will come sooner rather than later.
We hope you will find something in our autumn programme that brings you back in person to the Lime Tree Theatre and Belltable. Rest assured that we will do everything to ensure that you will be safe in doing so and that, as we all learn to live with the new reality of live performance, it will remain the unique experience it always has been and that we have missed so much.”
