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One night only! This Friday at 8pm The Rise and Rise of the Healy-Rae's

Spike Players Knocknagoshel present a comedy with a bite from Bernard Farrell, called "Happy birthday dear Alice", on Friday 31st March, Saturday, 1st April, and Sunday, 2nd April - curtain up at 8.00 pm nightly. This very entertaining play centres on the efforts of Alices' family to persuade her to move to an old people's home. Alice seems passive and willing to go along with their wishes, but with the aid of Jimmy, her elderly friend and neighbour, whom her family hate and suspect of murdering their father, she manages to frustrate them all in the end.

All results from the recent festival can be found on: Kerry Drama Festival Facebook page

The final night of the 30th Kerry Drama Festival finishes with a classic John B. Keane play The Field. It is presented by Amphitheatre Company. Rugged individualist Bull McCabe has spent five hard years of labour cultivating a small plot of rented land, nurturing it from barren rock into a fertile field. When the owner of the field decides to auction it, He believes that he has a claim to the land. The McCabes intimidate most of the townspeople out of bidding in the auction, to the chagrin of auctioneer Mick Flanagan, but Galwayman William Dee arrives from England, where he has lived for many years, with a plan to cover the field with concrete and extract gravel from the adjacent river. An encounter between Dee and the McCabes ends in Dee's death and a cover-up.

Tonight's penultimate play is Living Quarters by Brian Friel. Living Quarters is a memory play set in a soldier's home in Donegal, near Friel's favourite fictional town of Ballybeg. It tells the story of the fateful day that Commandant Frank Butler returns a hero from a successful UN mission in the Middle East. His four children from his first marriage all return home for the.

Tonight's play is presented by The Kilmeen Drama Group. The Seafarer by Conor McPherson is a supernatural drama that combines the folksy sensibilities of an Irish ghost story with the streetwise dialogue of modern day Dublin. When old friends gather to play poker on Christmas Eve, a mysterious stranger joins them. But instead of simply playing for money, he is far more interested in playing for a man's soul.

Tonight's play is Little Gem written by Elaine Murphy and presented by Holycross Drama Group. Three generations of Dublin women, Kay (grandmother), Loraine (mother) and Amber (granddaughter) narrate several months of emotional turmoil that they have experienced. Each woman is experiencing some sort of emotional crisis and communication between the three is fraught at best.