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Alley Theatre (Strabane)
The Alley Theatre is a theatre in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The venue hosts an auditorium, art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ..., tourist information centre. A statue, ''Where Dreams Go'' (known locally as "Ambrose the Pig") by Martin Heron, is located in its piazza. Designed by architects Glenn Howells and Alan Jones (architect), AJA, the arts complex was officially opened in 2007 by Edwin Poots MLA and Margaret Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, Margaret Ritchie MLA. It has hosted various arts festivals, shows and exhibitions. In addition to running arts, music and drama workshops/performances, the Alley hosts three major drama festivals each year, Stagewrite (for primary schools), North West Schools Drama Festival (colleges) and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
