Ballymagaleen Community Arts Centre
CAC
The Ballymagaleen Community Arts Centre (CAC) exists to promote cultural fertilisation, poetic composting, and the public appreciation of art in all its forms — especially those accidentally humorous.
Founded under the auspices of the Ballymagaleen Parish Council,
the Imperial Irish Academy (Suppressed Series), and several untraceable grants from Brussels, the CAC is a sanctuary for performers, painters, philosophers, and any citizen willing to misinterpret a pun for the greater good of art.
All correspondence should be addressed to the Secretary, CAC, Ballymagaleen Peninsula, or left under the door at Dooley’s.
Submissions for exhibitions, recitations, or interpretive tax returns will be
accepted in any legible medium.
The Ballymagaleen Variety Group
THE MUMMERS AND THE POPPERS
A Ballet in Two Crises and a Supplemental Breakdown
(Freely adapted from Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies”)
Venue: Ballymagaleen Community Arts Centre (formerly St Pierian’s Parochial Hall)
Date: Feast of St Príomhsheans, 2025 (or thereabouts)
Curtain: After Benediction (and before last orders)
Tickets: €5 / €3 concessions / €10 if you query the concessions
🩰 Cast (approximate order of apparition)
Karl Popper Himself Fiachra O’Moylan Reason vs rural broadband.
Freedom of Expression Máire “Shiv” Ní Dhálaigh Performed without licence or regret.
The Enemies of Reason Ballymagaleen Under-14 Camogie Squad Under duress and supervision.
Plato Fr Sebastian O’Rea Of two churches and two minds.
Hegel Bod Gombeeni Interpreted mainly through head movements
.Marx Sarah O’Leany Dialectic with attitude
.The Invisible Hand of the Market Dermot Roache Auditor, ledger, legerdemain.
Reason in Revolt Fr Christopher Hitchens Performs under canonical protest.
Chorus of Epistemic Angst Ballymagaleen Choir (3rd Bass Section) Rehearsed twice, remembered once.
