Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Dressing Room

In Locations: The Landscapes of Fiction , literary critic Elizabeth Hardwick reveals how locations enrich our engagement with stories. The House of Usher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Wuthering Heights. Room . Places that become more than place names, often speaking to moral, social or cultural virtue signalling. In their evolving Rooms series, writer and director Enda Walsh and designer Paul Fahy aspire to sensoramic, immersive engagement with a different location each time. Each time a different room. Fahy’s detailed installations stories in themselves, or having stories to tell, and not simply backdrops wherein stories are told. Alas, their latest instalment, Dressing Room, didn't get the memo. Failing to meaningfully integrate Fahy’s intriguing space and Walsh’s heartfelt story right up to its too little, too late finale.