Death Notice Disco

Andrew Galvin

Irish wake culture meets an electropop cabaret of dead celebrities

Have you ever tripped so hard you heard your own death notice on the radio and David Bowie turned it into an electro-pop banger?

Death Notice Disco is the surreal semi-autobiographical tale of a man who follows a Heron into the underworld, asking the big questions about death, grief and whether talking birds can ever really be trusted.

Think Flann O’Brien does the Orpheus myth with an underworld cabaret of dead celebrities in an Irish wake house.

Andrew Galvin mixes theatre, storytelling and song in a psychedelic, thought-provoking comedy about loss, memory, and the slippery nature of existence.

The Death Notice Disco: raw and revealing – Gráinne Greene, Galway Advertiser

As seen in Scene and Heard.

Age Suitability: 16+
Warnings: Strong language / References to grief and death

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Andrew Galvin
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Sarah Dennehy
SOUND DESIGN BY Andrew Galvin
HERON COSTUME BY Maria May & Paul Cole
DRAMATURGY BY Gemma Walker-Farren

CAST Andrew Galvin

TICKETS €12 | €10 (Concession)

RUNNING TIME 60 mins

ABOUT THE COMPANY
Andrew Galvin is a playwright, performer, musician, academic, and poet from the West of Ireland whose work focuses on grief, grief processing, and queer masculinity. They have written, performed and produced theatre for the Earagail Arts Festival in Donegal (The Crowning Guest; The Fool & the Moon) and the Scene + Heard Festival of New Work in Dublin (Cleanup On Aisle Masculinity; Death Notice Disco).

In 2026 they have presented their show Death Notice Disco at the Cairde Festival Sligo and at the Westend Theatre & Arts Festival in Galway. They are also exploring creative practice as research in their development of a novel method for devising theatre called Grief Cartography and have delivered papers on this work at conferences of the Irish Society for Theatre Research and the International Federation for Theatre Research.