The play is set on the eponymous island in Galway Bay, about the year 1934, when the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in the neighbouring island of Innismore to make to document rural, Western Ireland life.

"Cripple" Billy Claven, eager to escape the gossip, poverty and boredom of Inishmaan, vies for a part in the film, and to everyone's surprise, the orphan and outcast gets his chance.

This is tonight’s offering at the Lislea Drama Festival and it is followed tomorrow (Sunday) evening by Belfry.

The third play of a trilogy by Billy Roche, the longest and the most lyrical of the three The Belfry is the story of Artie O'Leary (Gary Lydon), a mild mannered man who lives with his mother. Artie works as a sacristan at the local Catholic church where he meets Angela (Rebecca Egan), a married woman with whom he has a passionate affair in the belfry, his secret territory.

It is a play about memory and the impact of first love on an otherwise mature man.

You are urged to attend as many plays as possible at the Festival.