After years of planning, and months and months – and months – of hard work, Greystones’ shiny new theatre is now at that stage where its all down to the finishing touches.

That and, you know, putting together the groovy autumn line-up of shows boasting famous faces, local heroes and all sorts of cool and crazy inbetweeners.

Al Porter on September 16th is just the tip of the iceberg, baby.

Today though, it was all about the signs down on Theatre Lane, which meant some more powerful paintbrush piquancy from the great Mary-Kate Hardy.

This is the resident artist who, after all, has brought vibrant colour to such Theatre Lane parties as Halloween, the Ronnie Drew Big Birthday Bash and those outdoor screenings.

With The Whale signs being put in place up high, down low and all around, we caught up with Mary-Kate mid-brush stroke to tease a little more info about just what’s going on down on Theatre Lane…

Check out more of Mary-Kate’s work on Theatre Lane here, and you can follow her mural and window work on her Fenestrations page here, and her arty-farty work right here.