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The Arts Council Playography Na Gaeilge

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OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Aidan Mathews 

  • Setting

    A Fashionable Dublin suburb in the late 1990's.

  • Synopsis

    A play about two brothers, one family and the many faiths which make up modern life. Jordan, the first-born, a trainee doctor, is bedbound and dying of a brain tumour; his younger brother, Marcus, brilliant and charismatic, has been a psychiatric patient. Around the deathbed gather their widowed mother, an ebullient Methodist neighbour, Marcus's Church of Ireland girlfriend, and a Roman Catholic priest returned from Rwanda to the blindcraft of a chaplaincy. The gloom of the sickroom is repeatedly dispelled by their lively altercations and plenty of gallows humour as this oddball synod doggedly praises God.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

    • Cast size

  • Male

    4

  • Female

    2

  • Total

    6

Original Production

Original Cast
Martha McHenry Stella McCusker
Jordan McHenry Peter Hanly
Felicity Spellman Janet Moran
Marcus McHenry Frank McCusker
Fr. Anthony O'Driscoll Peter Gowen
Arthur McLoughlin Bosco Hogan
Production Team
Director Martin Drury
Designer Francis O'Connor
Lighting Designer Rupert Murray
Costumes Abbey Theatre Wardrobe Department
Sound Cormac Carroll
Stage Director Finola Eustace
Assistant Stage Manager Stephen Dempsey
Set Construction Abbey Theatre Workshop
Voice Coach Andrea Ainsworth

Published Scripts

Rights Information

  • Territory

    All Territories

  • Rights Type

    Professional

  • Contact

    A.P. Watt Ltd.

  • Address

    20 John Street
    London WC1N 2DR
    England

  • Phone

    + 44 (0)20 7405 6774

  • Email

    apw@apwatt.co.uk

  • Website

    www.apwatt.co.uk

  • Territory

    All Territories

  • Rights Type

    Amateur

  • Contact

    Nick Hern Books

  • Address

    The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road
    London W12 8QP
    England

  • Phone

    + (44 ) 20 8749 4953

  • Email

    info@nickhernbooks.co.uk

  • Website

    www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.