IF YOU PUSH TOO FAR, SECRETS WILL OUT...
Fishamble: The New Play Company is delighted to present the World Premiere of Strandline by Abbie Spallen, one of Ireland’s most exciting writers and winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award.
One month after the death of her husband, Máirín, an artist and an outsider living in a small coastal village, gathers three women to her house. Each of the women gathered has a reason for being there and a bloody good reason not to be there. These women have secrets. This community has secrets. And, as the evening passes, Máirín learns more than she bargained for about the man she had loved.
This richly comic, searing drama is brought to the stage by the award-winning Fishamble, who so far in 2009 have produced Handel's Crossing, Forgotten, Noah and the Tower Flower and The Pride of Parnell Street, which has just returned from a hugely successful run in New York as part of the 1st Irish Festival. Strandline promises to be a must-see theatre production this November.
Strandline stars Fiona Bell (Casualty, Eastenders, BBC; Trainspotting, Channel Four Films; Present Laughter, The Gate Theatre), Cathy Belton (Only an Apple, Abbey Theatre; Solemn Mass For A Full Moon In Summer, Rough Magic Theatre Company; The Clinic, RTE), Samantha Heaney (Pumpgirl, The Lyric; This Other City, Tinderbox), Conor MacNeill (Anseo, Wildfire Fire Films/TG4; The Old Curiosity Shop, The Gate Theatre) and Eleanor Methven (Solemn Mass For A Full Moon In Summer, Rough Magic Theatre Company; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Project Arts Centre; Wide Open Spaces, dir. Tom Hall; Anseo, Wildfire Fire Films/TG4).
The production is directed by Jim Culleton (Handel’s Crossing by Joseph O’Connor, Forgotten by Pat Kinevane, The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry, Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin). Lighting design is by Paul Keogan, set design is by Sabine Dargent, costume is by Leonore Mc Donagh, music & sound design is by Denis Clohessy, and the production is produced by Orla Flanagan.
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LISTINGS INFORMATION:
FISHAMBLE: THE NEW PLAY COMPANY presents the World Premiere of
STRANDLINE by Abbie Spallen
Where: Project Arts Centre, Space Upstairs
Opens: 19 November, 2009
Until: 5 December, 2009
Time: 8pm (matinees at 3pm)
Previews: 17 & 18 November, 2009
Matinee: 28 Nov & 5 Dec, 2009
Tickets: €22/18
Booking: Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
www.projectartscentre.ie
+ 353 1 8819613
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