THE MAI - BY MARINA CARR
OCTOBER 14th - OCTOBER 24th 2015
Four generations of women from one family are gathered together in the new house that The Mai has built at Owl Lake. There’s Grandma Fraochlan, her two daughters (Julie and Agnes), three grand daughters (Mai, Connie and Beck) and a great grand daughter (Millie). The thorn in their midst is Robert, The Mai’s estranged husband, who’s taken a break from his philandering ways and come home to the beautiful house The Mai built to lure him back. This is a play that’s full of dreams, images and ghosts (not literal ones). The characters are haunted by the past and the future seems pre-ordained, set in motion by dreams and hauntings.
As always with Marina Carr’s writing the language is beautiful, evocative and poetic and the characters possess flaws that you know will cause their demise.
CAST
The Mai: Aisling Coleman
Robert: Ken McEvoy
Millie: Ciara Lynch
Grandma Fraochlán: Suzanne Healy
Connie: Denise O'Connor
Beck: Louise Keating
Julie: Anna Marie Maguire
Agnes: Mary Moorehouse
CREW
Director: Mary Cauldwell
Producer: Edel Firzgerald
Stage Manager: Aga Daly
Set Construction: Billy Fitzgerald, Paul Jordan, Ronald Jones and Group Members
Lighting/Sound: Richard Norman-Wright, Ronald Jones
Costume: Maire Keogh and Group Members
Front of House: Group Members
Poster: fastnetgraphics
Programme: Kevin O'Mally, Ronald Jones
Photographs: Daily Photography