Eoin Colfer’s 'Holy Mary' at the Watergate in Kilkenny

Holy Mary, written by Eoin Colfer, best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl series, is coming to Watergate Theatre this summer for one performance only on July 8.

Holy Mary is crafted from Eoin Colfer’s experience as a primary school teacher in Wexford the 1980s and in typical Colfer fashion the characters are very real and achingly funny.

Directed by Aoife Spillane Hinks, the cast of two (Jacinta Sheerin and Mary Murray) nimbly play two mothers, a benevolent priest, a patient teacher, a misguided father and two cheeky but lovable nine-year-olds.

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Holy Mary is the story of two seven year old girls on the days leading up to the social occasion of the year – Their First Holy Communion. Mary and Majella have been mortal enemies since baby infants, and things have gotten even worse since Mary’s daddy moved in with Majella’s mammy.

Both girls are searching for a way to insult the other, and Majella thinks she has found a weak spot when she realises that Mary’s Communion dress is actually a second hand dress that she herself donated to the Vincent de Paul.

Will Majella use this devastating information to publicly take down her nemesis with a vicious rhyme? Or will she realise that maybe she and Mary are not so different and that maybe they could be allies instead of enemies?

Eoin Colfer is the author of the internationally bestselling Artemis Fowl series, which was voted the public’s favourite Puffin Classic of all time and was made into a Disney movie. Other titles include The Wish List, The Supernaturalist and the Legends series for younger readers. Eoin’s books have won numerous awards including The British Children’s Book of the Year and The Irish Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year.

Tickets are €20 and are available from watergatetheatre.com or (056) 7761674.