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Hester Swane (Debbie Duggan) and the Cat woman (Peggy O'Brien)
The Fionn MacCumhaill Players amidst all the drama and excitement of receiving three nominations for their short film about Bridget Cleary in LA shorts are now staging Marina Carr’s great play in April ‘By The Bog Of Cats’.
The talented group are very much looking forward to staging this entertaining play which tells the story of Hester Swane a settled traveller woman who has a child for a local younger man.
The play is set on the day of his wedding to another younger farmer’s daughter.
Hester abandoned by her mother as a young girl is now feeling abandoned yet again and it all becomes too much for her. She is frightened of losing everything especially her daughter, Josie.
The FionnMacCumhaill Players are introducing two new young actresses to the stage sharing the part of young Josie Swane during the production.
The play is a plethora of strange and crazy characters makes it a very different experience for the audience and contains many mystical and mythical elements including ghosts, curses, witchcraft and ethnic prejudice.
Booking is now open on Gr8events.ie for Mullinahone Community Hall on Thursday and Friday April 23 and 24 and for The Abymill Theatre Fethard on Saturday May 2.
Marina Carr is an award-winning playwright and is also an associate professor of english at Dublin City University.
She has been visiting lecturer and keynote speaker at many universities and literary festivals around the world and has been writer-in -residence at the Abbey Theatre where many of her plays have premiered.
Marina has three collections published by Faber&Faber in their Contemporary Classics series as well as many single edition publications with them. She is also published by The Gallery Press.
Several of her plays are translated and are frequently performed in England, Europe and the USA. Her play By the Bog of Cat is also published in the Norton Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama Edition.
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