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"A Doll's House" was the Moat Club's entry on the Three-Act Festival circuit this year. From the 6 festivals entered, the Moat achieved 3 wins, 2 seconds and a third - achieving a maximum 36 points! This has qualified the club for the All-Ireland Festival in Athlone where all the top plays from around the 32 counties meet to present the cream of amateur drama in Ireland! For more details on the Finals, visit the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland website - www.adci.ie, or access through our Links page. 9th April update: The draw was held earlier today for the All-Ireland festival. The Moat Club's production of "A Doll's House" will open the festival on Sat 28th April at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone. Tickets are €15 and the booking office is open from 11am - 3pm from Wed 11th April - phone number is 090-6492129. Please come along to support us if you can and enjoy a great night of theatre! ... Coming Soon! ... Coming Soon! ... Coming Soon! ... Coming Soon! ... |
MURDER, MENACE AND MARRIAGE! --- Tues 17th - Sat 21st April
The Moat Club Presents three one-act plays from three major playwrights: ‘The Tinker’s Wedding’ by J. M. Synge, ‘One for the Road’ by Harold Pinter and ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare.
Paddy Travers presents this production of ‘The Tinker’s Wedding’, Synge’s most controversial play. It was considered ‘too dangerous’ in the words of Yeats and Lady Gregory to be staged at the Abbey at the time. It had its first production in London in 1909. Its first appearance on the Abbey stage was not until 1971, the anniversary of Synge’s birth. The controversy was the fact that one of the characters in the play was an alcoholic priest who is tied up and gagged by a band of tinkers. The Abbey did include it in an American tour in 1911 where it was received with outrage by Irish Americans. An extract from the New York Times says ‘None but the most rabidly anti-Catholic Priest-hating bigots could enjoy ‘The Tinkers Wedding’.
‘One for the Road’ is one of Harold Pinter's political plays and is set in an un named Police State where a family of dissidents, Father, Mother and little boy are being held prisoner. The adults have been tortured and brutalised. We see them being interrogated individually and subjected to verbal torture by a sadistic interrogator. This powerful, gripping, chilling and disturbing piece of theatre is also directed by Paddy Travers.
Lianne O’Brien, whose version of Romeo and Juliet was a great success last year, brings us an abridged version of Macbeth which promises to be an innovative piece of theatre. As part of the process, Lianne and her team have experimented with theatrical devices such as mime, puppetry, music, movement, sound and improvisation before they assigned the parts. This will therefore be a very interesting presentation of the ‘Scottish Play’. As it is on the Leaving Cert syllabus this year, Lianne will also be offering discussion time, via their teachers, for students who attend.
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