May 1st - 3rd @ 8pm
TURNAROUND THEATRE
Presents
‘The People That Live in Boxes’ by Les Clarke
This play gives us a glimpse of the lives of Joe and Becca, two long-term rough sleepers who have carved out a fragile existence in cardboard boxes behind a factory. Though homelessness has brought them here by very different paths, the pair have formed a partnership over the years. Joe, thoughtful and guarded, keeps watch over Becca, whose restless energy and fierce attachment to her few possessions hint at the turmoil she carries from the past.
When Jenny, a mature social science student, arrives to conduct research on homelessness, her questions begin to unsettle the precarious balance of their lives. What begins as curiosity quickly exposes difficult truths. The drama increases when Martin stumbles onto the scene after one drink too many, setting an irreversible chain of events into motion.
May 9th @ 8pm
Hawtheatre
Present
'Last Train From Holyhead' by Bernard Field
This current production, Last Train from Holyhead, is a revival of a play we first staged in 2009 with the late great Mick Lally in the lead role. We have chosen to bring it back now in light of recent attention to the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and the wider history it represents in Ireland’s collective memory.Two men discover more than they bargained for on an overnight train to nowhere. With the help of drink, poker and a beguiling Gypsy they encounter the truth within through the lives of each other.
"A story you will remember and are sad to have heard as you step off the train" Irish Theatre Magazine