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 23rd @ 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.
The play follows a chance meeting between two men on a late-night boat train to London. Through the intervention of a mysterious Gypsy woman who shares their carriage, the men gradually discover their true relationship — as father and long-abandoned son. As well as being a story based on the truth of recent history, the play is a gripping, edge of the seat drama, full of surprises, twists, and laughs.