Mephisto Theatre Company http://www.mephistotheatre.com Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:27:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Mai http://www.mephistotheatre.com/the-mai/ http://www.mephistotheatre.com/the-mai/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:27:13 +0000 admin http://www.mephistotheatre.com/?p=1559 by Marina Carr

Mephisto Theatre Company
presents
The Mai by Marina Carr
Thu 16th – Sat 25th Aug (excl Sun 19th)
Town Hall Theatre, Galway
8pm
Tickets: €18/€14
Thurs 16th Aug all tickets €14 (preview)
Phone: 091-569777
Online: http://tht.ie/1449/The-Mai

The Mai by Marina Carr is a play about love – the kind that chews you up and spits you out. It focuses on four generations of women from one family who struggle to come to terms with the destructive effects their love affairs have on themselves, and those around them.

The story centres on The Mai and her husband Robert, a beguiling cello composer. Around them gather her relatives – the 'Connemara Click' – headed by opium-smoking, oar-wielding Grandma Fraochlán. This circle of women are unimpressed when Robert returns after a long absence. But The Mai can't help surrendering to the passions of her tumultuous marriage, observed by her 16-year-old daughter Millie who learns all about the punch that crazy love can pack. This award-winn

ing play is sensual, potent and bitterly funny. It is written by one of Ireland’s most popular and gifted modern playwrights and performed by a dynamic cast of the best local and national talent.

Since 2006, Galway-based Mephisto have produced high-quality shows throughout Ireland and the UK, including The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy; The Morning After Optimism by Tom Murphy and Grenades by Tara McKevitt. The Mai marks our 20th production and follows the successful run of The Honey Spike by Bryan MacMahon at the Town Hall Theatre last year.

“Mephisto are one of the companies pushing the boat out” – Irish Theatre Magazine on The Honey Spike

“…this is spirited, breathtaking theatre” ★★★★★ The Irish Examiner on The Morning After Optimism

Cast: Siobhán Donnellan, Helen Gregg, Grace Kiely, Caroline Lynch, Liam O'Brien, Frieda McGrath, Mary McHugh and Margaret O'Sullivan
Directed by Róisín Stack
Lighting Design by Mike O'Halloran
Musical Director & Composer: Béibhinn O'Connor
Produced by Emma O'Grady
Image: Ursula Luschnig
Graphic design: www.patrickcusack.net

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