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Dateline: 6th June, 2011
Ireland Comes to the Tricycle A season of two Irish plays comes to Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre from 11th July to 8th October. Lay Me Down Softly, written and directed by Billy Roche, comes to the Tricycle from 11th July to 6th August. Presented by Mosshouse in association with Wexford Arts Centre, the production was first commissioned and premiered at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 2008, before this new production with Billy Roche directing premiered at Wexford Arts Centre in 2010 followed by a national tour in 2011. Lay Me Down Softly has design by Bui Bolg, lighting design by Paul Keogan and sound and AV design by Mick Egan.
The production returns with previous cast members Gary Lydon, Michael O’Hagan, Pagan McGrath, Anthony Morris, Dermot Murphy, alongside newcomer Simone Kirby. It's set in the shady world of Delaney’s Travelling Roadshow. Step inside the boxing ring… smell it, sense it, feel it. And somewhere between the fights and the fortune-tellers, the bookies and the bloodshed, rub shoulders with its wayward wards. Set in rural Ireland in the early 60s, Lay Me Down Softly takes us inside the darkly comic and colourful world of the old travelling carnival. It is followed from 13th September to 8th October by the Lyric Theatre Belfast production of The Absence Of Women by Owen McCafferty and directed by Rachel O’Riordan. Last year the production ran at the Lyric Belfast before a tour of venues in Ireland. The Absence Of Women has design by Stuart Marshall, lighting design by James Whiteside and sound and AV design by Ivan Birthistle and Vincent Doherty. Full casting will be announced at a later date.
Gerry and Iggy, two labourers from Belfast face the end of their lives in a London hostel, talking of the present and thinking of the past. They argue about who has the biggest liver, the names of tube stations and whether they should go back to Belfast or not. But where are the women in their lives? The Absence of Women is a funny and poignant play about the life journey of two ordinary and lonely Belfast men. It’s a tale of life and its endless possibilities, missed opportunities and how one man’s choice, in one instant, can alter the path of his life forever.
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