Baile | Eolas | Déan Teagmháil Linn
Jane Madden
Play development has been supported by Fishamble: The New Play Company's New Play Clinic Scheme.
Welcome to Ballygweeha, the windiest town in Ireland! The people haven't heard each other properly in years over the roar of the gales, no-one's ever been able to get a fire lit, and everywhere you look, shit's just blown over. The locals have spent their whole lives walking against the wind, resulting in the famed, half bent-over, sidewards shuffle known as the 'Gweeha sidle.' Whenever you lose something, you learn not to look around but look up and those have been here long enough know that by the time you look up, it's already gone. When prodigal son Luc Torney returns after ten years to save the town from ruin with a windfarm scheme, he is hailed as a hero. But town layabout Jacinta Nangle is brewing up a storm. A cast of gurriers, property developers and mammies collide in this modern Irish satire on corruption and national character.
Drámaí Ginearálta
Dráma Fada
Cast doubling occurs.
08 September 2015
Smock Alley Theatre
Performed in the Black Box space.
Fresh Cuts: A selection of plays from Dublin Fringe Festival 2015 & 2016
2016
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