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Theatre listings > Molly Sweeney. - Scottish Premiere. First produced at Gate Theatre, Dublin on the 9 of August 1994. Playwright - Brian Friel. Director - Gregory Thompson. Designer - Ellen Cairns. Lighting Designer - Stuart Jenkins. Movement - Jane Howie. Composer - M. Company - Citizens Theatre Company Company Website. Cast - here . Venue - Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals St, Glasgow G5 9DS. 0141 429 0022. Dates - 1 - 23 Dec Tues to Sat at 7:30pm also Mat on 10 Dec at 3pm. Run Time - 2 hours 30 mins including one Interval. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Intense, quicksilver. If you hunger for tension, vividly played, for a feeling that you are part of a drama and not merely looking on get yourself along to director Gregory Thompson's production of Molly Sweeney. It's playing in that great space the Circle Studio at the Citzs. Molly lost her sight as a tiny girl and has reached the age of nearly forty happy, employed and confident in her sightless world. Cara Kelly's warm, free spirited performance as Molly and Michael Glenn Murphy's full of energy and eagerness portrayal of the impetuous Frank, who she marries late in life, both superbly hold one effortlessly. Coupled with Brian Friel's vigorous script, consisting mainly of three interweaving monologues, and played in the emotionally immediate theatre in the round space, the force of the assault by husband and surgeon on Molly's integrity brings a bitter taste to your mouth. Based on a story by Oliver Sachs' Friel's play confronts the arrogance of the so-called able bodied particularly in this kind of staging. If it had been set on a proscenium arched stage I might, in its distance, have been struck by the metaphor of Molly as the position of Ireland in its long ago Gaelic past, its colonial centuries past and its following post-colonial confusion. As it is the far more universal dilemma of how we try to give things to those we wrongly think need such help is painfully explored.. Played under a mirror frozen in glittering shards, the intense, quicksilver acting concentrated in the Circle Studio by this Molly Sweeney confirms again that Scottish theatre needs more of these cauldron theatre spaces. Spaces which audiences leave with hands sore from clapping at the end and delighted to be taken out of themselves and into another's world. © Thelma Good 8 December 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast - Molly - Cara Kelly, Frank - Michael Glenn Murphy, and Mr. Rice - Christopher Dunne. Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Theatre listings >
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