Carlow based theatre director Emma O’Brien will bring her adaptation of John MacKenna’s Breathless to the Hole in Wall on Sunday August 11th as part of the Alternative Kilkenny Arts festival.
Emma has embarked on a new direction in her theatre career. Breathless is a challenging and thought provoking play
Inspired by real events in the Midlands, ‘Breathless’ is a play about four missing women.
It starts on a summer morning when four women , who are strangers to each other, meet on a roadside.
They share one thing in common; each is missing; the nurse disappeared without a trace, as did the teenager, the teacher and the older, unhappily married woman.
They remember – in frightening detail – the circumstances surrounding their disappearance.
Speaking with The Kilkenny Observer , author John MacKenna said:“I wanted to write a play that recognised the lives of women who disappear – the real lives. The four women in this play bring the strengths and failings that were part and parcel of their daily lives into a condition where loss, confrontation, anger and even humour are unavoidable.”
Directed by Emma Kinsella, the play challenges its audience to explore questions beyond the facts of disappearance, examining life and death and optimism in the face of everything fate throws at people. The show starts at 8pm and admission on the door is €12.
CAST : Woman No. 1: Deirdre Colhoun, Woman No. 2: Lily Mae O’Brien, Woman No. 3: Miriam Dowd, Woman No. 4: Andrea Bolger
