Bedbound by Enda Walsh was a sell-out show and major talking point of this year’s Galway International Arts Festival.
But if you missed this intense theatrical production starring Hollywood’s Colm Meaney pace a room alongside his immensely talented, bedbound daughter Brenda Meaney – fear not! For a live recording of a Galway performance was made and is now available to watch from the comfort of your own bed, streamed online, for two weeks only from November 25 to December 8.
The action is confined to a bedroom, but the characters' thoughts span lifetimes. The daughter, stricken with polio as a child, talks incessantly and inhabits a fantasy world derived from a romantic novel. She has little choice but to listen and role-play the sad characters in her father's violent, domineering life, as a once-successful furniture salesman.
“Audiences in Galway and Dublin were blown away by Colm and Brenda Meaney's performances in the show this summer, and we're thrilled that more people all over the world will now get to experience this intimate, close-up look at Enda’s explosive two-hander - from the comfort of their very own homes,” says producer Anne Clarke of Landmark Productions.
Bedbound is the latest in a series of significant productions of Enda Walsh’s plays from Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival, which have toured widely internationally - including Misterman, starring Cillian Murphy, and the world premieres of Medicine, Arlington and Ballyturk.
Tickets to watch Bedbound on demand are available now for €15. See www.landmarkproductions.ie and www.giaf.ie for downloads.
