Athlone Little Theatre is staging the fantastic John Murphy play The Country Boy, starting on Sunday November 9.
This is a deeply heartwarming and comic tale , with a real story to tell. The play deals with emigration in the 1950s and tells the story of Eddie Maher as he returns home from America, with his wife, to the homestead in Mayo.
He has come home for the first time with great tales of America and life in the Big Apple. His younger brother Curly, is hell-bent on following him to America, so he can also seek his fortune. This will mean leaving behind his girl, Eileen Tierney.
Is America all it’s cracked up to be? Should Curly go? Who knows! A wonderful story unfolds with a real insight into Irish emigration at that time and it will really resonate with a lot of people.
Paddy Martin directs this production and brings all his experience and no little skill to this great story. The cast is a real who’s who of Athlone Little Theatre with Jason Gill playing Eddie and Dermot McManus as Curly.
Curly and Eddie’s parents are played by Clive Darling and Tina O’Hara with Anne Hoey playing Julia, Eddie’s very loud and brash American wife. Finally, a very talented newcomer to the Little Theatre is Ruth Benson, playing the part of Eileen Tierney, Curly’s ‘friend’.
The play has been staged in several venues across the Midlands over the past few weeks as a fundraiser for the Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage Trust.
The play runs in the Little Theatre from November 9-14 with curtain up at 8pm each night.
Tickets can be booked by calling (090 ) 6474324. Book early so as to avoid disappointment.
