JOHN ARDEN and Margaretta D’Arcy will treat theatre lovers to a ‘skeleton version’ of Arden’s 1960 play The Happy Haven, as part of the Forge At Gort Literary festival.
Arden and D’Arcy will read from The Happy Haven, as well as their other works, in The Gallery Café, Gort, on Saturday at 10.30pm.
This grotesque comedy was written by Arden, following a nightmare he had about “wild events” in an old people’s home. An ambitious doctor plans to experiment on his elderly patients with a rejuvenating drug. They discover his intentions and turn the tables on him and the health service.
Admission is free. There will also be music by Clare Sawtell and Mary O’Sullivan.
Also reading at the Forge festival will be novelist Juliet Bressan. Juliet will read from her debut novel Snow White Turtle Doves in Sullivan’s Hotel, Gort, on Saturday at 1.15pm. Juliet writes a satirical column for the Medicine Weekly and is a script advisor to the RTÉ series The Clinic. Admission is free.
The Forge At Gort festival is organised by The Western Writers’ Centre. For more information contact 087 - 2178138 or email [email protected]
