THE IRISH premiere of Yellow Moon by award winning playwright David Greig will be staged by Galway Youth Theatre for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the fortunes of two teenagers on the run. Silent Leila is an introverted girl who has a passion for celebrity magazines. Stag Lee MacAlinden is the deadest of dead-end kids in a dead-end town. They never meant to get mixed up in a murder, but now they need a place to hide.
Yellow Moon explores what it means to live in a celebrity-obsessed world and what it is that defines who you are when you are 17. The play has already been staged in Britain where it has enjoyed critical acclaim. The Guardian called it “one of the best new plays of the year” while The Daily Telegraph said it was “breathtakingly imaginative, unforgettable”.
The GYT production will be directed by Andrew Flynn, with set design by Owen MacCarthaigh, costumes by Petra Breathnach, and lighting by Adam Fitzsimons.
Yellow Moon will be staged in the Nuns Island Theatre from Monday April 19 to Sunday 25 at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.
