A CANADIAN Theatre Company is getting ready to make its Irish debut with a production of Enda Walsh’s Bedbound in Galway next month.
MacKenzieRo, the Irish Repertory Theatre Company of Canada, will stage Bedbound at the Druid Lane Theatre from March 30 to April 2 at 8pm.
This blackly comic play tells the story of a father and daughter who share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrifying silence in her head.
MacKenzieRo is the only theatre company in Canada dedicated to exploring the strong and deep shared heritage between Canada and Ireland. It was founded by Autumn Smith, who also directs this production of Bedbound, and Cathy Murphy, who plays the polio-stricken daughter. They will be joined by Canadian theatre legend Richard Greenblatt in the role of the father.
MacKenzieRo’s developing work, The Rake’s Progress: Do You Know Where Tom Rakewell Is?, will also be read at Druid Lane Theatre on April 2 with a cast of Irish and Canadian actors. Murphy and Smith’s play Teacht i dTír, written as Gaeilge agus as Bearla, about the 38,000 famine refugees who emigrated to Toronto in 1847, will be taken to the Gaeltacht schools around Ireland.
For more information and booking contact the Town Hall Theatre on 091 - 569777 or email www.tht.ie See also www.macke nziero.com
