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The acclaimed new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will tour to the Town Hall Theatre on June 7 and 8 as part of Roscommon-based Enchanted Croí Theatre’s Irish tour. The work of a women-led creative team, the piece amplifies the seldom-told stories of impoverished women and the choices they made as they fought to survive 19th-century cottier life.

Roscommon-based Enchanted Croí Theatre has recently announced that its production of the new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will embark on a 13-venue nationwide tour through spring and summer 2023. The show is the work of California-based law professor and writer/composer-lyricist Amy Day, who was inspired to write the show in 2019 after visiting the National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park while on a day off from teaching a course in international children’s rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway. The cast includes Galway native Martin Gilligan and Galway-based singer-songwriter Tracy Bruen.