Newtowncashel Drama 1984 - 1999
Moll - 1999
‘Moll’ is one of J.B. Keane’s most enjoyable plays and when a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother. Moll would work for no less than a Cannon, for in her own words,
“tis hard to come back to the plain Black and White when one is used to the purple”
Producer
Canon Pratt
Father Brest
Father Loran
Liam Finnegan
Sean Farrell
Sean Michael Healy
Richard Farrell
Mrs. Andover
Moll
Bridgie
Ulick
Bishop
Majella Kenny
Marie Fallon
Mary Connor
John Flanagan
John Bannon
Anyone Could Rob A Bank - 1998
Set in the kitchen of Grey’s family shop, the central character, Badger Grey is a know all and a bluffer. In the midst of his many schemes, he plans an imaginary bank robbery which has unforeseen consequences when enacted by an opportunistic eavesdropper.
Liam Finnegan
Richard Farrell
Majella Kenny
Kathleen Mc Gann
Producer
Badger Grey
Noreen
Sarah
Francis Killian
Sean Farrell
Michael Casey
Sean Hopkins
Sean Michael Healy
Tony
Jereen
The Sergeant
Mickey
Windy O’Connell
Poor Jimmy - 1996
Jimmy is being forced by his conniving and strong-willed mother into a marriage with a middle aged, well healed widow Mrs. Harrigan. As the plot unfolds we discover this predicament that much of the humour of the play is built.
Producer
Dennis Gillan
Mrs. Nellie Gillan
Betty
Liam Finnegan
Sean Farrell
Kathleen Mc Gann
Majella Kenny
Michael Casey
John Bawle
Loretta Gallagher
Jimmy
Matt Gillan
Julia Harrigan
God and Kate Murphy - 1995
The action takes place in Kate Murphy’s public house, a small town in Southern Ireland. Kate is a middle-aged woman with obsessive religious beliefs, who is determined that her son Rory be ordained a priest, but he has other ideas. As the drama unfolds Kate’s schemes to achieve her life long ambition impact not only on Rory but also on a host of other characters.
Liam Finnegan
Kathleen Mc Gann
Olivia Donlon
Austin Healy
Producer
Kate Murphy
Shelagh O’Connor
Rory Murphy
Gerry Farrell
Nora Geraghty
Loretta Gallagher
Francis Killian
Patrick Molloy
Carrie Donovan
Norah Black
Sean Murphy
Wild Harvest - 1994
The play opens with Larry and Kay Taggart who returned ten years previously from England. They now run a family farm and look after his nephew Colm, whose parents were killed in a car crash. It os a play of many moods, humour, anger, sadness, revenge and loneliness culminating in the exposure of a long kept secret.
Producer
Larry Taggart
Kay Taggart
Colm
Gerry Farrell
Sean Farrell
Kathleen Mc Gann
Francis Killian
Austin Healy
John Bawle
Enda Cox
Sylvester Healy
Pat
Leo
Finbarr
Donal
Big Maggie - 1993
Big Maggie tells the story of a power struggle within a family on the death of their father. As the plot develops we see the mother, Maggie move from a position of subservience to a powerful dominance as she succeeds in driving her children from the home.
Gert
Maurice
Mick
Byrne
Nora Geraghty
Francis Killian
Owen Mc Kenna
Brendan Hanley
Gerry Farrell
Kathleen Mc Gann
P.J. Fallon
Pauline Casey
Producer
Maggie Polpin
Old Man
Old Woman
Claire Murphy
Sylvester Healy
Helga Starkin
Bernie Farrell
Tommy Murray
Katie
Teddy
Mary Madden
Mrs. Madden
Priest
Translations - 1992
Set in the 1830’s Ireland explores the theme of the decline of the Irish language. The crisis of the language is mirrored in a family crisis, evident when Owen, the schoolmaster’s son arrives home with the British army ordnance survey team. The subsequent argument with his brother Manus highlights Owen’s difficulty in reconciling his work for the British and loyalty to his family and native place.
Producer
Manus
Jimmy
Sarah
Gerry Farrell
Austin Healy
Sean Farrell
Ann Creed
Marie
Doalty
Bridget
Hugh
Geraldine Murray
Francis Killian
Helena Kilbride
John Bannon
Sylvester Healy
Richard Farrell
Owen Mc Kenna
Owen
Captain Lancey
Yolland
The Year of the Hiker - 1991
A Prodigal husband returns from years of wandering along the highways of the world, to the two bitter women who drove him out.
He returns to his children who are now proud and ambitious.
Gerry Farrell
Marie Fallon
Sylvester Healy
Carmel Killian
Producer
Freda
Simey
Kate
Francis Killian
Fiona Gray
Brendan Hanley
P.J. Fallon
Joe
Mary
Hiker
Willie
Three One Act Plays - 1990
Set in the 1830’s Ireland explores the theme of the decline of the Irish language. The crisis of the language is mirrored in a family crisis, evident when Owen, the schoolmaster’s son arrives home with the British army ordnance survey team. The subsequent argument with his brother Manus highlights Owen’s difficulty in reconciling his work for the British and loyalty to his family and native place.
Producer
Manus
Jimmy
Sarah
Gerry Farrell
Austin Healy
Sean Farrell
Ann Creed
Marie
Doalty
Bridget
Hugh
Geraldine Murray
Francis Killian
Helena Kilbride
John Bannon
Sylvester Healy
Richard Farrell
Owen Mc Kenna
Owen
Captain Lancey
Yolland
Daughter From Over the Water - 1989
Daughter from Over the Water is a three-act rural Irish comedy by the renowned Galway playwright M.J. Molloy. It follows a desperate older farming couple who concoct an elaborate, comical scheme to lure their emigrant daughter home from England to prevent her from marrying an "atheist" and abandoning her religion.
Larry Burke
Sibby Hayes
Nicolas Burke
Rita Higgins
John Bannon
Carmel Killian
Richard Farrell
Mairead Hanley-Casey
Larry Gallagher
Marie Fallon
John Killian
Peter Bannon
Producer
Kit Higgins
Tul Higgins
“Tuppeny” Hayes
Deirdre Shea
Tom Skelly
Gerry Farrell
Dermot Healy
Nellie Flood
Ram Rooney
Pete Higgins
Alan Page
The Field - 1988
The Field depicts the moral and social effects of greed, in this case hunger for land in Ireland, culminating in the murder of an innocent bidder for a piece of land.
Producer
Bull Mc Cabe
Tadgh Mc Cabe
Mick Flannagan
Michael Casey
Sean Farrell
Brendan Hanley
John Bannon
Mairead Hanley-Casey
Peter Bannon
Gerry Farrell
Dermot Healy
Marie Fallon
Maime Flannagan
“Bird” O’Donnell
William Dee
Liam Flanagan
Maggie Butler
Tommy Murray
Tom Skelly
John Killian
Richard Farrell
Pauline Casey
The Bishop
“Danny” Mc Cabe
Father Murphy
Sergeant Tom Leary
Mrs. Mc Cabe
The Communication Cord - 1987
Set in a restored thatched cottage close to the sea in the remote townland of Ballybeg, County Donegal,
The Communication Cord is a farce which is preoccupied with language and its powerful effects.
Producer
Tim Gallagher
Jack Mc Neilis
Nora Dan
Michael Casey
Gerry Farrell
John Banon
Marie Fallon
Mairead Hanley-Casey
Richard Farrell
Maureen Brennan
Peter Bannon
Agnes Rowan
Claire Harkin
Senator Doctor Donovan
Susan Donavan
Barney The Banks
Evette Giroux
The King of Fridays Men - 1986
The King of Friday's Men is a classic Irish folk drama in three acts written by the playwright Michael Joseph (MJ) Molloy in 1948.
Set in the west of Ireland in 1787, the play centers on a feudal custom where cruel landlords claimed "the first night" with their tenants' newlywed brides.
Producer
Gaisceen Brehony
Una Brehony
Owen Fenigan
Michael Casey
Sean Farrell
Maureen Brennan
Gerry Farrell
Marie Fallon
John Bannon
Tom Skelly
Peter Bannon
Maura Pender
Bartley Dowd
Boorla
Rory Commons
Martina Mc Philips
Dermot Healy
Richard Farrell
Tony Nolan
Biddy
Murty
Caesar French
Blind Piper
Sive - 1985
Sive (1959) is a powerful Irish folk-drama by John B. Keane set in rural 1950s Kerry,
focusing on the dark consequences of greed, poverty, and arranged marriage.
It follows a young orphan girl, Sive, sold by her weak uncle and greedy aunt to an elderly farmer for money, defying her desire for a younger man, Liam Scuab.
Producer
Thomasheen Seán Rua
Pats Bocock
Corthalawn
Michael Casey
Sean Farrell
Tom Skelly
Brendan Hanley
Liam Scuab
Seán Dota
Donal Connolly
Peter Bannon
Agnes Rowan
Josephine Lane
Kathleen Mc Gann
Jack Bannon
Sive
Nanna Glavin
Mena Glavin
Mike Glavin
Big Maggie - 1984
Big Maggie is a dark, powerful 1969 Irish play by John B. Keane. Set in 1960s rural Ireland, it centers on newly widowed Maggie Polpin, who seizes control of her family's farm and shop.
Defying traditional expectations of the nurturing mother, her relentless pursuit of independence leads to tense clashes and ultimately alienates her four children
Michael Casey
Kathleen Mc Gann
Tom Skelly
Pauline Casey
Producer
Maggie Polpin
Old Man
Old Woman
Agnes Rowan
Jack Bannon
Gerry Farrell
Sean Farrell
Gert
Maurice
Mick
Byrne
Josephine Lane
Donal Connolly
Patricia Casey
Barbara Murphy
Katie
Teddy
Mary Madden
Mrs. Madden