A Weekend of Drama
What a weekend of live storytelling awaits audiences!
A weekend of drama, laughter, and entertainment, with two plays each night showcasing the very best of local and visiting talent.
Each night join us for the world premiere of Neil Haran’s Contradictions, along with another production:
Saturday 18th October, we welcome the return of our Dublin friends, the Parnassus Arts Group, with their musical drama Are You Right There Percy.
Sunday 19th October, provides another opportunity to enjoy Gerard Kennedy’s hilarious comedy Credit Crunch.
Monday 20th October, we are thrilled to welcome our friends and colleagues from Doonbeg Drama Group to the Corofin stage with their touching production of Willow.
Join us for three wonderful nights of theatre, with complimentary tea and coffee each evening and some lively post-theatre fun to complete the experience!
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Contradictions Written and Directed by Neil Haran
Presented by Corofin Dramatic Society
Cast
- Dave Hanley
- Alan Maguire
- Alfie Kent
Crew
- Stage Manager - Mary O’Donohue
- Set - Frank O’Donohue, Neil Haran, John Clancy
- Sound - Clare Foley
- Lights - John Clancy
- Make Up - Rona Lyons
Synopsis
When an ambitious reporter enters a maximum-security prison to interview a powerful drug lord, he expects to expose corruption and crime from a safe moral distance. Instead, the conversation twists into a confrontation, as the prisoner gradually reveals that the reporter himself is a customer of the very cartel he seeks to condemn. What begins as an exposé becomes a dangerous unmasking, where privilege, hypocrisy, and society’s double standards collide.
The play holds a mirror up to both journalist and audience, asking: who truly sustains the world we claim to oppose?
Are Ye Right There Percy by Declan O’Brien
Presented by Parnassus Arts Group
Vincent Kennedy (Musical Director)
Singers and Musicians
- Sinead Clancy
- Eoin Dunne
- Vincent Kennedy
- Noel Larkin
- Mary McDade
- Owen McLoughlin
- Jimmy Nolan
- Sean Treanor
With
- Pat Egan (as Percy French)
- Declan O’Brien (as John)
Synopsis
Are Ye Right There Percy is a musical drama featuring the songs and poetry of Percy French.
The show features a troupe of 10 musicians, singer and actors. It takes the audience on a magical musical journey down memory lane through some of Percy French’s timeless songs.
Corofin, of course, has a special connection with Percy French through the story of the West Clare Railway.
Some members of the group have a close connection with Corofin. Sinead Clancy is married to Declan, the son of the legendary Myles Clancy from Ballycashen. Declan O’Brien’s mother, Eileen was the eldest of the Ballycashen Clancy clan.
Credit Crunch by Gerard Kennedy
Presented by Corofin Dramatic Society
Directed by John Clancy
Cast
- Martin O’Donohue
- Judith Davoren
- Stephen Birmingham
- Noreen Lynch
- Alan Maguire
Crew
- Set Frank O’Donohue
- Lights John Clancy
- Sound Clare Foley
- Stage Manager Mary O’Donohue
- Make Up Rona Lyons
Synopsis
Set in 2009. The Celtic Tiger is dead, Ireland has fallen into recession, “there’s job losses, scandals and bad weather” … but most of all there is the pressure of meeting loan repayments! Luckily, you can drop into the local pub to share your worries and drown your sorrows! Into this mix throw menacing strangers, a village simpleton, a credit-trapped farmer and a love hungry barmaid, what could possibly go wrong! This hilarious one-act comedy reminds us it is always better to ask than to assume!
Willow by Catherine McKiernan
Presented by Doonbeg Drama Group
Director Mary J. Egan
Cast
- John Keane
- Rita McInerney
- Susan Rice
- Ray Conroy
Crew
- Stage Manager - Margaret Dillon
- Sound - Ann Marie Doyle, Anna Mai Keane
- Lighting - Aiden Comerford
- Make Up - Laura Capon, Bernie Capon
- Backstage Crew - Karl Mc Mahon
Synopsis
Willow is a poignant one-act play set over the course of a single day in a quiet seaside town in the West of Ireland. Through subtle and emotionally charged interactions, it explores the themes of love, loss and the fragile nature of memory and truth. As the characters navigate personal revelations and unspoken grief, the play gently challenges the audience to consider how subjective truth can shape relationships and define the paths we choose.