Performance Dates
21 Mar 2001 – 7 Apr 2001March 2001
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Details
- Playwright
- Brian Friel
- Director
- Noel O'Neill
AddressBlarney Castle - Kalamunda Performing Arts Centre - The Irish Club
Molly Sweeney will be performed at The Blarney Castle (cnr Newcastle & Stirling Streets, Perth) March 21, 22, 23, The Kalamunda Performing Arts Centre 29, 30, 31 and The Irish Club April 5, 6, 7
Irish dramatist Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney is a sheer delight for the soul and an intellectual challenge for the mind. This play creates a world of emotional blindness where an audience is forced to find it's way by feeling rather than by feel.
Molly Sweeney is the deceptively simple, yet richly layered story of a blind woman's journey into the world of sight and beyond. In traditional Irish style, Friel weaves together Molly Sweeney, blind since birth: her husband, a champion of good causes; and a whiskey-sodden, once famous eye surgeon. Friel presents each resounding repercussions. Friel masterfully spins a lush and sensitive narrative, rousing emotions and lifting the audience to an unexpected and poignant conclusion.
Irish dramatist Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney is a sheer delight for the soul and an intellectual challenge for the mind. This play creates a world of emotional blindness where an audience is forced to find it's way by feeling rather than by feel.
Molly Sweeney is the deceptively simple, yet richly layered story of a blind woman's journey into the world of sight and beyond. In traditional Irish style, Friel weaves together Molly Sweeney, blind since birth: her husband, a champion of good causes; and a whiskey-sodden, once famous eye surgeon. Friel presents each resounding repercussions. Friel masterfully spins a lush and sensitive narrative, rousing emotions and lifting the audience to an unexpected and poignant conclusion.
"Meticulously crafted,
beautifully written...
powerful, epic."
Irish Independent
Dispassionate, eloquence
and psychological honesty...
such vitality and warmth."
London Sunday Times
"Molly Sweeney has brought out
the best in Brian Friel...
an enchanting drama...
rich with rapturous poetry."
New York Times
Bookings
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