It's a Quare World

It’s a Quare World by Brian Fox Preceded by “Developing a Play Through Community Arts”, a talk by Guest Speaker, Don Chapman The Play AJ, the protagonist, lived a Spartan, moralistic life and was rigid and uncompromising with his family. He was a tram driver in a Dublin he felt to be intimate and more civilised and genteel than the city he now occupies and when the trams ceased and he was transferred to the buses, he hated the job and he hated what the city was becoming as it rapidly expanded and became, in his eyes, impersonal, cold and full of self-centred people. His preoccupation with the past and his desire to create a perfect world for his family in the face of what he saw as the moral degeneracy of the city, led to the disintegration of that family as he successively alienated his son, his daughter and his wife. The play deals with him in his old age, when his estranged son and daughter return, each with very different agendas, and he is confronted with the ghosts of his past. A lunch of Hot Home made soup and crusty bread is offered at 1.00pm followed by the talk and the script in hand moved reading.