Granary Rehearsed Playreadings presents

ACTION by Sam Shepard| directed by Adam McElderry  

Granary Studio | Wed 19th March | 6pm | €Free

Four young friends are gathered for a Christmas dinner. One carves the turkey, another loses his temper at his own ineptitude and smashes chairs, a third calmly sweeps up the broken pieces. At the same time there is an undercurrent of talk about dancing bears, a moth consumed by flames and Walt Whitman's expectations for America.
Sam Shepard's early play deal with the collision of the inner self and the threatening world at large. As the characters go through behavioral rituals - eating, drinking, pairing off - they are shadowed by apocalyptical events beyond their comprehension.

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