The Spiral Season

The Spiral Season challenges the directors to embrace the Studio space and produce productions focusing on the acting and the text.

"Falling Slowly"
written & directed by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin
(from the story by Eoin Ó hAnnracháin & David O'Byrne)
Wednesday February 10th-Sunday 13th.

"Two"
written by Jim Cartwright, directed by Rachel Yoder
Wednesday February 24th-Saturday 27t

"Tissue"
written by Louise Page, directed by Kath Geraghty
Wednesday March 10th-Saturday 13th

Why me?  It is a question as unsolvable as why am I here? Why me?

Tissue follows Sally Bacon’s journey through the fear, shock, anger and ultimate survival of breast cancer. With both humour and insight the play explores our attitudes to the breast; using the perspectives of self, childhood and motherhood, and wryly charts the reactions of friends, brother, father and lovers. Fast paced, funny, and profoundly moving, Tissue broke taboos surrounding breast cancer when first staged in 1978; and over thirty years later is as fresh, relevant and perceptive as ever.   Whilst there have been many advances in the treatment and understanding of breast cancer during this time, the fear and confusion Sally encounters is still part of the experience of many 21st Century women.

 This new production features Shane Falvey(Cuckoo’s Nest, The Pencil, Dracula),  Kate McSwiney-O’Rourke (4.48 Psychosis, Lifeboat & The Murder Monologues) and Cathy Walsh (Memory Deleted, The Pied Piper, Daghdha Dance Mentoring Programme),  and is directed by Kath Geraghty, the Granary’s Technical Manager. Kath is more usually a lighting designer who has lit for Alan Ayckbourn, John Godber, Tim Firth and many others; she was awarded an MA in Woman’s Studies in 2008.

Louise Page is one of the most prominent English feminist playwrights of her generation.  Educated at the University of Birmingham, she became Yorkshire Television's Fellow in Drama and Television at the University of Sheffield. She was awarded the George Devine Award for her play Salonika, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London in 1982, and was appointed Resident Writer at the Royal Court Theatre (1982-3). She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edge Hill University from 2004-2006.  She has also worked extensively in Radio.

"The Alice Trilogy"
written by Tom Murphy, directed by Maria Moynihan
Wednesday March 24th-Saturday 27th

Written by 'the most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination in the Irish theatre today', Alice Trilogy by Tom Murphy is a haunting play that charts the interior life of Alice, a woman alone, slowly losing her grip on reality.

Directed by Maria Moynian and featuring Una Kirwan and Paula McGlinchey.

The Spiral Season challenges the directors to embrace the studio space and to produce work focusing on the acting and the text.

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