“I cry in the daytime and in the night season am not silent.”
The Night Season tells the story of three Sligo sisters who, abandoned by their mother 15 years previously, have been brought up by their cynical drunken father and their eccentric grandmother. Normal life is interrupted when a visiting film actor playing the poet Yeats, comes to stay. Each sister is yearning for a different type of love and this young actor may be the catalyst for the escape they seek.
‘The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history – just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It’s also delightfully, rudely funny.’ – Financial Times
‘Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s second play happily mixes the lyrical and the profane. Her characters, three generations of a disputatious Irish family in County Sligo, slip easily from snatches of poetry to copious swearing. They are also effortlessly amusing.’ – The Stage
Please note, contains some strong language and some mature content. Recommended for ages 16+.
Presented by Out of the Blue Theatre Company in association with the Drama Lab
Written By Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Directed by Sean Ronan
Cast
John Eastman – Ronan Murphy
Patrick Kennedy – Ken McEvoy
Judith Kennedy – Therese Mitchell
Rose Kennedy – Emer McNally
Maud Kennedy – Naoise NigFhloinn
Lily O’Hanlon – Ann Colderbanks
Gary Malone – George McKevitt
