At the Black Pigs Dyke

Set on the border between Leitrim and Fermanagh, this tragic love story weaves together past and present through the tradition of mumming and storytelling accompanied by toe-tapping dance and live music from fiddle, accordian and bodhran. This play tells a story that would break your heart while touching your comic nerve.

‘a remarkable mix of passion, despair’- The Irish Times, October 1992
‘mystical victory from Druid’- The Sunday Press, 4 October 1992
‘a rich and densely layered mosaic of folk memory and myth, set in a time and place that is eternal and unchanging, as cycles of murder and revenge, actual and enacted endlessly repeat’- The Sunday Tribune, 4 October 1992
‘stunning new play…spell-binding…savagely funny’- Connacht Tribune

Credits

Cast

  • Lizzie Boles Stella McCusker
  • Young-Lizzie/Sarah Boles/Elizabeth Diane O’Kelly
  • Jack Boles/1st hero in Mummers Play Brendan Laird
  • Hugh Brolly/2nd hero in Mummers Play David Wilmot
  • Michael Flynn/Captain Mummers Play Ray McBride
  • Frank Beirne/Doctor in Mummes Play Peter Gowen
  • Tom Fool Frankie McCafferty
  • Miss Funny Deirdre O’Kane
  • Beelzebub/Musician Brendan O’Regan
  • Butcher/Musician Cora Smyth

Creative Team

  • Director Maelíosa Stafford
  • Design Monica Frawley
  • Lighting Design Stephen McManus
  • Costume Design Monica Frawley
  • Music Brendan O’Regan
  • Choreography Ray McBride

Production Team

  • Production Manager Tony Killeen
  • Stage Director Moya McHugh
  • Stage Manager Bernie Walsh
  • Assistant Stage Manager Angela Duffy
  • Technician/ Operator Eamonn Fox
  • Shannon Light
  • Anthony Courtney
  • Set Construction Alan Clarke
  • Assisted by Frank Gleeson
  • Wardrobe Monica Ennis
  • Assisted by Helen Lane
  • Orfhlaith Stafford
  • Crew John O’Grady
  • Bernie Walsh
  • Alan Clarke
  • Frank Gleeson
  • Anthony Courteney
  • Shannon Light
  • Masks Construction Áine Philips
  • Scenic Artist Ned McLoughlin
  • Photography Amelia Stein
  • Poster Design Catherine McConville
  • Assistant to Designer Matthew Deely
  • Advertising Mary McPartlan
  • Rose Parkinson
  • Box Office Ann O’Dea
  • Front of House Yvonne Barrett
  • Linda Barrett
  • Ethel Burke
  • Cornelia Murphy
  • Denise Stafford
  • Orfhlaith Stafford
  • Script Editor Martin Drury
  • Artistic Director Maelíosa Stafford
  • General Manager Jane Daly
  • Administrator Anne Butler