Poor Beast In The Rain 1995

Poor Beast in the Rain

By Billy Roche
Directed by Garry Hynes

When Danger Doyle returns Georgie a young boy who was ready to give into his friends’ way of isolation and keeping the past hidden has a change of heart. Even though Danger had a desire to run away with Eileen’s mother to London he now has a proposed plan to help Eileen escape of her reality, that is, her fathers betting shop…

a simple and very believable story, told with a marvellous flair for language and understanding of the emotional claustropophobia of even a fair-sized Irish town
The Sunday Press, 5 March 1995
rarely has heartbreak been so terribly palpable and so utterly poignant
The Sunday Tribune, 5 March 1995

Credits

Cast

  • Eileen Gwynne McElveen
  • Danger Peter Caffrey
  • Georgie Claude Clancy
  • Joe Ray McBride
  • Molly Marion O’Dwyer
  • Stephen Patrick Waldron

Creative Team

  • Director Garry Hynes
  • Design Franziska Wilcken
  • Lighting Design Ian Sommerville
  • Costume Design Monica Ennis
  • ‘Poor Beast in the Rain’ Pierce Turner (written & performed by)
  • ‘One Way Love’ Billy Roche (written by)

Production Team

  • Production Manager Tony Killeen
  • Stage Managers Bernie Walsh
  • Angela Duffy
  • Trainee Assistant Stage Manager Claire Burkitt
  • Technicians/Operators David Murphy
  • Eamonn Fox
  • Andrew Smith
  • Set Construction Alan Clarke
  • Set Carpenter Frank Gleeson
  • Wardrobe Monica Ennis
  • The Costume Company
  • Assisted By Orfhlaith Stafford
  • Anja Seiss
  • Music Pierce Turner
  • Billy Roche
  • Scenic Artist Ele Woods
  • Publicity Photography Aengus McMahon
  • Production Photography Amelia Stein
  • Graphic/Programme DesignBite! Associates
  • Advertising Mary McPartlan
  • Consultant Artistic Director Garry Hynes
  • General Manager Jane Daly
  • Administrator Anne Butler
  • Box Office Jenny Kelly
  • Susan McKenna

Dates & Tickets

Galway Druid Theatre, Chapel Lane 2 March 1995