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The Wood of the Whispering

By M.J. Molloy
Directed by Garry Hynes

The Wood of the Whispering is set in the year 1950 in the West of Ireland. We are invited not to a romantic anti-urban fiction about our past but to the fullness of life as it was lives and endured by the community who flitted around the Wood of the Whispering.

Director Garry Hynes gives reign to the earthy comedy and it flows like a river in full spate
Sunday Independent
probably their finest production to date
Sunday Tribune
a glorious comedy … a rich and robust production
Evening Herald
A triumph … compulsory viewing
Irish Times

Credits

Cast

  • Sanbatch Daly Mick Lally
  • Con Kinsella Séan McGinley
  • Paddy King Maelíosa Stafford
  • Jimmy King Michael O’Sullivan
  • Stephen Lanigan Ray McBride
  • Shiela Lanigan Mary Ryan
  • Mark Tristnan Eamon Maguire
  • Hotha Broderick Mairtin Jamesie
  • Kitty Wallace Mary McEvoy
  • Sadie Tubridy Marie Mullen

Creative Team

  • Director Garry Hynes
  • Design Monica Frawley
  • Lighting Design Barbara Bradshaw
  • Costume Design Monica Frawley

Production Team

  • Stage Manager Sean Mooney
  • Technical Manager John Ashton
  • Set Construction Steve Plant, Eddie Gordon
  • Operator (Lights) Tom Conroy
  • Props Seán McGinley, Eamonn Maguire
  • Publicity & Programme Jerome Hynes
  • Poster Robert Armstrong
  • Photography Mark Kilroy
  • Programme note Micheal Ó hAodha, Michael D. Higgins
  • Secretary/ Reception Orfhlaith Stafford
  • Front of House Manager Padraic O’Neill

Dates & Tickets

Galway 2 - 24 August 1983

Lisdoonvarna Kincara Hotel 12 September 1983

Inis Oirr 14 September 1983

Inishmann 16 September 1983

Rossaveal 17 September 1983

Clifden Town Hall 18 September 1983

Westport Town Hall 19 September 1983

Milltown Town Hall 20 September 1983

Ballyshannon 22 September 1983

Ballybofey 24 September 1983

Dublin Edmund Burke Hall 27 September - 8 October 1983

Galway, Salthill Leisureland 3 - 6 November 1983

Dublin Olympia Theatre 5 - 19 December 1983