The Mai by Marina Carr, Cork Arts Theatre 1-3 October (1 Viewer)

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The Mai


1st October - 3rd October 8pm.

Dir. Judie Chalmers

Cork Arts Theatre
Camden Court
Carrolls Quay
Cork

Tkts €15/€12 conc groups welcome.
Bookings call 021 4505624





Chapter Theatre Productions presents The Mai by Marina Carr.
Cast: Anntoinette Hilliard, Judy Donoven, Tess Healy Maguire, Claire Jackson, Maria O'Callaghan,
June McCarthy, Marina Lawlor and Taylor Lane.

Set in the Irish midlands whose landscape becomes the arena in which Marina Carr's Gothic epic
expands, The Mai revolves around Millie's narrative of the desperate loves of her mother, a woman
faithful to a man incapable of loyalty. For years she has spent hours contemplating Owl Lake and
waiting for his return. In a house of proud, mad and sometimes comical women, she and her daughter,
her sisters, her aunts and her grandmother, a Spanish beauty and sixty-year widow of a
nine-fingered fisherman, weigh their second chances as the legend of the lake unfolds in Marina
Carr's exquisite and fearless tragedy.

 

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Opening night tomorrow people

Renowned Irish playwright Marina Carr's gothic epic 'The Mai' will be brought to life by Cork's Chapter Theatre Productions at Cork Arts Theatre this October. The play will run from 1 - 3 October at 8pm each night and features the cream of Cork talent. Tickets are €15/€12 with concession and are available at the Cork Arts Theatre.
This fearless and haunting tragedy centres on the story of The Mai, a forty year old woman who is struggling to save her marraige. When her estranged husband Robert returns to the new house she has built by Owl Lake, her deep love for him is tested once again. Their daughter Millie narrates this dark and sometimes comical story as she recalls The Mai and Robert's tumultuous relationship and the legend of Owl Lake.
Four generations of The Mai's family gather in her new house as she desperately succumbs to the obsession and madness that is so prevalent amongst the women around her.
The matriarch, an opium smoking 100 year old Grandma Fraochlan, herself pining for her nine fingered fisherman, fails to realise the effect her own neurosis has had on the family. The women march blindly on as their legacy once again reveals itself - with tragic results.
This award winning play by Marina Carr received critical acclaim when staged in the 1994 Dublin Theatre Festival. Regarded as one of the most talented writers in Irish theatre, Carr often explores the notion of heriditary destructive behaviours. Her work includes 'Portia Coughlan', 'By the Bog of Cats' and most recently, 'Marble'.
'The Mai' by Marina Carr will run in the Cork Arts Theatre October 1st - 3rd. Tickets are available at the Cork Arts Theatre 0214505624"