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Tues 24 to Sat 28 June at 8pm
The Seafarer
By Conor McPherson
Abbey Theatre
Opening night special offer: all tickets €24 - buy 1 get 1 free
Wed to Sat: €24/€18
Friends: Personal 3 for 2, Couples 4 for 2, Business 6 for 3
Cast Biographies
Liam Carney James ‘Sharky’ Harkin
Liam’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes Romeo and Juliet, The Playboy of the Western World, Homeland, Portia Coughlan, Done up Like a Kipper, Brothers of the Brush, A Picture of Paradise, The Passion of Jerome and Twenty Grand. Other work includes Cruel and Tender by Martin Crimp (Project Arts Centre), John Plunkett in Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson (Everyman Palace Cork and national tour), Frozen (Tall Tales), Mud (The Corn Exchange), All’s Well That Ends Well (Classic Stage) and Bedbound (Corcadorca).
He works regularly with The Passion Machine, most recently playing Walter in Studs by Paul Mercier at the Gaiety Theatre. Films include Speed-Dating, Studs, Spin the Bottle, Ocras, Martin, Tubberware, Gangs of New York, When the Sky Falls, Angela’s Ashes, The Boxer, JJ Biker, Braveheart, Far and Away and The Commitments. Television credits include Single Handed, Running to Standstill, Pure Mule, The Clinic, The Ambassador, Glenroe, Ballykissangel, Making the Cut and The Hanging Gael. Liam recently made his directorial debut with the ‘Molly Soliloquy’ from Ulysses.
George Costigan Mr Lockhart
George last appeared at the Abbey Theatre in Blue/Orange. His other theatre credits include Don Quixote, Of Mice and Men, Elizabeth Rex, Hamlet (Birmingham Rep), The Odd Couple (Liverpool Everyman Playhouse), Going Straight (Bill Kenwright), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Manchester Library Theatre) and The Graduate (Gielgud Theatre).
His television credits include The Story of the Moors Murders, Where the Heart is, Stan the Man (Granada), Dalziel and Pascoe, If We Left Africa Alone, Down to Earth, The Long Firm, DI Carter (BBC), Rose and Maloney, The Bill (ITV), Dinotopia (Dinotopia Productions), Linda Green (Red Productions), Swiss Family Robinson (SFR), Peak Practice, Kavanagh QC, (Central) and Inspector Morse (Anglia). Films include Frozen, Calendar Girls, Rita, Sue and Bob Too and Shirley Valentine.
Phelim Drew Nicky Giblin
Phelim’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes The Playboy of the Western World, The Crucible, A Doll’s House, The Shaughraun, Portia Coughlan, Heavenly Bodies, She Stoops to Conquer, A Whistle in the Dark, Hinterland, The Cherry Orchard and The Wake. More recent theatre work includes Sleeping Beauty (Landmark Productions), Two Rooms (Focus), Operation Easter (Calypso), Thérèse Racquin, The Beckett Festival (London) and A Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre).
He has also worked at the Almeida Theatre, London, the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, the Gaiety Theatre and with The Passion Machine, Pigsback, Rough Magic, Loose Canon and Druid theatre companies. Films include In Like Flynn, Studs, King Arthur, The Escapist, Angela’s Ashes, Bloom, Old New Borrowed Blue, Shergar, The Nephew, Spacetruckers, Widow’s Peak, My Left Foot, The Commitments and Fatal Inheritance. Television credits include Rough Diamond, The Clinic, The Big Bow Wow, Making the Cut, Mirad a Boy from Bosnia and Sharpe’s Battle.
Maelíosa Stafford Richard Harkin
Maelíosa’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes The Playboy of the Western World and A Whistle in the Dark. Other acting credits include The Lonesome West, Galway, London, Broadway, Sydney, The Playboy of the Western World, Carthaginians, Cheapside, Lovers Meeting (Druid), The Gigli Concert, Faith Healer, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (O’Punksky’s Theatre), Trelawney of the Wells, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Democracy, A Hard God (Sydney Theatre Company) and Dancing at Lughnasa (Queensland Theatre Company).
Directing credits include At the Black Pig’s Dyke (Sydney Festival, London) Song of the Yellow Bittern, Belfry, The Midnight Court (Druid), Bailegangaire, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs (O’Punksky’s Theatre), Sweet Road, 7 Stories, Rough Justice (Ensemble Independent Theatre), The Cripple of Inishmaan, Embers (Sydney Theatre Company), Much Ado About Nothing (Kilkenny Arts Festival with John O’Hare), Tom and Clem (Marian Street Theatre), American Buffalo (Gary Penny Productions) and The Cavalcaders (Queensland Theatre Company). Television and film credits include The Midnight Court, Stingers 3, Me, Myself and I, Quigley Down Under and White Collar Blue.
Don Wycherley Ivan Curry
Don recently played Eddie in Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love at the Peacock. Other work at the Abbey Theatre includes A Month in the Country, The Shaughraun, Eden, A Whistle in the Dark, The House, Translations, The Last Apache Reunion, The Honeyspike, Tarry Flynn, The Muesli Belt, Portia Coughlan and The Comedy of Errors, to mention but a few. Other theatre work includes Conversations on a Homecoming (Livin’ Dred) and Poor Beast in the Rain (Gate Theatre).
Television credits include The Running Mate, Showbands, Bachelor’s Walk, Ballykissangel, Black Day at Blackrock, Father Ted, Filleann an Feall and Making the Cut. Films include Speed-Dating, Garage, Shrooms, Veronica Guerin, When Brendan Met Trudy, Sweeney Todd, The Last of the High Kings, Michael Collins, I Went Down, One Man’s Hero and The General.
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