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DRAMA
Friday 12 & Saturday 13 March 2010 at 8pm
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Lifford Players
Tickets: €12/€10, Friends €10
EXTRA PERFORMANCE!
Tuesday 27 April 2010 at 8pm.
All tickets €10In aid of the St Eunan's Parents Committee.
Following a successful festival circuit campaign which has seen the Lifford Players qualify for both the Ulster Drama Finals and the All Ireland Drama Finals in Athlone, they will return on Tues 27 April for a performance in aid of the St Eunan's Parents Committee.
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The Lifford Players, one of Ireland's most enduring local drama companies, present the play which launched Brian Friel on to the international stage. Philadelphia, Here I Come! is a comedy drama which follows Gar O'Donnell on the eve of his emigration to America.
Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and his humiliating job at his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O'Donnell has accepted his aunt's invitation to come to Philadelphia.
On the eve of his departure, despite the fantasies Gar entertains of life in America, all it take to stop him leaving would be one word of affection from his father or Kathy, or a word of genuine understanding from his friends.
Local young actors Michael Kelly and Patrick McBrearty, who play both incarnations of Gar O'Donnell, will be joined by Anne Shiels, Leo McBride, Lauren Gallagher, Aidan O'Doherty, John O'Doherty, Kate Doherty, James McGarrigle, Michael Carney, Arthur McGarrigle, Kieran Kelly, Seamus McDaid, Conor Brennan and John McGinley. Anne Kelly and Terry O'Doherty share directing duties.
Over our ten year history, the Lifford Players have presented many successful dramas on our stage including Waiting for Godot, 12 Angry Men, The Weir and Many Young Men of Twenty.
Established in 1952, the Lifford Players have been winners of the All Ireland Drama Festival 1982, 1985, and 1987.
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