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Drama
Fri 4 November 2011 at 8pm
All Souls' Night
Centre Stage Theatre
Tickets: €18/€15, Friends
Joseph Tomelty 1911 – 2011
Joseph Tomelty's classic play celebrates the centenary of this excellent writer's birth. Universally regarded as an Ulster Classic, All Souls' Night is a drama of greed and superstition - its action taking place on the night when traditionally the dead return to the hearth of their earthly homes.
Premiered in 1948, it has remained a staple of Irish theatre, has been performed across the world and is the play that inspired the late J.B. Keane to take up a pen and write Sive.
Set on the shores of Strangford Lough, it deals with the tragic events in the home of John Quinn, an illiterate fisherman, his ambitious son and his miserly wife, whose greed caused the death of their youngest son and will ultimately destroy them..'
Colin Carnegie directs, John Leslie designs, and Roma Tomelty and Gordon Fulton head the usual strong company of Ulster actors in this not to be missed production of a play universally acclaimed as an Irish Classic.
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