Bewley's Café Theatre in association with Mephisto Theatre Company presents

GRENADES by Tara McKevitt

Northern Ireland, 1979: Nuala Kelly takes no prisoners. A tough nine-year-old living with her mother, brother and grandfather, she thinks the class bully is just a big baby, and that all the nuns are cranky old wrinkled up cronies. She loves Thin Lizzy and The Undertones – just like her big brother, Oran. He’s fifteen and thinks he’s Casanova. Nuala thinks he’s more like Jesus; she’d do anything for him. But what she does one day for her brother, no-one could ever have imagined…


Grenades is a compelling drama that has at its heart the bruised innocence of Nuala, who must re-live the events of her childhood and finally make sense of them all.



Grenades is Tara McKevitt’s first full-length play. In 2010 she won the RTE PJ O’Connor Award for the radio version of Grenades and in 2011 won a Gold Award at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. Tara is a participant on The Abbey Theatre’s New Playwrights Programme 2011/12.

*****

“…enthralling…heart-wrenching…” – Irish Theatre Magazine
“…fantastic performance… …a vital production” – Culture Northern Ireland
“…little fire-cracker of a play…” – Herald Scotland (4 STARS)
“…powerful… …O’Grady’s fierce, heart-wrenching performance is impossible to fault”. – Scotsman
“…explosive… …beautifully nuanced performance… …packs an emotional and sociopolitical punch…” – Scottish TV



Links:

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Cast & Crew

Cast: Emma O’Grady
Production Director: Caroline Lynch
Lighting Design: Mike O’Halloran
Set Design & construction: Caroline Lynch and Emma O’Grady
Graphic Design: Patrick Cusack www.patrickcusack.net
Poster Image: Christopher Wilson www.christopherwilsonphotography.com
Sound Design: Paul Houlihan




PLEASE NOTE: We do not post out tickets, but will have a record of your booking at the door. The shows start at 1.10pm (doors open from 12.50pm). Please arrive no later than 1pm. Thank you.

All prices listed are show only. Lunch is available (soup and hearty brown brown) for an additional €4 on the door.