Push Forward Festival - Theatre Day 1
The New Theatre
Push Forward Festival at The New Theatre - Day #1
Date: Thursday December 1st from 6pm.
Tickets €10
Join us at The New Theatre and Connolly Books for an evening of new short play performances by a number of Ireland’s leading writers and performers. Our first night of Theatre performances will be The Outsider by Tara Maria Lovett and Sing it Slantways by Jack Harte.
The Outsider
Written by Tara Maria Lovett
Performed by Amy O’Dwyer
Sister Lucia is a Carmelite nun. The Mother Superior orders her to go outside to deliver the consecrated hosts to a nursing home. There is no one else to do it. She lives in a world of elderly women.
Her world is turned upside down by those she meets and she commits an unforgivable sin. She keeps her sin secret.
Now when she looks out her cell window the world outside is a constant reminder of what she allowed to happen and what she allowed herself to dream.
Sing it Slantways
Written by Jack Harte
Performed by Darina Gallagher
Stella has a dilemma. Her ex-best-friend, Chrissie, is marrying her ex-boyfriend, Joe.
They would both love for Stella to sing at their wedding. She recognises this
invitation from Chrissie as no more than power play. But how does she respond?
Refuse, and she will give Chrissie the satisfaction of thinking that she is still upset at
the loss of Joe. Accept, and Chrissie will enjoy the satisfaction of feeling she has
managed to humiliate her further. But all is not as it seems, and revenge can cut all
the deeper if the jab is delivered slantways.
Doors: 17:45
