Celebrate Culture Night Friday September 16th with rehearsed readings of two new plays by Aidan O’ Keeffe and Mary Angland in the Daily Grind Coffee Shop, O’Brien Street, Kanturk at 7.00 pm.
Mill Road Letters from Aidan is a poignant drama touching on emigration, loneliness and lost love while The Invitation is a comedy where I take a light- hearted look at our attitude to being invited to weddings and specifically when we’re not! .
“The Mill Road Letters”: Denis got his teenage kicks devouring “Born To Run”, “Raging Bull” and “On The Road”. In 1988, as soon as he turned twenty, he left Kanturk for New York. His brother Jimmy also listened to Springsteen, watched De Niro and read Kerouac. In 1988 he dropped Denis to the airport; then went training with the Kanturk junior hurlers. Denis felt a need to leave a thumb-print somewhere on the world. Jimmy needed to keep his place in the parish team. Two brothers with different hopes and dreams, sharing a love of letter-writing. These are their documents: “The Mill Road Letters”.
Preformed by Philip Linehan, John O’ Sullivan,Timmy Lynch and Maureen Sheehan
The Mother”: An elderly woman gets an unexpected shock at midnight when she discovers that her car tax has expired. So there’s nothing for it but go online to solve the problem. After all, if Sergeant Kelleher catches her he’ll use it as an excuse to put her off the road for good, and she’ll be shamed in front of the neighbours when she ends up in court. Her online excursion does not go according to plan, however, and necessitates her ringing her daughter to see if she can help out. What follows is the longest twenty minutes in the daughter’s life!
Performed by Teresa O’ Keeffe and Martha Keller.
Seating is limited and will be assigned on a “first come, first served” basis, performance will begin at 7pm Sharp.