EDEN by Eugene O’Brien – Sat. 11th June

GB Shaw Theatre and Theatre Royal present:

Breda loves Billy. Billy is hot for Imelda.
This is their big night.

In his celebrated play Eden, Eugene O’Brien brings to vivid life a gallery of colourful midland characters at play. And at the heart of that world is a moving, funny and tragic portrait of the failing marriage of Billy and Breda and the weekend that will make or break them.

Breda’s not lookin’ at all bad, she has certainly lost the weight, there’s no denying that. But Ernie and Evonne’s daughter Imelda is such a beautiful ride of a thing. And Tony thinks he’s James Galway – the man with the ‘golden flute’ – now Billy wants to show them all that he’s James Galway.

This night it’ll all change. This night is the big night.

From the author of RTE’s Pure Mule, Eugene O’Brien’s play Eden was first directed by Conor McPherson and premiered at the Abbey in 2001 under the Abbey directorship of Ben Barnes. The play went on to win Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and Best New Play for the Stewart Parker Awards then transferred to London’s West End. It has been translated and performed around the world and was turned into an award-winning film in 2008.

Ben Barnes, Director of Theatre Royal Waterford, returns to Eden and returns to the GB Shaw (following a sell out success with the Theatre Royal team’s production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane) with this powerful story of an ordinary relationship on an extraordinary weekend.

Show contains strong language and adult content.

Post show discussion: The GB Shaw Theatre will host Ben Barnes and the cast of Eden in a post-show discussion after the performance on June 11th. Cllr. William Patton will facilitate this discussion.

It is with regret we inform you that due to circumstances beyond the festival’s control, the Eden performance scheduled for Fri. 10th June will not go ahead.

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