Anna’s hit drama offers caustic view on living with blindness
The award-winning My Dad’s Blind by Anna Sheils-McNamee will play the city’s Town Hall Theatre next Wednesday, September 11, as part of a national tour.
With a plot that centres on a dysfunctional relationship between a blind father and his sighted daughter, My Dad’s Blind uses audio recordings, irreverent comedy and real-life memories to explore a father-daughter relationship.
The 70-minute show captures the awkward, embarrassing and ridiculous ways in which the two struggle to navigate a sighted world, aided by a guide dog that’s just had a stroke.
Anna Sheils-McNamee wrote this dark comedy based on her own life – her father John is blind.
My Dad’s Blind which is presented in association with Pan Pan Theatre Company, The Arts Council Fighting Blindness and the National Council for the Blind, won Best Production at the 2018 Dublin Fringe Festival Awards.
It stars Steve Blount and the author. Steve’s TV appearances include Game of Thrones, Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope and he has featured in the stage show Minding Frankie. Anna featured on Vikings on the History Channel and The Importance of Nothing with Pan Pan.
The play is directed by Gemma Aked-Priestley.
“Growing up, people told me my Dad was ‘amazing’, which didn’t make any sense to me,” says the author of her decision to write this piece. In fact, he’s pretty boring, she adds.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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