Druid presents ‘provocative plays for provocative times’
Druid Theatre will present new productions of Mark O’Rowe’s Crestfall and Eugene McCabe’s King of the Castle as part of its programme for 2017.
Crestfall, a poetic drama about three women in a town on the edge of catastrophe, will be directed by Annabelle Comyn and staged at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival. It will open at the Mick Lally Theatre in July and transfer to the Peacock at The Abbey in August.
In September, Druid’s Artistic Director Garry Hynes will direct a new production of Eugene McCabe’s epic play, King of the Castle. It will see Seán McGinley return to Druid, to play the lead role of Scober McAdam. Scober’s greed to succeed is respected by the men he hires, but as he soon realises, his failures in the bedroom are mocked just as widely, leading to some disturbing decisions.
“These are provocative plays and we’re living in provocative times” says Garry Hynes. “Crestfall is an unforgiving portrait of three women who are fuelled by love but driven to hate. It’s beautiful but it pulls no punches. King of the Castle is very much a play of its time, steeped in a world of patriarchy and religion that invades the personal and the intimate. They present a challenge and a necessary look at where we are and where we’ve come from.”
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.