Category - Theatre
Date - Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00 pm

DATE: Friday, 19th April, 2019

TIME: 8.00pm

TICKETS: €12

WELCOME TO THE STRANGER

By Rua Breathnach

Directed by Rémi Beelprez

KEEPSAKETHEATRE presents WELCOME TO THE STRANGER – a new play inspired by the eye-witness accounts of an extraordinary American woman, Asenath Nicholson, who travelled through Ireland during the Great Famine.

For this unique production, playwright Rua Breathnach has teamed up with critically-acclaimed Belgian director, Rémi Beelprez. Using a cast of 16 non-professional actors, they have created an epic play that offers new perspectives on the most traumatic event in modern Irish history.

An article in the Irish Examiner about the production:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/staging-story-of-us-woman-who-chronicled-famine-856982.html

Press reviews:

“Rua Breathnach’s epic play Welcome to the Stranger … with a superb local cast, draws you gently and with grim humour, into the lived experience of the Famine.” – Sunday Independent