By Dan Walsh
Four Rivers returns to the stage this year with a nationwide tour of Eoin Colfer’s blackly comedic and very moving play about love, life and death, My Real Life.
The play will be performed at Wexford Arts Centre for three nights – June 11th, 12th and 13th – seats are selling fast so don’t delay call Wexford Arts Centre and book your tickets today. Contact boxoffice@wexfordartscentre.ie or call 053 9123764.
In this stunning one-man play directed by Heather Hadrill, Wexford man Noel records his thoughts for a friend to provide ‘a bit of a speech for the afters’. We soon learn the ‘afters’ in question concern Noel’s own funeral. He has been diagnosed with MS and decides to spend what is possibly the last hour of his life re-living the highs and lows of the past forty years. But it is not all doom and gloom.
Noel will be played by one of Ireland’s leading actors, Garrett Lombard from Gorey, who last featured for Four Rivers in Jim Nolan’s Castel Gandolfo in 2024 which sold out in record time. Garret is a regular performer at the Abbey and Druid theatres and has many celebrated television and film credits including Pure Mule, Quirke (with Gabriel Byrne) and Alexander (directed by Oliver Stone.)
Heather Hadrill has recently directed Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Wexford Festival Opera following her sell out success for WFO with Donizetti’s Le Fille de Regiment in 2023. She was Artist in Residence at Wexford Arts Centre in 2021 and staged Thomas Moore at Bannow at Bannow House in August 2024.
My Real Life is shot through with Eoin Colfer’s trademark humour and compassion. It promises to be a night at the theatre that will stay with you for a long time.
My Real Life by Eoin Colfer Starring Garrett Lombard; Director: Heather Hadrill; Designer: Liam Doona; Costume: Jeni Roddy; Lighting: Mark Redmond and Sound: Bryan Steacy.
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