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Written and performed by Sheila Flitton Nominated for ‘Best Actress’ in Irish Times Theatre Awards 2004, award winning actor and playwright Sheila Flitton does a lunchtime performance of her one-woman show, co-written and directed by Dave Flitton. Based on the story of Beezie Gallagher, born in the 1870’s, who was the sole resident of an island on Lough Gill in Sligo for over sixty years. Beezie returns, telling of her youth, her friendship with the young W.B. Yeats, her brief marriage in mid-life, her rescue from the Great Famine and her moving and hilarious campaign of resistance and escape from the County Home. Since it first opened in Dublin in 1984, this production has been performed in the US, UK, South Africa and Edinburgh Festival. Sheila Flitton has 30 years experience in theatre, TV and film. She has written three novels and several plays, including ‘For Better or For Worse’ which won a Listowel Writers Award and premiered in the US, ‘Harbour Nights’, ‘Voices from the Past’, which was produced as a radio play for RTE and ‘Money is The Root’, which, after being staged in Dublin, RTE commissioned a six part adaptation. TV credits include Glenroe (Josie), The Irish RM, The Snapper and Lilac Bus among many others.

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Directed by Rhona Trench, this play predominantly explores the conditions surrounding the outsider, Hester Swane, a member of the travelling community, in terms of the cultural forces that impinge upon her identity. Hester responds to the settled community through resistance and defiance. Her relationship with the community examines her confrontation with the world that shapes her, including the early abandonment of her mother and her absent father. Loosely based on Medea, the story is a tragedy while it retains many comic moments.

Please note that this play is not suitable for under 16s