THE MAI at The Everyman
Decadent Theatre Company returns with another powerful production
The Mai is an epic tale of three generations of a family inspired by love but shattered by inescapable reality. It is both wildly funny and humorously tragic.
The play centres on a formidable forty-year-old woman, a teacher known as The Mai, whose husband Robert, a musician, has always felt stifled by her ideals of perfection. After seventeen years he leaves her, whereupon she sets about decorating a dream house in the hope that he will one day return to her. From her fairytale castle set in the West of Ireland, on the banks of the legendary Owl Lake, The Mai waits by the window for him to return. The play opens in this world on the day of Robert’s return after an absence of four years.
Throughout Mai’s and Robert’s troubled reunion appear the memorable characters that comprise the three generations of her family. These are her two sisters meddling in the affairs of her three daughters with comical tenacity while towering above them all is the irreverent matriarch, Grandma Fraochlan, who presides over all with her “ancient and fantastical memory”, reminding them that the past is looming over the present.
PRESENTED BY DECADENT THEATRE COMPANY
DIRECTED BY ANDREW FLYNN
STARRING DERBHLE CROTTY
Date and Time
Tuesday Sep 18, 2018 Thursday Sep 20, 2018
TUE 18 - THU 20 SEPT, 8PM
Location
The Everyman
15 MacCurtain Street, Cork
T: 021 450 1673
E: info@everymancork.com
Fees/Admission
€27 | CONCESSION €25 | STUDENTS €9
Contact Information
T: 021 450 1673 E: info@everymancork.com
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