‘Portia Coughlan’

FRIDAY 10th MARCH (CONFINED)

Pomeroy Players

present

“Portia Coughlan”

By Martina Carr

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SYNOPSIS

The play is set in the Belmont valley. The stage incorporates three spaces: the living room of Portia Coughlan’s House, the bank of the Belmont river and the bar of the High Chapperal.

Portia Coughlan, who is now thirty, struggles to come to terms with the death of her twin brother 15 years previously. Her family seems unable to reach her and all who touch her life are inescapably aware of her turmoil. Throughout the play her energies are seen to have been consumed by the battle she fights between reuniting with Gabriel in death and escaping his fatal hold on her life.

CAST
PORTIACOUGHLAN Mairead Eastwood
GABRIEL SCULLY Dervla Kelly
RAPHAEL COUGHLAN Gerard Quinn
MAGGIE MAY DOORLEY Eilis Kelly
SENCHIL DOORLEY Denis Devlin
MARIANNE SCULLY Anne Begley
SLY SCULLY Plunkett Nugent
BLAIZE SCULLLY Frances Jordan
STACIA DOYLE Majella McCallan
DAMUS HALION Plunkett McAleer
FINTAN GOOLAN Sean Hurson

CREW:
Producer/Director: Michael Murphy

Stage Managers: Marin Kelly And Darren O’Gara

Lighting: Eddie Fitzpatrick & Justin Doherty

Sound: Simon Nugent
Set Design:  John Goodfellow, Martin Kelly And Darren O’Gara
Construction: Seamus Beggs, Seamus Corrigan, Sean Lagan, Kieran Begley
Continuity: Mary Doyle, Catriona Mills

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GROUP
Pomeroy Players are 29 years in existence. Over the last number of years the group’s repertoire has included classics such as the “Playboy of the Western World” and “Juno and the Paycock”. The company have enjoyed much success on the festival circuit. The most noteworthy performances have been “Philadelphia here I come”, “See How they Run”, “Pools Paradise”, Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge” and “Tarry Flynn”.