Hit Friel play being staged in Inch Hall

ALL roads lead to Inch this weekend as Coolgreany Drama Society take to the stage with ‘ The Loves of Cass McGuire’.

The popular Brian Friel play will be performed in Inch Hall on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night at 8pm and is sure to be a winner.

In a strange twist of fate the group had intended on performing Love Letters again and taking this on tour on the competitive circuit. However with Hollywood royalty Ali McGraw and Ryan O Neal deciding to perform Love Letters as a professional production in the UK and in Dublin, all amateur rights were withdrawn.

Coolgreany Drama Society were forced to go back to the drawing board and having already agreed to compete in five drama festivals around the country they decided to revive The Loves of Cass McGuire.

However this decision is not without its headaches as the group will now have to travel with a cast of ten compared to the small cast of two in Love Letters. In addition they will also have a much more complicated and cumbersome set in tow.

The play centres on Cass Maguire who for more than 50 years has worked a block from Skid Row, among deadbeats and washouts - people who live in the past. This play deals with her return to Ireland and her genteel family’s rejection of her. It follows her lonely struggle to re-discover the home she’s dreamt of all her life and her eventual surrender to the makebelieve of Eden House.

Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 0894283762 or on the door.