Spike Players’ wish dear Alice a happy birthday
IT’S full steam ahead for the Knocknagoshel based Spike Players with their production of the Bernard Farrell play Happy Birthday Dear Alice.
Stage manager, Noel Murphy is still collecting bits and pieces and adapting what they have in terms of props and the like.
“This is our first play for a while without our late friend and group member, Michael Finnegan from Brosna. Michael passed away at the end of November last year and we got his family’s permission to dedicate these coming performances to his memory,” said Noel.
Happy Birthday Dear Alice is a two-act comedy set in the kitchen of her home in Ireland. In act one comes the celebration of Alice’s 17th birthday and in act two her seventy-first. See what changes, if any, a year can make! Due to a tragic accident, Alice was widowed at an early age and left to raise a son, Barry, and a daughter Barbara, on her own. Barbara now lives in San Francisco with her husband Cormac and Barry lives in England with his new girlfriend, Sandy.
Alice lives alone except for the company of Jimmy Heffernan – her neighbor for many years.
Her children return each year to ‘celebrate’ her birthday and present Alice with plans to place her in an ‘old peoples’ home, however, this is Alice’s greatest nightmare and they have not counted on her determination not to go through with their scheme.
The story and the plot will all unfold on stage at Knocknagoshel Community Centre on this Friday, March 31. Saturday, April 1. and Sunday, April 2. Curtain will be up nightly at 8pm.