Listen to extracts from Bailegangaire
Check out these audio clips from Bailegangaire, originally recorded and broadcast on RTE’s Arena, 25 August 2016.
Press Release: Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire, touring Ireland this autumn.
NOMAD IN ASSOCIATION WITH LIVIN’ DRED THEATRE CO. presents BAILEGANGAIRE by Tom Murphy Directed by Padraic McIntyre On tour from 9th September to 8th October 2016 nationwide. “Let ye be settling now, my fondlings, and I will be giving ye a nice story tonight when I finish this. For isn’t it a good one?” This is a major new touring production of Bailegangaire, first performed by Druid Theatre Company in 1985. Directed… Read More
Theatre Review: Nothing could warm the cockles of one’s heart more
The Far Off Hills: a light-hearted Irish comedy that warms up winter evenings By: Sean Hillen Examiner.com 15/12/14 Nothing could warm the cockles of one’s heart more on such miserable wet winter evenings as Ireland is presently enduring than the utterly delightful theatrical jewel ‘The Far Off Hills’ directed by Mikel Murfi. This good, old-fashioned comedy written by Lennox Robinson in the 1920s, now on national tour, was staged this past weekend at An Grianan… Read More
Theatre Review: Undemanding charm of Far Off Hills
By Emer O’Kelly Sunday Independent 08/12/2014 Why has Lennox Robinson been so neglected and under-rated by Irish theatre over the years; apart from his being Protestant, neurotic, and a bit spiteful, that is? Those personal qualities didn’t make him unique among playwrights and directors in Ireland, or within the Abbey. But his writing talent glowed, and came damn close to being unique in its wry, understated observance of small-town and rural Irish society… Read More
Kings, guns and riots: Lennox nearly ruined the Abbey
Irish Independent – Saturday 07/12/2014 Lennox Robinson is barely remembered now as the author of a series of comic capers that used to be staples of the Abbey repertoire: one of these, The Far Off Hills, is touring till December 20 in a production directed by Mikel Murfi, and likely to be hilarious. (It’s at the Backstage Theatre in Longford tonight. See www.nomadtheatrenetwork.ie.) But Robinson’s career with the Abbey was quite the… Read More
Interview with Mikel Murfi in The Irish Mail on Sunday
Great interview with Mikel Murfi in The Irish Mail on Sunday
Irish Independent – ‘The Far Off Hills’ the Number 1 must see show
Delighted that the Irish Independent has honoured ‘The Far Off Hills’ as their Number 1 must see show.
Front Page of Irish Times
We are front page news on today’s Irish Times. Rehearsals for The Far Off Hills are going brilliantly! Can’t wait to share the laughter with you next month.
2014 National Tour
Delighted to announce our 2014 National Tour! Nomad Theatre Network in association with Loco and Reckless Productions present Lennox Robinson’s The Far Off Hills.
