Events » Theatres » Nervousystem presents Weaving the Cry

nervousystem
presents

Weaving the Cry
based on

Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge

March 22 - April 3, 2010, 8PM

Reduced rate previews: March 22 & 23 €15

The Back Loft @ La Catedral Studios

7-11 St. Augustine Street, Dublin 8

Tickets: €18 Booking: www.tickets.ie Ph: 087 144 9993


Weaving the Cry is a journey through a dark wave toward a threshold that is both an end and a beginning. It explores our capacity for survival inside the rituals of living and dying. This re-working confronts the scenario of Syngeʼs play, exposing a complex and eternal bond between mother and son concentrated in the relationship between Mauyra, the missing Michael, and Bartley, her only remaining son of six. On the crest of a wave of loss, with Michaelʼs absence and Bartleyʼs dangerous sea crossing, the inevitable and its repercussions must be reconciled by those left behind, three women, a mother and her two daughters, Cathleen and Nora.

Directed by Aiden Condron and performed by Marián Araujo, Sophie Campbell, Joseph Moylan and Gemma McGill, with dramaturgical assistance from Jeffrey Gormly; this performance, integrating traditional songs from Ireland and Galicia, sees the company weave its unique experience and approach to theatre-making into a stark re-imagining of one of the greatest dramatic works from the Irish literary canon.