'A Life' on the boards

Kilcullen Drama Group presents 'A Life', the late Hugh Leonard’s greatest play, in the Town Hall Kilcullen from Tuesday 14 April to Sunday 19 April 2009.

Performances will be at 8pm each night.

The play itself is a masterpiece. We are given an insight into joys and disappointments of life through an intimate examination of the experiences of Desmond Drumm.

In the play, Drumm has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness which causes him to reflect on his life. We see him, and his friends, as teenagers. We are keenly aware of the hopes and aspirations of these young people.

We see them again, in their sixties and we are allowed to examine how life had dealt with their youthful expectations.

It sounds like a sombre and deeply meaningful play and it is, but the genius of Hugh Leonard allows us to laugh uproariously, not only at the vicissitudes of life as experienced by the characters in his play, but also, by ourselves in our own lives.

To Book, phone Bernard 045 481497, ticket price €10.

Philomena Breslin.