'Wrens' story coming to Moat stage
A play well worth making time to see next month is 'Rosanna Nightwalker, The Wren of the Curragh', written by Brownstown author Martin Malone and directed by All-Ireland winning director Barbara Sheridan.
The play will be performed in the Moat Theatre on 14-18 June, and is based on the true historical lives of the 'Curragh Wrens', the women who lived amongst the furze bushes on The Curragh and made their living by offering their services to soldiers in the military camp.
The story is set in winter, 1863. Rosanna Doyle, hopeful of a happy future with her soldier lover Johnny, takes off to the Curragh camp to surprise him. But life still has some tough lessons for Rosanna to learn and she finds herself forced to join Bridget and the other ‘wren’ women.
Another, more distinguished, visitor is there that same winter; pressman Richard Tone has been commissioned by the great Charles Dickens to write about the women and he soon becomes engrossed in their lives.
Grounded in historical fact and based on his acclaimed radio play, Rosanna Nightwalker, and subsequent novel The Only Glow of the Day, Kildare writer Martin Malone has written a stage play of great power and tenderness which will be brought to life on the Moat stage.
Tickets €15 (€12 with concession, Students, OAPs etc) available from Moat theatre box office 045 88 30 30.
