Widows' Paradise is a timely pick-me-up

This is the week every year when a pick-me-up can be needed after the ups and inevitable subsequent downs of the Christmas and New Year, writes Brian Byrne. The Narraghmore Drama Society's presentation of Sam Cree's Widows' Paradise is just the medicine.

Directed by Maryclare McMahon, the three nights in Kilcullen Town Hall were fully booked before last night's opening preview. The play is a barrel of laughs, and everybody left the theatre smiling. 

With five women ostensibly seeking a break from the man kind, and five men on a fishing weekend, piling them all inadvertently into the same caravan space is a recipe for all sorts of reactions, misassumptions, and potential romantic mixups. The Narraghmore group cast milk the script for all it can give, and keep the laughter going.

The women players are Olive Whelan, Lorraine Fallon, Majella Hickey, Mary Gorman and Helen Lambe. The men are played by Kilcullen's Derek Phelan, with Fionn Whelan, John Grufferty, Padraig Whelan and Pat Donnelly.

A lot of fun, and if you are lucky enough to have your tickets for tonight or tomorrow night, any post-Christmas blues should evaporate.

A few of the Diary's photos here will give the idea.

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