DONEGAL DRAMA CIRCLE PRESENTS
The Factory Girls
Written by Frank McGuinness. Directed by Christian Carbin. Lighting Director, Art Kavanagh.
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DONEGAL DRAMA CIRCLE PRESENTS
The Factory Girls
Written by Frank McGuinness. Directed by Christian Carbin. Lighting Director, Art Kavanagh.
The Factory Girls is the play that brought Buncrana playwright, Frank McGuinness to national and international prominence.
Set in a struggling clothing factory in Donegal, matters come to a head when the owner demands a particularly onerous hike in productivity – ‘a dozen shirts in 13 minutes’ – from his long-serving, all female staff. A strike is threatened and when the union rep from Dublin fails to calm the situation, the girls down tools and stage a sit-in in the boss’s office, with mixed results.
The Factory Girls has been lauded for its depiction of the banter between the women workers and the manner in which they band together in the face of adversity, which Frank McGuinness has credited as deriving from the insights gained from observing his mother and her sisters while growing up in Donegal.
In this Donegal Drama Circle production, Suzanne Thomas is Ellen, Emer McMullin is Una, Ciara Boyle is Vera, Rhiannon Kerrigan is Rebecca and Laura McNulty is Rosemary, with Seamus McHugh as the Union Rep, Rohan and Conor Friery as Bonner, the factory owner.
Frank McGuinness’s plays – including Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Carthaginians and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me – have been produced all over the world. He has created acclaimed adaptations of classic works by Ibsen, Lorca and Molière, as well as writing the screenplay for the film of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa.
- Date: Thursday 10th October - Saturday 12th October
- Time: 8pm
- Location: Donegal Town
- Venue: Leghowney Community Hall, Leghowney
- Admission/Cost: €14 (Tickets At Door)