New Readings of my Plays & Details of Newly Published Work:

NOTE: SOME OF THE DETAILS OF THE READINGS HAVE BEEN CHANGED!!

1. October 21st – a rehearsed reading of THE MOTH-HOUR, Soho, London, 7.30pm

DETAILS:
THE MOTH HOUR by Jacqueline McCarrick

Directed by Steve Hubbard

Cast includes: Jennie Stoller, Drew Horner, Elizabeth Elvin, Nora Connolly and Isla Carter.

Michael McDaid lives at home and works in the family grocery store in the borderland area of County Monaghan with his mother, Connie. When his old flame makes a surprise return to town the two renew their friendship, causing Connie to attempt to tear them apart. But changes are very much needed in the McDaid household. This is a play about how the repressed dreams and ambitions of one woman cause her to squash and shape her children, with devastating consequences.

Wednesday 21st October : 7:30pm : Above the Blue Posts, Rupert Street, Soho.

2. Sunday October 25th, 4.30pm - a rehearsed reading of LEOPOLDVILLE, Galway Arts Centre, part of the Galway Theatre Festival

Details: http://www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/index.php?year=2009&month=10&day=25

3. November (date to TBC) – a rehearsed reading of BOHEMIANS (new short play), read by The Group, Theatre Royal Stratford East, London

Newly Published Stories:
The Badminton Court
To appear in The Frogmore Papers, issue 75

The Stonemason’s Wife
To appear in Random Acts of Writing (Scotland), issue 14

New Poems:
Boyne Berries, Cathach, Stylus (Australia), The Pedestal Magazine

Essay:
Some Blind Alleys, Essay excerpt on Kavanagh and Auden, edited by Greg Baxter

http://someblindalleys.com/index.php/2009/09/17/ill-tell-you-the-name-of-the-greatest-living-poet/#more-2894

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