GRENADES
This event was held in the past and is no longer available for booking.
presented by MEPHISTO THEATRE COMPANY
by Tara McKevitt
Northern Ireland, 1979.
Nuala Kelly takes no prisoners. A tough nine-year-old living with her mother, brother and grandfather, she thinks the class bully is just a big baby, and that all the nuns are cranky old wrinkled up cronies. She loves Thin Lizzy and The Undertones - just like her big brother, Oran. He's fifteen and thinks he's Casanova. Nuala thinks he's more like Jesus; she'd do anything for him.
Nuala Kelly takes no prisoners. A tough nine-year-old living with her mother, brother and grandfather, she thinks the class bully is just a big baby, and that all the nuns are cranky old wrinkled up cronies. She loves Thin Lizzy and The Undertones - just like her big brother, Oran. He's fifteen and thinks he's Casanova. Nuala thinks he's more like Jesus; she'd do anything for him.
But what she does one day for her brother, no-one could ever have imagined...
Set in a prison ten years later, Grenades is a compelling drama that has at its heart the bruised innocence of Nuala, who must re-live the events of her childhood and finally make sense of them all.
"...enthralling...heart-wrenching..." Irish Theatre Magazine
Winner 2010 RTE PJ O'Connor Award
Winner 2010 RTE PJ O'Connor Award
Mephisto are kindly supported by Culture Ireland and Galway City Council
