MARY AND ME
**Argus Angel Winner and Bobby Award Nominated show**-Brighton Fringe 2017, Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Link to Promo Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y91jE7MYLY
Link to RTÉ Radio Drama version of Play: https://www.rte.ie/radio/dramaonone/1032935-mary-and-me-by-irene-kelleher
Link to Video on Demand Everyman 2021 Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvNpN9qoajY
Ireland, 1986. Hannah is fifteen. She lives in a claustrophobic small town. Sure, she has friends, but no one who understands her, no one she can confide in, who will listen to her. And she is going to need a lot of understanding and support.
Inspired by a true story, Mary and Me is a compellingly original imagining of a young woman’s search for understanding and meaning
Directed by Belinda Wild
Sound Design: Cormac O’ Connor
Set Design: Lisa Zagone
Lighting Design: Alan Mooney
The play had more than 200 performances and toured extensively in Ireland 2016-2018 and also was staged in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, New Hampshire and Boston.
The play is published by Bloomsbury.
THE STAGE ★★★★
“"Written and performed with huge delicacy and skill. A writer to watch.”
BROADWAY BABY ★★★★★
“It’s many writers’ dream to have their first play be as good as this…”
THE ARTS REVIEW ★★★★
“Be advised: you better buckle up for this one. Because Kelleher is going to make you fall completely in love with Hannah from Kilthomas. Then she is going to break your heart.”
Reviews of MARY AND ME
“It’s many writers’ dream to have their first play be as good as this… Kelleher pulls it off perfectly. Not only is she a brilliant performer, whose commanding energy fills the space, but she is also an exceptionally talented writer, having penned a script with an abundance of character that builds a world around Hannah so vividly it could succeed in any space.”- BROADWAY BABY ★★★★★
"Written and performed with huge delicacy and skill...
Mary and Me is a moving new play, with a fantastic performance from Kelleher, who also marks herself out as a writer to watch...
Moving one-woman show sensitively written and deftly performed by promising Irene Kelleher.”
THE STAGE ★★★★
"Kelleher owns the stage with sophisticated force."
"Mary and Me is a stunning debut imbued with honesty and candor."
MIRO MAGAZINE ★★★★★
“A moving and important tragedy.”
THE ARGUS- BRIGHTON ★★★★★
"Kelleher’s performance is riveting..
she wrings every emotion from her own script in this outstanding solo show...
Clever, simple staging and excellent sound design provide atmosphere.
You could not pray to see much better in this Fringe."
EDINBURGH GUIDE ★★★★
“A powerful and moving production.”
“A gripping and absorbing one woman show”
THE PUBLIC REVIEWS ★★★★