WAKE
My fifth play, Wake, was first produced as a radio play for the Cork Midsummer Festival 2021, Wake subsequently went on to tour the West Cork and Blackwater Fit Ups in 2021 and 2022 and the East Galway Fit Up Festival in October 2023. It also had a two week run in the Viking Theatre in November 2022. "I try to escape the sea of parishioners spitting sympathy and sandwiches at me with trail of egg salad dripping down. The house is like a scene from the Great Gatsby. Only this is West Cork so minus the glamour and good-looking people." At her mother's wake Lily suffers her way through the sea of Auntie Rachel’s sandwiches, cousin Aileen’s juicing recipes and Aoibheann’s woodland theme wedding plans, until an old face from her past arrives. Rapidly changing into her x-rated top and revelling in the disapproving whispers from the neighbours, Lily is not your typical mourner. She will not let the night that’s in it thwart her plans.
Directed by: Geoff Gould
Sound and Video Design by: Cormac O’ Connor
Lighting Design by: Steve Neale
Set Design by: Davy Dummigan