A Galway Girl

A one-act play by Geraldine Aron.

The original text
One of Aron's "Irish" plays, but written in Cape Town, it is similar in its poetic and minimalist form to her earlier Bar and Ger, and tells the story of a mismatched couple through thirty-five years of marriage with humour and tenderness.

First performed in 1979, first in Cape Town, later in Galway.

First published in Seven Plays and Four Monologues, 1985 and subsequently in 1986 in Play Spectrum (ed. H. Houghton-Hawksley). Published as an acting edition by Samuel French in 2011.

Stage
1979: First produced at the Space Theatre in October 1979, directed by Keith Grenville, with Ethwyn Grant and Dermot Judge.

198*: Produced by CAPAB in 198*, directed by **, with Diane Wilson and Michael McGovern.

1983: Presented by Neria Cohen on the Festival Fringe, July 1983.

Performances elsewhere
1979: Stages at the Druid Theatre, Galway, directed by Gary Hines.

2012: Staged at Bewley's Cafe Theatre in Dublin, directed by Terry Byrne, and the production was then broadcast as a radio play on RTE Drama on One, 23 June 2012 http://www.radiodramareviews.com/id1208.html

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