A Galway Girl

A one-act play by Geraldine Aron (1941-).

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 Cape Town in 1979, later the year also premiering in Galway, Ireland. The text was first published as an acting edition by Samuel French in 1981, then in the Aron play collection Seven Plays and Four Monologues by David Philip Publishers Ltd. in 1985 and in the collection Play Spectrum: Short Plays for High Schools (ed. H. Houghton-Hawksley) in 1986.

Performances in South Africa

Stage

1979: First produced at the Space Theatre in October 1979, directed by Keith Grenville, with Ethwyn Grant and Dermot Judge. The production was then presented by Druid Theatre Company at Druid Lane Theatre, Galway, Ireland, in November, opening on the 14th.

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