A Galway Girl

A one-act play by Geraldine Aron.

The original text

“Irish” One-Act play similar in its poetic and minimalist form to her earlier Bar and Ger, it tells the story of a mismatched couple through thirty-five years of marriage with humour and tenderness.

First published in Seven Plays and Four Monologues, 1985 and subsequently in Play Spectrum (ed. H. Houghton-Hawksley), 1986.

Performances in South Africa

In England performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

Stage

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

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

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

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1983.

Aron, Geraldine. 1985. Seven Plays and Four Monologues

Brian Barrow and Yvonne Williams-Short (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Aron

http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=MTE3OQ==

http://www.samuelfrench.com/author/1029/geraldine-aron

Astbury, 1979

Gosher, 1988

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