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The Loved Ones comes to Lime Tree Theatre from Thursday, April 17 to Saturday April 19
The Loved Ones by Limerick playwright Erica Murray at Lime Tree Theatre from April 17 to 19. Fanta Barrie and Helen Norton in The Loved Ones by Erica Murray. Photo Ros Kavanagh
NASC Presents a Rough Magic and Gate Theatre Production of The Loved Ones by Limerick playwright Erica Murray at Lime Tree Theatre from April 17 to 19
Rough Magic and the Gate Theatre announce the NASC Tour of Erica Murray’s The Loved Ones, directed by Ronan Phelan.
The Loved Ones, which originally premiered at The Gate Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2023, is on tour nationally this April and May.
Due to popular demand, The Loved Ones returns to the Lime Tree Theatre for four performances only from 17th – 19th April. This powerful piece of theatre is by Limerick Playwright Erica Murray.
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In a remote farmhouse, Nell prepares to scatter her son’s ashes with her grieving daughter-in-law, while a visitor settles in for an idyllic break in the wilds of West Clare. However, their weekend plans will be disrupted when an unexpected guest arrives looking for shelter, solace and understanding.
In this beautiful, funny and entertaining performance, a situation as unlikely as it is inevitable will send these four extraordinary women reeling, leaving them questioning the true nature of love, loss and birds.
In finding each other, Nell, Gabby, Orla and Cheryl-Ann will, in one way or another, help each other to move a little step forward.
The Loved Ones comes to Lime Tree Theatre with shows on Thursday 17, Friday 18, and Saturday 19 of April, 8pm with a matinee on Saturday at 2:30pm. Tickets are priced at €30/€27 from the Lime Tree Theatre website with tickets on sale now.
Erica Murray is a playwright originally from County Limerick. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an MFA in Playwriting from The Lir Academy. She is a previous member of the Six in the Attic scheme with the Irish Theatre Institute, the Soho Theatre New Writers course and the Lyric Theatre New Playwrights Programme.
Her first play, The Cat’s Mother, toured to London, Edinburgh and the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2018 where it won the Fishamble Award for Best New Writing and was nominated for the Stewart Parker Award. In 2019 she was the Channel 4 writer-in-residence at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast where her play All Mod Cons premiered. She also received the Sonia Friedman Award for her play The Magnificent.
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