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scenes from Shakespeare about women who have been bought, sold, abandoned or traded

June 20th - 22nd 2016 at 7.00pm

The Liffey Studio, Newbridge

Only 25 tickets per show

Tickets €10

Booking is essentail.

Book by text 087 2759420

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These are young people performing Shakespeare mostly for the first time in scenes that deal with women who have been, against their will, married, sold, blackmailed or tricked into sex or marriage.

The scenes are from Romeo and Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5), directed by Jillain Bradbury; All’s Well That Ends Well (Act 4 Scene 2), directed by Peter Hussey; Pericles (Act 4 Scene 2 and Act 4 Scene 5), directed by Peter Hussey; Measure for Measure (Act 2 Scene 4), directed by Caolán Dundon; King Lear (Act 1 Scene 1, lines 200 – 285), directed by Peter Hussey; Othello (Act 4 Scene 3), directed by Jerry Iwu; and Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 3), directed by Mary Linehan.

The cast includes Charlie Hughes Farrell, Shauna Kavanagh, Caoimhe Battault, Seán Dowse, Peter McHale, Elliot Nolan, Rachel Foran, Cathleen Coyle, Odharnait Bourke, Seán Ó Brien, Izzy Noone, Becky Donovan, Lauren Kelly, Ben McGoohan, Robert Doran, Doug Morrison, Hannah Power, Hazel Egan, Edward Whitty, Niamh Walsh, Cian Ó Náirigh, Eoghan Ó Laoire, and Ali Eaton.