Trailer for Tales of Ballycumber by Sebastian Barry at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin

The Abbey Theatre is welcoming back the twice Booker-nominated author of The Secret Scripture (the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year 2009 and winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Award) as part of this years Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.

The play features Aaron Monaghan as Evans, Derbhle Crotty as Tania, Dessie Gallagher as Andrew and Stephen Rea as Nicholas.


The story is simple: daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day and stirring the ghosts of a past fraught with sorrow, isolation and emptiness.

Setting out in search of advice on a budding love interest, young Evans Stafford calls to the home of his friend Nicholas Farquhar. The following morning the local boy is found bloodied, note in hand. What is said during their brief encounter to fracture innocence and compel him to violence?

As Farquhar struggles to come to terms with his actions and their devastating consequences he discovers that his memories and words are governed by a force greater than himself a buried history that propels both men towards a desperate and inevitable climax.

This world premiere from Sebastian Barry is a startling and intimate portrayal of two unlikely companions connected more closely than they realise, both haunted by the plague of solitude and the Tales of Ballycumber.

Tales of Ballycumber runs from 7 October to 7 November, with previews Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1, Friday 2, Saturday 3, Monday 5 and Tuesdat 6 October.

For more details see http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/657

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