Mommo Plays

<b>Brigit</b><br/><i><br/>I'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is.</i><br/><br/>Set in the 1950s <i>Brigit</i> a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed <i>Bailegangaire </i>(1985) tells the story of Mommo and Séamus grandparents living on the breadline who are raising three grandchildren: Mary Dolly and Tom when Séamus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit. <br/><br/><i>Brigit </i>premiered in September 2014 in a production by Druid Theatre Company Galway Ireland.<br/><b><br/></b><b>Bailegangaire</b><br/><br/>'One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever - the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's' <i>- Sunday Independent<br/><br/></i><b>A Thief of a Christmas<br/><br/></b>'Grand opera . . . both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole