Walnuts remind me of my mother

Rehearsed Reading of 'Walnuts remind me of my mother' by Elizabeth Moynihan

As part of Limerick pride CentreSPACE Studios are delighted to present a rehearsed reading of “Walnuts remind me of my Mother” by Elizabeth Moynihan.
The play is the darkly comic tale of Rua, a young lesbian from the small village of Spit where “everyone knows everyone”. After spending most of her young life desperately trying to win her Mother's respect and understanding, Rua is finally forced to leave her hostile community and her family behind. Hitting the 90's London club and drug scene, and a not so Gay Paris, Rua begins her search for the life she craves.

Elizabeth Moynihan trained under Deirdre O’Connell at Focus Theatre Stanislavsky Studio and at LAMDA as an actor. She has worked in Ireland and the U.K as an actor for the last 17 years. Seven years ago she began writing her first play on a twelve month tour of ‘The Chastitute’, around Ireland.
She made her debut as a playwright when Tic was produced by Tall Tales Theatre Company. Her plays Cider Queens and Cider Queens two, were broadcast on RTE radio, April 2009. She is associate writer for Blood in the Alley theatre company, who commissioned a series of workshops of her play ‘In the Absence of Snow’ which has just had a performance in the Focus theatre festival at the Mill theatre Dundrum. The critically acclaimed ‘Walnuts remind me of my mother’, sold out the first week of the Absolute International Gay Theatre festival 2009. She is currently working on a series of short stories entitled: Junkies, Lushes and Trannies and her new play ‘Pinching for my Soul’ will be produced in autumn 2010. Elizabeth was recently commissioned by the Abbey theatre for inclusion in their short play season 2010.

Directed by Myles Breen, and with a talented cast including Tracy Aspel, Ann Blake, Karen Fitzgibbon, Stephanie O Keefe and Norma Lowney, this event promises to be funny and thought provoking..

Venue: CentreSPACE Studios, Alphonsus St. (beside Dolans)

Dates: Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th, September 2009 at 8pm

Admission: €10