Wired to the Moon
Writer: Maeve Binchy
Director & Adaptation: Jim Culleton
Premiere: Andrew’s Lane Theatre, Dublin, 2001 followed by a five month sell-out tour
Cast: Noelle Brown, Arthur Riordan, Jasmine Russell, Helen Norton, Sonja Kelly and Jenny Maher
Description:
Maeve Binchy has written a half-dozen wonderfully incisive stories about 6 people who are ‘wired to the moon’ -
- - an insurance clerk who confides in a magazine agony aunt with unexpected results
- - a woman who is driven mad by her seemingly perfect neighbours
- - a bride who is worried people will laugh at her for getting married ‘late in life’
- - a girl who ruins her family’s life when she buys an answering machine
- - a boy who is confused by his parents’ separation and
- - a teacher who is fed up solving everyone else’s problems, so decides to find a problem of her own!
Wired to the Moon is set in Ireland during the 1980′s. It is a very funny and often moving 90-minute rollercoaster ride through the lives of 36 characters by one of Ireland’s best-loved writers.
About the writer:
Maeve Binchy is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her novels include Light a Penny Candle, Echoes, The Lilac Bus, Circle of Friends and Tara Road. Her short story collections include Dublin 4, Victoria Line and Central Line. Many of her best-selling books have been made into hugely successful films – more recently, Circle of Friends starring Minnie Driver and Chris O’Donnell.
Press Quotes:
“heightened surrealism… brilliant vignettes which combine accuracy of observation with side-splitting farce… very funny… creatively brought to the stage… Jim Culleton directs it all with control and wit… a hugely enjoyable and quintessentially Binchy evening” The Irish Times
‘90 hilarious minutes…as insightful and clever as it is funny‘ Sunday Business Post
Often hilarious…a belly-laugh every few minutes’ The Guardian
