Conversations on a Homecoming

Druid revived their acclaimed production of Tom Murphy’s Conversations on a Homecoming for a twelve venue, sixteen performance tour of Ireland and for the 1986 Pepsico Summerfare in New York.

The time is the early seventies and the gathering together of old friends has been prompted by the return home of one of them after an absence of ten years. It becomes clear in the course of the evening that the years have wrought changes in all of them, particularly in regard to their attitudes to the absent of the pub, J.J., a man who had greatly influenced them in the past.

Credits

Cast

  • Michael (Irish Tour) Paul Brennan
  • Michael (New York) Maurice O’Donaghue
  • Anne Jane Brennan
  • Missus Pat Leavy
  • Liam Ray McBride
  • Tom Séan McGinley
  • Peggy Marie Mullen
  • Junior Maelíosa Stafford

Creative Team

  • Director Garry Hynes
  • Design Frank Conway
  • Lighting Design Barbara Bradshaw

Production Team

  • Production Manager John Ashton
  • Set Construction/ Trainee Stage Manager Padraic O’Neill, Padraic Breathnach
  • Props Moya McHugh
  • Design Assistant Morag Bain
  • Operator (Light & Sound) David Murphy
  • Publicity & Programme Jerome Hynes
  • Photography Mark Kilroy
  • Poster Tom Taheny
  • Publicity Ollie Jennings, Sharon Keane (Irish Tour)
  • Associate Designer Frank Conway (Irish Tour)
  • Artistic Diector Garry Hynes
  • Administrator Jerome Hynes
  • Administrative Assistant Maureen Hughes
  • Box Office Orfhlaith Stafford
  • Front Of House Manager Aedhmar Hynes