The Wood of the Whispering is set in the year 1950 in the West of Ireland. We are invited not to a romantic anti-urban fiction about our past but to the fullness of life as it was lives and endured by the community who flitted around the Wood of the Whispering.
‘Director Garry Hynes gives reign to the earthy comedy and it flows like a river in full spate’- Sunday Independent
‘probably their finest production to date’- Sunday Tribune
‘a glorious comedy … a rich and robust production’- Evening Herald
‘A triumph … compulsory viewing’- Irish Times
Credits
Cast
Sanbatch Daly Mick Lally
Con Kinsella Séan McGinley
Paddy King Maelíosa Stafford
Jimmy King Michael O’Sullivan
Stephen Lanigan Ray McBride
Shiela Lanigan Mary Ryan
Mark Tristnan Eamon Maguire
Hotha Broderick Mairtin Jamesie
Kitty Wallace Mary McEvoy
Sadie Tubridy Marie Mullen
Creative Team
Director Garry Hynes
Design Monica Frawley
Lighting Design Barbara Bradshaw
Costume Design Monica Frawley
Production Team
Stage Manager Sean Mooney
Technical Manager John Ashton
Set Construction Steve Plant, Eddie Gordon
Operator (Lights) Tom Conroy
Props Seán McGinley, Eamonn Maguire
Publicity & Programme Jerome Hynes
Poster Robert Armstrong
Photography Mark Kilroy
Programme note Micheal Ó hAodha, Michael D. Higgins
