About "Lovers Meeting"‘Lovers Meeting’ was quite a daring and racy production for its time, when it was first staged in Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 1941 and is still quite a powerful dramatic gem, which Skibbereen Theatre Society is delighted to have unearthed sixty years later.The play is set in rural Ireland at the start of the 1940s and the action takes place in the living room of the Sheridan farmhouse, not far from the town of Tarmon, as the strong-willed Jane Sheridan wants to marry off her daughter Mary to a wealthy and mature farmer, the widower Batt Seery, rather than to the girl’s own choice, the youthful and impulsive Joe Hession. What appears to be a straightforward story of true love struggling to find a way turns out to be nothing of the sort. Things are not what they seem in the Sheridan household and the events of that summer sweep the characters along to a shocking conclusion, with an unexpected twist proving to be the catalyst. ACT ONE: Sunday, 20th July, 1941 – early evening. ACT TWO: Monday, 21st July, 1941 – morning. ACT THREE: Saturday, 27th September, 1941 – early morning. (There will be a fifteen-minute interval between Acts One and Two) |