Livin' Dred Theatre Company, will tour a production of THE BALLAD OF PAT McNAB by Pat McCabe to Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday 29th October for one night only.
From the creative team that brought you the critically acclaimed 'The Dead School' which toured to Roscommon in 2008 and again in 2009 before it's hugely successful run at The Tricycle Theatre in London comes an equally compelling piece of theatre.The Ballad of Pat McNab is the story of a man who has got rid of his mother, (perhaps even killed her?) leaving him free to entertain an array of colourful characters who come calling. Each of them has an effect on Pat, sometimes shocking often funny, but how much of this is in Pat's head? ' Mc Cabe's new play is immediate and yet could be set at any time-as his hero stumbles across a blasted landscape of exhilaration and psychological ruin, with a soundtrack that is oozing from the broken jukebox of his soul.A rollercoaster of a story with a rip-roaring sound track and two towering performances from Aaron Monaghan and Padraic McIntyre. Tickets are available at Roscommon Arts Centre box office 090 6625824.
Padraic McIntyre is a native of Bailieboro, Co. Cavan and trained as an actor at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Padraic is Artistic Director of Livin' Dred Theatre Company based in The Ramor Theatre in Virginia. He has directed their first fourteen productions. Livin Dred/NOMAD's production of The Dead School by Pat McCabe was regarded as one of the theatrical highlights of 2008 and was nominated for three Irish Times Theatre Awards including Best Production. It has just completed a three-week sell-out run at The Tricycle Theatre in London. Padraic's most recent productions are the Irish Premier of There Came a Gypsy Riding, for Livin Dred and the critically acclaimed Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme for NOMAD/Livin Dred both by Frank McGuiness. He has worked as an actor throughout the UK and Ireland. Recent Theatre as an actor includes: Talking to Terrorists (Calypso Productions), The Green Fool, (UpState Theatre Company, National Tours).
Aaron Monaghan has worked extensively throughout Ireland in theatre and film, working most notably with The Abbey Theatre, Dublin and world-renowned Druid Theatre. He has played leading roles in most of Dublin's theatres, including The Abbey's Romeo & Juliet and I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Fell. He has toured all over the world with plays such as Alone It Stands and Druid's The Cripple Of Inishmaan. He has received rave reviews for his performances in plays such as Druid's renowned production of DruidSynge: The Plays of John Millington Synge (playing lead roles in five of the six plays) and for his portrayal of playboy Christy Mahon in Druid's definitive production of The Playboy Of The Western World. Most recently Aaron has starred in two Abbey productions, Tales Of Ballycumber and Christ Deliver Us!, and last year he received three awards, The Manshester Evening Standard Award for Best Actor, The Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actor and An OBIE Award for Oustanding Performance, all for his portrayal of Cripple Billy in Martin McDonagh's The Cripple Of Inishmaan, for which Aaron reveived rave reviews for it's Off-Broadway run in New York last year. He is just finished on tour with Druid's Silver Tassie by Sean O'Casey.
Pat McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan. The author of several novels, plays and short stories including the highly acclaimed film adaptations of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto (both directed by Neil Jordan and both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction) Pat McCabe has received numerous accolades for his work. His new novel 'The Stray Sod Country has just been released. His leading protagonists all have certain things in common. They are all extraordinary people in very ordinary places - socially unacceptable or at the very least marginalised - they are psychopaths, murderers, kidnappers and the like but they are also engaging, often sympathetic and very funny. For all that their actions might shock and repel us, they're surprisingly good company. THE BALLAD OF PAT McNAB adapted from his 2001 novel Emerald Germs of Ireland is another such gem from Pat McCabe!
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