Eclipsed at The Barker Playhouse

Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed is a two-act work is set mainly in 1963 in a convent laundry at St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women in Killmacha, Ireland. Inspired by the practice-which started in the time of the Famine and lasted well into the 1960s and even longer-of making pregnant and unwed Irish mothers work as 'penitents' in church-run laundries, their infants forcibly put up for adoption, Eclipsed is at once poignant, tragic and sharply comic. First produced by Punchbag Theatre in Galway on February 14th, 1992, Eclipsed explores themes and raises questions about faith, morality, sexuality and the systemic subjugation of women that remain relevant to this day.

Eclipsed runs the weekends of October 13th and 20th. Curtain time on Friday, October 13th and Saturday October 14, Friday October 20th and Saturday October 21st is 7:30pm. Curtain time for our Sunday matinees on October 15th and 22nd is 2:00pm

We use a ticket-less reservation system. All seats are assigned by the box office. To purchase tickets, call the box office at 401-273-0590, or email players1909@gmail.com. Ticket to Any Performance: $25 Student Ticket w/ ID to Any Performance: $15 Pre-payment for any guest ticket is strongly suggested to insure you will have a seat. We accept cash, check, and credit cards (with a service fee). If you wish to pay by credit card, a link will be sent to you after you make the reservation via email. (We know, it’s not the smoothest, but it seems to work for us.)

IMPORTANT: You MUST check in at the box office at least 10 minutes prior to the performance or your seat(s) may be offered to someone else. Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

Authors

• Patricia Burke Brogan