PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!

BY BRIAN FRIEL

26 July – 22 September 2012

Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father’s grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O’Donnell has accepted his aunt’s invitation to come to Philadelphia. Now, on the eve of his departure, he is not happy to be leaving Ballybeg.

With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama.

CAST
in order of speaking

Madge Valerie Lilley
Gar in Public Paul Reid
Gar in Private Rory Keenan
S. B. O’Donnell James Hayes
Kate Doogan Laura Donnelly

Senator Doogan/Master Boyle/Con Sweeney Ruairi Conaghan
Lizzy Sweeney Julia Swift
Ben Burton/Canon Mick O’Byrne Benny Young
Ned Killian Burke
Joe Dylan Kennedy
Tom Conor Macneill

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director LYNDSEY TURNER
Designer ROB HOWELL
Lighting Designer TIM LUTKIN
Sound Designer CHRISTOPHER SHUTT
Composer MICHAEL BRUCE
Movement Director ANN YEE
Casting Director ANNE McNULTY
Production Manager KATE WEST
Company Stage Manager LAURA FLOWERS
Deputy Stage Manager LORNA ADAMSON
Assistant Stage Manager HAYLEY STUBBS
Assistant Director HANNAH PRICE
Dialect Coach TIM CHARRINGTON
Costume Supervisor DEBORAH ANDREWS
Rehearsal Photographer SIMON KANE
Production Photographer JOHAN PERSSON

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