Molly Sweeney
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 30, 2011
Closed Apr 10, 2011
Opened Jan 30, 2011
Closed Apr 10, 2011
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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In Molly Sweeney, Ireland's master storyteller Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations, Philadelphia, Here I Come!) has devised a riveting contemporary drama about the terrible consequences of a medical miracle. Molly has sat in happy, capable, independent darkness since she was ten months old. When her husband, a restless, unemployed enthusiast makes her blindness his latest cause, he consults a once famous star surgeon who, despite being half drowned in Irish whiskey agrees to attempt to restore Molly's sight.
When the bandages come off, remarkable revelations ensue. The privacy of blindness is assaulted. Can one "learn to see"? Or will the shock of realization overwhelm a beautiful woman who has never seen her face! Mr. Friel's fascinating journey plunges deeply into the secrets and hearts of three extraordinary characters who lower the veil and allow us into their very private lives.
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Let's quickly discard any notion that Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney -- now being revived at the Irish Repertory Theatre under Charlotte Moore's skillful direction -- is a play. Not that it matters, because Molly Sweeney is an entirely enthralling story told by three narrators in a two-act series of alternating monologues: Donegal habitue Molly Sweeney (Geraldine Hughes), her husband Frank (Ciaran O'Reilly), and local ophthalmologist-surgeon Mr. Rice (Jonathan Hogan).
The narrative they unfold in mesmerizing, ultimately heart-breaking detail involves Molly -- blind since she was 10 months old -- and what happens when, encouraged by Frank after two years of marriage, she undergoes a [...]