The Lepers of Baile Baiste
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Opened Sep 13, 2004
Closed Oct 3, 2004
Opened Sep 13, 2004
Closed Oct 3, 2004
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Set in the fictional small town of Baile Baiste (Gaelic for "Town of Rain") outside of Galway, four young men regularly share hostile jokes and scathing gossip, coaxed by a steady stream of alcohol, at the local pub. When Daithi O'Neill returns to tell the buried secrets of the local Catholic Church's past, their lives are sent into a tailspin. Winner of the National Playwriting Award at the American College Theater Festival and produced at the Kennedy Center, The Lepers of Baile Baiste is a searing dark comedy that slices deep into childhood wounds and exposes the moral corruption of one of the world's most powerful institutions.
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"Sin is like leprosy," says Father John Gannon, preaching to his congregation. "When you can't feel it, then you know you're in trouble." In Ronan Noone's The Lepers of Baile Baiste, the characters that inhabit the fictional Irish town of the play's title do their best not to feel the pain of a shared trauma that dates back many years. They refuse to talk about it, instead drowning their sorrows in alcohol and denying the event's impact. However, the arrival of Daithi O'Neil (Dara Coleman), who returns to Baile Baiste after several years in London, threatens to dredge up buried secrets and open the wounds of both the victims and those who covered up the sins of an abusive predator.
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