Boann and the well of wisdom

“Boann and the Well of Wisdom” by John Kearns, opens the Festival at Ryan’s Daughter on Sun Jan 9 at 2pm. In this poetic two-character drama based on the myth of Boann (the Irish goddess of poetic inspiration) we see the young and spirited Boann as she matures and yearns to be creative, and her father’s deep ambivalence. Her father, Nechtan, whom she helps run the White Cow pub atop a forbidden well in pre-Christian County Kildare, would rather leave things as they are, while Boann, who stands to inherit the pub, would like to infuse it with her own ideas. With Annalisa Chamberlin as Boann (who also directs) and Brendan J. Mulhern as Nechtan.