Thurles Drama Group
present
Rathmines Road
by Deirdre Kinahan
Sunday,
2 March 2025
8.00 p.m.
Open
Important: The theatre doors will close strictly at 8.00!
Please be seated by 7.50.
(Please note: no food or drink will be allowed in the theatre during any performance, as this is a competition.)
The Play
Rathmines Road is a bristling, highly topical, personal drama about the struggle to be believed. The action rages over one evening in a family sitting-room, it challenges the cultural responses society makes to an accusation of sexual assault. It is a story about one woman's dilemma in coming forward.
Back in the family home to oversee its sale with her husband Ray, Sandra collides with her shocking past. Her predicament is whether she should publicly reveal her trauma when she comes face to face with her attacker from twenty-five years ago, or continue to hold on to her secret suffering? If she confronts Eddie in her late parent's house what will be the consequences for her, her marriage, her family?
Sandra's story testifies to the pain of carrying the memory of sexual assault throughout a lifetime. The Irish Times called it: "A compassionate imagining of one woman's private torment."
Back in the family home to oversee its sale with her husband Ray, Sandra collides with her shocking past. Her predicament is whether she should publicly reveal her trauma when she comes face to face with her attacker from twenty-five years ago, or continue to hold on to her secret suffering? If she confronts Eddie in her late parent's house what will be the consequences for her, her marriage, her family?
Sandra's story testifies to the pain of carrying the memory of sexual assault throughout a lifetime. The Irish Times called it: "A compassionate imagining of one woman's private torment."
The Cast
Sandra
Geraldine Delaney
Ray
Derek Doherty
Dairne
Sarah Feehan
Linda
Paula Drohan
Eddie
Ken Murphy
Crew
Director
Margaret McCormack
Lighting
Dean Rossiter
Sound
Dick Ryan
Stage Management
Geraldine Morrissey
Mary Slattery
Mary Slattery
Makeup
Greta Murphy
The Group
Thurles Drama Group presents two three-act plays yearly in the Source Arts Centre. Over a period of fifty-eight years, they have produced plays of every genre, and always of the highest quality. The group has recently bought an old cinema/parish hall which has been refurbished into their won drama rehearsal space. They had their official opening of The Brid Ryan Drama Centre in 2023.
The group has been competing on the three-act festival circuit of a number of years and have reached the All-Ireland Finals in Athlone on numerous occasions, the most recent with The Seafarer in 2023.
The group has been competing on the three-act festival circuit of a number of years and have reached the All-Ireland Finals in Athlone on numerous occasions, the most recent with The Seafarer in 2023.