Supper Theatre celebrations

ENNIS Players are celebrating their 25th anniversary Supper Theatre at the Old Ground Hotel, Ennis next week.

The annual Supper Theatres have become one of the town’s premier pre-Christmas social occasions. From next Monday until Thursday, November 25, Ennis Players will be performing two one-act productions.
Maura Williamson’s Faded Footsteps will be performed by Saoirse Byrne and Eric Healy, two of the Players’ leading actors in last year’s highly acclaimed production of Playboy of the Western World.
“It is a searing drama, which follows the ups and downs of a young couple through 10 years of their lives. Maura Williamson is an up and coming playwright whose plays have been performed at the All-Ireland drama finals. Maura has kindly allowed Ennis Players to perform her beautiful play, which will be directed by Jackie Scanlan,” a spokesman for Ennis Players said.
The second one-act play is Ruby of Elsinore by Bruce Kane.
“This is a hilarious comedy, directed by Bernie Harten. The play is set in Ruby’s hairdressing salon in Elsinore, Denmark, where Ruby, played by Olivia Loughnane, tends to the locks of her royal clients and allows them to divulge their deepest secrets.
“Ruby’s clients include the indecisive Prince Hamlet (Tony Coffey) and his self-obsessed mother, Gertrude (Mary Poirier), who extols the virtues of her new husband – the very virile and frisky King Claudius (Mick Loughnane). Ophelia, played by Kate Browne wants to look especially beautiful as she believes Hamlet is going to pop the question. However, the only question Hamlet is pondering is “to be or not to be…?” and whether to kill King Claudius in revenge for the death of his father, King Hamlet (Hugh Gallagher).
“This very humorous take on Shakespeare’s classic play promises to be great fun for audiences and the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom all around us,” the spokesman added.
Nightly performances of the Supper Theatre are at 8pm. Tickets, which include supper, are available at the Irish Shop in the Market (formerly Record Rack) or from 065 6820769.