Writer Dermot Bolger confirmed for Post Show Chat
Just confirmed, a post show chat and reading with writer Dermot Bolger, after this weeks 'The Parting Glass', Saturday 21 May, 8pm ... show lasts 92 minutes straight through, no interval ... http://www.draiocht.ie/events/the_parting_glass/
'In The Parting Glass, Eoin has come back to Ireland with his wife and their son Deiter after 15 years in Germany. Like many emigrants, he has always been bound to home by his relationship with his parents, and his mother's Alzheimer's has precipitated his move back. He returns a few years before the collapse of the Celtic Tiger. There's this sense that he is the lunatic who left the casino just before the slot machine paid out, he missed out on that. In the first play 'In High Germany', Eoin's father was also a returned emigrant. In 'The Parting Glass', all the things that happened the father happen to Eoin all over again. As the econony collapses, his son Deiter, now 20, faces the prospect of emigration, and Eoin realises that the whole process of people leaving the country to find work is a never-ending cycle' ... Dermot Bolger in conversation with Marc O'Sullivan, Irish Examiner
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