Wired to the Moon by Maeve Binchy

Wired to the Moon

Wired to the Moon Writer: Maeve Binchy

Director & Adaptation: Jim Culleton

Premiere: Andrew's Lane Theatre, Dublin, 2001 followed by a five month sell-out tour

Cast: Noelle Brown, Arthur Riordan, Jasmine Russell, Helen Norton, Sonja Kelly and Jenny Maher

Description: Maeve Binchy has written a half-dozen wonderfully incisive stories about 6 people who are 'wired to the moon' -
- an insurance clerk who confides in a magazine agony aunt with unexpected results
- a woman who is driven mad by her seemingly perfect neighbours
- a bride who is worried people will laugh at her for getting married 'late in life'
- a girl who ruins her family's life when she buys an answering machine
- a boy who is confused by his parents' separation and
- a teacher who is fed up solving everyone else's problems, so decides to find a problem of her own!
Wired to the Moon is set in Ireland during the 1980's. It is a very funny and often moving 90-minute rollercoaster ride through the lives of 36 characters by one of Ireland's best-loved writers

About the writer: Maeve Binchy is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her novels include Light a Penny Candle, Echoes, The Lilac Bus, Circle of Friends and Tara Road. Her short story collections include Dublin 4, Victoria Line and Central Line. Many of her best-selling books have been made into hugely successful films - more recently, Circle of Friends starring Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell.

Press Quotes: "heightened surrealism...brilliant vignettes which combine accuracy of observation with side-splitting farce...very funny...creatively brought to the stage...Jim Culleton directs it all with control and wit...a hugely enjoyable and quintessentially Binchy evening"
The Irish Times

'90 hilarious minutes…as insightful and clever as it is funny'
Sunday Business Post

Often hilarious…a belly-laugh every few minutes'
The Guardian

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