Mainstream

By Rosaleen McDonagh

We share a history, we share a memory and they both share my heart.
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It’s that time of the year. A time that Eoin, Mary Anne and Jack all remember.
They have all agreed to take part in a documentary.

They have all lied to each other about what they are going to say on camera.
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Project Arts Centre and the Olivier Award-winning Fishamble: The New Play Company present a play by Rosaleen McDonagh about truth, lies and the mainstreaming of Travellers with disabilities.

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Created by

Written by ROSALEEN McDONAGH
Directed by JIM CULLETON
Set Design by NIAMH LUNNY
Lighting Design by SARAH JANE SHIELS
Sound Design by DENIS CLOHESSY
Video Design by NEIL O’DRISCOLL

Cast

John Connors
Neili Conroy
Gráinne Hallahan
Donal Toolan

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Rehearsal Shots

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Reviews

‘Mainstream is hugely ambitious…almost Shavian in its dialectic complexity…Mainstream crawl[s] into your soul: its anger stabs deep into the audience, and makes for a harrowing, deeply affecting 85 minutes’
Sunday Independent
 
‘Heart-breakingly brilliant…one of the highlights of McDonagh’s ambitious script is its giving voice to the confrontation between the traveller male and traveller woman, realised in a gripping scene between Mary-Anne and Jack. A scene that transcends, whilst simultaneously embracing, traveller culture, lodging the experience firmly in the universally human… director Jim Culleton does a sterling job with his cast of traveller, settled and disabled actors… a tale that needs to be heard’
​The Arts Review
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