Wired to the Moon
Written by Maeve Binchy
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.
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.
Reviews
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‘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
Cast
Arthur Riordan
Arthur Riordan is an actor and playwright. Arthur last worked with Fishamble on the Irish, UK and Australia tour of Swing. Other recent stage appearances include A Day (Olympia Theatre) From Under the Bed (Big Guerrilla Productions) Krapp’s Last Tape Theatre Royal, Waterford; and Kings of the Kilburn High Road with Livin’ Dred/Verdant productions. He has also worked extensively with Rough Magic (of which he is a founder member), as well as many other leading Irish theatre companies, including the Abbey and Peacock, Druid, Gaiety, Corca Dorca, and Pan Pan.
Arthur has also made numerous television and film appearances, including Out of Here, Ripper Street, Stella Days, Killinaskully, The Tudors, Fair City, The Clinic, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Chosen, Borstal Boy, Rat, The Last September, and Pitch n’ Putt with Beckett n’ Joyce.
Arthur’s writing includes the stage adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, libretto for Andrew Synnott’s opera Dubliners for Opera Theatre Company; book and lyrics for the hit musical The Train; an adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt; book and lyrics for the multi-award-winning hit musical Improbable Frequency and a one-man show, The Emergency Session (all for Rough Magic); a stage adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s Slattery’s Sago Saga (for The Performance Corporation); Love Me?! (for The Corn Exchange), and two collaborations with Des Bishop – Rap Eire (for Bickerstaffe), and Shooting Gallery (for Bedrock Productions).
Productions
Creative Team
Jim Culleton
Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards.
Jim has also directed for the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de hÍde, Tinderbox, Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, Soho Theatre, Scripts Festival, and Baptiste Programme. He has directed audio plays for Audible, BBC, RTÉ Radio 1, and RTÉ lyric fm. He has directed for Vessel and APA (Australia), TNL (Canada), Solas Nua, Mosaic, and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Origin, Irish Arts Center, New Dramatists, and 59E59 (Off-Broadway), as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway. Jim has taught for NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir, Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, JNU, and TCD.