Wexford Drama Group (Open) presents

A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard

Cast

Jake: Alan Fitzhenry
Beth: Danielle Fortune
Frankie: Eric McGuire
Mike: Ronan Berry
Lorraine: Catherine Walsh
Sally: Seona O’Connor
Baylor: Andy Doyle
Meg: Hilda Conway

Crew

Director: Paul Walsh
Lighting: Cian Redmond
Sound: Paul Walsh: Score composed by Bladderack
Set & Stage Manager: Alan Kelly
Props: Jeanette Sidney Kelly
Make-up: Kitty Warren & Lauren Kehoe

Synopsis of Play: A LIE OF THE MIND involves two desperate families connected by the marriage of the son of one (Jake) to the daughter of the other (Beth). As the play begins Beth, brain-damaged from a savage beating that Jake has given her, is tended by her parents, Baylor and Meg. Jake sends his brother, Frankie, to Montana to see is she is dead or alive, but Beth’s father, mistaking Frankie for a poacher, shoots him in the leg and takes him prisoner. Thereafter the tensions and enmities that motivate the two families grow increasingly disturbing and dangerous. Frankie falls in love with Beth, but his brother, Mike, is bitterly determined that she no longer have anything to do with her husband or his loathsome family. Meanwhile the distraught, hysterical Jake, back home in California, is nursed by his possessive mother, Lorraine, and his sister, Sally to whom Lorraine is openly hostile. Having gotten Jake back from Beth, Lorraine is determined to keep him with her forever, but Jake soon recovers and sets out to regain his wife. In the end, however, his will fails, and he allows Beth to stay with Frankie; Lorraine burns down her house and departs for Ireland with Sally; and Jake, bereft and alone, seeks communication with his dead father by gently dispersing his ashes into the moonlight-hoping to find order and meaning in the present by coming to terms with the haunting spectres of the past.

Group History: Established in 1966, Wexford Drama Group produce three full length productions each year. The group have also competed on the ADCI All Ireland Drama Festival circuit for many years.

Season tickets are available from Murphy’s shop in Ballinamore.
Nightly tickets will be available to purchase on the door each night.