By Síona Carroll
Email: siona@limerickpost.ie
OVER the past four weeks, the people of Moyross have been spending 12-hour days alongside Dublin’s THEATREclub, rehearsing for their professional production of ‘MOYROSS.’
The show, which will run until May 3, 8pm in Lime Tree Theatre, consists of a large cast ranging from eight months old to 70 years. These participants will be telling the story of Moyross through song, dance, script and poetry.
Leading it all, Grace Dyas from THEATREclub, the social activist collective, told Limerick Post that “the show will tell the journey of Moyross from the seventies up until present day. There will be a mixture of positive and negative things, its life.”
This huge production will highlight a number of key themes in the area, exploring the concepts and indeed, reality of issues such as stigma, community, motherhood and regeneration. In an effort not to concentrate too much on the issues of addiction and crime, such references are distributed throughout.
Lauren Larkin, with THEATREclub and helping to produce ‘MOYROSS’, said she was overwhelmed by the response that they have achieved, “At our team meeting last Saturday [April 19], we learned that three per cent of the population of Moyross is participating.”
Helena O’Donnell Reddan, who plays the role of one of the mothers, is acting along side five of her grandchildren. When asked what she believed is the one thing that could not be left out of this play, Helena replied: “The community spirit, it’s the one thing that has stayed with Moyross throughout the years.”
Tickets: www.limetreetheatre.ie
via MOYROSS by the people of the people | Limerick Post Newswrite.
