Eleemosynary:

La Cosa Nostra in association with Friars Gate Theatre Kilmallock present "Eleemosynary" by Lee Blessing. It is a very dramatic piece for three female actors which runs without an interval for 90 mins.

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Helena Enright

Maeve Mc. Grath

Sinead Fahy

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Author: (Lee Blessing)

Lee Blessing was born in Minneapolis in 1950. He received his B.A. from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a double M.F.A. in poetry and playwriting from the University of Iowa. His plays include: Fortinbras, Down The Road and Two Rooms (commissioned and produced by the La Jolla Playhouse); Cobb (Yale Repertory Theatre); Eleemosynary (Manhattan Theatre Club); Lake Street Extension , (Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati), Riches, Independence ,Oldtimers Game and Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music , (all at Actors Theatre of Louisville). A Walk in the Woods opened on Broadway in 1988 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, and its subsequent West End production in London starring Sir Alec Guinness was nominated for the Olivier Award. It has since been produced worldwide and on PBS's American Playhouse.

 

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