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Molly Sweeney
Irish Rep presents Brian Friel’s play
Geraldine Hughes as Molly in Molly Sweeney at Irish Rep
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Molly has been blind since birth. She has spent her entire life feeling, hearing and sensing the world around her. Now forty, she has married and her unemployed husband, Frank, has set upon fixing Molly’s blindness. He consults with a once-famous surgeon, Mr. Rice, who despite drinking his career and sorrows away with Irish Whiskey, believes he can restore Molly’s sight.
When the bandages come off, remarkable revelations ensue. The privacy of blindness is assaulted. Can one “learn to see”? Or will the shock of realization overwhelm a beautiful woman who has never seen her face!
Largely inspired by the essay by neurologist Oliver Sacks, To See and Not See, Mr. Friel’s play tells Molly’s story through monologues by its three characters. The playwright’s fascinating journey plunges deeply into the secrets and hearts of three extraordinary characters who lower the veil and allow us into their very private lives.
MOLLY SWEENEY co-stars Tony Award nominee Jonathan Hogan (AS IS, BURN THIS, FIFTH OF JULY, HOT L BALTIMORE); Geraldine Hughes (seen on Broadway in Brian Friel’s Tony nominated TRANSLATIONS, BELFAST BLUES); and Ciarán O’Reilly (last seen Off-Broadway in Irish Repertory’s
revivals of CANDIDA and Brian Friel’s ARISTOCRATS).
Charlotte Moore, who helmed the company’s recent productions of A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES, THE IRISH…AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY, ERNEST IN LOVE, and WHITE WOMAN STREET, directs.
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