The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley

By Jimmy Keary

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Athy Community Arts CentreAthy


Event Details

  • Tue 10 Jan - Sat 14 Jan  2017
  • 7.45pm


  • Venue Details
    Athy Community Arts Centre

    Woodstock Street
    Athy


  • 087 0576713
  • athyarts@gmail.com
  • www.athycommunityartscentre.com


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Gabriel Foley is a middle-aged bachelor farmer, who lives with his elderly mother. He has been unlucky in love many times, much to his mother’s frustration. She thinks she’ll never get rid of him. Then he meets upmarket, Hazel Myers and joins the posh drama group in the nearby town in order to romance her.

He is unaware that Chrissie McCabe – a cheerful countrywoman, who comes in to help him and his mother – fancies him. By the time Chrissie makes her feelings known to Gabriel, he has already got Hazel’s attention. He and Chrissie decide to try going out together. He tries to let Hazel down gently, but Hazel is not a woman to give up easily.

Characters:
Gabriel Foley – A middle-aged bachelor farmer, who is unlucky in love.
Aggie Foley – Gabriel’s acid-tongued 70-year-old mother, who lives with him.
Chrissie McCabe – A kind-hearted countrywoman around Gabriel’s age.
Hazel Myers – A well-to-do woman in her forties, whom Gabriel fancies.
Liam Gavigan – A good-humoured farmer-friend of Gabriel’s.
Lucy Lacey – Aggie’s downbeat, slightly younger sister.
Clive Snell – A self-absorbed member of the Prince of Denmark Players. Morag Delamere – The sensitive director of the Prince of Denmark Players.

The entire play is set in the living room of the Foley farmhouse.

Act 1: Scene 1: Afternoon / Scene 2: Later that evening
Act 2: A short time later
Act 3: Scene 1: Friday night – the night of the GAA dance and Scene 2: The following afternoon 

 Jimmy Keary website  http://www.jimmykeary.ie/ 


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