Keep
Coming Back
A Stray Dog Production
Riverbank Arts Centre Newbridge Saturday 2nd August 2003
8.00pm (Tickets €12 / €10)
Booking 045 448333 boxoffice@riverbank.ie
Directed by award winning Rynagh O’ Grady, Keep Coming
Back is playing at the Riverbank Arts Centre on Saturday 2nd August.
Keep Coming Back is a story of contemporary Ireland, our history
and our culture. It tells the story of three people from three different
backgrounds and their battle to come to terms with the addictions which
have plagued their lives up to this point. This story is a raw, but humorous
depiction of their lives as they battle to come to terms with what they
are and what they aspire to be.
Les, a young, volatile inner-city Dubliner, tells of how he could
have ended up in a very different place but he has been led on a journey
of violent crime, prison incarceration and heroin addiction.
Having spent the last twenty years creating and nurturing a raging addiction
to drugs and alcohol, well-educated Colm tells his story - how
he walked away from the best that life has to offer.
Nora, a single mother, describes her journey through the addictions
of prescription medicine and alcohol.
Through these painful confessions, the audience is permitted into their
world as witness to the courageous battle for survival endured by Les,
Colm and Nora and to share in the humour and love, as well as the anger,
hate and denial of these three survivors.
The production is a candid portrayal of an aspect of life in Ireland
today which is relevant on all levels of family and community life, as
well as posing serious questions for the State. The piece has been written
using first-hand experiences of people just like Les, Colm and Nora, who
could very well be your next-door neighbour, whose lives and experiences,
most of us will never know.
For further information, please contact Catríona or Gráinne
on
(045) 448314/5 or by email at artscentre@riverbank.ie
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