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THE ORIGINALS PRESENT MOLLY SWEENEY, BY BRIAN FRIEL

Online sale ends 10/11/24 6:00pm EST
Friday, Oct 11th, 2024
Starts at 7:30PM EST
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SACO RIVER THEATRE
29 SALMON FALLS RD. (MAILING ADDRESS: PO BOX 661 BAR MILLS, ME 04004)
BUXTON, ME 04093
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Overview

Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney is an exquisite story from a masterful storyteller - a highly entertaining play that delivers laughs while posing thoughtful questions that will stay with you for some time.   The story centers on the luminous and joyful Molly (Jennifer Porter), who has been blind since infancy.  Molly’s perpetually unemployed but ever enthusiastic husband, Frank (William McDonough III) has undertaken, as his latest hobby - in a string of foolhardy and failed hobbies - the restoration of Molly’s sight. In his quest to accomplish this, he enlists the help of Mr. Rice (Dana Packard), a once celebrated eye surgeon whose wrecked marriage has brought him to the wilds of northwest Donegal, and for whom the operation on Molly’s eyes offers not only a chance to restore his once brilliant career, but his damaged self-esteem.  As for Molly, she is being offered the chance to have her sight restored. “What has she to lose?” Mr. Rice muses as he agrees to perform the operation.  


“Brian Friel’s beautiful and dazzling Molly Sweeney is one of those marvelous onion plays…As you peel away each plump and juicy layer, another layer emerges underneath and yet another…What a marvelous play this is!  See it - wander in it and wonder at it.”– New York Post  


“Mr. Friel writes like a dream.” - New York Times  


“Brian Friel’s writing has such vitality and warmth.” – London Sunday Times

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Event Details

  • Start Date:

    Friday, Oct 11th 2024, 7:30pm EST

  • End Date:

    Friday, Oct 11th 2024, 9:30pm EST

  • Doors Open:

    7:00 PM EST

  • Age:

    All Ages

  • Category:

    Performing Arts

  • Location:

    Saco River Theatre
    29 Salmon Falls Rd. (Mailing address: PO Box 661 Bar Mills, ME 04004)
    Buxton, ME 04093

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The Saco River Theatre

SRT is an Actors' Equity Association Small Professional Theatre. The resident company, The Originals, presents a wide range of material, from cutting edge dramas, to comedies...

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