'Two For a Girl' by Mary Kelly and Noni Stapleton- Craw Festival 2018
Karl-Marx-Straße 58, 12043 Berlin, Germany
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Theater at Craw
'Two For a Girl' by Mary Kelly and Noni Stapleton
directed by Erman Jones
Josie Connors, a young Irish Traveller sets up camp with her nomadic family on the edge of Ryan’s farm, Tipperary, Ireland – 1946. When Josie crosses one of the entrenched cultural lines between her Irish (ethnic minority) travelling community and the Irish (settled) community - we are catapulted through decades of unthinkable consequences. "Stuck between two worlds" in isolation and poverty - Josie keeps travelling, as she is presented with the most compelling reasons of all to survive. As Mary Kelly seamlessly embodies the five main characters – you will be drawn across generations and to every corner of Ireland in this unique look at identity, freedom and loss when two distinct Irish communities collide.
"It is hard not to be struck by the raw emotion generated by Mary Kelly and Noni Stapleton's outstanding work - Two for a Girl.... this is theatre stripped down to its basics and it works" Sunday Business Post. Five Stars *****