Thursday, 3 November 2011

Buck Jones and the Body Snatchers (2008)


Buck Jones again, in 1798, a year after the events of Galloping Buck Jones, and nearly 30 years before the 1829 business with Red Willie, although written 5 years later...  It's complicated. 


This is the poster image, taken by Trevor Hart, with Paul Meade and Roisin Gribbin in the grounds of St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, by kind permission of Dean Norman Lynas.

The credits are on http://www.irishplayography.com/ .  The play started its life as a piece for the stage, then Joan Sheehy did some work in The Georgian House, and the idea sprang up of staging the play as a promenade piece: a joy, it was.

I kept a kind of production diary at http://bodysnatchers.blogs.ie/.  There are lots of links there to reviews etc, some of which may still be available, but these things do tend to expire or fall into the black hole of the internet; such is cyber-life.


Nominated for the Best Production Award in the 2008 Irish Theatre Awards.  Revived in the Dublin Theatre Festival, at Ionad an Phiarsaigh, in 2009.

This photo is by Don Moloney, taken in the coach-house/garden of The Georgian House, Pery Square, Limerick.

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