One act plays set for Kildare theatre this week

The Moat Club, Naas, has a long and illustrious tradition of producing one-act plays. The club’s productions have won the All-Ireland one-act drama competition as recently as 2019. This week, there is a selection of gripping short plays in store. 

Hue and Cry by acclaimed Dublin playwright Deirdre Kinahan will be directed by Sinead  Mooney. In it, two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter. 

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Moat Club Chairperson Samantha Coventry will take on Baby Steps, a brand new play by Moira Mahony and Sarah Fahy. Baby Steps made its debut in this year’s one-act festival circuit and was first runner-up in the new writing section of the All-Ireland One-act Drama Finals.

Trifles participants: Padraig Broe (Sheriff Peters), Mark Neville (Mr Hale), Libby Trappe (Mrs Hale), Tadhg Kelly (County Prosecutor)

Baby Steps sees Ash and Chris move from their home town of Galway to Oxford in an effort to fix their broken marriage and escape the small-town gossips. If it wasn’t hard enough to make a marriage work, they’ve thrown in the one thing guaranteed to test even the strongest relationship – building a flat pack! 

Finally, Mary Newman directs Trifles by Sarah Glaspell. Set in a prairie farmhouse in the early 20th century, the County Attorney and the Sheriff investigate a murder in which a woman is accused of killing her husband. The female characters look at the situation from a woman’s perspective and come to their own conclusions, leading them to a difficult decision.

Short Plays for Longer Evenings: An Evening of One-Act Plays runs at the Moat Theatre from Wednesday 16th to Saturday 19th April at 8pm nightly. Tickets are available from the box office: 045 883030 and on www.moattheatre.com/drama or on the door.