Ramor Theatre, Virginia, Co Cavan Mar 6-7 8.30pm 20/18 049-8547074; Gaiety Theatre, DublinMar 9-14 8pm 15-32 01-6771717Geraldine Aron has always been a somewhat obscure figure in Irish playwriting. She was born in Galway, but spent most of her adult life in Africa, and currently moves between London and Cape Town.
Her stage plays, minor but evocative explorations of family life, have been popular with amateurs, and her first, A Galway Girl, was produced by a young Garry Hynes for Druid more than 30 years ago. The same Hynes never takes her eye off the ball, and when Aron's latest one-woman play, My Brilliant Divorce, had a London success in 2007, she promptly picked it up for a major Irish tour.
The round-up, which finishes in Cavan this weekend, bypassed Dublin, an omission now being remedied by a short run in the Gaiety. Several well-known English players, better known as comics – Dawn French, Dilly Keane and others – have inhabited the solo character of Angela, now interpreted with a native bias by lead stand-up Deirdre O’Kane, also an actor who displaces air on stage.
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