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Molly Sweeney
2019-2020 National Theatre of Northern Greece
Molly Sweeney - Brian Friel
Opening: Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies – Foyer, 20/10/2019
Friel was inspired to write “Molly Sweeney” by the essay “To see and not see” by the neurologist Oliver Sacks and by a real-life incident. Molly, an independent woman, blind from the age of ten months, seems happy living in her darkness—she has friends, a job and a rich emotional life. But her husband Frank is convinced she will only ever be replete when she ceases to be blind. Mr Rice, the surgeon, hopes to boost his flagging medical reputation by performing a successful operation on Molly. We follow Molly before and after her blindness through three parallel monologues. The protagonists’ voices are raw but honest and humorous; it’s as if they’re reading pages from their diaries out loud. Maybe it wasn’t Molly that was blind after all—maybe it was the others who could not see...
Playwright
:
Brian Friel
Translation
:
Glykeria Kalaitzi
Director
:
Glykeria Kalaitzi
Sets
:
Maria Karadeloglou
Costumes
:
Maria Karadeloglou
Music
:
Kostis Vozikis
Lighting
:
Dimitra Aloutzanidou
Director’s Assistant
:
Anna Karamanidou
Art Distribution Note
85 performances - 4,890 spectators
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies – Foyer (20/10/2019 - 15/02/2020)
The play was first staged in August 1994 in Dublin, directed by the playwright; two years later, it moved to New York, before returning to London with all manner of distinctions and awards. In Greece, Antonis Antypas staged the work for Athenian theatregoers in 1996 at the Aplo Theatro.
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