POP – Staged Reading, Tristan Bates Theatre, 25 Apr 2012Pop is the working title of a screenplay/script inspired by the memoir Home Fires (Atlantic Books, 2002) by Shivaun Woolfson. It is a parallel love story – between a young girl and her blind grandfather, a man and his wife - which uncovers the wounds at the core of one of Dublin's most prominent Jewish families over the course of 1965, a year in which each of their lives changes forever.
Cast: Don McCorkindale, Aela O'Flynn, Alan Turkington, Suzy Cooper, Norma Cohen, David Ross Elliott, Oliver Bennett, Sean O'Callaghan, Donnla Hughes, Cornelius Clarke, Anna Savva, Aoife McMahon. Directed by Trilby James. Casting by Gemma Lloyd. Screenplay by Shivaun Woolfson and Frances Tay. Music: Steven Leas and David Giardino.
Web: http://pop-staged-reading.weebly.com/