Our Lady of Sligo Receives World Premiere Date: 26 January 1998
Sebastian Barry's new play Our Lady of Sligo is set to receive its world premiere in a Royal National Theatre production. Directed by Max Stafford-Clark, and co-produced by his company Out of Joint, the show will open first at the Oxford Playhouse before starting in repertory at the RNT's Cottesloe venue on 16 April. Inspired by Barry's own family history, Our Lady of Sligo tells the story of Mai O'Hara and her flamboyant but destructive relationships with her husband Jack, daughter Joanie and the lost country of her childhood. Fuelled by alcohol, passion and despair, it encapsulates a certain class in Ireland which expected more than it received from independence and self-rule. Barry's earlier work The Steward of Christendom, also for Out of Joint, was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Play and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lloyds' Private Banking Award in 1995. In addition to performances in the Cottesloe, Out of Joint will tour the production to Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool, Bath and Dublin.
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