Little Gem
Guna Nua Theatre and Civic Theatre in association with the Bush Theatre
Tue 5 - Sat 9 Oct 7.30pm
Theatre: Tue £15, Under 26s £10, Wed - Sat £17.50 (£15), £20 (£17), Under 26s £10
Playwright: Elaine Murphy
This multi award-winning hit of the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival takes the audience on a journey with three generations of Dublin women through one extraordinary year of love, sex, birth, marriage and salsa classses. A year of courage, comedy and romance.
This is a triple monologue of the kind Irish theatre excels in; it tells the tale of three generations of a Dublin family as they stand on the brink of widowhood for Kay, new love for Lorraine and teenage motherhood for Amber.
Little Gem is Elaine Murphy’s debut play. Premiering at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2008, it picked up the Fishamble New Writing Award and the Stewart Parker/BBC Drama Award.
In 2009, the play transferred to the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award.
“A tiny treasure… any woman out there facing down the barrel of marriage, childbirth or old age would be well advised to ditch the sambuca and come to Little Gem instead.” *****Time Out
“Elaine Murphy’s Little Gem is indeed a little gem of a play, vivid, funny and touching… The writing is so honest, the language so vivid that the happy ending seems genuinely earned, and the performances are outstanding… this is lovely, life-affirming work.” **** The Telegraph
“Murphy and her brilliant cast make us care about every breath these women take, and make you want to hug them.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
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Little Gem
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Seating up to 550, audiences are assured of an excellent view of the stage and comfortable seating in this well-designed auditorium. The theatre stages the best national and international plays and performances, as well as contemporary and international dance, music and comedians.
