Following a sell-out premiere and further sell-out performances to over 600 people in VISUAL Carlow and following two sell-out national tours, Mend & Make do Theatre Co return with one of the most intriguing, brutal, beautiful and tragic love stories of the last two centuries on Nov 7th.
In March 1835 Lucinda Sly and John Dempsey were tried at Carlow Court for the murder of Lucinda’s husband, Walter. Lucinda was in her late fifties, John Dempsey in his twenties; she was a member of the Church of Ireland, he a Catholic; she was a landowner, he a labourer. They were lovers.
Lucinda and John were found guilty of the murder – despite evidence that she had regularly been beaten and brutalised by her husband. Ten thousand people thronged the streets of Carlow to see the public hanging and the executions were delayed by three hours to allow for the arrival of onlookers from as far away as Dublin and Kilkenny. The hanging was a botched affair and Lucinda took nine minutes to die.
‘The staging is ingenious’ - No More Workhorse
‘Affecting & disturbing, a play about real people with a strong cast...There is an earthiness to the work...it treats the subject matter with respect but without pulling any punches’ - Red Curtain Review
'Raw, brutal and unflinching' - Waterford News & Star
VIDEO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9SLDb0bEc
WEBSITE
www.lucindasly.com
FACEBOOK
www.facebook.com/Lucinda-Sly-Nationwide-tour-619115891553327/
TWITTER
www.twitter.com/LucindaSly
Event date & time: 06.11.2015 at 20:00
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