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Rosemary Henderson will spend the evening playing a character who thinks she is immortal
The Good Crank is a one-person comedy-drama presented in the voice of a woman certain in her belief that she is never going to die.
Kitty Clog (Rosemary Henderson – Father Ted, Fair City) lives by herself in Single Street, the oldest street in town. She’ll say hello to tomorrow when it arrives, but she’s still got a little time for yesterday.
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She’s also got a few people in her head. There’s neighbour Phyllis, who has suddenly become aware of her mortality and seems determined to ply Kitty with industrial quantities of questionable wine.
There’s neighbour Jack, self-anointed inventor of the iPod and never slow to remind Kitty about what a crank she is. There’s ex-Yoga master turned cowboy builder, who is keen to throw up an apartment complex in the field out back of Kitty’s house.
Then there’s the mystery of what happened to the one and only man in Kitty’s life. Here one day, gone the next, and without so much as a thank you for the memories.
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Treading a blurry line between humour and pathos; yearning and farce; belonging and marginalisation, The Good Crank is an exploration of the flip-flop existence of an older woman at odds with the world she has grown into.
Tickets for The Good Crank at Backstage Theatre on Saturday, June 14 at 8pm are available on 043 33 47888 or https://backstage.ie/events/the-good-crank/
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