by Enda Walsh
- The Granary Theatre, Cork Midsummer Festival - Cork Capital of Culture 2005
Pondlife Angels
it’s early morning and she’s standing in her bedroom looking down on cork
right down to the quays people are out of their cars and looking up at her house in gurrnabraher
she’s wearing her minnie mouse nightshirt and for the first time she realises it’s covered in her own blood.
they’re waiting for her.
Specially commissioned for the European Capital of Culture: Cork, 2005 pondlife angels traces a desperate day in the life of a Cork city checkout girl…mapping out her ever-more nightmarish and frenetic journey through the streets of Cork, as she tries to make sense of her unravelling reality.
A comedy, a love story, a murder mystery, a soap opera, a super natural thriller, all taking place in the split second between life and death.
pondlife angels ran at the Granary Theatre from the 14-25th of June 2005 as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.
CAST and CREW
Jean - Ailis Symons
Him - Domhnall O’Donoghue
Director - Donal Gallagher
Assistant Director / Dramaturg - Armin Beber
Set Design - Olan Wrynn
Lighting Design - Kath Geraghty
Sound Design Cormac O’Connor
Costume Design - Jessica Healy
Video Design - Martin Levis
Lighting Operator - Michael Bate
Set Design Intern - Lucy Ryan
Set Construction - Sarah Burke, Vicky Langan, Ruairi McKernan
Voice Coach - Andrea Ainsworth
THANKS TO
Emelie, Jennifer and all of Graffiti Theatre; all at Andrews Lane Theatre; Trish Edelstein at Boomerang Theatre; Jan Diederen; Siobhan Fitzgerald; Lisa Zagone; Teresa Hanevy and Derval Joyce, speech therapists at the South Infirmary; SERVOX AG Trisdorf/Germany; apfezet Berlin; Reddy O’Riordan Staehly Architects; Aidan Stanly, Dr Paul Deasy; Triskel Arts Centre; Granary; Liz Meaney at the Cork City Arts Office; The Tyrone Guthrie Centre; Bernie Sweeney, Ger Fitzgibbon, Chris Schmidt-Martin and the DTS at UCC. Special Thanks to Fiona O’Toole and Enda Walsh.