A Personal Prism
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David Joyce from County Galway is a vital and striking new voice in the Irish theatre. An MA graduate of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway, he has written a captivating and humorous play, inspired by his own lived experience as a young Irish adult with a disability.
Lee Hanley is a regular guy with a disability living in a fictional West of Ireland town. Just out of college, he is job-hunting and hopes to write poetry, enjoy a social life – ordinary, everyday things. But in Lee’s world, nothing is ever simple. He feels trapped within the town and within himself and struggles with mental health and the external barriers that are constantly put in his way. Without any say, he is suddenly assigned a personal assistant who seems unsuited…
An unflinching, universal, truthful tale of friendship, A Personal Prism will have its world premiere at the Black Box Theatre before a run of dates:
Tues 26 & Wed 27 Nov at 8 PM, Black Box Galway
Thurs 28 Nov at 8:30 PM, Portumna Town Hall
Closing on Fri 29 Nov at 8:30 PM, St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam
The ensemble includes Galway actors Johanne Webb, Gerard Howard, Eimear Finan, and Matthew Nolan, an Irish actor with a disability living in London, whose recent work includes Doctors and 1797. The play is directed by highly-regarded writer-director Declan Gorman whose previous Town Hall presentations include The Big Fellow, The Green Fool, and The Dubliners Dilemma.