The Everyman Set To Present And Coproduce The World Premiere Of AUTUMN ROYAL

May (Siobhán McSweeney) and Timothy (Shane Casey) are looking after the father - the father has long since taken to the bed. Their own lives are curtailed, closed down, and they're not getting any younger. Should they stay or should they go?

A dark, dark comedy, set on the north side of Cork city, Autumn Royal is a play about life and death, love and hate, hysterical dependency, jealousy, rage, horror, and homicidal notions - or, in other words, it's a play about a family.

Kevin Barry is the multi-award winning writer of the novels Beatlebone and City Of Bohane, and the story collections Dark Lies The Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. Autumn Royal is his first piece written originally for the stage. The Everyman is proud to present and coproduce its world premiere, from Monday 30th January - Saturday 4th February.

Early booking is advised. The audience will be seated on the stage so capacity is limited. Tickets available from the Everyman box office, telephone 021 4501 673, or online from www.everymancork.com

Tour Dates:

Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry at the Everyman, Cork

Date and Time: Monday 30th January - Saturday 4th February, 8pm

Previews: Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th and Sunday 29th January, 8pm

Post Show Talk: Tuesday 31st January

Price: €26 | Concession €23 | Students €15 | Previews €20

Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Date and Time: Tuesday 7th - Saturday 11th February, 7.45pm

Price: €18-€20

http://projectartscentre.ie/event/autumn-royal/

Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry at The Dock, Leitrim

Date and Time: Thursday 23rd February, 8.30pm

Price: €16-14

http://www.thedock.ie/events/autumn-royal

ABOUT KEVIN BARRY

Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City Of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies The Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He has won the IMPAC Dublin City Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature and many other awards. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, the Stinging Fly and other journals. His work has been translated into 16 languages. His radio plays and monologues have been broadcast on RTE and the BBC. Adaptations of his stories have been staged in Ireland and the US. He also writes screenplays and essays, and he is co-editor of the journal Winter Papers. He lives in County Sligo.

About Siobhán McSweeney

Siobhán trained at Central School of Speech & Drama, London and Ecole Philippe Gaulier, Paris.

Theatre credits include : The Alchemist ( Royal Shakespeare Company,) As You Like It, The Captain of Köpenick, The Kitchen, Mother Courage and her Children, England People Very Nice ( all at the Royal National Theatre, London), How To Hold Your Breath (Royal Court, London), Fathers and Sons (Donmar Warehouse, London ) , Uncle Vanya ( Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Translations (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Dancing at Lughnasa ( Birmingham Rep), Stars in the Morning Sky (Jagged Fence, London), The Flags (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Performance In A Studio Performance ), Midden (Oldham Colisium), Life is a Dream (Rough Magic), 4.48 psychosis (Rough Magic,SEEDS)

Previous work at the Everyman - Soap! , Dark Week.

Film - Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass, The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Television - No Offence, The Fall, London Irish

About Shane Casey

Based in Dublin Shane has most recently been seen in films The Young Offenders and Crash, Bang, Wallop. Theatre work includes God Bless the Child (Patrick Talbot Productions), Hung Juror at the Everyman, Damages at Cork Arts Theatre, Graffiti's Where in the World is Frank Sparrow, Disco Pigs, Wet Paint, Big Maggie, Man of La Mancha, A Day in the Life of a Pencil, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice. Film roles include the part of Doc in The Handsome Shadows (Best Actor Dublin International Short Film Festival and Dare Media's UNDERGROUND Film Festival), Kevin in The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Palm D'or Winner) and Dallas in The Runway.

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