Nomad Players present: Laughing Wild

Friday 28th February, 8pm

Ticket Price: €18/16 (plus booking fees)

Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang

1987. New York. President Reagan is in the White House. The AIDS epidemic rages. In a frenetic city coloured by increasing political and social conservatism, a man and a woman are trying to function.  They look for the answers in different places from the Sarah Jessy Raphael show to crystals and mantras, but what they really yearn for is human connection. Is this only possible in their dreams? Fun, mad, ironic and smart, Laughing Wild couldn't be more relevant to the agonies of modern existence.

Mr. Durang is one of the funniest men in the world, able to make the audience laugh time and time again, taking us by surprise with his one-of-a-kind jokes and his relentless bitter satire.  

– Edith Oliver, The New Yorker

Grand satire… savagely, consistently on target…  

– L.A. Times

Cast:

Woman: Eilish Rafferty

Man: Brendan Farrell

Nomad Players are Maeve O’Donovan and Eilish Rafferty, two theatre makers from the Midlands who specialise in telling the stories of ordinary women who do bad things or make bad choices. Previous productions include Without Apology, a double bill of the Neil LaBute monologues Medea Redux and All The Ways to Say I Love You, and Invisible Women, a double bill of the Alan Bennett monologues Her Big Chance and Bed Among the Lentils. In Laughing Wild, Nomad Players are joined by Brendan Farrell in the role of Man.