CQAF-THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE

The Ballroom of Romance
The Green Room (Black Box)
Friday 11 May, 1.00pm
Tickets £4.00

Born 90 years ago this month, this perfectly rendered naturalist feature is adapted from writer William Trevor’s short story The Ballroom of Romance.

The film explores the deadening atmosphere of 1950s Ireland through the figure of the unmarried Bridie (Brenda Fricker). ‘Spinster’ Bridie goes to the country ballroom, where as a young woman she danced and dreamed of a happy marriage, to desperately try one last time to find a husband.

Respectable men prove to be thin on the ground and loneliness threatens to drive Bridie into the arms of drunken, foolish Bowser Egan (John Kavanagh).

Trevor supplied the script for this adaptation himself, with Pat O’Connor crafting it into a courageous look into the paralysed heart of rural Ireland.

Doors 12:45pm | Unreserved Seating