These Halcyon Days

Landmark Productions in association with MCD Presents
These Halcyon Days
The Olympia Theatre
Wednesday 12th to Saturday 15th June 2013

Nominated for BEST NEW PLAY at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2012

These Halcyon Days gets its Olympia debut from Wednesday 12th to Saturday 15th June, for 5 performances only, including a matinee on Sat 15th June. Tickets priced from €20 including booking fee on sale now via Ticketmaster.

Deirdre Kinahan’s (MOMENT, BOGBOY) laugh-out-loud, bittersweet new play THESE HALCYON DAYS features Anita Reeves and Stephen Brennan in a celebration of the human spirit and our quest for meaning in even the most seemingly hopeless circumstance.

It took a while. But they found each other.

Seán (Brennan) sits alone in a nursing-home conservatory, abandoned to his memories when in storms Patricia (Reeves), a feisty woman with a zest for life and for handsome men in wheelchairs. A wary intimacy soon develops between the two, an unforeseen relationship by turns charming and combative, tender and funny.

Writer of critically acclaimed international plays Moment and Bogboy (‘a ferociously funny and unexpectedly shattering writer’ – Metro, London), Deirdre Kinahan’s new drama is infused with her hallmark wry humour and humanity which critics and audiences worldwide have come to admire. A play about facing our fears and bucking against despair, These Halcyon Days is a glorious celebration of the human spirit against the odds. Kinahan is one of Ireland's most celebrated contemporary playwrights and her work is produced regularly both in Ireland and on the International stage.