Great dramas and dance make up the fabric of new Theatre At The Mill

THE fabric of the new 'Theatre at The Mill', located in the imaginatively restored grounds of Mossley Mill in Newtownabbey, will be spun into action during the weeks ahead with a range of top quality dance and drama being performed live on stage.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Feb 2010, 09:31 BST
Updated 22nd Feb 2010, 07:28 BST

Martin McDonagh’s multi award-winning play ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ performed by London Classic Theatre Company will start the yarns spinning on Friday, February 26 at the new theatre.

A gripping blend of dark comedy, melodrama, horror and tragedy, this play is set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, and tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain, lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative, ageing mother.

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When Mag interferes in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship, a train of events is set in motion that leads inexorably towards the play’s terrifying finale.

And the drama doesn’t end there with local theatre companies also staging their plays at the new theatre for the first time in March. Theatre manager, Bernard Clarkson said: "Bruiser Theatre Company brings their hilarious allegory of Hitler’s rise to power in ‘The Resistible Rise of Atruro Ui’ on Thursday, March 11 and Martin Lynch will stage his highly acclaimed ‘Chronicles of Long Kesh’ on Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 12.

"Given the setting of Theatre at The Mill, we are also excited to have Big Telly’s ‘The Haunting of Helena Blunden’, a love story set in a linen mill performed at Mossley Mill on Monday, March 22.”

More information and tickets for Theatre at The Mill performances are available online at www.theatreatthemill.com or from the Box Office on 028 9034 0202.

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