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Audio Described / Captioined Performance of Bookworms at the Abbey Theatre

Date: Saturday 3rd July 2010

Time: 2pm

Ticket price: €18 (includes programme notes in Large Print / Braille / Audio for people with a visual impairment)

In order to receive advice on best seating for all assisted performances at the Abbey Theatre, please call the Abbey Box Office on 01 87 87 222

Are you Visually Impaired, D/deaf, deafened or hard of hearing? Have you ever experience an accessible performance? Did you know that Arts & Disability Ireland continues its partnership with the Abbey Theatre in presenting Audio Described and Captioned performances at the Abbey?

On Saturday 3rd July at 2pm, skeletons leap from suburban closets in Bookworms, Bernard Farrell’s hilarious and razor-sharp vision of a household savaged by the Celtic Tiger.

‘….and Larry, let’s try to show everybody that, recession or no recession, we are contented, confident and happy – and that this evening is going to be fun!”

This month’s Book Club hostess Ann is struggling to stay calm, desperate to deliver the perfect evening of literary classics and late-night canapés. But when the all-female group invite their husbands to join the club, and a mysterious figure pays a visit from an upstairs room, everyone is forced to contend with a lot more than just Virginia Woolf.

Opinions are challenged, suspicions aroused and tempers flare as their daily lives unravel into a saga to rival even the most outrageous fiction. Director Jim Culleton (Fishamble Theatre Company) brings to life this hugely entertaining new play by the popular and celebrated playwright Bernard Farrell (I Do Not Like Thee Doctor Fell, Canaries, Lovers At Versailles) in an evening of wine and cheese, mystery and mayhem.

Audio Description and Captioning Services are provided at the Abbey Theatre by Arts & Disability Ireland, with support from The Arts Council.