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The Mushroom Pickers
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 4m
“In London I’d battle with the memory of these bumpy hills and the mist of an autumn evening that hangs over every Monaghan lake - because I’d think to myself that it was all so sentimental, that I’d best be forgetting it, and carve into my brain once and for all that I was better off where I was...As soon as I saw them again I wanted to nestle into those hills like a baby. I don’t miss what I left, but I’ve not found whatever I came home for either.”
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Cast Size
2w, 4m
Details
Summary
Set in the border ‘bandit’ country of County Monaghan, The Mushroom Pickers tells the story of Laura, an accomplished actor who leaves her career in London when her life unexpectedly changes course. A self-confessed ‘square peg in a round hole,’ she returns home to join her father, Philip, to work in the local mushroom tunnels. Here Frank McElroy, manager of the family-run business and proponent of the wilder variety of mushroom, takes a shine to Laura and shares with her his dream of wooing the restaurateurs of Ireland and beyond. But Frank has a secret – and so does Laura.
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
Jaki McCarrick
Jaki McCarrick is an award-winning writer. Her play Leopoldville won the 2010 Papatango Prize for New Writing, and her most recent play, Belfast Girls, developed at the National Theatre Studio, London, was shortlisted for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2014 BBC ...
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