Galway premiere for new conroy play
“It’s hard to explain. You thought the outside of me was me, but it wasn’t. My outside never matched my inside.”
In Amy Conroy’s new play, Laura returns home for the death of her father, but Laura is now Mark. In this dramatic and fiercely funny exploration of masculinity, Mark defends his new life to those who know him best, his twin brother Gary and old friend Sullivan. And, most confronting of all, he has to face what it means to be himself.
Amy Conroy immerses herself fully in the world of the people she writes about. Audiences who experienced the pure love between the women in I ♥ Alice ♥ I; the grit and determination of the young dance student in Eternal Rising of the Sun or the explosive staffroom conflicts in Break, can expect a similar intensity from Luck Just Kissed You Hello.
Amy has worked with Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), on understanding, not only what it feels like to be both genders, but also to investigate gender fluidity & masculinity through a transgender lens.
“I feel it is important for the play to convey the uncertainty felt by many men,” says Conroy. “Yet I also wanted to acknowledge the great beauty in so many traditional masculine traits. To examine what it feels like to be a man, but also what it feels like to be a man deemed not masculine enough, or indeed a female deemed too masculine.”
A beautiful new play, exploring the delicate strength it takes to be all that is expected of you.
Luck Just Kissed You Hello will have its world premiere at Galway International Arts Festival and runs from the 13th - 25th July at 8pm with matinees on the 18th and 25th July at 3pm. Previews will open from the 9th – 12th July and No Shows on the 14th and 19th July. Show duration is 90 minutes and tickets €18 - €20 are available from www.giaf.ie or at the Festival Box Office on 091 566577 or visit the Box Office at Galway Tourist Office, Forster Street, Galway.
Luck Just Kissed You Hello marks the first co-production between HotForTheatre and Galway International Arts Festival. The production is supported by an Arts Council play development award with production support provided by Rough Magic.