Navan premiere of new Kinihan play this week

Solstice Arts Centre in Navan will host the world premiere of Tall Tales Theatre Company's production of Deirdre Kinihan's 'Moment' next week. Moment is an explosive new drama specially commissioned by Solstice Arts Centre with support from the Arts Council. It explores how one moment, one action can change a life forever. The play is set fifteen years on from that one moment and takes place over one extraordinary evening when one ordinary Irish family sit down to tea. The difference tonight is that Niall is home. Fast, funny and frighteningly real, Moment will take audiences on a journey through trauma wrapped up in tablecloths and teacake. Tall Tales is the theatre company-in-residence at Solstice Arts Centre, from which they produce and tour new plays and provide a programme of professional development for artists in Meath. The company is known for its programme of original, artistically exciting and accessible theatre. Wilkinstown writer Deirdre Kinahan, the playwright of Moment, is artistic director of the Tall Tales Theatre Company. She is also one of Ireland's most celebrated and prolific new playwrights. Kinihan was winner of the Tony Doyle Bursary with BBC Northern Ireland 2009, and she is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre and Semper Fi Ireland. Deirdre writes for radio, screen and theatre and her most recent theatre works 'Hue & Cry', 'Melody' and 'Maisy Daly's Rainbow' have performed at Solstice and toured nationally and internationally. Meath audiences have been given the first opportunity to see this thrilling, darkly comic and ultimately tragic new play from one of Ireland's most dynamic small theatre companies and is not to be missed. Moment is directed by David Horan with a cast of Maeve Fitzgerald, Will Irvine, Deirdre Donnelly, Kate Ni Chonaonigh, Alan King, Ronan Leahy, Natalie Radmal Quirke. It runs from 12th-14th November at 8pm. David Horan directs.