The nice people at Druid have given me some info about ‘Big Maggie’, John B. Keane’s play which will be touring nationwide later this year.
Here’s the blurb:
Following recent international success with The Cripple of Inishmaan and Penelope, Druid returns to the writing of John B. Keane with a new production of Big Maggie this autumn.
Set in 1960s rural Ireland, Big Maggie is a compelling portrait of a woman who is determined to take control of her life following the death of her husband. Money, land and secret sex make for a riveting story of how Big Maggie takes power into her own hands. Shocking for its time – the play premiered in 1969 – the portrait that Keane painted of the dark side of Irish family life seems now to be eerily prescient. (more…)