THE WHOLE WORLD IS CHANGIN’ AND GENTRY STAYS THE SAME

Joseph Crilly’s On McQuillan’s Hill opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four-week limited season on Tuesday, 4 February 2020

TICKETS: www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

“There’s a lock o’ new houses down in the village and there’s a Sinn Féin advice centre and the shop’s a Spar now, but nothin’ much else is different. The whole world is changin’ and Gentry stays the same.”

The English premiere of acclaimed Northern Irish playwright Joseph Crilly’s On McQuillan’s Hill opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four-week limited season on Tuesday, 4 February 2020.

When proud IRA man Fra Maline is released early from prison, his daughter throws a welcome home celebration at the local community hall.

Unknown to the revellers the hall has been bought by Fra’s sister, Loretta, who turns up ready to demolish it after a twenty-year absence across the water.

Bitter memories and lies long buried in the bog threaten to resurface as an accidental family reunion descends into pitch black farce. Nothing ever changes in Gentry…

A vicious satire from a playwright hailed as “Ulster’s Martin McDonagh” (The Guardian), On McQuillan’s Hill gets under the dirty fingernails of small town Northern Ireland, confronting the horrors of abuse and the corrosive legacy of conflict with explosive wit and an insider’s eye for detail.

Originally produced by the renowned Tinderbox Theatre Company in 2000 at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, On McQuillan’s Hill now receives its long-overdue English premiere.

CAST

Helena Bereen | Mrs Tymelly
Gina Costigan | Loretta Maline
Julie Maguire | Theresa Maline
Kevin Murphy | Dessie Rigg
Declan Rodgers | Ray McCullion
Johnny Vivash | Fra Maline

LISTINGS

On McQuillan’s Hill

Venue

Finborough Theatre
118 Finborough Road
London SW10 9ED

Box Office

www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk I 01223 357 851

Performance Dates

Tuesday, 4 February – Saturday, 29 February 2020

Performance Times

Tuesday to Saturday Evenings at 7.30pm
Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 3.00pm

Ticket Price

Tickets £18, £16 concessions
Except Tuesday evenings £16 all seats

Friday and Saturday evenings £18 all seats
Previews (4 and 5 February) £14 all seats

£10 tickets for Under 30s for performances from Tuesday to Sunday of the first week when booked online only

£14 tickets for residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on Saturday, 8 February 2020 when booked online only

Prices from 18 February 2020

Tickets £20, £18 concessions
Except Tuesday evenings £18 all seats
Friday and Saturday evenings £20 all seats

Performance Length

To be confirmed

Photo Credit: Kevin Murphy