All The Way to Mars and Back by Eddie Naughton
Directed by Anna Nugent
ALL THE WAY TO MARS AND BACK is about day in the life of a community where the endemic drug problem has become a way of life. It begins with the funeral of a drug addict and ends with yet more deaths.
In between, the play points up the sinister elements that has the community in a vice like grip; the unscrupulous drug baron, the uncaring, aspiring dealers, and the dangerous, pathetic addicts who do what they must to outlive each day.
Then there are the broken parents in the community whose way of life has been altered utterly by the fact that their drug dependent sons and daughters now look on them merely as a resource to get what they want to maintain their habit.
The play offers no answers but does ask questions.
CAST:
Amy Herbert as Laura
Stephen Kelly as Franner and Tommy
Laurence Lowry as Liam and Voice
Michael Mullen as Peter and Henchman
Paul Nugent as Bobo, Priest, Newscaster, Server and Det. Treahy
Fiana Toibin as Bernie, Marion and Teasie
This series was made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
