A family affair as Meaneys team up for Bedbound at Arts Festival

Actors Colm Meaney and Brenda Meaney are teaming up for a new production of Enda Walsh’s two-hander Bedbound, which will be staged in Galway this July and at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre in August.

This revival, a co-production between Landmark Theatre and Galway International Arts Festival, is directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull while the characters of Father and Daughter are played by real-life father and daughter, Brenda and Colm Meaney.

In this darkly funny play, Father and Daughter, are inextricably bound to each other in an enclosed space, as per Enda Walsh. And the walls are closing in.

Father talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales, while Daughter, confined to a small bed, talks equally frenetically about anything at all as she tries to fill the terrible silence in her head.

Colm Meaney – whose recent stage performances include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the West End and The Iceman Cometh on Broadway – is making his first appearance on an Irish stage for the first time in over 40 years.

The production team also includes Jamie Vartan (set and costume), Sinéad McKenna (lighting) and Sinéad Diskin (sound).

Brenda Meaney has been a fan of Enda Walsh’s work since she saw a student production of Disco Pigs during her first year at Trinity College. Earlier this year, she gave a copy of Bedbound to her father and suggested doing it together

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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