Ruth Leon recommends…. Bedbound – Galway Festival

Bedbound – Galway Festival

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Enda Walsh’s Bedbound, starring Colm Meaney and Brenda Meaney, is now available to stream worldwide on demand, just until Dec 8, having been filmed during its critically acclaimed run at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival.

This is a great chance to take an intimate, close-up look at this explosive two-hander with star Irish actor Colm Meaney and his daughter Brenda Meaney playing the father and daughter in this major revival of Enda Walsh’s  savagely funny play.

Colm Meaney whose recent stage performances include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the West End and The Iceman Cometh on Broadway – returned to the Irish stage for the first time in over 40 years to the Galway International Arts Festival, to play the once-flamboyant furniture salesman because, as he said, he ‘was immediately swept away by the power and brilliance of the language and fascinated by these two extraordinary characters.’
 
As with all of Enda Walsh’s plays, the language is compelling. Father and Daughter are bound, inextricably, to each other. And the walls are closing in.
 
He talks frantically about his extraordinary past; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrible silence in her head. 
What would happen if the torrent of words … just stopped?
Until December 8

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