Bewley’s Café Theatre presents

ELYSIUM, NEVADA

By Barry McKinley

Directed by Liam Halligan

Starring Michael James Ford,

David Herlihy and Bairbre Ni Chaoimh

... a study in wizened, impotent rage, measured out in wicked one liners. (The Irish Times)

... it has a memorable conclusion, linking these fading characters to the heavy pulse of human history, at one of its defining moments. (The Scotsman)

First presented to great acclaim in 2010, Barry McKInley’s Elysium, Nevada was nominated for the Irish Times Best New Play Award.                                                                                    Bewley’s Café Theatre is delighted to present this timely new production.

In a sun-blasted retirement home on the edge of the Mojave Desert, two ageing residents pass their days trading barbs, jokes and grievances as they wait for time to do what it always does. Their brittle comedy masks deeper fears about decline, memory and the approach of death. When a mysterious outsider joins them, the familiar rhythms of their banter begin to fracture, and what starts as a darkly comic portrait of old age shifts into something stranger, more unsettling — and unexpectedly moving.

Nightly at 8:00pm All seats €20 No performance Sunday.

No latecomers admitted