The Star of Chester's Lane
theatre
Quintessence Theatre Company (in association with An Táin Arts Centre) With Ceara Carney, Fiona Keenan O’Brien and Anthony Kinahan This is a man’s world: always has been. Or has it…? 1854: Mr. McGrath has fallen to his death working on the building of the Boyne Viaduct, leaving his wife, Catherine, alone to fend for herself. What’s a poor woman to do…? …Put on his clothes, of course, and take up his place in the world! Kate McGrath was a navvy by name and navvy by nature: Navvy, hawker, drunkard, comedienne, trailblazer, and tale-teller. An Irish woman well beyond her time, ...
