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"He'd ask me when we were going in, 'What are we going in for?' and that's the truth of it"

A PLAY by internationally acclaimed playwright Deirdre Kinahan will be presented at the Gortnalassa Old School House on Saturday June 10th.Deirdre, who is currently basking in the success of her smash hit in the Abbey national theatre An Old Song, Half Forgotten, actually wrote t

There is a lot of Alzheimer’s in theatre at the moment, what with Deirdre Kinahan’s collaboration with Bryan Murray in the Peacock (An Old Song, Half Forgotten), and this gentle portrait of a man losing his mental grip playing in Bewley’s Café Theatre. Take Off Your Cornflakes was first presented in the Dublin Fringe in 2017, created under the Show in a Bag scheme led by Fishamble.

Theatre: Bryan Murray, who has Alzheimer’s, gives a deft, graceful performance as a veteran actor with the disease

The theatre shows An Old Song, Half Forgotten and Take Off Your Cornflakes are just two cultural reflections on the complexities the illness wreaks on patients, carers and families

Bryan Murray stars in Deirdre Kinahan’s new play at the Peacock. His role intersects with his own reality as he plays a man with Alzheimer’s

The Abbey Theatre has announced the world premieres of two new plays, from Irish playwrights Deirdre Kinahan and Mark O'Rowe. Appearing on the stages of Ireland's national theatre in Spring 2023, An Old Song, Half Forgotten by Deirdre Kinahan and Mark O'Rowe's adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic Ghosts, will both open in April.