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Irene Kelleher in a scene from ‘Mrs Shakespeare’.

"This play will get you laughing" - so insists Grant March of Inside Cork, referring to 'Mrs Shakespeare' - a one-woman comedy from the pen of Ian Wilde and starring Irene Kelleher, an award winning actress of stage and screen. The play will be staged at The Village Arts Centre on thursday, September 4 at 8.30pm.

THE PLOT

William Shakespeare finds himself reincarnated in the present day as a woman, which makes it all the more difficult to convince people he is 'the Great Bard'. The Globe and the RSC refuse point blank to stage his modern history plays such as Hitler the First and Charles the Third (Not). Frustrated by this lack of recognition, Mrs Shakespeare winds up in a mental asylum and comes to the conclusion she has made a complete mess of writing 'Hamlet' four hundred years earlier. Armed with a quill and beset by a rebellious cast of characters who are anxious not to be rewritten, she embarks on an epic reformulation of theatre's most famous text under the new title of 'Ophelia'. But her psychiatrist and the original dramatis personae of the play, are so against the idea, they contrive between them, to send her mad.

Irene Kelleher stars in this hour-long comedy which is also directed by Ian Wild, whose sitcoms and short stories have been broadcast on RTE. This compelling and hilarious play is simply 'not to missed'.

Why not view the trailer at https://vimeo.com/97168759.

'A gem of creativity ... never drops in intensity … it captures you immediately and compels you to laugh … the perfect balance of humour, erudition and comedy … Irene Kelleher treated the audience to a compelling and extremely funny performance' - (Mattia Leoni, Shakespeare Festival Director, Clonakilty).

Tickets are €12/10 and are now on sale at The Avondhu office, Fermoy (025-32227); Cotter's Bar, Kilworth (025-27109); Hyland's Bookshop, Mitchelstown (025-24528) or by calling 087-6492514.

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