The Prodger at Waterside Theatre

By The Newsroom
Published 18th Nov 2013, 09:07 BST
A scene from the play 'The Prodger' which comes to the Waterside Theature later this month.A scene from the play 'The Prodger' which comes to the Waterside Theature later this month.
A scene from the play 'The Prodger' which comes to the Waterside Theature later this month.
The Prodger by Tina Noonan is coming to the stage at Waterside Theatre.

Irish veterans of World War I were largely forgotten. But they didn’t forget the war. Nor did others let them. For some at least, it never went away.

Set in a pub in Lismore, Waterford, in or about 1964, Tina Noonan’s powerful new one-act play, The Prodger, is a poignant re-imagining of the life of one such veteran, her great-uncle ‘Johnny’, who lost a leg at the Somme.

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Touching on themes of love, loss, friendship and regret, yet full of biting humour, The Prodger is a moving portrait of one veteran’s struggle to fit into his local community, decades after the war is over. Featuring a stellar cast of Irish acting talent: Brendan Conroy, Seamus Moran, Frank Melia and Joe Moylan.

Described as “a wonderfully funny, bitter-sweet evocation of the trench-memories of a

crippled yet wry old war-veteran in a Waterford pub - quite irresistible,” by Kevin Myers,

‘The Prodger’ will be at The Waterside Theatre on November 29 and 30 at 8pm. Tickets are £10 and are available by telephoning the Box Office on 028 7131 4000 or book online at www.watersidetheatre.com

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