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Cast

 

Esther Greenwood Louise Parker

Doreen / JoanMary-Frances Loughran

Mother / Dr Mary Lindsay

Buddy Aaron Hickland

Lenny Conor Maguire

 

 

 

After The

Bell Jar 

by James Johnson

 

A Green Room Production 

in association with the Crescent Arts Centre

25th-29th June, 2013

Belfast Telegraph **** 

'These harrowing scenes made for uncomfortable viewing, but writer James Johnson and director Patsy Hughes balanced the tone.' - Andrew Johnston

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's publication, Crescent Arts Centre's resident company Green Room Productions presents The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

 

A modern classic, The Bell Jar vividly captures the superficial reality of 1950's America with it's dark humour and wit. Extremely talented and with a prestigious internship on a New York Magazine, Esther Greenwood dreams of becoming a writer. Yet she finds herself spiralling into confusion and depression, that makes her world increasingly unreal. This is her journey to the edge of darkness and back.

'After the Bell Jar is a classy and imaginative work, a difficult piece adapted with fluency and style. To crassly adopt a line from the play, the performance was itself is 'unblemished and blissful' 

- John Higgins, Culture Northern Ireland.

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