Djinn Theatre Company

THE MAGIC TREE by Ursula Rani Sarma

Granary Theatre |Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July 7:30pm | Saturday 5 July, 3:30pm & 7:30pm | Tickets €15/€12

Thursday 26 & Friday 27 June, 7:30pm (previews)
Saturday 28 June, 7:30pm (press night)
(no show on Sunday 29 June)

Booking: Call the Midsummer Box Office on 021-4274077 or Book Online via http://www.festivalbooking.net//

A new play written and directed by Ursula Rani Sarma.
Designed by Becs Andrews, produced by Roise Goan.

“…beguiling freshness in Rani Sarma’s writing … tricky tonal switches from aching lyricism to robust demotic humour …mesmeric mix of floating abstraction and earthy realism and its fluid structure which moves with a fine psychological expressiveness, between past, present and future”
The Independent – The Five Best Plays in London

Which comes first, loneliness or violence? This is the story of love born in a very dark place between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they shelter in an abandoned summer home and tentatively discover what it is that they have in common.

But just when it seems something beautiful might emerge, the opposite appears.

The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us.

Festival Director: “Why I chose this?” Ursula Rani Sarma is one of the most exciting playwriting talents to have emerged in Ireland in recent years. A graduate of UCC, her work has been produced all over the world and translated into several languages. We are pleased to welcome Ursula back to Granary Theatre where her career started.

A co-production between Cork Midsummer Festival and Belltable Arts Centre Limerick in association with Granary Theatre, Project Arts Centre and Culture Ireland.

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