Season 54 Play 4 – Give Me Your Answer Do by Brian Friel
Give Me Your Answer Do
14th – 19th January 2002
Directed by
Peter Stansfield
Cast
Bridget Connolly – Kate Bennett
Nurse – Alison Main
Tom Connolly ) Bridget’s – David Poole
Daisy Connolly ) Parents – Susan Wood
David Knight – Paul Glover
Jack Donovan ) Daisy’s – Frank Breen
Maggie Donovan ) Parents – Freda Denbigh
Garret Fitzmaurice – Guy Wilman
Gráinne Fitzmaurice – Sandra Smallwood
Nurse – Alison Main
Tom Connolly ) Bridget’s – David Poole
Daisy Connolly ) Parents – Susan Wood
David Knight – Paul Glover
Jack Donovan ) Daisy’s – Frank Breen
Maggie Donovan ) Parents – Freda Denbigh
Garret Fitzmaurice – Guy Wilman
Gráinne Fitzmaurice – Sandra Smallwood
Synopsis
David Knight is staying at the remote County Donegal home of novelist Tom Connolly and his wife, Daisy. Visiting for the August afternoon are successful novelist Garret Fitzmaurice and his wife, Gráinne, Daisy’s cocktail-pianist father and arthritic mother. Absent from the occasion but casting a dark shadow over it is the Connolly daughter, Bridget, who has been institutionalised since she was a child. Everybody is waiting for, and searching for, an answer.
Directors Notes
EXTRACTS FROM A SPORADIC DIARY BY BRIAN FRIEL
