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A Staged Reading of ‘Small Things Like These’ by Claire Keegan - Performed by Andrew Bennett with live music by Eleanor McEvoy

A Staged Reading of ‘Small Things Like These’ by Claire Keegan - Performed by Andrew Bennett with live music by Eleanor McEvoy

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Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Small Things Like These, an unforgettable story of hope and heroism, is brought to the stage with Andrew Bennett ( (Seán in the Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl / An Cailín Ciúin), accompanied by new music from singer-songwriter Eleanor McEoy (A Woman’s Heart).

Described as "resonant and deeply moving" by Hilary Mantel, Small Things Like These is set in an Irish rural town in the 1980s in the run up to Christmas: as coal merchant Bill Furlong does his rounds, he discovers a girl locked away in terrible conditions in the local convent. Unlike the silent majority, he decides to do something about it.

This staged reading of Small Things Like These is performed masterly by Andrew Bennett. One of the finest actors of his generation, Andrew recently completed a new series for Sky Originals, Small Town, Big Story, and Blackshore for the BBC.

Eleanor McEvoy performs original music she composed for Small Things Like These. Her critically acclaimed canon of work spans sixteen albums, with numerous cover versions of her songs by Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Phil Coulter, Eliza Carthy, Jack L, and Saint Sister.

Staged by Four Rivers, ‘Small Things Like These’ is Directed by former Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Ben Barnes. Recent directing credits include The Last Stand (Four Rivers), Madama Butterfly (INO), Lights Out (Four Rivers) and Jim Nolan’s new play Castel Gandolfo (Four Rivers).

What The Press Say About This Production 

"This production plays to the versatility in Claire Keegan’s language, with which she fills her simple tale with maximum drama... It will doubtlessly send many [people] back to Keegan’s wonderful book"

– Jackie Hayden. Hot Press 

What the Press Say about Claire Keegan’s Novella ‘Small Things Like These’ 

A Sunday Times and Irish Times Bestseller

One Of The New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.
Winner of The Orwelll Prize and The Kerry Group Irish Novel Of The Year Award. 

Nominated for the Booker Prize

 "A timely and powerful book"– The Irish Times

'Masterly.' The Times
'Miraculous.' The Herald
'Astonishing.' Colm Tóibín
'Stunning.' ‘Sunday Independent’
'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart
'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut

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