RAODS presents The Cripple of Inishmaan, a laugh-out-loud tragicomedy about life on Ireland’s desolate Aran Islands, at the Plaza Theatre next week.
It is 1934 and disabled teenager Billy Claven is living with his "aunties" on the isle of Inishmaan off the west coast of Ireland. Constantly mocked by the islanders, who call him Cripple Billy, he survives the tedium of daily life by reading books and staring at cows.
But the arrival of a Hollywood film-maker on a neighbouring island offers him a chance of escape to a glamorous new life. When Billy lands a screen test, the oddball citizens of Inishmaan mount a heartbreakingly hilarious front of resistance, bursting with dark madcap humour and touching devotion.
Tickets for the show, which runs from Tuesday to Saturday, are available from plazatheatre.com or 01794 512987.
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