Watergate Productions - Miss siagon

P R O D U C T I O N S

PRESENTS

Miss

Saigon School Edition

PERFORMED ENTIRELY BY STUDENTS Music by CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG Lyrics by RICHARD MALTBY JR and ALAIN BOUBLIL Original Stage Production by CAMERON MACKINTOSH School Edition specially adapted and licensed by JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL and CAMERON MACKINTOSH

Padmore & Barnes OF

KILKENNY

Factory Shopping For Famous Brands FOOTWEAR & OUTDOOR SPECIALISTS Open 7 days With free easy parking Wolfe Tone Street, Kilkenny

Telephone 056-7721037 www.padmore-barnes.com

A SEAMLESS TRANSITION AS YOUTH PRODUCTIONS TAKE TO THE STAGE Welcome to the Watergate Theatre and to our production of Miss Saigon.

We are delighted that this show will bring to the fore the talent that is so much alive with the youth of the city and county. As well as Kilkenny, we welcome members of the cast from our neighbouring counties.

Watergate Youth Productions is a shining example of committed, talented and enthusiastic novices learning the trade and delivering the very highest standards. Their dynamic enthusiasm brings a much needed freshness to local productions since they captivated us with Les Mis, their initial production, in 2008.

Watergate Youth continue to enthral and entertain. With pride we have watched them progress. We have witnessed their self worth and self confidence increase as many of them journeyed from Jesters to the polished performers they are today. We acknowledge their efforts in the pursuit of acting excellence and reflect positively on the inescapable fact that in a relatively short time, the future success of The Watergate Theatre will rest almost exclusively, on these young shoulders. Aware of the calibre of individuals within the group we are prepared for a seamless transition. The ethos that permeates, allows us, with confidence to pass the baton, of amateur drama, to a new generation of talented thespians.

We take this opportunity to thank all those who are working behind the scenes on a voluntary basis without whom, productions like this would not be possible.

We wish the production team of Don, Olivia and Ollie a successful production and take this opportunity of thanking them for their hard work over the past few months.

Gerry Cody Watergate Productions November 2014

Watergate Board Brian Tyrrell ( chair) Seamus Reade ( secretary) Kathleen Funchion Patrick McKee Fideles Doherty

Theatre Staff Gerry Cody Breda Gertberg Dick Holland Gabriel Maher Sighle Hennessy

Marketing MD Media ( Press and Radio ) Laura Hayes( Digital)

Productions to Date (1993 to 2013) Year

Show

Author

Director

1993 1993 1994 1994 1995 1996 1996 1997 1997 1998 1998 1999 1999 1999 2000 2000 2001 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2003 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2013 2014 2014

Ceol Sa Chistin Sive The Field Dancing at Lughnasa Sharons Grave The Last Apache Reunion Da Moll The Wizard of Oz Juno and the Paycock Twelve Angry Men Philadelphia Here I Come Scrooge A River Walk (radio play) The Country Boy Death of a Salesman Sive Molly Sweeney Cripple of Innismann A Life Sunday Night Variety The Field Circles of Life Moll Lend Me A Tenor Scrooge Rising Stars The Country Boy Beauty and the Beast The Kings of the Kilburn High Rd The Lion King The Kings of the Kilburn High Rd Peter Pan Moll Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Loves of Cass McGuire The Beauty Queen of Leenane Cinderella Arsenic and Old Lace Scrooge Wild Harvest Lovers Christmas Eve at the North Pole Snow White By the Bog of Cats Christmas Eve Robin Hood Tarzan Da

Ger Cody J. B. Keane J. B. Keane Brien Friel J. B. Keane Bernard Farrell Hugh Leonard J. B. Keane Frank Baum Sean O' Casey Reginald Rose Brien Friel Charles Dickens Frank Marshall John Murphy Arthur Miller J. B. Keane Brien Friel Martin McDonagh Hugh Leonard Watergate J. B. Keane Don O’Connor J. B. Keane Ken Ludwig Charles Dickens Watergate John Murphy Don O' Connor Jimmy Murphy Don O' Connor Jimmy Murphy Don O' Connor John B. Keane Victor Hugo Don O' Connor Brian Friel Martin McDonagh Don O' Connor Joseph Kesselring Charles Dickens Ken Bourke Brian Friel Mary Cradock Don O Connor Marina Carr Mary Cradock Don O' Connor Don O' Connor Hugh Leonard

G. Cody G. Cody G. Cody P. Hardy G. Cody A. Hurley A. Hurley M. O’ Leary M. Cradock G. Cody Fr. S. McEvoy G. Cody M. Cradock M. Cradock G. Cody B. Corcoran G. Cody G. Rose M. Cradock Patterson B. Hogan G. Cody D. O’ Connor M. O' Leary M. Cradock M. Cradock G. Cody G. Cody D. O' Connor M. Cradock D. O' Connor M. Cradock D. O' Connor M. O' Leary M. Cradock D. O' Connor G. Rose G. Cody D. O' Connor M. Cradock M. Cradock G. Cody G. Rose M. Cradock D. O' Connor G. Cody M. Cradock D. O' Connor D. O' Connor J. Murray

6 - 9th NOV KILKENOMICS

14th NOV LUAN PARLE with very special guest

CLIVE BARNES 9:00pm €12

22nd NOV SUNDAY SCHOOL SESSIONS 9:00pm €8

24th NOV SUBTITLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL €5 - €10

15th NOV CLARE O'RIORDAN 9:00pm €5

20th NOV JOIN ME IN THE PINES 9:00pm €10

12th DEC JOHN BLEK 9:00pm

Traditional Irish Music Session Every Monday & Wednesday Night 9:30pm

Meet The Production Team Don O’ Connor - Director Graduate of U.C.C. Acting credits include : Philadelphia Here I Come ,Moll, The Last Apache Reunion, Radio City, The Odd Couple, Twelve Angry Men, Death of a Salesman, Scrooge, The King and I. Directing credits include: The Sound of Music, Hello Dolly, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Oliver, The Three Musketeers, Buskin’, Beauty and the Beast, The Real Inspector Hound, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Absurd Person Singular, West Side Story, Calamity Jane, The King and I, Tarzan, Robin Hood, Cinderella, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lion King, Peter Pan Pantomime : Wrote and Directed pantomime with Portlaoise Panto Society, Deenside Players, Tullow Variety Group, Kilkenny Pantomime Society and Watergate Productions.

Directed and Devised : “La Vie en Vert” and “The Circles of Life” during the Special Olympics.

Drama Tutor with Jesters Stage Academy

Olivia Murphy Smith - Director Graduating with a BA Degree in Music and English and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, Olivia began her career as a secondary school teacher.

Simultaneously immersed in stage performance and musical theatre, she completed courses in voice production, dance/movement and general theatre. She subsequently went on to co-found and direct two stage schools, Jesters Stage Academy, one in Kilkenny City and one in Portlaoise Co. Laois. Since 1992, she has worked extensively with primary and secondary schools, various youth/adult drama and musical theatre societies, organisations and choirs in the capacity of Director, Musical Director, Choral Director, Choreographer, Facilitator on works including stage plays, musicals, concerts, choral recitals, choral competitions, specialised workshops, commissioned work etc… For Watergate Productions, she co-directed Les Miserables - Schools Edition in 2008. As an actress/performer in her own right, she has played leading roles with many musical societies, pantomime societies and production groups through the years - roles including Nancy in Oliver, Eliza in My Fair Lady, Belle in Beauty And The Beast, Snow White in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Laurie in Oklahoma, Jennifer in Clown , Maria in The Sound Of Music, Ruth in Pirates Of Penzance, Cindy Lou in The Grinch That Stole Christmas and she received an AIMS nomination for best female singer in the role of Anna in The King and I.

Ollie Hennessy - Musical Director Ollie is a graduate of UCLA in TV and Film Composition. He is steeped in music coming as he does from a musical family. He has worked with national and international performers such as Rebecca Storm, Frances Black, Joe Dolan and Michael English.

In musical theatre he has worked with such shows as Blood Brothers, Hairspray, Sound of Music, Evita and Chorus Line.

Ollie is also well known as RTE musical director for the Rose of Tralee.

T

H

E

A

T

R

E

Art s

BECOME A PATRON OR FRIEND OF THE “The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.”

Oscar Wilde

The Watergate would like to invite you to become a Patron or Friend of the Theatre. You could also give a Patron and Friend card as a gift to a friend or relative for a special occasion.

Patrons and Friends will recieve invitations to six shows each year and so your present will be enjoyed throughout the year.

Da, by Hugh Leonard: Watergate Production 2014.

Watergate actors Donal O’Brien and Collette Browne in a scene from Da .

Just one of five shows in 2014 that Patrons and Friends of the Watergate were invited to.

A gift of a Patrons or Friends voucher wouldbe an ideal present and would entitle the holder to five shows at the theatre .

Photo by: Ross Costigan

Further information from The Watergate box office on 056 7761674

Meet The Production Team Seamus Reade - Stage Manager Seamus has been involved in back stage work at the Watergate since 1997 when he was a member of the back stage crew for Kilkenny Musical Society’s “Oliver”. He progressed to the Stage Manager role in 1999 and was nominated by AIMS in the Best Stage Manager category for Carousel in 2000.

Since then he has stage managed almost all of the Musical Society’s productions.

He has also regularly stage managed the annual Watergate panto and has fond memories of being involved in Watergate Youth Productions “Les Miserables” a few years back. Seamus also serves on the board of the Watergate Theatre as Company Secretary and is currently Chairperson of Kilkenny Musical Society. He is particularly proud of the achievements of the Musical Society this year with the production of Michael Collins in winning the Best Overall Show in Ireland and in a personal capacity seeing the production win the Best Technical award and being nominated again in the Stage Management category.

Seamus is delighted to help in any way in fostering the development of young talent in Kilkenny and wishes all involved in “Miss Saigon” the very best of luck this week.

Clare Gibbs - Costumes The woman behind the seams.

Clare has had a long association with theatre in Kilkenny and has been involved with Watergate Productions since it’s inception since 1993. She has performed with such groups as Kilkenny Pantomime, Kilkenny Musical Society , Kilkenny Gospel Choir and of course Watergate Production .

With Watergate Productions some of her productions include The Loves of Cass McGuire, Lend Me a Tenor and Arsenic and Ol Lace Behind The Seams Clare has taken charge of costumes for almost all of the theatre’s in house shows.

Bill & Rena Kennedy - Props Apart from their on stage appearances in local concerts and musical productions both Rena and Bill have been in charge of the props’ in most of the local musical societies productions.

The provided the props for the last Watergate Youth Production Les Miserables and it is wonderful to have them on board again.

Synopsis of Scenes

Act I SAIGON 1975

Opening Act I The Heat is On in Saigon The Movie in My Mind Bartering for Kim Kim and Chris Dance Transition to Why God, Why? Why God, Why? This Money's Yours Sun & Moon Dragons Telephone Sequence The Deal The Wedding Thuy's Intervention Last Night of the World

HO CHI MINH CITY - APRIL 1978

The Morning of the Dragon I Still Believe Coo-Coo Princess Thuy's Death If You Want to Die in Bed Kim & Engineer Finale Act I

Act II ATLANTA - SEPTEMBER 1978

Opening Act II Bui-Doi Post Bui-Doi

BANGKOK - OCTOBER 1978

Bangkok Please Chris is Here Kim's Nightmare (Part 1)

REMEMBERING SAIGON 1975

Kim's Nightmare (Part 2 Kim's Nightmare (Part 3)

BANGKOK - OCTOBER 1978

Sun & Moon Reprise Kim & Ellen Now That I've Seen Her Ellen & Chris Paper Dragons The American Dream Finale Act II

A HISTORY OF WAR VIETNAM (1954-75)

The Vietnamese War, or Resistance War against America – as it was referred to by the North Vietnamese – officially began on the 1st of November, 1955. Although with most wars, the reason for its outbreak and the motivation behind each side, lies long before that date.

Hồ Chí Minh

Ngô Đình Diệm

As with most smaller countries, the modern day nation known as Vietnam has had a long standing history of colonisation.

From circa 111 BC to 938 AD Vietnam was an entity of Imperial China. After successfully defending its borders and repelling Imperial Chinese forces at the battle of Bach Dăng River, Vietnam secured its independence. The following generations saw the growth and prosperity of successive Vietnamese Royal Dynasties, along with the growth of the nation’s wealth and borders.

By the mid-nineteenth century the increasing strength of European navies and the lucrative trade paths opening up in the Far East, brought with it a new set of colonising forces and by 1887 Vietnam was once again under foreign rule, in the guise of the French Third Republic. This colonisation, as unwanted as the previous Chinese colonisation, lasted until 1940 when – due to France’s occupation by Nazi Germany and the invasion of Imperial Japan – Vichy France agreed terms with the Japanese which would see the French forces remain in place, but ultimately being answerable to the Empire of Japan.

Lyndon B. Johnson

This double occupation lasted until 1945 with the German withdrawal from France. At which point the Japanese forces began to lose trust in the French occupant forces and interned them in March 1945, thus creating the puppet state of the Empire of Vietnam. This puppet state collapsed with Japan’s

surrender and the cessation of World War II. However, due to political unrest and mass poverty and starvation due to famine, the Japanese forces were allowed to stay in Vietnam, being seen as the only force which could – at that particular time – keep law and order in the state.

The defeated Japanese forces were, less than vigilant however, and under Ho Chi Minh’s leadership the impoverished north staged an uprising which would later be known as the August Revolution. This revolution saw the Việt Minh forces seize the majority of north and central Vietnam, leading to the declaration of the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This

budding northern Vietnamese state then enlisted many of the occupying Japanese force to train its new recruits and keep the current French authorities under internment.

This early divide in Vietnam did not sit easily with the victorious allied forces of World War II, principally the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was agreed that the land belonged to France, but with a depleted French force being unable to regain Vietnam by itself, would be aided by the allied forces in doing so. The United Kingdom would land in South Vietnam to re-arm the French Colonial force and the Chinese would invade the north to oust the standing Japanese force which was now bolstering the Việt Minh’s claim to power. At the

behest of the Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh attempted to negotiate a peace settlement with the French which would see northern Vietnam remain an independent state – under the French Union. No such deal was struck and after the French forces, aided by its allies, ousted the Việt Minh forces in the north, the British withdrew from the south leaving Vietnam under French control once again.

However, the coming years would see a rapid change in political allegiances, due to the acceleration of the Cold War and the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. Now, a largely antiWestern Far East power base emerged in communist China and

the U.S.S.R which was free to arm pro – communist Vietnamese rebels. In 1950 both communist China and the Soviet Union officially recognised Ho Chi Minh’s Democratic Republic of Vietnam, while the United Kingdom and the United States reaffirmed the claims of the French run State of Vietnam.

The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, with both Chinese, Soviet and American involvement on opposite sides, only served to heighten the tensions in Vietnam. Under Soviet and Chinese guidance, the Việt Minh waged a lengthy gorilla campaign on the French forces, and despite over $1 billion US Dollars being spent in support of the French regime by then US President

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the French were unable to withstand the onslaught. President Eisenhower refused to commit US troops on the ground without British support – a campaign Britain had no intention of entering – and as a result the French forces surrendered its control of Vietnam and via the Geneva Conference, negotiated the independence of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Vietnam was still un-unified, with the North/South divide remaining – but now, both factions were officially under Vietnamese control.

This transitional period of 1954/5 saw growing turmoil in both regions as the de facto leaders of North and South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dìm Diệm respectively, both rigged elections and carried out mass killings of rival political and religious groups in order to consolidate their powers. An independent international group of observers representing India, Canada and Poland were in agreement that neither North nor South Vietnam honoured the terms of the Geneva agreement.

With growing hostilities and increasing clashes between rebel factions – 1955 would mark the official beginnings of

the Vietnamese War. For many, the most iconic vision of the Vietnamese War was the involvement of American soldiers on the ground. This would first take place in March 1965, under the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, when 3,500 troops were deployed to South Vietnam – this would increase to almost 200,000 by the end of the first year.

After some 10 years of American involvement on the ground and after nearly 20 years of ongoing conflict since the Geneva agreement and the withdrawal of French forces, Vietnam was reunified and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was declared.

In that brutal time frame, millions of Vietnamese – both north and south – were subject to rape, murder and imprisonment due to their political and/or religious beliefs.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers – both American and Vietnamese – were left maimed, disabled or killed.

Millions more suffered after the reunification of Vietnam.

Acknowledgements

The Arts Council

Ken McGuire

Kilkenny County Council

Jesters Stage Academy

Board of directors of the Watergate

Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce

St. Kieran’s College

Kilkenny Tourism

Kilkenny People Newspaper

Nigel Leydon

KCLR

Super Valu James’ St Kilkenny

Marie Maher

John Joe Cullen

Sean Hurley

Murt Crotty, Kieran Street

Kilkenny Reporter Newspaper

Cleere's Pub, Parliament st.

Jimmy Rhatigan

Yesterdays Gift shop, Patrick St.

Delia Larkin

Ciaran O Neill

So Kilkenny

Delia Larkin

The Watergate wish to thank the Arts Council of Ireland and Kilkenny County Council for their support.

Miss Saigon Cast In order of appearance The Engineer Gigi Mimi

Conor Brassil Sophie Knox Khan Slaney Power

Yvette

Laura Fitzpatrick

Yvonne

Aliyah Knox Khan

John Christopher Scott Kim

Neal Fennelly Aidan Byrne Ciaran Fennelly

Ellen

Ciara Laste

Assistant Commissar

Niall Brennan

Soldier

Josh Shannon

Club Owner Another Officer

Hannah Traynor

A Marine Another Marine 2 Officer

Aidan Byrne

Emma Farrelly-kelly

Ciaran Fennelly

Ciara Laste

Lucy O' Connell

James Rice Cormac Lehnen

Another Marine

Neal Fennelly

Lucy O' Connell

Captain Schultz A Marine Captain

Sophie Knox Khan

Emma Farrelly-Kelly

Thuy

Tam

Conor Brassil

Conor Cuffe Lisa O’ Rourke Sarah McGrath Patrick Kennedy

Ensemble: playing a variety of roles and ethnicities including;

Josh Laycock

American service men, Hustlers, Viet Cong fighters, Bar-girls, Vietnamese people, Tourists and Vendors.

Welcome to the Dower House of Kilkenny Castle Butler House 16 Patrick Street Kilkenny City, Ireland T: +353 (0)56 7722828 F: +353 (0)56 7765626 E: res@butler.ie

Wishing all in Watergate Productions a great show.

Miss Saigon Cast In Alphabetical Order

Aidan Byrne

Cormac Lehnen

Neal Fennelly

Alan McKenna

Emma Farrelly-Kelly

Niall Brennan

Aisling Casey

Hannah Traynor

Niamh Kelly

Alice Byrne

Hilary Lennon

Olive Maher

Aliyah Knox-Khan

James Rice

Orla McGovern

Caoimhe Kelly

Josh Dowling

Patrick Kennedy

Chloe Laycock

Josh Laycock

Rachel Leydon

Christine Caldbeck

Josh Shannon

Rachel Madden

Ciara Delaney

Kate Brosnan

Sara Lanigan

Ciara Laste

Laura Fitzpatrick

Sarah McGrath

Ciaran Fennelly

Lisa O’Rourke

Shane O’Riordan

Claire Funchion

Lucy O' Connell

Siobhan Cody

Clara Mooney

Meabh O’Connor

Slaney Power

Conor Brassil

Megan Kelly

Sophie Knox-Khan

Conor Cuffe

Megan Lacey

Ensemble: playing a variety of roles and ethnicities including; American service men, Hustlers, Viet Cong fighters, Bar-girls, Vietnamese people, Tourists and Vendors.

Synopsis

Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics

by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's story of marriage between an American lieutenant and Japanese girl is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.

The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 20 September 1989, closing after over four thousand performances, on 30 October 1999. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre in 1991 and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours. Prior to the opening of the 2014 London revival, it was claimed that Miss Saigon had set a new world record for opening day ticket sales, with sales in excess of £4m reported.

The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1985. As of September 2013, Miss Saigon remains Broadway's twelfth longest-running show.

Authors Composer, librettist, and record producer Claude-Michel Schönberg is one half of a hit songwriting team, with lyricist Alain Boublil, that is responsible for the theater smash successes Les Misérables and Miss Saigon.

The duo first teamed up in 1973 to write Boublil's first musical, La Revolution Française, in which Schönberg played the part of King Louis XVI. The following year, Schönbergrecorded an album of original material entitled Le Premier Pas. He teamed up with Boublil again in 1978 to work on the score of Les Misérables, which opened in Paris two years later.

The original cast recording won two gold discs by 1981 and the Broadway production that followed garnered two Tony Awards (1987 Best Score, Best Book). Schönberg and Boublil followed up with another wildly successful musical, Miss Saigon, which opened in London in the fall of 1989 and internationally shortly thereafter.

The duo's next musical, Martin Guerre, opened in London in the mid-'90s.

Schönberg also produced an opera album with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and Julia Migenes-Johnson, and participated in all of the castings for Les Misérables.

Meet The Production Team

Directed by Musical Director Set assembled by Lighting Design Sound Stage Director Stage Crew

Don O' Connor & Olivia Smith Ollie Hennessy Nefarious Design Gerry Taylor Brodericks Kilkenny Seamus Reade Alan Grant Pat Kavanagh Mike Beynon Kevin Kelly Jim Delaney Bobby Reade Mary Reade

Props managers Props crew

Bill Kennedy & Rena Kennedy Linda Beale , Breda Harding, Niall Bambrick, Margaret Whitely

Costumes Make Up Set Decoration Poster Design

Clare Gibbs, Delia Larkin Carol Knox Nefarious Steve Payne

Programme Design

Karol Ryan

Programme compiled by

Alan Butler

P.R. and Marketing

MD Media (press and radio) Laura Hayes (digital) Alan Butler Delia Larkin

Orchestral Musicians Musical Director / Piano Violin / Flute Alto Sax /clarinet /Flute

Ollie Hennessy Aoife Kavanagh James McCafferty

Pat rons

O F

T

David Bower, Bower Pest Control, Kilmurray, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

Liam & Mary Moylan, Enviroclad Systems, 57B Hebron Industrial Estate, Hebron Road, Kilkenny.

Clinsdale Sales Ltd., Cuffesgrange, Co. Kilkenny.

Mullinahone Oil, Co. Tipperary.

Frank & Mairin Duggan, Highfield, Castlecomer Rd, Kilkenny.

Eamonn Murphy, Noreside Construction Ltd., Hebron Industrial Estate, Kilkenny.

Celine Egan, Pennefeather Café, 10 High Street, Kilkenny.

Gerry & Margaret O’Keeffe, “Twelve Oaks”, Dunmore, Co. Kilkenny.

Paddy Henderson, Waterford Road, Kilkenny.

Pius & Sheila Phelan, Kilford Arms, John Street, Kilkenny.

John Holland, Holland Condon Solicitors, The Square, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny KCLR 96FM

Prochem Engineering, 1 Garden Row, Kilkenny.

Brian MacEneaney, MacEneaney’s Chemist, High Street, Kilkenny.

Reidy & Foley, Solicitors, Parliament House, Parliament Street, Kilkenny.

Modern Printers, Unit 11B, Loughboy Industrial Estate, Kilkenny.

T.C. Tyres Ltd., Upper Patrick Street, Kilkenny.

Mary Molloy, Solicitor, 2 Rose Inn Street, Kilkenny.

Denis Treacy, Ashford Castle, Kells Road, Kilkenny.

Moore’s Drapers, Parliament Street, Kilkenny.

Wall’s Man’s Shop, High Street, Kilkenny.

Dr. Anthony Moran, Rosemount, College Road, Kilkenny.

Dor and John Keane

Christy & Josephine Morrisson, 34 Upr Patrick Street, Kilkenny.

www.watergatetheatre.com

|

Email:ger@watergatetheatre.com

H

E

A

T

R

Friends

E

Margaret Bissett

Willie Egan

Gabriel Maher

Theresa Boland

Helen Farrell

John & Moira Maher

John & Elaine Bolger

Declan Finlayson

Kevin Mahon

John & Roseanne Brennan

& Norah Farrell

Sean Manogue

Colette Browne

Kevin & Breda Gertberg

Brendan Mills

Jacinta Cantwell

Paul & Eileen Glennon

Dr. Laura Molony

Tim & Anne Carr

Roger & Olivia Goodwillie

Mary Morris

Marguerite Cody

Edwina Grace

Helen Mulhall

Breda & Pat Cody

Mary Grace

Brede Murphy

Ger Cody

Nicky Halley

Joseph & Elizabeth Murray

Jo-Ann & Gerry Cody

Martin & Angela Hanrahan

Ann Murtagh

Kevin Collins

Martin & Clare Hanrick

Donal O’Brien

Ms Melosiva Lenox

Rudolf & Eva Heltzel

Don & Carol O’Connor

Conynghan

Annie Holden

Sean & Ann O’Grady

Liam & Bettina Coonan

Eamonn & Jo Holland

Maureen O’Keeffe

Brendan & Bridget Corcoran

Richard & Maeve Holland

Bill O’Keeffe & Breda Moran

Mary & Jim Cradock

Michael & Joan Kavanagh

Tom & Breda O’Loughlin

James Crotty

John & Marie Kelly

Martin O’Reilly

Ruth & Padraig Crowley

Eamon Kelsey

Patrick & Margaret O’Shea

Paddy & Maura Donnelly

Brian & Kathleen Kenealy

Mons. Michael Ryan

Kevin & Breda Donohoe

Paddy & Barbara Kenna

Olivia Murphy Smith

Martin & Gina Doolan

Breda Launders

John & Una Stapleton

Margot Dowling

Seán & Irene Lawlor

Brian & Ann Tobin

Arthur Drohan

Eileen Little

Anne Treacy

Paula Drohan

Ellen Lynch

Fred & Helen Tuite

& Sean O’Sullivan

John Lynch

Theresa Walsh

Vincent & Catherine Duffe

Sadie McGrath

Imelda Walsh

Sam & Grace Dunlop

Corey McHugh

Catherine & Niall Walshe

Breda Dunne

John & Marie McKee

Mr. & Mrs. Whelan

Joe & Pim Dunphy

Jack Magner

Richard White

Michael & Mary Dwyer

Mairéad Maharaj

Patrick Nolan

Parliament Street, Kilkenny

|

Tel: 056-7761674

|

Fax: 056-7751780

O’Riada 25 Parliament St Kilkenny

| +353 56 776 4933

With a front entrance on Parliament street and a side entrance onto Abbey Street, O’Riada’s pub is nestled in what is probably the most historic part of Kilkenny city. On the same street that boasts Kilkenny Court House – once home to all theatrical events in the city, Rothe house, built between 1594 and 1610 and steeped in rich local and national history and is a must to visit in the medieval city of Kilkenny.

Poke your nose out on the Abbey side of the pub and you will find the Abbey church where in 1244 the Dominicans were given permission by then Bishop to draw water from the well (Kenny’s well).

Also a stone’s throw from the Watergate Theatre, carrying on the theatrical tradition of the city. And of course O’Riada’s which is directly across the road from the entrance to Smithwick’s brewery where in 1710 John Smithwick led the first horse down the cobbled path to his new brewery and where we now have the Smithwicks Experience.

O’Riadas and history – sure you couldn’t make that stuff up.