A local play ‘The Inspector’ is set to prove to be a huge hit in the local community and also raise much needed funds for the Ballyfin parish and local clubs.
Frances Harney is a Ballyfin woman who has been writing and producing plays with children and teenage for many years.
For the last seven years she has written and directed full-length plays for adult actors specifically to raise funds for her local parish and sports clubs. Her productions are much anticipated on the annual calendar of theatre events and have been selling out year-on-year.
This year’s play is called ‘The Inspector’. She is not revealing too much about the plot except to say that it’s set in a small rural hotel in the Midlands.
Two bachelor brothers Timmy and Willie Dooley employ a French interior designer to renovate the hotel ahead of the annual County IFA conference. Little do they know that Paddy McKenna, the local post man, is about to deliver the most unwelcome letter to arrive through any post box … the dreaded harp heralding the imminent arrival an inspector.
The identity of the inspector is a source of much speculation and concern, not just for the Dooleys but locals and farmers alike.
Anxiety
This together with leaky pipes and a burst boiler, as well as unexpected guests, throw the proprietors and regular patrons into a state of acute anxiety.
The play is on this coming Friday and Saturday nights, 23rd and 24th of March, in Mountmellick Arts Centre at 7:30 PM.
The production has been grant aided by Laois County Council and sponsored by Ballyfin Hotel. Tickets are available at Horan’s, Mountmellick, the Deadman’s Ballyfin and Ballyfin primary school.
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