Minding Frankie - 7.30 Production
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Minding Frankie By Maeve BinchyAdapted for the stage by Shay LinehanDirected by John P. KellyFeaturing Vivian Burns and Lawrence EvenchickJanuary 17-26, 2019 (preview January 16)Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.***Special discount weekday matinee at 12:30pm on Wednesday January 23***Maeve Binchy was probably Ireland\\u2019s greatest romantic fiction writer.\\xa0 Here, her 2010 hit novel Minding Frankie has been adapted for the stage by Shay Linehan. Watch Noel, a middle-aged Dublin alcoholic as he sets about raising baby Frankie.\\xa0 \\u201cI intend to be the best mother I can be\\u201d he says.\\xa0 Watch his whole community join in to share the responsibility \\u2013 \\u201cIt takes a village to raise a child. Or a street.\\u201d And watch well-meaning social worker Moira, a woman with secrets of her own, go beyond her call of duty to make his life as hard as she possibly can.Although several of her books have been adapted for cinema and TV, Minding Frankie gives theatre-goers a first chance to see her work live on stage. The world premier was as recent as this year in Ireland and SevenThirty\\u2019s production, directed by John P. Kelly will be a Canadian first.\\xa0 This is a play which will likely be seen on Broadway before too long.\\xa0 This is your chance to see it first in Ottawa.
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