Post by guillaume on Apr 5, 2011 6:14:17 GMT
College Drama Society Production of Sive
Maynooth Students Stage John B. Keane’s ‘Sive’
St. Patrick’s College Drama Society presents as its annual production the powerful and provocative ‘Sive’. By John B. Keane. Directed by Eoin Winters. By kind permission of Mercier Press.
St Patrick’s College Drama Society is based in the National Seminaryat Maynooth, and involves both lay and clerical students in its annual production. All proceeds from the production will benefit Maynooth Mission Outreach, a charitable organization which sends students on voluntary work in developing countries.
Venue: The Aula Maxima, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
Synopsis (from Wikipedia)
Synopsis
The society is dominated by males: Sean Dota is the classic clichéd example of a man who wields power over the less fortunate in order to elope with women much younger and more attractive than himself.
Thomasheen, the local matchmaker, does not show any real love for his job. He mocks love "What do we know about love?". This illustrates the hypocrisy of the world in which Sive lives. Thomasheen has only got eyes for money and abuses his status in society as the so-called matchmaker to get what he wants.
Sive is in love with Liam Scuab -- a man who has her desires and needs at the centre of his heart. On the other hand, Thomasheen enforces that Sive should (without any kind of disagreement) marry Sean Dota (an old, haggard and decrepit man).
Sive's family is Nanna, Mike, and Mena: her mother died before Sive grew up, leaving her illegitimate child in the hands of Uncle Mike -- a caring man whose mind is hazed when money comes into play.
Mena delights in the fact that she can get rid of both Sive and Nanna with money from Sean Dota as a bonus. She is one of the many despicable characters who has a say in Sive's fate, future and choices.
In the middle of all this selfishness and greed is Sive, who lingers quietly somewhere in the background sobbing her heart out: she has no hope and no choice -- she must marry Sean Dota.
The only option she foresees is to escape all this madness. She commits suicide and in this way a beautiful desirable young woman is as it were murdered by the society of power-hungry individuals. She ultimately drowns in this world which soaked every last drop of her humanity dry.
I don't know this play at all. So I ask this question : if this piece of work appropriate for a Seminary ?
Maynooth Students Stage John B. Keane’s ‘Sive’
St. Patrick’s College Drama Society presents as its annual production the powerful and provocative ‘Sive’. By John B. Keane. Directed by Eoin Winters. By kind permission of Mercier Press.
St Patrick’s College Drama Society is based in the National Seminaryat Maynooth, and involves both lay and clerical students in its annual production. All proceeds from the production will benefit Maynooth Mission Outreach, a charitable organization which sends students on voluntary work in developing countries.
Venue: The Aula Maxima, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
Synopsis (from Wikipedia)
Synopsis
The society is dominated by males: Sean Dota is the classic clichéd example of a man who wields power over the less fortunate in order to elope with women much younger and more attractive than himself.
Thomasheen, the local matchmaker, does not show any real love for his job. He mocks love "What do we know about love?". This illustrates the hypocrisy of the world in which Sive lives. Thomasheen has only got eyes for money and abuses his status in society as the so-called matchmaker to get what he wants.
Sive is in love with Liam Scuab -- a man who has her desires and needs at the centre of his heart. On the other hand, Thomasheen enforces that Sive should (without any kind of disagreement) marry Sean Dota (an old, haggard and decrepit man).
Sive's family is Nanna, Mike, and Mena: her mother died before Sive grew up, leaving her illegitimate child in the hands of Uncle Mike -- a caring man whose mind is hazed when money comes into play.
Mena delights in the fact that she can get rid of both Sive and Nanna with money from Sean Dota as a bonus. She is one of the many despicable characters who has a say in Sive's fate, future and choices.
In the middle of all this selfishness and greed is Sive, who lingers quietly somewhere in the background sobbing her heart out: she has no hope and no choice -- she must marry Sean Dota.
The only option she foresees is to escape all this madness. She commits suicide and in this way a beautiful desirable young woman is as it were murdered by the society of power-hungry individuals. She ultimately drowns in this world which soaked every last drop of her humanity dry.
I don't know this play at all. So I ask this question : if this piece of work appropriate for a Seminary ?