Carraignabhfear take top prize with poignant wedding play

With a play about two women who both died on their wedding days, Carraignabhfear Guild won the national ICA drama finals.

Margaret Dinan and Joan Moloney starred in Positive Dead People, a one-act play by Pauline Shanahan. They were directed by Dan Twomey, of Carraignabhfear Drama Group; Rosarie Lomasney was stage assistant (prompter), and her daughter, Vivienne, did hair and make-up.

Joan played Mo, a doctor who choked to death on a salmon bone at her wedding reception. Margaret was Milly, a chef, who collapsed and died from an aneurism outside the church after she’d married. Understandably, both are a little annoyed when they arrive in Limbo holding their bouquets and a copy of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.