Are You There, Garth? A new play on the Garth Brooks concert saga
FIONA Looney says her latest play, Are You There, Garth? It’s Me, Margaret, wrote itself. “I know writers often say that about their work but in this case, it quite literally happened. Garth Brooks is in six scenes and I have only fictionalised two of them. It was a no-brainer.”
Based on an idea by Darren Smith (creator of Anglo: The Musical), the play recalls the madness that gripped Ireland during the summer of 2014 when the country music star, Garth Brooks, ended up cancelling his concerts in Croke Park when he was refused permission to perform five shows with many north inner city Dublin residents up in arms about the potential disruption they would cause. Some 400,000 fans, however, “had their hearts broken”.
