Mikel Murfi Walking the walk along the Blackwater valley
EARLY in 2012, actor Mikel Murfi spent time driving around rural county Sligo meeting older people and listening to their stories, or “yarns” as he would say. The result, a commission from Bealtaine Festival and the Hawk’s Well Theatre, was The Man in the Woman’s Shoes, a one-man play that Murfi populates with the characters and turns of phrase he heard during his research.
The play’s initial run, he says, was for a handful in day-care centres and a hospital. Since then, it’s been as far afield as New York, won a Stewart Parker Award, and can next be seen during the Blackwater Valley Fit-Up Festival, touring a number of venues in North and East Cork.
