Theatre Review: Minding Frankie at the Everyman, Cork
Maeve Binchy fans — and anyone who likes a heart-warming drama — will enjoy this adaptation by Shay Linehan of the bestselling author’s 2010 novel. Directed by Peter Sheridan, it stars Noel Lynch as an alcoholic, who is literally left holding the baby after receiving a call to say that a woman called Stella, with whom he had a drunken fling at a rock concert, wants to see him, in hospital.
Stella, who says she is carrying Noel’s child, has cancer and won’t survive the caesarean section she has to undergo. She desperately wants Noel to care for the child, a girl, whom she has already named as Frankie.
