Life After Love...

 

 

The rough guide to men, make-up and parenthood…for the middle-aged, menopausal Divorcee. 

Written and performed by Billie Traynor.

Directed by Alan Stanford.

Musical Director Declan Staunton 

Newly divorced Daisy Magill is packing up a lifetime of make-up, selling her home and going on a journey.  Join her in a series of hysterical, clumsy and downright disastrous attempts at finding new love…with songs! From the fizzy “Nobody Loves a Fairy When She’s Forty” to the pathos of “Send in the Clowns”, this cabaret show frames her doomed dates, and questions if there is indeed life after love after menopause?

 Don’t miss this tragi-comedy of the female condition, a touching and side-splitting take on the ways in which we torture ourselves for a little Lovin’.

BILLIE TRAYNOR’S acting career has covered roles from Fairy Godmother in the Gaiety Panto (one of many!) to Lady Markby in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, with roles too numerous to mention along the way – including the infamous Nell in Ros na Run.

A long-time actor and director with the Gate Theatre and Artistic Director of Second Age Theatre Company, ALAN STANFORD is one of Ireland’s theatre personalities, and although it is now years since the demise of Glenroe, he is probably still best remembered as cuddly George from that well-loved soap.

What the Critics said... 

"Traynor's script has genuine wit and a fair modicum of wisdom and she performs with immaculate timing" EMER O'KELLY, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

"deft comic timing and a flair for a freighted punchline"

SUNDAY TIMES

METRO **** (FOUR STARS)

"a real gem"

"Life after Love is a rewarding way to spend an hour, provoking genuine tears and laughter"