The play Prodigal is an original one-act script written by Andrew Carney.
Performed by Tom Carney and Andrew Carney. The story concerns Andy and his estranged father Benny. They are reunited after the tragic death of Andy’s brother Seán. They struggle to come to terms with their loss and examine their pasts to attempt to figure out what brought them here while making the first tentative steps toward reconnection. The play is set in a bar following Sean’s funeral.

The one-hour, one-act play was first performed in August 2018.

The following Summer, Prodigal returned after extended rehearsals in the Spring and promptly won Best New Writing at the popular Galway Fringe Festival and was also subsequently staged in the performance venue Gibbon’s of Ballinasloe and as a guest of a renowned national Summer drama course, Stage Works, hosted in Athlone in September and October of 2019.

After an unplanned but enforced two year plus hiatus due to the pandemic, Prodigal returned in March and April of 2022. We came back to form after a three month intensive rehearsal block to ensure that the high standards set previously were maintained and even improved upon.
Local performances in Galway and Mayo, Tuam and Foxhall, each site-specific venues were staged- culminating in a trip to Wimbledon last April at the versatile venue and most welcoming club; The South London Irish Association.
We returned to our largest venue to date in September, The Glenamaddy Town Hall Theatre; following that The South London Irish Association again hosted us in October.
The performance received much positive feedback as it has thankfully received on many occasions.
A playwright from Coventry, Jamie McGough (who debuted with the hugely successful play Fighting Irish in The Belgrade last year) was in attendance and secured us a venue in Coventry, The Four Provinces, for 2 nights in April 2023. A huge success, well received and among our best performances to date!
From there, we linked up with Colm Farrell and his UK based charity Stamp Out Suicide in the summer of the same year.

This was a hugely successful partnership as we took in venues in Warrington, Liverpool and Manchester over a productive and warmly received one week run in sunny July, playing to large attendances in the respective Irish communities of each city.
Colm and Ranch House Productions partnered once more in April of this year; Frosty's Bar Kenton and The Claddagh Ring Hendon.
Sell out performances followed, hugely rewarding.
As a happy consequence, we ran another UK run in August of this year, again to great responses.
Looking forward to bringing our show to Kilconly locally!

 

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