Writer/Director
Counsel Me Baby; Gonne Girl
@ Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Written & directed by Catherine Maher,
Counsel Me Baby was performed & recorded at Dublin's Project Arts Centre.
Commissioned by Sideline Productions as one of six female-authored plays & also broadcast on RTE Radio 1
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Cast (l to r); Danny Kehoe, Sharon Mannion, Catherine Maher (Writer/Director), Paul Tylak and Norma Sheahan
The Pitch
Counsel Me Baby tranports us onto the couches of celeb therapy-sessions throughout history. For the pilot Gonne Girl, we travel to a clinic in Dublin c. 1896 to witness Irish literati A-Listers; doormat poet WB Yeats and his commitment-phobic girlfriend Maud Gonne mid-sesh.
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With guest appearances from therapy gatecrashers; the kitten-loving Bram Stoker struggling to access his darker psyche, and a determinedly unrepentant Oscar Wilde back from London to re-charge after the whole "I'm in love with a man, get over it" unpleasantness. This is, as they say, their story.
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