Don’t miss this opportunity to catch staged reading of Small Things Like These

You have read the book and seen the film, now experience a unique staged reading of Wexford writer Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Small Things Like These.
Critically acclaimed as an unforgettable story of hope and heroism, Small Things Like These is brought to the stage at Wexford Arts Centre from December 12 for three nights in a Four Rivers production directed by Ben Barnes and starring Andrew Bennett.
For this marathon reading, Andrew (Seán in the Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl / An Cailín Ciúin) will be accompanied by new music composed for the production from singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy.
Small Things Like These is set in New Ross in the 1980s in the run up to Christmas: as coal merchant Bill Furlong does his rounds, he discovers a girl locked away in terrible conditions in the local convent. Unlike the silent majority, he decides to do something about it.
Small Things Like These will be interpreted and read by Andrew Bennett, one of the finest actors of his generation, having completed a series for Sky Originals, Small Town, Big Story, and Blackshore for the BBC.
Eleanor will perform original music she composed for Small Things Like These. Her critically acclaimed canon of work spans sixteen albums, with numerous cover versions of her songs by Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Phil Coulter, Eliza Carthy, Jack L, and Saint Sister.
Small Things Like These is directed by former Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Wexford-born Ben Barnes whose recent directing credits include The Last Stand (Four Rivers), Madama Butterfly (INO), Lights Out (Four Rivers) and Jim Nolan’s new play Castel Gandolfo (Four Rivers).
Small Things Like These starts its run at Wexford Arts Centre, from December 12 to 14, before travelling to Dublin, London and Paris.