Saturday, September 2, 2017

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Caitríona Ní Mhurchú - Eating Seals and Seagull’s Eggs

 



To generations of Irish students Peig Sayers, is often an object of derision. Eating Seals and Seagull’s Eggs  is her story, largely.  Meet Peig Sayers as you have never  heard her before. 

Performed by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú  and Louise Lewis Other voices were: Michael James Ford, Janyce Condon, Donncha Crowley, Conor Madden and Pat Kinevane Sound Design was by Niall Toner Junior  and Les Keye With special thanks to Folklore department UCD for additional sound archive 

I didn't know anything about Peig Sayers before I listened to this.  It leaves me curious to find out more about her.  It's not an easy play.   I was surprised to realize it was only a little under 45 minutes long.  I find that with audio drama, without the pictures the substance is denser than with movies.

As usual with radio drama from RTÉ, you've got to download it to listen to it.

2 comments:

  1. "I find that with audio drama, without the pictures the substance is denser than with movies"

    Holy shit -- radio doesn't have pictures?

    Here's a clue, numbnuts -- neither do novels or screenplays or stage scripts.

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    1. Densest of all is your skull. It's so dense you should be The Wizard of Osmium.

      Neither do symphonic scores, algebra equations or dial tones. But I didn't mention those, either.

      You're really hard up for attention at Duncan's aren't you. Something tells me you've made yourself so obnoxious over there they're ignoring you so you're trying your hardest to get some attention here. Did your little piece of asininity above get you some over there?

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