"My Wife's Family" (2002)
My Wife's Family was the choice for the 2002 Summer Show. The house was full to capacity for the last few performances, making this summer season the best ever in the history of the Group overtaking last year's run of "The Field" with over four thousand five hundred people attending over the sixteen nights.
Garry (Doc Knott) & Tomas Lombard (Jack Gay)
Michael Byrne of Kilrush accepted the challenge of putting this very funny, but difficult to perform show, in front of a live audience.
As is usual with Summer Shows, all parts as much as possible are shared, this adds another level of difficulty to the overall production.
This piece is a brief description of how the show was advertised...
This is a very funny play with some wonderful characters as seen in the cast list below. There are the Nagg family, most of them odd in some way, Doc Knott - an old "codger" and an "ex-actress" - "Dolly White" to mention just a few. The laughs come thick and fast when various mix-ups, explosions and situations occur.
The public loved the show and many people came to see it on more than one occasion, in fact one loyal customer came to see it five times.
One critic said: "This year's offering was the funniest show I have seen in years, I would recommend it for an evening of side-splitting laughs for all ages..."
The cast was:
| Jack Gaye (the husband) | Malcolm Byrne/Tomas Lombard |
| Stella Nagg (Jack's wife) | Marie Noctor |
| Willie Nagg (Stella's young brother) | James Stafford/Conor Hogan |
| Sally (Willie's secret wife) | Roisin O'Donoghue/Kim Feehan |
| Arabella Nagg (Jack's mother-in-law) | Ann Colgan/Clodagh Cecil |
| Noah Nagg (Jack's father-in-law) | Denis Howell/Oliver Stephens |
| Ima Nagg (Stella's young sister) | Laura Brennan/Aoife Morris |
| Dolly White (Actress) | Jean Murray/Oona O'Reilly |
| Doc Knott (A horse doctor) | Garry Lombard/Michael Redmond |
| Lotta Sales (A literary agent) | Aideen Byrne/Deirdre Redmond |
| Detective Trackem | Michael Doran/Michael Heffernan |
The producer for this show is Michael Byrne from Kilrush.
Meet some of the people responsible for this production.
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From Left to Right Top Row: Dennis Howell (Noah Nagg), Oona O'Reilly (Dolly White), Clodagh Cecil (Arabella Nagg), Malcolm Byrne (Jack Gay), Deirdre Redmond (Lotta Sales).
From Left to Right Second Row: Oliver Stephens (Noah Nagg) & Jean Murray (Dolly White), James Stafford (Willie Nagg) & Laura Brennan (Ima Nagg), Conor Hogan (Willie Nagg) & Kim Feehan (Sally)
From Left to Right Third Row: Aideen Byrne (Lotta Sales) & Ann Colgan (Arabella Nagg), Garry Lombard (Doc Knott) & Michael Byrne (Producer), Marie Noctor (Stella Gay) & Ann Colgan (Arabella Nagg).