Nomad Players Present: My Name Is Lucy Barton

This is the story of Lucy Barton, who wakes up after an operation in a New York hospital to find her estranged mother at the foot of her bed. During this unexpected visit, Lucy tries to come to an understanding of her past, the complicated and complex love between herself and her mother and how much she has gained and lost to become a writer. 

My Name is Lucy Barton is a stage adaptation by Rona Munro of the best-selling book of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout. 

My Name is Lucy Barton is directed by Eiliah Rafferty, starring Maeve O’Donovan as Lucy. 

This production is by permission of Concord Theatricals. 

Tickets: €18/€16  

“Elizabeth Strout makes you care passionately and deeply about ordinary people’s lives.” –Rona Monro. 

“I would love it if people felt a larger-heartedness… and that they could just feel, even for a few moments, that the world might be bigger than they thought.” – Author Elizabeth Strout. 

“It’s about the challenge of growing up and becoming your own person. I’m fascinated by the play and I love being able to revisit it over and over again.” – Actor Laura Linney on playing Lucy Barton in the West End and Broadway. 

“Tremendously affecting… This delicate memory piece resonate[s] with the soaring vitality of a fully lived-in present.” – The Hollywood Reporter 

“Elizabeth Strout’s first-person narrative… fits perfectly on the stage… What comes out in performance, even more than in reading the book, is the idea that, even if you totally reinvent yourself, your past remains inescapable.” – The Guardian 

Nomad Players is a theatre company based in the Midlands, which specialises in telling the stories of ordinary women who do bad things or make bad choices. Previous productions include Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang and Without Apology, a double-bill of short plays by Neil La Bute.