The Matchmaker Tickets

Michael Scott’s iconic production of JOHN B. KEANES hilarious dramatic comedy THE MATCHMAKER opened in Spirit in January 2001 starring Anna Managhan and Des Keogh. The Production went on to tour Ireland, sellout at the Edinburgh Festival, become a Video and DVD with Sony, a BBC Radio Series, and play ‘off Broadway’. Many of Ireland’s leading actors have taken over the over the years, including, Ann Charleston (Madge in Neighbours), Mary Mc Evoy, Geraldine Plunkett, Des Nealon, and the late Mick Lally one of our most loved actors..

The play follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O Connor to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn. Using his inimitable way with words and his one sense of “devilment” and wit, Keane delves into the longings, hungers, fears and foibles of this collection of lonely country people and creates a marvelously colourful world, taking us back to a simpler time, when phones were few and far between and the only web was one left behind by spiders. Keane, an avid observer of people and the cultures that bind and create their view of the world uses “The Matchmaker” as an exploration of rural loneliness. Aware that generations of people became masters of their own destinies late in life, and only then began to look for companionship and love, once their duties as minder of ageing parents were concluded or they had finally inherited, or were the left over brother or sister.