I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls

The elderly man remembers Maddy as a young woman, the toast of the county

The younger, Daniel, remembers how as a boy he became the protégé of the bedraggled, lonely Maddy of later years

Their memories bring alive the young Madelyn and the harsher, older Maddy, her demanding, wastrel brother Liam, and the young police constable George Park, intertwining their lives with the passions of patriotism and landscape

Ade Morris's play, based on the true characters in a short story by Bryan Gallagher, skilfully weaves the narrative backwards and forwards through a span of 50 years and the result is a richly emotive, lyrical drama of enduring love

The seven characters may be played individually or, as in the original production, by two men and one woman with one set providing all the locations.

"Ade Morris establishes himself as a talented writer in a script that drifts back and forth through time like mists over the mountains of Mourne" ~ Evening Standard

"It is impossible to be less than charmed or moved" ~ The Daily Telegraph