Please note: Tickets for this show are sold as pods of four. Groups will be seated together at dining tables. A table for four costs €60 plus additional admin and booking fees. We may be able to accommodate smaller groups but please call Boyle Craft Shop on 071 966 3033 to enquire. Ticket price includes antipasti on arrival. The menu will be provided in advance.

Funded by Roscommon County Council and the Department of Tourism Culture Arts Gaeltacht Sports and Media under the Local Live Performance Programming Scheme.

Julie Sharkey is an actor, drama facilitator and writer from Ballaghaderreen in Co. Roscommon. She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and also holds a Dip in Drama in Education and an MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from UCC. Recent theatre credits include (just before lockdown no. 1) Alice and the Wolf by Tom Swift for Barnstorm Theatre in Kilkenny. Miss Happinness and Miss Flower for Brokencrow and Midsummer Festival Cork. Recent Film/TV The Last Right written/directed by Aoife Crehan, Smalltown written/directed by Gerard Barrett.

The Three Fat Women of Antibes is based on the short story of the same name by William Somerset Maugham, first published in 1933. Three well-to-do ladies of a certain age take a long holiday in Antibes, which serves the dual purpose of incessant bridge-playing and a serious attempt to shed the pounds. Perhaps their greatest challenge beyond reduction is to find a reliable fourth for cards, and on this occasion, they believe they’ve found the holy grail in the irritatingly slim shape of Lena. Vivid, witty and spiteful, it is perhaps at odds with contemporary conceptions of sisterhood, but the tales of trumps taken and “antifat” rusks eaten will make you laugh with agonised recognition of weak will and its consequent mayhem.

Brought to you in the surroundings of the King House Tea Rooms, antipasti board will be served before the performance - appropriately enough !