Cast:

Sam Macreadie Frank Kelly
Paul David Ireland
Rhona Ann Marie Timoney
Neil Alan Tripney
Peter David Ireland

Production opened at the Tron, Glasgow, September 2005

My Old Man

written by Tom McGrath

director Nicholas Bone

designer Minty Donald

composer Stephen Deazley

lighting Sergey Jakovsky

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My Old Man

Sam Macreadie is back…
He just can't quite remember why.

In My Old Man, human connections flicker between life and death: a nurse tries to communicate with a dying man; a woman tries to connect with her long lost and now dying father and with someone else who may be a lover, saviour or nemesis; her son, obsessed with Goth music and knives, tries to reach out to the immigrant worker next door. The thing that binds them all together is Sam Macreadie, ex-jazz musician, retired sailor and inveterate liar.

My Old Man was Tom McGrath's first new play for five years and was a moving, funny dark and sometimes disturbing look at what holds families together and what happens to the mind as it ages.

left: Frank Kelly | right: David Ireland, Frank Kelly | photos by Kevin Low