That They May Face the Rising Sun
Director: Pat Collins
Starring: Barry Wood, Anna Bederke & Ruth McCabe
Thu 9 May 7.30pm Book Now
Duration: 107 mins
AGE Rating: Cert 12A
Adults £10
Under 16s £5
That They May Face the Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, rural, lakeside community in Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
A gentle story based on an award winning novel, set in 1980’s rural Ireland.
5 stars: “Vivid individual performances mesh in a superb ensemble.” The FT
3 stars: “A poignant rural meditation on life and friendship”. The Guardian