Play: 'The Mai'
Author: Marina Carr

Synopsis of the Play
The Mai is set in the midlands of Ireland over the span of a year from 1979 to 1980, and explores the hopes and disappointments of four generations of women within one Irish family. It's one hundred year-old matriarch is Grandmother Fraochlán, an opium-smoking, opinionated, selfish old woman. Grandma's obsession with her long departed husband is in many ways the root cause of her clan's insecurities.

History of the Group
Ennis Players are an amateur theatre group based in Co. Clare who have been competing on both the One Act & Full Length festival circuits since the mid-1980's and won their first Confined All Ireland in 1995, with Alan Ayckbourn's 'Round and Round the Garden'. In the 2001/2002 season Ennis Players had the distinction of being the holders of two All Ireland trophies for their productions of James McLure's One Act play 'Lone Star' & Martin McDonagh's full length play 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane'. Ennis has had a Theatre Group since the 1940's but the current group has been in existence since the 1970's and have enjoyed considerable success with their productions at local, national and international level. In 2010, Ennis Players qualified for their first All Ireland Full Length Open Final with their production of JM Synge's masterpiece 'The Playboy of the Western World' and was placed third.