AN award-winning Northside writer is hoping that her new play gets the thumbs up from audiences when it opens in Dublin next week.
‘All Thumbs’, a comedy written by Lindsay J Sedgwick and starring Julie Lockey, will be staged at the International Bar Theatre, Wicklow Street, Dublin 2, Monday to Friday from February 29 until March 11; and at 1pm from March 2-5 and March 7-12.
When Lena (Julie Lockey) liberates a thumb from the lab where she works as a cleaner, it seems only fair to grow him back into a (luscious) man and then keep him safe, hostage like, but out of love, entirely out of love. After all, she rescued him, from being just a thumb in a jar.
Lindsay, a native of Sutton and now living in Marino, grew up more than half in love with theatre, penning her first play at 17. Since then her writing career has blossomed and her plays have been staged at the Focus Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre, International Bar Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, the Waterside (Derry), Cork Arts Theatre and aired on BBC Radio 4.
In 2006, Lindsay wrote an animation script featuring a magical little character called ‘Punky’.
Five years later ‘Punky’ became the world’s first ever-animated TV series featuring a lead character with Down Syndrome.
Clontarf man Gerard O’Rourke of Monster Animation produced the series which was aired on RTEjr and nominated for the IFTAs.
This will be Lindsay’s 14th stage production. She is currently working on the fourth of this series of one-woman plays: ‘Salt on her Skin’ (2013), ‘Fried Eggs’ (2015), ‘All Thumbs’ (2016) and ‘Benjamin’.
Julie Lockey, meanwhile, first studied acting on her Grandma’s carpet while watching Fred and Ginger films and countless musicals.
A native of Cheshire, she went to the University of Salford, to study Media and Performance, before moving to London via an adventure in Australia.
Her credits include Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Panorama for television; Lady McDuff in MacBeth for the Lowry, Salford, The Witch in EduPlay’s Jack and the Beanstalk (touring), Mab in The Voyage of Bran (Westport Theatre Festival) for theatre; ‘Poison Pen’ – feature film; and ‘Queensbury Rules’ (Boxfilms), and ‘The Power of Attraction’ – short film.
Moonstone Productions is presenting ‘All Thumbs’ which has a running time of 40 minutes.
Tickets cost €10/€8 with 20 per cent off for groups of 10. For more information, phone 086-1663363 or email allthumbsplay@gmail.com
