Falling for a Dancer: (Episodes 1 &2)
Ireland. 1998. 100 mins. Cert-15.
Producer: Animo TV
Cast: Elizabeth Dermot Walsh, Colin Farrell, Liam Cunnigham,
Dermot Crowley
Carnegie Arts Theatre with the kind permission of series producers, Animo TV, are delighted to screen episodes 1 & 2 of “Falling for a Dancer”. The series was filmed on the Beara Peninsula and Kenmare . Based on a novel by Deidre Purcell and the series was first shown on BBC1 in September 1998.
Set in 1930s Cork, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with a young actor and dancer and becomes pregnant. With no chance of finding the father, and trying to avoid entering the Madalene Laundry , Elizabeth’s parents push Elizabeth to marry an older man who she first meets on her wedding day and moves to her new life on the Beara Peninsula.
This is the first of a Two Part Series