The Mai

Schedule

Thu, 23 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm to Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm

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Location

1533 S Main St, 27127 | Winston Salem, NC

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An accomplished, beautiful forty-year-old woman, The Mai has always sought an exceptional life. Robert, her cellist husband, has always felt stifled by The Mai’s ideals of perfection. After seventeen years he leaves her, whereupon she sets about building a dream house in the hope that he will one day return to her.
From her fairytale castle, The Mai waits by the window for her dark-haired prince to return. Set in the inspiring surrounds of the West of Ireland, on the banks of the legendary Owl Lake, we enter this world on the day of Robert’s return after an absence of four years. In the midst of Mai’s and Robert’s troubled reunion are the idiosyncratic characters that comprise the family. Irreverent and unapologetic, the opium-smoking one-hundred-year-old matriarch, Grandma Fraochlan, presides over all.
The “Spanish Beauty,” as she is known, with her “ancient and fantastical memory” and mythical presence, reminds us that the past is looming ever present. Her daughters, Agnes and Julie, meddle in the affairs of their three nieces, with comical tenacity. Deeply theatrical and profoundly intense, "The Mai" is an epic tale of love and loss, of elusive dreams shattered by vulgar but inescapable reality.
This production is directed by UNCSA School of Drama alumna and guest director Acadia Barrengos.
Playwright: Marina Carr
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1533 S Main St, 27127, 1533 S Main St, Winston-Salem, NC 27127-2738, United States, Winston Salem

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