Throw a stone into a lake; it sinks. Throw the right shaped stone at the right angle and it skims the water, flying through the air. Something similar happens when dreams meet reality, in Marie Jones’s award-winning tragicomedy Stones in His Pockets, first performed in 1996.
A Hollywood film is being shot in rural Ireland, bringing much-needed (but short-term) employment to people struggling to make a living from the land. The story of what happens when these two worlds collide is told by two of the film’s extras, who make up the “peasant” backdrop to the fictional historical drama (with just two actors on stage playing all 15 characters).
