Original Play Debuts at Bonn

By erin Pender Heights Staff

A lighthouse off the coast of Newport, R.I. in the 1870s is the setting of Idawalley, written by Maggie Kearnan, BC ’14, and directed by Grace Cutler, MCAS ’24.

A BC theatre department production, Idawalley ran in the Bonn Studio Theatre from Jan. 26 to Jan. 29

To open the play, two women burst through the door, holding a man who appears to have fallen into the sea. The man is Michael (Benjamin Burke, MCAS ’25), a farmhand originally from County Cork, Ireland, who jumped in the water to save a prize sheep.

The two women are the Lewis sisters, Idawalley (Leah Temple Lang, LSEHD ’23) and Hattie (Ellie Falanga, MCAS ’23). Idawalley, or Ida, as she prefers to be known, is a mythical fig - ure—though stories of her are well known, she seldom leaves Lime Rock, the rock on which the lighthouse stands.

After the death of her parents, she took on the role of keeper of the Rock. She is known throughout Newport for her bravery, though in personal relations she seems to be quite cynical and reticent.

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