Omnibus Theatre’s critically acclaimed The Girl Who Was Very Good at Lying will be at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022.
“I’ve always been a good liar. If you have a skill, you have to hone it, or else you’re spitting in the face of God’s bounty.”
Catriona has a history of making stuff up. But she’s getting better. When an Attractive American Tourist arrives, she decides to show him around her Northern Irish town. And she might blur the line between fact and fiction, just a little…
Soon she’s telling him about cannibal peasants, human roosters, and the largest orgy ever held on consecrated ground.
A multi-award nominated show about the stories we tell to escape.
Rachael Rooney plays Catriona. Her theatre credits include The Fourth Country (Plain Heroines/ VAULT Festival), The Assistants (Actors’ Centre), Better Days (Do Well Theatre), Macbeth (Sam Wanamaker Festival) and Dig for Love (LUNG Theatre).
Eoin McAndrew is an actor and writer. He is currently a member of the Royal Court’s International Playwriting Group and the BBC Comedy Writers’ Room. His writing credits include Living Newspaper: Internet Boy (1999-Present) (Royal Court Theatre) and Quick Comedies for BBC Radio Ulster. As a performer, his recent credits include Cream Tea and Incest (Hope/Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Black Fate, Rotten States and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Get Out Of My Space Productions).
Fay Lomas directs. She won the Inaugural Peter Hall Emerging Artist Fellowship Award at the Rose Theatre, Kingston in 2019, and is Artistic Director of Jump Spark Theatre. Her credits include Sea Girl (Carbon Theatre/Attenborough Arts Centre), Assemble Here (Audio: Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), Land Skeins (audio – online – OnComm nominated) and Some Kind of Window (multi award-nominated short film, screened at EFN, Little Wing, English Riviera and Sunderland Shorts), Out of the Dark (Rose Theatre Kingston), Hunger (Arcola Theatre), The Crucible (Royal and Derngate), Terp, The Outcaste (Finborough Theatre Vibrant Festival), Left Behind (Camden Fringe), Lunch Hour (Southwark Playhouse), Three Way (Theatre503), Blood Wedding (Bread and Roses Theatre) and Balloon (VAULT Festival).
