Murphys Creek gets down to bare bones with ‘Skull’

When the past is buried it is forgotten, forever. Or is it? Suspend your thoughts and watch as Mick Dowd learns that some secrets have no choice but to resurface...
Murphys Creek Theatre takes us to the Emerald Isle starting Aug. 14 to present “A Skull in Connemara,” playing at the Black Bart Playhouse.
For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery to make room for new arrivals. As the time approaches for him to dig up the bones of his own late wife, strange rumors start to circulate in the small community regarding Mick’s involvement in her sudden death seven years ago.
The third MCT performance at the Black Bart Playhouse since January, “Skull” is written by Martin McDonough and directed by Graham Scott Green. It stars Tom Vannucci, Sheila Doyle, Robert Zellers and Sean M. Lewis.
The show opens Aug. 14 and plays at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays, through Sept. 6.
Tickets cost $15 and are available at 728-8422, murphyscreektheatre.org or at the door. The Black Bart Playhouse is at 580 S. Algiers St., Murphys.