Moll

by John Brendan Keane

Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery.'When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother'. Moll Kettle would work for no less than a canon for, in her own words, 'Tis hard to come back to the plain black and white when one is used to the purple'.

Genres: Plays

82 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Kieran McAndrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moll Kettle is appointed the new housekeeper in a country parish's parochial house. Slowly, she sets the priests against each other in her ruthless quest to look after herself.

Keane's hilarious play looks at the power dynamics in sixties Ireland and sets them on their head as we see the priests set against each other and outwitted at every turn.

[Mhartain O'Treasaigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely funny, the priests being starved to raise money, and then the scam between Moll and the cannon, She certainly was not stupid as the cannon had the wool pulled over his eyes hello parish funds, the priests could see what's going on and Moll put fear into them. By starving them.

[Mhartain O'Treasaigh]

The beginning of Father Ted.