Falling for a Dancer

Falling for a Dancer is an Irish 1998 romantic drama television movie set in rural Ireland in the 1930s. It first aired on BBC One in four 50-minute episodes on 13 September 1998.

Falling for a Dancer
Based on	Falling for a Dancer by Deirdre Purcell
Screenplay by	Deirdre Purcell
Directed by	Richard Standeven
Starring	Elisabeth Dermot Walsh
Theme music composer	Stephen McKeon
Country of origin	Ireland
Original language	English
No. of episodes	4
Production
Producer	Peter Norris
Editor	Richard Milward
Running time	200 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	13 September (1998-09-13) – 4 October 1998 (1998-10-04)

Plot

Set in 1930s Cork, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with a young actor and dancer and becomes pregnant. With no chance of finding the father, and trying to avoid entering the Magdalene Laundries, she chooses to marry an older man who she first meets on her wedding day and moves to her new life in West Cork. The series follows Elizabeth through this marriage and her new life on a farm in West Cork. It is here Elizabeth has her baby but her choice of marriage has its darker side; resentment from her step children, moments of tragedy and a longing for young love and passion that she does not get from her husband, Neeley.

Production

It was filmed in Beara, County Cork on the southwest coast.

Cast

• Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Elizabeth
• Dermot Crowley as Neeley Scollard
• Liam Cunningham as Mossie Sheehan
• Rory Murray as George
• Maureen O'Brien as Corinne Sullivan
• Brian McGrath as St. John Sullivan
• Colin Farrell as Daniel McCarthey

External links

• Falling For a Dancer at IMDb