The Turn of the Road: A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue

A young man's hands would rather hold a fiddle than a plow, and that choice will tear his family apart. Set in a County Down farmhouse in the early 1900s, The Turn of the Road follows Robbie John Granahan, whose passion for music threatens to unravel everything his father has built. William John Granahan sees his son's wandering eye as a betrayal. His mother sees neglect of duty. But Robbie hears a different call - the one that pulls him toward the dances, the ceilidhs, the dangerous freedom of a musician's life. Rutherford Mayne writes with sharp wit and quiet devastation about what it costs to be true to yourself when everyone you love demands otherwise. This is a play about inheritance - of land, of expectations, of silence - and the moment a son must choose between his family's dreams and his own. The humor lands like defense mechanism, the heartbreak arrives without warning. For anyone who has stood at the edge of their own life and wondered if choosing themselves meant losing everything.