The Keegan Theatre is offering Kevin Barry’s “There Are Little Kingdoms,” a dramatic version of Barry’s stories about a small town in County Cork, Ireland, where all the inhabitants know one another and where no secrets are kept for long.

The narrator, Foley (Kryztov Lindquist), begins his description of a morning in the height of summer. He offers lyrical details, many of them linked to nature, to the plants he sees, to the physical reality around him. Foley is gifted with foresight, but his gift is spurned by the people in the town. As he sets the stage for the coming drama, seven actors appear and thereafter those seven represent 27 different characters.